Cognitive Psychology Arena

Handbook of Educational Psychology

• Edited by Patricia A. Alexander, Philip H. Winne

Sponsored by Division 15 of APA, the second edition of this groundbreaking book has been expanded to 41 chapters that provide unparalleled coverage of this...

Published May 18th 2006 by Routledge.

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Language Misconceived

Arguing for Applied Cognitive Sociolinguistics

• By Karol Janicki

Linguistics is important. An understanding of linguistic principles is as essential to the layperson as it is to the language scholar. Using concrete examples from...

Published March 30th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Skills of Document Use

From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning

• By Jean-Francois Rouet

The Skills of Document Use: From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning examines functional literacy from a psychological standpoint. It offers a comprehensive discussion of the...

Published March 14th 2006 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition

• By Judit Kormos

This extremely up-to-date book, Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition, is the first volume in the exciting new series, Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition....

Published March 1st 2006 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Geometries of Visual Space

• By Mark Wagner

When most people think of space, they think of physical space. However, visual space concerns space as consciously experienced, and it is studied through subjective...

Published January 20th 2006 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Applied Cognitive Psychology

A Textbook

• By Douglas J. Herrmann, Carol Y. Yoder, Michael Gruneberg, David G. Payne

The field of applied cognitive psychology represents a new emphasis within cognitive psychology. Although interesting applied research has been published over the last several decades,...

Published January 4th 2006 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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One-on-One Tutoring by Humans and Computers

• By Martha Evens, Joel Michael

One-on-One Tutoring by Humans and Computers articulates the CIRCSIM-Tutor project, an attempt to develop a computer tutor that generates a natural language dialogue with a...

Published December 28th 2005 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Psychology of the Language Learner

Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition

• By Zoltán Dörnyei

Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less...

Published November 30th 2005 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Cognitive Systems

Human Cognitive Models in Systems Design

• Edited by Chris Forsythe, Michael L. Bernard, Timothy E. Goldsmith

The leading thinkers from the cognitive science tradition participated in a workshop sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories in July of 2003 to discuss progress in...

Published November 9th 2005 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Search for Meaning

Internal States Language in Autobiographical Memory: A Special Issue of the Journal of Cognition and Development

• Edited by Robyn Fivush, Lynne Baker-Ward

The history of psychological research on human memory has largely focused on a search for accuracy. How does individual recall match an objective, external record...

Published November 1st 2005 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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