Cognitive Psychology Arena

How We Think

A Theory of Goal-Oriented Decision Making and its Educational Applications

• By Alan H. Schoenfeld.

Published September 2010

Teachers try to help their students learn. But why do they make the particular teaching choices they do? What resources do they draw upon? What accounts for the success or failure of their efforts? In How We Think, esteemed scholar and mathematician, Alan H. Schoenfeld, proposes a groundbreaking…
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Evolution, Rationality and Cognition

A Cognitive Science for the Twenty-First Century

• Edited by Antonio Zilhao.

Published March 2010

Evolutionary thinking has expanded in the last decades, spreading from its traditional stronghold – the explanation of speciation and adaptation in biology - to new domains. Fascinating pieces of work, the essays in this collection attest to the illuminating power of evolutionary thinking when…
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Philosophy of Perception

A Contemporary Introduction

• By William Fish.

Published March 2010

The philosophy of perception investigates the nature of our sensory experiences and their relation to reality. Raising questions about the conscious character of perceptual experiences, how they enable us to acquire knowledge of the world in which we live, and what exactly it is we are aware of…
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Thinking Visually

• By Stephen K. Reed.

Published January 2010

Language is a marvelous tool for communication, but it is greatly overrated as a tool for thought. This volume documents the many ways pictures, visual images, and spatial metaphors influence our thinking. It discusses both classic and recent research that support the view that visual thinking…
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Talking the Talk

Language, Psychology and Science

• By Trevor A. Harley.

Published December 2009

Language makes us human, but how do we use it and how do children learn it? Talking the Talk is an introduction to the psychology of language. Written for the reader with no background in the area or knowledge of psychology, it explains how we actually "do" language: how we speak, listen, and read.…
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Genes, Cognition and Neuropsychiatry

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

• Edited by Brita Elvevåg, and Daniel Weinberger.

Published September 2009

Neuropsychiatry stands to benefit enormously from the new research framework afforded by the sequencing of the human genome and from examining the role of molecular genetics on the clinical presentation of psychiatric patients. A solid foundation is essential if novel genetic breakthroughs are to…
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Computational Modelling in Behavioural Neuroscience

Closing the Gap Between Neurophysiology and Behaviour

• Edited by Dietmar Heinke, and Eirini Mavritsaki.

Published April 2009

Classically, behavioural neuroscience theorizes about experimental evidence in a qualitative way. However, more recently there has been an increasing development of mathematical and computational models of experimental results, and in general these models are more clearly defined and more detailed…
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Unified Social Cognition

• By Norman Anderson.

Published July 2008

This eagerly awaited volume presents Anderson's cumulative progress in unified social psychology. The research is grounded in the three fundamental laws of information integration theory. Research shows these laws to apply to topics in social and personality psychology such as person cognition,…
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Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action

• Edited by Roberta L. Klatzky, Brian MacWhinney and Marlene Behrmann.

Published June 2008

The majority of research on human perception and action examines sensors and effectors in relative isolation. What is less often considered in these research domains is that humans interact with a perceived world in which they themselves are part of the perceptual representation, as are the…
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Handbook of Metamemory and Memory

• Edited by John Dunlosky, and Robert A. Bjork.

Published May 2008

This Handbook examines the interplay between metamemory and memory. Each contributor discusses cutting-edge theory and research that, in some way, showcases the symbiotic relationship between metamemory and memory. Together, these chapters support a central thesis, which is that a complete…
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