Cognitive Psychology Arena

Computational Modelling

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

• Edited by Gary S. Dell, and Alfonso Caramazza.

Published June 2008

The papers in the special issue describe computational models and principles that attempt to explain the performance of brain damaged subjects. The models elucidate the cognitive processes that underlie speaking, reading, spelling, and visuospatial planning by implementing hypothesized mechanisms…
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Irony in Language and Thought

A Cognitive Science Reader

• Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs Jr, and Herbert L. Colston.

Published May 2007

Irony in Language and Thought assembles an interdisciplinary collection of seminal empirical and theoretical papers on irony in language and thought into one comprehensive book. A much-needed resource in the area of figurative language, this volume centers on a theme from cognitive science - that…
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Measurement and Representation of Sensations

• Edited by Hans Colonius, and Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov.

Published February 2006

Measurement and Representation of Sensations offers a glimpse into the most sophisticated current mathematical approaches to psychophysical problems. In this book, editors Hans Colonius and Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, top scholars in the field, present a broad spectrum of innovative approaches and…
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Connectionist Models in Cognitive Psychology

• Edited by George Houghton.

Published February 2005

Connectionist Models in Cognitive Psychology is a state-of-the-art review of neural network modelling in core areas of cognitive psychology including: memory and learning, language (written and spoken), cognitive development, cognitive control, attention and action. The chapters discuss neural…
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Pragmatics

A Multidisciplinary Perspective

• By Louise Cummings.

Published January 2005

The first truly multidisciplinary text of its kind, this book offers an original analysis of the current state of linguistic pragmatics. Cummings argues that no study of pragmatics can reasonably neglect the historical and contemporary influences on this discipline of neighboring fields of inquiry,…
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Motivation, Emotion, and Cognition

Integrative Perspectives on Intellectual Functioning and Development

• Edited by David Yun Dai, and Robert J. Sternberg.

Published April 2004

The central argument of this book is that cognition is not the whole story in understanding intellectual functioning and development. To account for inter-individual, intra-individual, and developmental variability in actual intellectual performance, it is necessary to treat cognition, emotion, and…
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Inferred Functions of Performance and Learning

• By Siegfried Engelmann, and Donald Steely.

Published September 2003

This ambitious, highly theoretical book provides a capstone for the careers of two very distinguished scholars. It begins with an analysis of what functions and systems must exist for any organism or machine to perform an unlearned act, that is, with an analysis of what must be "wired into" the…
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Strategy Representation

An Analysis of Planning Knowledge

• By Andrew S. Gordon.

Published September 2003

Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge describes an innovative methodology for investigating the conceptual structures that underlie human reasoning. This work explores the nature of planning strategies--the abstract patterns of planning behavior that people recognize across a…
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Connectionist Models of Development

Developmental Processes in Real and Artificial Neural Networks

• Edited by Philip T. Quinlan.

Published May 2003

Connectionist Models of Development is an edited collection of essays on the current work concerning connectionist or neural network models of human development. The brain comprises millions of nerve cells that share myriad connections, and this book looks at how human development in these systems…
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Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks

Readings in Cognitive Neuropsychology and Connectionist Modelling

• Edited by Gillian Cohen, Robert A. Johnstone and Kim Plunkett.

Published May 2002

Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks analyses the contribution made by cognitive neuropsychology and connectionist modelling to theoretical explanations of cognitive processes. Bringing together evidence from both damaged brains and neural networks, this exciting and innovative…
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