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Frontiers of Cognitive Science

Cognitive Science is a new interdisciplinary area including cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computer science, linguistics and philosophy.

In Frontiers of Cognitive Science authors from a range of backgrounds have been encouraged to present up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of a central area of current research interest.

New applied areas and emerging topics showing special promise will be particularly useful to researchers and graduate students wishing to access a new topic in this exciting field.

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Evaluative Semantics

Cognition, Language and Ideology

By Jean-Pierre Malrieu

Series: Frontiers of Cognitive Science

Evaluation, from connotations to complex judgements of value, is probably the most neglected dimension of meaning. Calling for a new understanding of truth and value, this book is a comprehensive study of evaluation in natural language, at lexical, syntactic and discursive levels. Jean Pierre...

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
Decision Making

Cognitive Models and Explanations

Edited by Ray Crozier, Rob Ranyard, Ola Svenson

Series: Frontiers of Cognitive Science

This book offers an exciting new collection of recent research on the actual processes that humans use when making decisions in their everyday lives and in business situations. The contributors use cognitive psychological techniques to break down the constituent processes and set them in their...

Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
Implicit Learning and Consciousness

An Empirical, Philosophical and Computational Consensus in the Making

Edited by Axel Cleeremans, Robert French

Series: Frontiers of Cognitive Science

Can you learn without knowing it? This controversial and much debated question forms the basis of this collection of essays as the authors discuss whether the measurable changes in behaviour that result from learning can ever remain entirely unconscious. Three issues central to the topic of...

Published April 3rd 2002 by Psychology Press
Understanding Driving

Applying Cognitive Psychology to a Complex Everyday Task

By John A. Groeger

Series: Frontiers of Cognitive Science

This book closely examines what is involved in driving. It identifies the aspects of perception, attention, learning, memory, decision making and action control which are drawn upon in order to enable us to drive, and the brain systems involved. It attempts to show how studying tasks such as...

Published August 30th 2000 by Routledge
Cognitive Mapping

Past, Present and Future

Edited by Scott Freundschuh, NATIONAL UNIV OF IRELAND

Series: Frontiers of Cognitive Science

This important work brings together international academics from a variety of disciplines to explore the topic of spatial cognition on a 'geographic' scale. It provides an overview of the historical origins of the subject, a description of current debates and suggests directions for future research....

Published March 22nd 2000 by Routledge
The Nature of Concepts

Evolution, Structure and Representation

Edited by Philip Van Loocke

Series: Frontiers of Cognitive Science

The Nature of Concepts examines a central issue for all the main disciplines in cognitive science: how the human mind creates and passes on to other human minds a concept. An excellent cross-disciplinary collection with contributors including Steven Pinker, Andy Clarke and Henry Plotkin....

Published December 2nd 1998 by Routledge