Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

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1. Masked Priming

   The State of the Art

   Edited by Sachiko Kinoshita, Stephen J. Lupker

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   Masked priming has a short and somewhat controversial history. When used as a tool to study whether semantic processing can occur in the absence of conscious awareness, considerable debate followed, mainly about whether masked priming truly tapped unconscious processes. For research into other...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
2. Individual Differences in Theory of Mind

   Implications for Typical and Atypical Development

   Edited by Betty Repacholi, Virginia Slaughter

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   Over the last fifteen years, developmentalists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, educators and clinicians have considered the acquisition of a theory of mind - the capacity to predict and explain behavior on the basis of internal, subjective mental states - to be one of the crucial cognitive...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
3. Routes To Reading Success and Failure

   Toward an Integrated Cognitive Psychology of Atypical Reading

   By Nancy E. Jackson, Max Coltheart

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   Fundamental to this book is an attempt to understand the nature of individual differences in word and nonword reading by connecting three literatures that have developed largely in isolation from one another: the literatures on acquired dyslexia, difficulties in learning to read, and precocious...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Psychology Press
4. Emotions, Imagination, and Moral Reasoning

   Edited by Robyn Langdon, Catriona Mackenzie

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   This volume brings together philosophical perspectives on emotions, imagination and moral reasoning with contributions from neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology, personality theory, developmental psychology, and abnormal psychology. The book explores what we can learn...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Psychology Press
5. Delusion and Confabulation

   A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

   Edited by Robyn Langdon, Martha Turner

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   People with psychiatric and neurological illness sometimes say and think the most amazing things. They might believe they are dead; claim to see, despite being blind; or "remember" things that never happened. Historical demarcations between academic disciplines dictate that these are distinct...

   Published April 20th 2010 by Psychology Press
6. Tutorials in Visual Cognition

   Edited by Veronika Coltheart

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   In the late-1980s, visual cognition was a small subfield of cognitive psychology, and the standard texts mainly discussed just iconic memory in their sections on visual cognition. In the subsequent two decades, and especially very recently, many remarkable new aspects of the processing of...

   Published January 26th 2010 by Psychology Press
7. Progressive Language Impairments: Intervention and Management

   A Special Issue of Aphasiology

   Edited by Lyndsey Nickels, Karen Croot

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   Progressive language impairments comprise a broad range of symptoms of impaired language processing that worsen over time as a result of neurodegenerative disease, and that range from impaired knowledge of the concepts underlying language through reading and writing difficulties to impaired ability...

   Published March 4th 2009 by Psychology Press
8. Delusion and Self-Deception

   Affective and Motivational Influences on Belief Formation

   Edited by Tim Bayne, Jordi Fernández

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   This collection of essays focuses on the interface between delusions and self-deception. As pathologies of belief, delusions and self-deception raise many of the same challenges for those seeking to understand them. Are delusions and self-deception entirely distinct phenomena, or might some forms...

   Published December 14th 2008 by Psychology Press
9. Speech Production

   Models, Phonetic Processes, and Techniques

   Edited by Jonathan Harrington, Marija Tabain

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes and Techniques brings together researchers from many different disciplines - computer science, dentistry, engineering, linguistics, phonetics, physiology, psychology - all with a special interest in how speech is produced. From the initial neural...

   Published April 30th 2006 by Psychology Press
10. Cognitive Neuropsychology Twenty Years On

    A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

    Edited by MAX COLTHEART, Alfonso Caramazza

    Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

    The journal Cognitive Neuropsychology began publication in 1984. In 2004 a special symposium was held at the annual European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology at Bressanone to take stock of the developments in cognitive neuropsychology represented by the first twenty volumes of the journal...

    Published March 1st 2006 by Psychology Press