Cognitive Psychology Books

New and Published Books

1. BCoS Cognitive Screen

   By Glyn W. Humphreys, Wai-Ling Bickerton, Dana Samson, M. Jane Riddoch

   Following different kinds of brain damage, including stroke, head injury, carbon monoxide poisoning, and degenerative change, people can experience a range of cognitive problems, in addition to any difficulties in motor function. These problems strongly influence a patient’s ability to recover, but...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Psychology Press
2. BCoS Cognitive Screen

   Examiner's Booklet (Pack of 15)

   By Glyn Humphreys, Wai-Ling Bickerton, Dana Samson, Jane Riddoch

   Published May 7th 2012 by Psychology Press
3. BCoS Cognitive Screen

   Examinee's Booklet (Pack of 15)

   By Glyn Humphreys, Wai-Ling Bickerton, Dana Samson, Jane Riddoch

   Published May 6th 2012 by Psychology Press
4. BCoS Cognitive Screen

   Examiner's Booklet B (Pack of 15)

   By Glyn Humphreys, Wai-Ling Bickerton, Dana Samson, Jane Riddoch

   Published May 6th 2012 by Psychology Press
5. Extraordinary Memories for Exceptional Events

   By Stephen R. Schmidt

   Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

   Not all memories are created equal. Our memories for some very exceptional events seem to stand out in our minds, and as such they may form the very core of who we are. Perhaps you have a vivid recollection of a fateful day, an unforgettable face, or a hilarious joke. This book summarizes theories...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Psychology Press
6. Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion

   An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind

   By Michael Burke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

   This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. Perspectives on Agrammatism

   Edited by Roelien Bastiaanse, Cynthia K. Thompson

   Series: Brain, Behaviour and Cognition

   Agrammatic aphasia (agrammatism), resulting from brain damage to regions of the brain involved in language processing, affects grammatical aspects of language. Therefore, research examining language breakdown (and recovery) patterns in agrammatism is of great interest and importance to linguists,...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Psychology Press
8. From Mental Imagery to Spatial Cognition and Language

   Essays in Honour of Michel Denis

   Edited by Valérie Gyselinck, Francesca Pazzaglia

   Series: Psychology Press Festschrift Series

   The nature of mental images and their relation to language has caused controversy amongst psychologists for years, and the so-called "imagery debate" is still unresolved. Fresh light is now being shed on this topic using recent findings in neuroscience and the development of behavioural studies....

   Published April 1st 2012 by Psychology Press
9. Experimental Philosophy and its Critics

   Edited by Joachim Horvath, Thomas Grundmann

   Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Cognitive Control of Action and the Regulation of Behaviour

    Edited by Stephen Jackson

    Series: Special Issues of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

    This special issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, guest edited by Stephen Jackson (University of Nottingham, UK) pulls together ten of the latest research papers on the cognitive control of action and regulation of behaviour....

    Published February 27th 2012 by Psychology Press