1st Edition
Advances in Psychological Science, Volume 2 Biological and Cognitive Aspects
656 Pages
by
Psychology Press
656 Pages
by
Psychology Press
656 Pages
by
Psychology Press
Also available as eBook on:
The chapters in this volume are the edited versions of invited addresses to the XXVI International Congress of Psychology held in Montréal in August 1996. As one major goal of the Congress was to promote communication among specializations in scientific psychology, the speakers were asked to survey their research area and present their own work in a way that would be accessible to their colleagues... Read more
Contents: M. Sabourin, F.I.M. Craik, M. Roberts, Introduction. 1. Psychobiological Processes. P.L. Roubertoux, S. Mortaud, S. Tordjman, I. Roy, H. Degrelle, Behavior-Genetic Analysis and Aggression: The Mouse as a Prototype. M.C. Corballis, Evolution of the Human Mind. R. Melzack, Pain and Stress: Clues toward Understanding Chronic Pain. J. Cacioppo, Somatic Responses to Psychological Stress: The Reactivity Hypothesis. 2. Brain Mechanisms. B. Kolb, Brain Plasticity and Behavioral Change. H. Tiitinen, Auditory Information Processing as Indexed by the Mismatch Negativity. G. Rizzolatti, L. Craighero, Spatial Attention: Mechanisms and Theories. N. Kanwisher, The Modular Structure of Human Visual Recognition: Evidence from Functional Imaging. M. Rosenweig, Reciprocal Relations between Psychology and Neuroscience. 3. Learning Processes. R.A. Rescorla, Instrumental Learning: Nature and Persistence. J.E.R. Staddon, The Dynamics of Memory in Animal Learning. B.G. Galef, Recent Progress in Studies of Imitation and Social Learning in Animals. J.B. Overmier, Learned Helplessness: State or Stasis of the Art? N.J. Mackintosh, C.H. Bennett, Perceptual Learning in Animals and Humans. 4. Perceptual, Memory, and Cognitive Processes. M. Jeannerod, Representations for Actions. E.N. Sokolov, Model of Cognitive Processes. J. Mehler, C. Pallier, A. Christophe, Language and Cognition. G. Hatano, Comprehension Activity in Individuals and Groups. P. Bertelson, Starting from the Ventriloquist: The Perception of Multimodal Events. E. Tulving, Brain/mind Correlates of Human Memory. A. Koriat, Metamemory: The Feeling of Knowing and its Vagaries. 5. Cognitive Development. C. von Hofsten, The Early Development of Visual Perception and its Relation to Action and Cognition. R. Baillargeon, Infants' Understanding of the Physical World. A. de Ribaupierre, Développement Cognitif et Différences Individuelles. R. Gelman, Domain Specificity in Cognitive Development: Universals and Non-universals. K. Plunkett, Connectionism and Development. Author Index. Subject Index.
Biography
Craik, Fergus; Michele Robert, ; Sabourin, Michel
