Cognitive Psychology


The Music Instinct

How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
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Paperback Jun 2012 ISBN13: 9780199896424ISBN10: 0199896429 A comprehensive, accessible survey of what is known--and still unknown--about how music works its magic.
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Psychology of Science

Implicit and Explicit Processes
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Hardback Jun 2012 ISBN13: 9780199753628ISBN10: 0199753628 Psychology of Science brings together contributions from leaders in the emerging discipline of the psychology of science with other experts on the roles of implicit and explicit processes in thinking.
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Memory and Law

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Hardback Jun 2012 ISBN13: 9780199920754ISBN10: 0199920753 Aims to present the current state of knowledge among cognitive and neural scientists about memory as applied to legal settings.
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Knowledge Ascriptions

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Hardback Jun 2012 ISBN13: 9780199693702ISBN10: 0199693706 Addresses key methodological questions
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Simple Heuristics in a Social World

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Hardback Jul 2012 ISBN13: 9780195388435ISBN10: 0195388437 Simple Heuristics in a Social World invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with others.

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Taming Information Technology

Lessons from Studies of System Administrators
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Paperback Jul 2012 ISBN13: 9780195374124ISBN10: 0195374126 Tells the story of system administration through the narratives of real system administrators.

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Cognitive Neuroscience, Development, and Psychopathology

Typical and Atypical Developmental Trajectories of Attention
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Hardback Aug 2012 ISBN13: 9780195315455ISBN10: 0195315456 The volume does not impose a single framework for discussing the relevant issues, but rather the authors highlight the importance of their own approaches to the study of the typical and atypical development of attention.
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Spatial Representation

From Gene to Mind
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Hardback Aug 2012 ISBN13: 9780195385373ISBN10: 0195385373 This book shows the complexity of spatial cognition, its genetic correlates, and realization in the brain.
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Cognition and Neural Development

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Hardback Sep 2012 ISBN13: 9780199838523ISBN10: 0199838526 Cognition is not just shaped by neural development. It is neural development in action. This book aims to demonstrate that cognition is the process of differentiating neural connections to refine cerebral architecture to match the properties of experience. Understanding the roots of this process in neuroembryology may suggest new insights into the evolutionary-developmental basis of human psychological function.
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Computing for Ordinary Mortals

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Hardback Oct 2012 ISBN13: 9780199775309ISBN10: 0199775303 A down-to-earth tour of the ideas that drive computer science, designed for readers with little or no technical background
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