What is special about the human brain? by Richard Passingham

The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

The Cambridge guide of Creativity is a entire scholarly instruction manual on creativity from the main revered psychologists, researchers, and educators. This guide serves either as an intensive creation to the sphere of creativity and as a useful reference and present resource of significant details.

Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings

Scientists from many disciplines, together with physics, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience, give a contribution to the learn of cognition. Cognitive psychology, the technology of the human brain and of ways humans procedure info, is on the center of empirical investigations into the character of brain and thought.

This anthology is predicated at the assumption that cognitive psychology is at middle empirical philosophy. the various middle questions on concept, language, belief, reminiscence, and data of alternative people's minds have been for hundreds of years the area of philosophy. The ebook starts off with the philosophical foundations of inquiry into the character of brain and concept, particularly the writings of Descartes, after which covers the critical subject matters of cognitive psychology together with reminiscence, consciousness, and selection making.

The e-book organizes a frightening volume of knowledge, underlining the necessities, whereas additionally introducing readers to the ambiguities and controversies of study. it truly is prepared thematically and contains many issues now not in general taught in cognition classes, together with human elements and ergonomics, evolutionary psychology, tune cognition, and experimental design.

The members comprise Daniel Dennett, Daniel Kahneman, Jay McClelland, Donald Norman, Michael Posner, Stephen Palmer, Eleanor Rosch, John Searle, Roger Shepard, and Anne Treisman.

Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think (2nd Edition)

Notice basic but strong steps you could take to beat emotional distress--and consider happier, calmer, and extra convinced. This life-changing booklet has already helped greater than a million readers use cognitive-behavioral therapy--one of today's premiere sorts of psychotherapy--to overcome melancholy, anxiousness, panic assaults, anger, guilt, disgrace, low vanity, consuming problems, substance abuse, and courting difficulties.

Principles of Visual Attention: Linking Mind and Brain

The character of consciousness is likely one of the oldest and such a lot primary difficulties in psychology. a tremendous volume of study has been produced in this topic within the final part century, particularly on recognition within the visible modality, yet a common rationalization has remained elusive. Many nonetheless view cognizance learn as a box that's essentially fragmented.