"Cognitive science is a cross-disciplinary enterprise devoted to understanding the nature of the mind. In recent years, investigators in philosophy, …
Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions became the most widely read book about science in the twentieth century. His terms …
I-Language introduces the uninitiated to linguistics as cognitive science. In an engaging, down-to-earth style Daniela Isac and Charles Reiss give …
We are an intensely social species - it has been argued that our social nature defines what makes us human, …
Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or design tool. You're well educated on how to …
This is a wonderful treatment of the research behind visual design and perception. Dr. Ware certainly knows his stuff, and …
Jaeger (linguistics, U. of Buffalo, The State U. of New York) presents the first developmental linguistics research volume documenting how …
In Things and Places, Zenon Pylyshyn argues that the process of incrementally constructing perceptual representations, solving the binding problem (determining …
What can the study of young monkeys and apes tell us about the minds of young humans? In this fascinating …
Easy-to-apply, scientifically-based approaches for engaging students in the classroomCognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and …
National Geographic, 2009 — 352 p.Did you know that listening to music tunes up your brain? Or that certain foods …
This award-winning science book uses the latest findings from neuroscience research and brain-imaging technology to take you on a journey …
This interdisciplinary work draws on research from psychology and behavioral economics to evaluate the plausibility of moral contract theory. In …
One of the most pressing questions in neuroscience, psychology and economics today is how does the brain generate preferences and …
All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, …
Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have …
When it was first published in 1997, Geoffrey Sampson's Educating Eve was described as the definitive response to Steven Pinker's …
A revelatory and timely look at how technology boosts our cognitive abilities—making us smarter, more productive, and more creative than …
This book presents a complete human-centered design process (ISO 9241:210) that had two goals: to design universal, intuitive, and permanent …
In this unique contribution to philosophical debate, Craig DeLancey shows that our best understanding of emotion provides essential insight on …
Order affects the results you get: Different orders of presenting material can lead to qualitatively and quantitatively different learning outcomes. …
This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics. It offers fresh perspectives on …
Winner of the 2000 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards Competition in the category of Psychology, presented by the Association of …
Since the 1970s, Ray Jackendoff has investigated many complex issues in syntax, semantics and the relation of language to other …
A proposal that an embodied cognition approach to music research--drawing on work in computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology--offers …
