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  • Understanding Expository Text

    A Theoretical and Practical Handbook for Analyzing Explanatory Text

    Edited by Bruce K. Britton, John B. Black ...
    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Psychology of Reading
    Originally published in 1985, the various chapters in this volume give examples of research on all three aspects of text understanding – namely, structure, world knowledge and process. More than this, however, the research described represents a shift in emphasis from studying stories, which dominated the field in the late 1970s, to studying expository text. This focus on stories was probably due ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Psychology of Questions

    Edited by Arthur C. Graesser, John B. Black ...
    Series series Psychology Revivals
    Originally published in 1985, the chapters in this volume collectively approach the phenomenon of questioning from many perspectives. There are studies on question comprehension, question answering, question asking and the influence of adjunct questions on text comprehension and memory. The chapters cover different theories, models, methods, and practical applications. Some contributors focus ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Knowledge Structures

    Edited by James A. Galambos, John B. Black, Robert P. Abelson ...
    First Published in 1986. This book marks a watershed in cognitive science activity at Yale University. Over the past decade, the cognitive science orientation has become more and more integrated into the mainstream of cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence workers now feel comfortable thinking about psychological experimentation. This book collects in one place the research work which ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Stories, Scripts, and Scenes

    Aspects of Schema Theory

    by J. M. Mandler ...
    Series series Distinguished Lecture Series
    First published in 1984. This book is an expansion of three lectures on schema theory given at the University of Alberta in the fall of 1983 as part of the MacEachran Memorial Lecture Series. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Introducing Language and Cognition

    A Map of the Mind

    by Michael Sharwood Smith ...
    In this accessible introduction, Mike Sharwood Smith provides a working model or 'map' of the mind, with language as its centrepiece. Drawing on cutting-edge research across linguistics, psychology and neuroscience, it allows students to quickly grasp how each separate aspect of the mind's operations can be related. This 'big picture' view includes the way the mind makes, stores and loses memories ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Knowledge Representation

    by Arthur B. Markman ...
    Knowledge representation is fundamental to the study of mind. All theories of psychological processing are rooted in assumptions about how information is stored. These assumptions, in turn, influence the explanatory power of theories. This book fills a gap in the existing literature by providing an overview of types of knowledge representation techniques and their use in cognitive models.Organized ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Architecture of Cognition

    by John R. Anderson ...
    Now available in paper, The Architecture of Cognition is a classic work that remains relevant to theory and research in cognitive science. The new version of Anderson's theory of cognitive architecture -- Adaptive Control of Thought (ACT*) -- is a theory of the basic principles of operation built into the cognitive system and is the main focus of the book. ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Modelling High-level Cognitive Processes

    by Richard P. Cooper With Contributi, Peter G. Yule, John Fox, David W. Glasspool, Richard P. Cooper ...
    This book is a practical guide to building computational models of high-level cognitive processes and systems. High-level processes are those central cognitive processes involved in thinking, reasoning, planning, and so on. These processes appear to share representational and processing requirements, and it is for this reason that they are considered together in this text.The book is divided into ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Experienced Cognition

    by Richard A. Carlson ...
    This volume presents a theoretical framework for understanding consciousness and learning. Drawing on work in cognitive psychology and philosophy, this framework begins with the observation that to be conscious is literally to have a point of view. From this starting point, the book develops a descriptive scheme that allows perceptual, symbolic, and emotional awareness to be discussed in common ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Human Associative Memory

    by John R. Anderson, G. H. Bower ...
    First published in 1973. This book proposes and tests a theory about human memory, about how a person encodes, retains, and retrieves information from memory. The book is especially concerned with memory for sentential materials. We propose a theoretical framework which is adequate for describing comprehension of linguistic materials, for exhibiting the internal representation of propositional ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Human Associative Memory

    by John R. Anderson, G. H. Bower ...
    Published in 1980, part of the Experimental Psychology series. This book proposes and tests a theory about human memory, about how a person encodes, retains, and retrieves information from memory. This edition contains two major parts. First is the historical analysis of associationism and its countertraditions. This still provides the framework that has been used to relate the current research to ... Read more

    $89.95 USD

  • The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism

    by Ping Li, François Grosjean ...
    The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism presents a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of bilingualism, covering language processing, language acquisition, cognition and the bilingual brain.This thorough introduction to the psycholinguistics of bilingualism is accessible to non-specialists with little previous exposure to the fieldIntroduces students to the methodological approaches ... Read more

    $35.00 USD