Books in the Advances in Psychology series

The origin of knowledge about the self is a fundamental problem of psychology. Progress in the study of infant and animal behavior provides insights about the origins of self-knowledge. This book is a collection of theoretical views and research on the self in early infancy, prior to self-identification and emergence of mirror self-recognition.

This book appraises the main theoretical ideas currently characteristic of the motor behavior field, bringing together contributions from many internationally known scientists who are doing this important research. Much of the work presented utilizes new recording techniques aimed at obtaining a complete kinematic account of how movement is executed. The motor behavior field as described in this volume is dominated by approaches which emphasize the dynamics and kinematics of movement. There is also an emphasis on new electrophysiological measures. The volume is organized into several sections based on specific themes. Chapters contained in each section discuss many currently debated questions in the field concerning motor mechanisms and their implementation for motor control.

Concentrates on age differences in word and language processing, because these factors relate to reading which is a critical cognitive process used in everyday life. This book attempts to demonstrate the utility of the process-specific approach to cognitive aging.

'Cognitive psychology', 'cognitive neuroscience', and 'philosophy of mind' are names for three different scientific fields, but they label aspects of the same scientific goal: to understand the nature of mental phenomena. This book presents views from the different disciplines on the theory of mental models.

Since objects occlude themselves and each other, the information available for seeing objects is fragmentary. This book addresses the problem of how the human visual system organizes inputs that are fragmented in space and time into coherent, stable perceptual units - objects.

This internationally authored volume presents major findings, concepts, and methods of behavioral neuroscience co-ordinated with their simulation via neural networks.

In June of 2000, 40 experimental psychologists converged on Villanova University for a conference and workshop on attentional capture. This book presents a collection of chapters based on those presentations and discussions.

Discusses the general topics in human learning and cognition research, including inhibition, short term and long term memory, verbal memory, memory disruption, and scheduling and learning. This work also discusses cognitive neuroscience aspects of human learning. It focuses on human motor learning.

Presenting an interdisciplinary discussion on mental models, this work tackles the following questions: What is a mental model? What are the prospects and limitations in applying the mental model notion in cognitive science? How can the ideas on the nature of mental models and their mode of operation be empirically substantiated?