Books in the Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology series

Written in response to the growing interest within the area, in this book a distinguished cast of authors explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. Presenting cutting-edge findings within a broader context than many other publications, they cover disciplines varying from music, mathematics, business and law.

Written in response to the growing interest within the area, in this book a distinguished cast of authors explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. Presenting cutting-edge findings within a broader context than many other publications, they cover disciplines varying from music, mathematics, business and law.

A definitive reference source for the growing, increasingly more important, and interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive modeling. Ron Sun summarizes and explains the basic concepts, techniques and findings for a major topic, sketches its history, assesses its successes and failures, giving a sense of the directions research is currently heading.

This handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world who address the topic of consciousness from a wide variety of perspectives from philosophical to anthropological to neuroscientific. An authoritative desk reference which will also be suitable as an advanced textbook.

This handbook, first published in 2005, presents an overview of basic and applied research on visuospatial thinking - how people differ on visuospatial abilities, how people perform complex visuospatial thinking tasks and how to use what we know about visuospatial thinking in applied contexts, such as map reading and multimedia design.

This handbook, first published in 2005, presents an overview of basic and applied research on visuospatial thinking - how people differ on visuospatial abilities, how people perform complex visuospatial thinking tasks and how to use what we know about visuospatial thinking in applied contexts, such as map reading and multimedia design.

A 2005 guide to the body of knowledge, theory, policy and practice of age researchers and gerontologists around the world. While the main focus of the book is the behavioural and social sciences, it provides comprehensive, accessible and authoritative accounts of all the key topics in the field.

This volume takes the child's environment (culture, education, family, peers and media) as an essential component of child development.

This 2005 book is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook of all the core topics of the field of thinking and reasoning. Chapters focus on research from cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience and also include work related to philosophy, economics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, education, law, and medicine.