Books in the Essays in Cognitive Psychology series

Bridges the gap between basic memory research and mnemonic applications through an analysis of the processes that underlie effective memory aids. This book traces the history of mnemonics, examines popular techniques, and discusses the relevance of mnemonics to both psychological researchers and those seeking to improve their memory.

The Deja Vu Experience covers the recent scientific discoveries and theorizing in perception, cognition, and neurophysiology, which have the potential to help clarify the cause of the deja vu experience.

This title presents the most comprehensive existing "case study" of how the effects of damage in connectionist models can replicate the patterns of cognitive impairments that can arise in humans as a result of brain damage.

In this book Cornoldi and Vecchi describe a coherent experimental approach to the investigation of visuo-spatial cognition, based upon the analysis of individual differences.

How do people search evidence for a hypothesis? A well documented answer in cognitive psychology is that they search for confirming evidence. However, the rational strategy is to try to falsify the hypothesis. This contradiction is evaluated.

The book presents an overview of the author's research in anaphor interpretation set within the context of the general literature on anaphora from the disciplines of psycholinguistics. philosophy, lingustics, and computational linguistics.

Examines the nature and causal antecedents of superior memory performance. The main theme is that such a performance may depend on either specific memory techniques or natural superiority in the efficiency of one or more processees.

The fact that half of space can disappear while the other half remains intact or that an object can be seen without its location is something that most normal perceivers find astonishing. The belief that space is a unitary platform supporting objects is hard to shake. This text examines this.

Despite their exaggerated features, caricatures can remain instantly recognizable. The author assembles clues from a variety of sources to discover why, concluding that caricatures are effective for humans, animals and computer recognition systems.

This book presents an overview of explicit knowledge and measured performance and attempts to clarify them in a coherent theoretical framework.

The scope of the book extends to the effects of anxiety on performance and to the phenomenon of worry, which is regarded as the cognitive component of anxiety. In both cases, a new theoretical framework is presented.

This text argues that there are three major approaches to anxiety: anxiety as an emotional state; trait anxiety as a dimension of personality; and anxiety as a set of disorders.

Examines empirical and theoretical advancements in the understanding of semantic priming, providing an in-depth review of this phenomenon, framed in terms of models of memory and models of word recognition. It covers models of semantic priming, including spreading activation models, the verification model, compound-cue models, and more.

This essay follows a line of reconciliation and positive critique in exploring the possible overlap of mental imagery and working memory. Theoretical development in the book draws on data from both cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology.

Explores contemporary research on emotion and memory, describing the cognitive and brain processes that support emotional memory in young adults and discussing how those processes change with aging and age-related disease. This book includes a broad overview of emotion, memory, and the neural underpinnings of each.

Focuses on touch in order to examine which aspects of vision and touch overlap in spatial processing. This work argues that spatial processing depends on integrating diverse sensory inputs as reference cues for the location, distance or direction response that spatial tasks demand.

Proposes 7 principles of human memory that apply to various memories. This volume includes principles which are qualitative statements of empirical regularities that can serve as intermediary explanations and which follow from viewing memory as a function. It is intended for people (from undergraduates to researchers) in the field of memory.

Highlights the malleability of memory, as well as the strategies and situations that can help us avoid false memories. This book argues that these basic memory illusions contribute to a deeper understanding of how human memory works.

Addresses an apparent paradox in the psychology of thinking. Topics discussed include relevance effects in reasoning and decision making, the influence of prior beliefs on thinking, and if non-logical reasoning can affect decison making.

This book evaluates the involvement of working memory in five central aspects of language processing: vocabulary acquisition, speech production, reading development, skilled reading, and comprehension.

This text provides a review and critical evaluation of research into "flashbulb" memories, discussing the cases for and against. It also covers the neurobiology of flashbulb memories, and outlines a cognitive account of them.

This text outlines the major models of lexical processing that have been put forward in the literature, and how they explain the basic empirical findings that have been reported.