Patrick Bateson & Paul Martin 
Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation [EPUB ebook] 

This collection of essays focuses on three reasoning problems devised by Peter Wason – the selection task, the 2-4-6 task, and the THOG problem – which have had a considerable influence since their i …

Infancy is a time of rapid growth, when brain plasticity is at a maximum. Event-related potentials (ERPs) are one of the few methods that can easily and safely be used to study this process, and have …

The Chinese characters for ‘danger’ and ‘opportunity’ form the word ‘crisis’. Ancient Chinese wisdom sees an opportunity in danger. While cultural diversity brings challenges to the workplace, how do …

Auditory processing in children (APD) comprises an increasingly important clinical area within the broad field of communication disorders. This new textbook presents the major advances in the assessm …

Comprised of papers written by members of the Social Science Research Council Subcommittee on Child Development in Life-Span Perspective, this book provides a representation of the current status of …

The outgrowth of a University of Chicago conference on the psychological and biological bases of behavior, this unique collection of papers integrates the biological consideration of emotion with cur …

First published in 1982. During the past fifty years, dramatic changes have occurred in the use of laboratory animals to study learning and memory. Yet the basic reasons for this research, diverse as …

Students taking a personnel or human resources management course often do not enter the course bursting with curiosity or unbridled enthusiasm. After all, what kind of excitement can there be in stud …

First published in 1985. This conference on Perspectives on Memory Research was held at the University of Uppsala, June 20-24, 1977. A main purpose of it was to commemorate the birth of the Universit …

First published in 1984. This volume was organized for students of human memory and related cognitive processes. The issues deal not only with memory in unimpaired individuals, but also with impaired …