Tania Zittoun 
Pleasure of Thinking [EPUB ebook] 

First published in 2011. The pursuit of excellence in sport depends on four key facets of performance, namely physical, technical, tactical and mental skills. However, when physical, technical and ta …

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 …

The concept of time is a crucial filter through which we understand any events or phenomena; nothing exists outside of time. It conditions not only the question of ‘when’, but also influences the ‘wh …

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 …

Signal detection theory–as developed in electrical engineering and based on statistical decision theory–was first applied to human sensory discrimination 40 years ago. The theoretical intent was to …