An exciting new cross-disciplinary field of biocultural research is emerging at the start of the
twenty-first century: developmental evolutionary biology. Looking at the behavioral ontogeny of primates, the authors-leading scholars of biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, and ...
The next great advance in biology will change more than science textbooksit will revolutionize the
way you live your life.In the past, we've been taught that living beings are like machines run by biochemicals and DNA, explains Dr. Bruce H. ...
This work argues that cognitive development is experience driven, and processes entailed in acquiring information
about the world are analyzed based on recent models of learning and induction. The way information is represented and accessed when performing cognitive tasks is ...
As one of the most hotly debated topics of the past decade, false memory has
attracted the interest of researchers and practitioners in many of psychology's subdisciplines. Real-world issues surrounding the credibility of memories (particularly memories of traumatic events, such ...
Game theory has revolutionized the study of animal behavior. The fundamental principle of evolutionary game
theorythat the strategy adopted by one individual depends on the strategies exhibited by othershas proven a powerful tool in uncovering the forces shaping otherwise mysterious ...
Managing Cognitive Load in Adaptive Multimedia Learning provides theory- and research-based recommendations on information presentation
techniques for multimedia and e-learning environments. Focusing on extensively researched principles and methodologies, this book offers readers comprehensive research and ...
This second volume in the Counterpoints Series, which explores issues in psychology, child development, linguistics,
and neuroscience, focuses on alternative models of visual-spatial processing in human cognition. This text offers extended chapters from three of the most respected and recognized ...
Memory is one of the earliest cognitive functions to show decline during aging and some
neurodegenerative diseases and this decline has a social and economic impact on individuals, families, the health care system, and society as a whole. This book ...