SubjectsPsychology / Cognitive psychology
Book series
ISSN 1573-594X
Human Cognitive Processing
Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg
ISSN 1387-6724
Journals
Document Design
Journal of Research and Problem Solving in Organizational Communication
General Editor: Jan Renkema
ISSN 1388-8951 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9722
International Journal of Cognition and Technology
Co-Existence, Convergence and Co-evolution
ISSN 1569-2167 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9803
International Journal of Language and Culture
Edited by Esther Pascual and Vera da Silva Sinha
ISSN 2214-3157 | E‑ISSN 2214‑3165
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Edited by Holger Hopp and Tanja Kupisch
ISSN 1879-9264 | E‑ISSN 1879‑9272
Pragmatics & Cognition
Edited by Elly Ifantidou and Louis de Saussure
ISSN 0929-0907 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9943
Translation, Cognition & Behavior
Edited by Elena Davitti and Alper Kumcu
ISSN 2542-5277 | E‑ISSN 2542‑5285
Epistemological issue: What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation
Edited by Matthew T. Carlson and Jorge González Alonso
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:1 (2026) v, 100 pp.
Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives
Edited by Julia Fuchs-Kreiß
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 33:1 (2026) vi, 228 pp.
Metonymic Thinking All the Way Down: From discourse to the lexicon, and beyond
Edited by Carmen Portero Muñoz, Antonio Barcelona and Almudena Soto Nieto
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 13:1 (2026) vi, 273 pp.
Progress in Colour Studies: Colour Expression and Cognition
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Domicele Jonauskaite, Mari Uusküla and Dimitris Mylonas
This volume presents recent research in colour studies with a particular focus on language, offering both continuity and innovation within the field. All chapters are developed from papers first presented at the Progress in Colour Studies 2022 (PICS2022) conference, held at Tallinn University,… read more[Not in series, 244] 2026. viii, 226 pp.
Advanced Quantitative Methods in Bi-/Multilingualism
Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, George Pontikas and Ian Cunnings
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:4 (2025) v, 175 pp.
Cultural Turns in Information Design I
Edited by Juhri Selamet and Nina Hansopaheluwakan Edward
Special issue of Information Design Journal 30:1 (2025) 96 pp.
Epistemological issue: Translanguaging
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:1 (2025) vi, 116 pp.
Humans, Machines, and Embedded Translation
Edited by Jean Nitzke and Sandra L. Halverson
Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 8:2 (2025) v, 193 pp.
Solitude Speech across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Mitsuko Narita Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 (2025) v, 208 pp.
‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction
Edited by Chi-Hé Elder, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 32:1 (2025) v, 260 pp.
Cognitive Approaches to Mind, Language, and Society: Theory and description
Edited by Mario Serrano-Losada and Daniela Pettersson-Traba
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:1 (2024) vi, 249 pp.
Epistemological issue: The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:1 (2024) vi, 114 pp.
Processing in Bilingual Children
Edited by Chantal van Dijk, Jasmijn E. Bosch and Sharon Unsworth
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:4 (2024) v, 174 pp.
The Speech Act(ion) of Commenting in Social Media and Beyond
Edited by Robert Külpmann and Rita Finkbeiner
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 31:2 (2024) v, 134 pp.
Translation and Interpreting at the Interface of Cognition and Emotion
Edited by Ana María Rojo López and Purificación Meseguer Cutillas
Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 7:1 (2024) v, 185 pp.
Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies in the Early Twenty First Century
Edited by Adolfo M. García, Edinson Muñoz and Néstor Singer
Special issue of Translation, Cognition & Behavior 6:2 (2023) v, 166 pp.
Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 (2023) vi, 132 pp.
Naming and Labelling Contexts of Cultural Importance in Africa
Edited by Nico Nassenstein, Sambulo Ndlovu and Svenja Völkel
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 10:2 (2023) vi, 161 pp.
Perception, Culture and Language
Edited by Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Rita Brdar Szabó
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 10:2 (2023) vi, 239 pp.
Structural similarity across domains in third language acquisition
Edited by Nadine Kolb, Natalia Mitrofanova and Marit Westergaard
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:5 (2023) v, 136 pp.
Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives
Edited by Kate Beeching, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen and Anna Piasecki
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 29:2 (2022) iii, 213 pp.
Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1 (2022) vi, 102 pp.
Information Visualization
Edited by Isabel Meirelles, Marian Dörk and Yanni Loukissas
Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills
Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:4 (2022) v, 164 pp.
Bi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain
Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:4 (2021) v, 158 pp.
Developments in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
Edited by Kairong Xiao and Sandra L. Halverson
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:2 (2021) vi, 278 pp.
Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:1 (2021) vi, 129 pp.
New Developments in Relevance Theory
Edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz and Agnieszka Piskorska
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 28:2 (2021) v, 218 pp.
Recurrent Gestures
Edited by Simon Harrison, Silva H. Ladewig and Jana Bressem
Special issue of Gesture 20:2 (2021) v, 177 pp.
Sex, Death & Politics: Taboos in Language
Edited by Melanie Keller, Philipp Striedl, Daniel Biro, Johanna Holzer and Benjamin Weber
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 28:1 (2021) v, 221 pp.
The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Anna Gladkova and Jesús Romero-Trillo
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 8:1 (2021) vii, 168 pp.
Cognitive Linguistic Aspects of Information Structure and Flow
Edited by Wei-lun Lu and Jirí Lukl
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:2 (2020) v, 165 pp.
Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages
Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1 (2020) v, 312 pp.
Errors and Interaction: A cognitive ethnography of emergency medicine
Sarah Bro Trasmundi
Trasmundi combines her background as a cognitive ethnographer with theory of radical embodied cognition and interaction to investigate how healthcare practitioners manage cognitive events in patient treatment and diagnosing that often lead to human errors. This interdisciplinary focus emphasises… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 309] 2020. xii, 246 pp.
Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics
Edited by Ulrike Schröder, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 7:1 (2020) v, 145 pp.
Mass and Count in Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science
Edited by Friederike Moltmann
The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates to philosophical and cognitive notions of unity, identity, and… read more[Language Faculty and Beyond, 16] 2020. v, 227 pp.
Mental representations in receptive multilingualism
Edited by Bonnie C. Holmes and Michael T. Putnam
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:3 (2020) v, 132 pp.
Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development: Essays in honour of Bencie Woll
Edited by Gary Morgan
The study of childhood deafness offers researchers many interesting insights into the role of experience and sensory inputs for the development of language and cognition. This volume provides a state of the art look at these questions and how they are being applied in the areas of clinical and… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 25] 2020. xv, 214 pp.
Visual Metaphors
Edited by Réka Benczes and Veronika Szelid
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:1 (2020) vi, 274 pp.
Where Words Get their Meaning: Cognitive processing and distributional modelling of word meaning in first and second language
Marianna Bolognesi
Words are not just labels for conceptual categories. Words construct conceptual categories, frame situations and influence behavior. Where do they get their meaning? This book describes how words acquire their meaning. The author argues that mechanisms based on associations, pattern detection, and… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 23] 2020. xi, 208 pp.
Anthropology of Gesture
Edited by Heather Brookes and Olivier Le Guen
Special issue of Gesture 18:2/3 (2019) vi, 282 pp.
Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond: Questions and insights
Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian
The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 57] 2019. viii, 377 pp.
Creativity in Language
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 6:1 (2019) vi, 223 pp.
Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:6 (2019) iv, 132 pp.
Information Visualization
Edited by Marian Dörk and Isabel Meirelles
The Neurocognition of Translation and Interpreting
Adolfo M. García
This groundbreaking work offers a comprehensive account of brain-based research on translation and interpreting. First, the volume introduces the methodological and conceptual pillars of psychobiological approaches vis-à-vis those of other cognitive frameworks. Next, it systematizes… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 147] 2019. xx, 268 pp.
Pragmatics and its Interfaces as related to the Expression of Intention
Edited by István Kecskés
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 26:1 (2019) vi, 165 pp.
Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children
Edited by Maialen Iraola Azpiroz, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:4/5 (2019) vi, 263 pp.
Representation and Processing in Bilingual Morphology
Edited by Jennifer R. Austin
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:1 (2019) v, 162 pp.
Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics
Edited by Natalie Depraz and Agnès Celle
Surprise is treated as an affect in Aristotelian philosophy as well as in Cartesian philosophy. In experimental psychology, surprise is considered to be an emotion. In phenomenology, it is only addressed indirectly (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas), with the important exception of Ricœur and Maldiney;… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 11] 2019. vi, 185 pp.
Cognitive Perspectives on Genre
Edited by Carla Vergaro
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 25:3 (2018) v, 214 pp.
The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation: Data, methods, models
Edited by Daphné Kerremans, Jelena Prokić, Quirin Würschinger and Hans-Jörg Schmid
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 25:1 (2018) v, 200 pp.
Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6 (2018) iv, 145 pp.
From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 5:2 (2018) v, 190 pp.
Methodologies for intra-sentential code-switching research
Edited by Amaia Munarriz-Ibarrola, M. Carmen Parafita Couto and Emma Vanden Wyngaerd
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:1 (2018) v, 161 pp.
Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond
Edited by Lindsay W. MacDonald, Carole P. Biggam and Galina V. Paramei
This volume presents authoritative and up-to-date research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines, including vision science, psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, anthropology, onomastics, philosophy, archaeology and design. The chapters have been… read more[Not in series, 217] 2018. xx, 470 pp.
Transcategoriality: A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Sylvie Hancil, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:1 (2018) v, 187 pp.
Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes
Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 4:2 (2017) v, 152 pp.
Emotions across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Ad Foolen
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 4:1 (2017) v, 119 pp.
Health Information Design
Edited by Guillermina Noël
Special issue of Information Design Journal 23:3 (2017) ii, 134 pp.
Information Visualization
Edited by Isabel Meirelles and Katherine Gillieson
Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017
Edited by Theodoros Marinis, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:3/4 (2017) v, 211 pp.
Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World
Edited by Marcus Callies and Alexander Onysko
Special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4:1 (2017) v, 169 pp.
Semiotics: A way of thinking & approaching information design
Edited by Priscila Lena Farias and João Queiroz
Special issue of Information Design Journal 23:2 (2017) ii, 121 pp.
Aging and Bilingualism
Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:1/2 (2016) vi, 226 pp.
Bilingualism and Executive Function: An interdisciplinary approach
Edited by Irina A. Sekerina and Lauren Spradlin
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:5 (2016) vi, 213 pp.
Controversies, Communication and the Body
Edited by Joseph Lehmann
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 23:3 (2016) vi, 170 pp.
New Theoretical Insights into Untruthfulness
Edited by Marta Dynel
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 23:1 (2016) v, 208 pp.
Traffic & Transport: Part II
Edited by Peter Simlinger
Special issue of Information Design Journal 22:2 (2016) ii, 122 pp.
The Constitution of Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a science and theory
Edited by Steven M. Miller
Philosophers of mind have been arguing for decades about the nature of phenomenal consciousness and the relation between brain and mind. More recently, neuroscientists and philosophers of science have entered the discussion. Which neural activities in the brain constitute phenomenal consciousness,… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 92] 2015. viii, 473 pp.
Language and Cultural Values: Adventures in applied ethnolinguistics
Edited by Bert Peeters
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 2:2 (2015) vii, 161 pp.
Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Inquiries into Translation and Interpreting
Edited by Aline Ferreira and John W. Schwieter
Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Inquiries into Translation and Interpreting presents perspectives and original studies that aim to diversify traditional approaches in translation and interpreting research and improve the quality and generalizability of the field. The volume is divided into two… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 115] 2015. vii, 206 pp.
"Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2 (2014) v, 141 pp.
Creative Confluence
Johan F. Hoorn
Creative Confluence is a highly original work, building bridges between physics, biology, technology, economy, organizations, neuropsychology, literature, arts, and cultural history. It is an attempt to explain the process of creativity as a universal principle of nature, cutting through the… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 16] 2014. xv, 320 pp.
Creativity, Cognition and Material Culture
Edited by Lambros Malafouris, Chris Gosden and Karenleigh A. Overmann
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 22:1 (2014) v, 181 pp.
Diagrammatic Reasoning
Edited by Riccardo Fusaroli and Kristian Tylén
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 22:2 (2014) v, 107 pp.
Multilingual Cognition and Language Use: Processing and typological perspectives
Edited by Luna Filipović and Martin Pütz
This volume provides a multifaceted view of certain key themes in multilingualism research today and offers future directions for this research area in the context of the multilingual development of individuals and societies. The selection of studied languages is eclectic (e.g. Amondawa, Cantonese,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 44] 2014. x, 337 pp.
Parsing to Learn
Edited by Laurent Dekydtspotter and Claire Renaud
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:2 (2014) vi, 152pp.
True Emotions
Mikko Salmela
True Emotions discusses several key problems in emotion research. The question about the true nature of emotions focuses on the role of cognition in human emotions at different levels of analysis: functional role, types of processes and representations, and neural implementation. Truth to the self,… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 9] 2014. ix, 191 pp.
Alignment in Communication: Towards a new theory of communication
Edited by Ipke Wachsmuth, Jan de Ruiter, Petra Jaecks and Stefan Kopp
Alignment in Communication is a novel direction in communication research, which focuses on interactive adaptation processes assumed to be more or less automatic in humans. It offers an alternative to established theories of human communication and also has important implications for human-machine… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 6] 2013. viii, 231 pp.
The Constitution of Visual Consciousness: Lessons from Binocular Rivalry
Edited by Steven M. Miller
This volume examines the neuroscience of visual consciousness, drawing on the phenomenon of binocular rivalry. It provides overviews of brain structure and function, the visual system, and neuroscientific methodologies, and then focuses on binocular rivalry from multiple perspectives: historical,… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 90] 2013. ix, 339 pp.
Epistemological issue with keynote article “The illusion of language acquisition” by William O’Grady
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:3 (2013) iv, 131 pp.
The Expressiveness of Perceptual Experience: Physiognomy reconsidered
Martin S. Lindauer
A face strikes us immediately as sad, and so, too, do a mourner, a willow tree, a house on a prairie, and a group of onlookers. The spontaneous emergence of affective and other qualities of people, things, places, and events falls under the heading of physiognomy, a phenomenon discussed since at… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 8] 2013. xi, 174 pp.
Hand Preference and Hand Ability: Evidence from studies in Haptic Cognition
Miriam Ittyerah
This volume adds new dimension and organization to the literature of touch and the hand, covering a diversity of topics surrounding the perception and cognition of touch in relation to the hand. No animal species compare to humans with regard to the haptic (or touch) sense, so unlike visual or… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 5] 2013. x, 248 pp.
Moving Imagination: Explorations of gesture and inner movement
Edited by Helena De Preester
This volume brings together contributions by philosophers, art historians and artists who discuss, interpret and analyse the moving and gesturing body in the arts. Broadly inspired by phenomenology, and taking into account insights from cognitive science, the contribution of the motor body in… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 89] 2013. vi, 320 pp.
Organic Creativity and the Physics Within
Mea M.M. Lowcre
A group of international top scientists from a diversity of disciplines sat together for five days with artists, designers, and entrepreneurs to develop a trans-disciplinary theory of creativity. Organic Creativity and the Physics Within assumes that creativity is a quality of nature visible in… read more
Roots and Collapse of Empathy: Human nature at its best and at its worst
Stein Bråten
Spanning from care-giving infants and civilian rescuers risking their life to the collapse of empathy in agents of torture and extinction, this unique book deals with and illustrates the altruistic best and atrocious worst of human nature. It begins with infant roots of empathy, then turns to the… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 91] 2013. xv, 276 pp.
Writing and the Mind
Edited by David R. Olson and Marcelo Dascal †
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 21:3 (2013) v, 148 pp.
Being in Time: Dynamical models of phenomenal experience
Edited by Shimon Edelman, Tomer Fekete and Neta Zach
Given that a representational system's phenomenal experience must be intrinsic to it and must therefore arise from its own temporal dynamics, consciousness is best understood — indeed, can only be understood — as being in time. Despite that, it is still acceptable for theories of consciousness to… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 88] 2012. xvi, 261 pp.
Categorical versus Dimensional Models of Affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell
Edited by Peter Zachar and Ralph D. Ellis
One of the most important theoretical and empirical issues in the scholarly study of emotion is whether there is a correct list of “basic” types of affect or whether all affective states are better modeled as a combination of locations on shared underlying dimensions. Many thinkers have written on… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 7] 2012. vi, 350 pp.
Culture – Language – Cognition
Edited by Marcelo Dascal †
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 20:2 (2012) vi, 198 pp.
Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology
John-Michael Kuczynski
Intended for philosophically minded psychologists and psychologically minded philosophers, this book identifies the ways that psychology has hobbled itself by adhering too strictly to empiricism, this being the doctrine that all knowledge is observation-based. In the first part of this two-part… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 87] 2012. viii, 477 pp.
Gesture and Multimodal Development
Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti
We gesture while we talk and children use gestures prior to words to communicate during the first year. Later, as words become the preferred form of communication, children continue to gesture to reinforce or extend the spoken messages or even to replace them. This volume, originally published as a… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 39] 2012. xii, 223 pp.
Olfactory Cognition: From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience
Edited by Gesualdo M. Zucco, Rachel S. Herz and Benoist Schaal
This book was conceived as a tribute to one of the founders of the psychological study of the sense of smell, Professor Trygg Engen. The book is divided into four sections. The first reunites the fields of psychophysics and the perception of environmental odours and discusses the impact of odours… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 85] 2012. xx, 317 pp.
Becoming Human: From pointing gestures to syntax
Teresa Bejarano
What do the pointing gesture, the imitation of new complex motor patterns, the evocation of absent objects and the grasping of others’ false beliefs all have in common? Apart from being (one way or other) involved in the language, they all would share a demanding requirement – a second mental… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 81] 2011. xvii, 402 pp.
Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences: Avenues, challenges, and limitations
Edited by Marcus Callies, Wolfram R. Keller and Astrid Lohöfer
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the human mind. As far as the exact relationship between the cognitive sciences and other fields is concerned, however, it appears that interdisciplinary exchange often remains unrealized, possibly because of the uni-directional application of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 30] 2011. viii, 313 pp.
Phenomenology and the Physical Reality of Consciousness
Arthur Melnick
The predominant positive view among philosophers and scientists alike is that consciousness is something realized in brain activity. This view, however, largely fails to capture what consciousness is like according to how it shows itself to conscious beings. What this work proposes instead is that… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 83] 2011. vii, 262 pp.
The Primacy of Movement: Expanded second edition
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 82] 2011. xxxii, 574 pp.
Prosody and Humor
Edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 19:2 (2011) vi, 194 pp.
Technology Enhanced Learning and Cognition
Edited by Itiel E. Dror
The use of technology in learning has increased dramatically. Training and education is now utilizing and almost integrated with the World Wide Web, podcasts, mobile and distant learning, interactive videos, serious games, and a whole range of e-learning. However, has such technology enhanced… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 27] 2011. ix, 265 pp.
Dialogue – The Mixed Game
Edda Weigand
The ‘Mixed Game Model’ represents a holistic theory of dialogue which starts from human beings’ competence-in-performance and describes how language is integrated in a general theory of human action and behaviour. Human beings are able to adapt to changing conditions and to pursue their interests… read more
The Emergence of Consciousness: A top-down, social phenomenon?
Edited by Jonathan Cole and Marcelo Dascal †
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 18:3 (2010) vi, 148 pp.
Gesture and Multimodal Development
Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti
Special issue of Gesture 10:2/3 (2010) vi, 232 pp.
Healthcare Information
Edited by Peter Simlinger
Special issue of Information Design Journal 18:3 (2010) ii, 105 pp.
Lexical Pragmatics and Theory of Mind: The acquisition of connectives
Sandrine Zufferey
The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics. However, even though the relationship between ToM and verbal communication is now recognized, the extent, causality… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 201] 2010. ix, 192 pp.
Mind Ascribed: An elaboration and defence of interpretivism
Bruno Mölder
This book provides a thoroughly worked out and systematic presentation of an interpretivist position in the philosophy of mind, of the view that having mental properties is a matter of interpretation. Bruno Mölder elaborates and defends a particular version of interpretivism, the ascription theory,… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 80] 2010. xii, 293 pp.
Distributed Language
Edited by Stephen J. Cowley
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 17:3 (2009) v, 207 pp.
The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech
Stein Bråten
The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech illustrates how recent findings about primary intersubjectivity, participant perception and mirror neurons afford a new understanding of children’s nature, dialogue and language. Based on recent infancy research and the mirror… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 76] 2009. xxii, 351 pp.
Mind that Abides: Panpsychism in the new millennium
Edited by David Skrbina
Panpsychism is the view that all things, living and nonliving, possess some mind like quality. It stands in sharp contrast to the traditional notion of mind as the property of humans and (perhaps) a few select ‘higher animals’. Though surprising at first glance, panpsychism has a long and noble… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 75] 2009. xiv, 401 pp.
Psyche and the Literary Muses: The contribution of literary content to scientific psychology
Martin S. Lindauer
Psyche and the Literary Muses focuses on the psychology of literature from an empirical point of view, rather than the more typical psychoanalytic position, and concentrates on literary content rather than readers or writers. The book centers on the author’s quantitative studies of brief literary… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 7] 2009. xiii, 209 pp.
Symbol Grounding
Edited by Tony Belpaeme, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman
When explaining cognition one must explain how representations in the mind, or symbols, become meaningful by connecting to the external world. This process of connecting symbols with sensorimotor experiences is known as symbol grounding. The classical view of symbol grounding is that it is an… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 21] 2009. v, 167 pp.
Traffic & Transport: Part I
Special issue of Information Design Journal 17:2 (2009) ii, 79 pp.
Vocalize to Localize
Edited by Christian Abry, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz
Vocalize-to-Localize? Meerkats do it for specific predators… And babies point with their index finger toward targets of interest at about nine months, well before using language-specific that-demonstratives. With what-interrogatives they are universal and, as relativizers and complementizers, play… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 13] 2009. x, 311 pp.
Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction
Edited by Lola Cañamero and Ruth Aylett
Animated interactive characters and robots that are able to function in human social environments are being developed by a large number of research groups worldwide. Emotional expression, as a key element of human social interaction and communication, is often added in an attempt to make them… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 74] 2008. xxiii, 296 pp.
Cognition Distributed: How cognitive technology extends our minds
Edited by Itiel E. Dror and Stevan Harnad
Our species has been a maker and user of tools for over two million years, but "cognitive technology" began with language. Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been "distributed" for at least the two hundred millennia that we have been using speech to interact and collaborate, allowing us to do… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 16] 2008. xiii, 258 pp.
Constructing the Self
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Constructing the Self analyzes the narrative conception of self, filling a serious gap in philosophy and grounding discussion in other disciplines. It answers the questions:What are the connections between our interpretations, selfhood, and conscious phenomenal experience?Why do we believe that… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 73] 2008. xi, 186 pp.
Developmental Psycholinguistics: On-line methods in children’s language processing
Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Eva M. Fernández and Harald Clahsen
How do infants and young children coordinate information in real time to arrive at sentence meaning from the words and structure of the sentence and from the nonlinguistic context? This volume introduces readers to an emerging field of research, experimental developmental psycholinguistics, and to… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 44] 2008. xviii, 190 pp.
Dimensions of gesture
Edited by Adam Kendon † and Tommaso Russo Cardona
Special issue of Gesture 8:1 (2008) 153 pp.
Discourse, Vision, and Cognition
Jana Holšánová
While there is a growing body of psycholinguistic experimental research on mappings between language and vision on a word and sentence level, there are almost no studies on how speakers perceive, conceptualise and spontaneously describe a complex visual scene on higher levels of discourse. This… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 23] 2008. xiii, 202 pp.
Fact and Value in Emotion
Edited by Louis C. Charland and Peter Zachar
There is a large amount of scientific work on emotion in psychology, neuroscience, biology, physiology, and psychiatry, which assumes that it is possible to study emotions and other affective states, objectively. Emotion science of this sort is concerned primarily with 'facts' and not 'values',… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 4] 2008. vi, 212 pp.
Gestures in language development
Edited by Marianne Gullberg and Kees de Bot
Special issue of Gesture 8:2 (2008) 145 pp.
Highlights of Vision Plus 12: Information Design - Achieving Measurable Results
Edited by Lennart Strand and Peter Simlinger
Special issue of Information Design Journal 16:3 (2008) 112 pp.
Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Re-examining the Age Factor
Silvina Montrul
Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 39] 2008. x, 312 pp.
Learning Technologies and Cognition
Edited by Itiel E. Dror
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 16:2 (2008) 232 pp.
The Shared Mind: Perspectives on intersubjectivity
Edited by Jordan Zlatev, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen
The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed “social cognition” through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 12] 2008. xiii, 391 pp.
Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling
Edited by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick
The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors… read more
Discourse, Cognition and Communication
Edited by Ted J.M. Sanders and Leo Lentz
Special issue of Information Design Journal 15:3 (2007) ii, 107 pp.
Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates
Edited by Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika
Research into gestures represents a multifaceted field comprising a wide range of disciplines and research topics, varying methods and approaches, and even different species such as humans, apes and monkeys. The aim of this volume (originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005)) is… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 10] 2007. xiv, 284 pp.
The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The feeling behind laughter and humor
Wallace Chafe
The thesis of this book is that neither laughter nor humor can be understood apart from the feeling that underlies them. This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world really is, thereby inhibiting seriousness where seriousness would be… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 3] 2007. xiii, 167 pp.
Making Minds: The shaping of human minds through social context
Edited by Petra Hauf and Friedrich Försterling
Social stimuli are important proximate determinants of human thought, action, and behaviour. But does the social environment also have deeper, profounder, and possibly more distal impact on more lasting psychological structures and forms, generalizing across time and domains, such as traits,… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 4] 2007. ix, 275 pp.
Mechanicism and Autonomy: What Can Robotics Teach Us About Human Cognition and Action?
Edited by Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez, Willem F.G. Haselager and Itiel E. Dror
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 15:3 (2007) 224 pp.
Pragmatic Interfaces
Edited by Louis de Saussure and Peter J. Schulz
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 15:1 (2007) 236 pp.
Speaking of Colors and Odors
Edited by Martina Plümacher and Peter Holz
How to speak of colors and odors? In many cases, we have to think about an adequate description of a perceived odor or shade of color. Words are not fluently available.The contributions discuss color and odor perception and its linguistic representation from different disciplinary angles: from… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 8] 2007. vi, 244 pp.
Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology
Andrew Goatly
Contemporary metaphor theory has recently begun to address the relation between metaphor, culture and ideology. In this wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly, using lexical data from his database Metalude, investigates how conceptual metaphor themes construct our thinking and social behaviour in fields… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 23] 2007. xvii, 431 pp.
Distributed Cognition
Edited by Stevan Harnad and Itiel E. Dror
Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been distributed for millions of years – for as long as our species has had language and tools to help us interact and collaborate and achieve far more than any of us could have done individually. But something radically new is happening to distributed… read moreSpecial issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 14:2 (2006) 268 pp.
Exploring Inner Experience: The descriptive experience sampling method
Russell T. Hurlburt and Christopher L. Heavey
Written for the psychologist, philosopher, and layperson interested in consciousness, Exploring Inner Experience provides a comprehensive introduction to the Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) method for obtaining accurate reports of inner experience. DES uses a beeper to cue participants to pay… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 64] 2006. xii, 276 pp.
Imagery and Spatial Cognition: Methods, models and cognitive assessment
Edited by Tomaso Vecchi and Gabriella Bottini
The relationships between perception and imagery, imagery and spatial processes, memory and action: these are the main themes of this text. The interest in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience on imagery and spatial cognition has remarkably increased in the last decades. Different… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 66] 2006. xiv, 436 pp.
Progress in Colour Studies: Volume II. Psychological aspects
Edited by Nicola Pitchford and Carole P. Biggam
The study of colour attracts researchers from a wide range of disciplines from both the sciences and the arts. Along with its companion volume, Progress in Colour Studies 1: Language and Culture, this book offers a fascinating insight into current issues and research into colour. Most of the papers… read more[Not in series, PICS 2] 2006. xiv, 237 pp.
Radical Enactivism: Intentionality, Phenomenology and Narrative. Focus on the philosophy of Daniel D. Hutto
Edited by Richard Menary
"This collection is a much-needed remedy to the confusion about which varieties of enactivism are robust yet viable rejections of traditional representationalism approaches to cognitivism – and which are not. Hutto's paper is the pivot around which the expert commentators, enactivists and… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 2] 2006. x, 256 pp.
Text features which enable cognitive strategies during text comprehension
Edited by Herre van Oostendorp
Special issue of Information Design Journal 14:1 (2006) 100 pp.
Analogy as Structure and Process: Approaches in linguistics, cognitive psychology and philosophy of science
Esa Itkonen
The concept of analogy is of central concern to modern cognitive scientists, whereas it has been largely neglected in linguistics in the past four decades. The goal of this thought-provoking book is (1) to introduce a cognitively and linguistically viable notion of analogy; and (2) to re-establish… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 14] 2005. xiv, 249 pp.
Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition
Edited by Itiel E. Dror
For more information on the Special Series devoted to Technology & Cognition, please see: Special Issues read moreSpecial issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 13:3 (2005) 220 pp.
Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, conscious choice, and selective perception
Edited by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton
The papers in this volume of Consciousness & Emotion Book Series are organized around the theme of "enaction." Enactive emotional processes are not merely the recipients of information or the passive victims of input and learning. The organism first is engaged in an ongoing, complex pattern of… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 1] 2005. xii, 330 pp.
Controversies and Subjectivity
Edited by Pierluigi Barrotta and Marcelo Dascal †
This collective volume focuses on two closely connected issues whose common denominator is the embattled notion of the subject. The first concerns the controversies on the nature of the subject and related notions, such as the concepts of ‘I’ and ‘self’. From both theoretical and historical… read more[Controversies, 1] 2005. x, 411 pp.
Curious Emotions: Roots of consciousness and personality in motivated action
Ralph D. Ellis
Emotion drives all cognitive processes, largely determining their qualitative feel, their structure, and in part even their content. Action-initiating centers deep in the emotional brain ground our understanding of the world by enabling us to imagine how we could act relative to it, based on… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 61] 2005. viii, 238 pp.
Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates
Edited by Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika
Special issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005) 324 pp.
Identifying information and tenor in texts
Edited by Luuk Lagerwerf, Wilbert Spooren and Liesbeth Degand
Special issue of Information Design Journal 13:1 (2005) 96 pp.
Memory and Understanding: Concept formation in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu
Renate Bartsch
This book treats memory and understanding on two levels, on the phenomenological level of experience, on which a theory of dynamic conceptual semantics is built, and on the neuro-connectionist level, which supports the capacities of concept formation, remembering, and understanding. A… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 63] 2005. x, 158 pp.
Narrative Interaction
Edited by Uta M. Quasthoff and Tabea Becker
Telling stories in conversations is intricately interwoven with the interactive and local functions of story telling. Telling stories demands a certain kind of context and in itself establishes a particular interactive reality. Thus, narration is a specific kind of verbal interaction, governed by… read more[Studies in Narrative, 5] 2005. vi, 306 pp.
The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit: On Robert B. Brandom
Edited by Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 13:1 (2005) 257 pp.
Brain and Being: At the boundary between science, philosophy, language and arts
Edited by Gordon G. Globus †, Karl H. Pribram and Giuseppe Vitiello
This book results from a group meeting held at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Torino, Italy. The central aim was for scientists to “think together” in new ways with those in the humanities inspired by quantum theory and especially quantum brain theory. These fields of inquiry have… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 58] 2004. xii, 354 pp.
The Building Blocks of Meaning: Ideas for a philosophical grammar
Michele Prandi
The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing. Coding is viewed as a vector which can run either from expression to content or from concepts to (linguistic) forms to mark independent conceptual relations. While coding relies on systematic resources… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 13] 2004. xviii, 520 pp.
Cognition and Technology: Co-existence, convergence and co-evolution
Edited by Barbara Gorayska and Jacob L. Mey
This new collection of contributions to the field of Cognitive Technology (CT) provides the (to date) widest spectrum of the state of the art in the discipline — a disciple dedicated to humane factors in tool design. The reader will find here a summary of past research as well as an overview of new… read more[Not in series, 127] 2004. vi, 369 pp.
Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge: Case studies in the cognitive science of science
András Kertész
The book focuses on the question of how and to what extent cognitive semantic approaches can contribute to the new field of the cognitive science of science. The argumentation is based on a series of instructive case studies which are intended to test the prospects and limits of the metascientific… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 4] 2004. viii, 259 pp.
Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain
Edited by Mario Beauregard
During the last decade, the study of emotional self-regulation has blossomed in a variety of sub-disciplines belonging to either psychology (developmental, clinical) or the neurosciences (cognitive and affective). Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain gives an overview of the… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 54] 2004. xii, 291 pp.
Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness: An Anthology
Edited by Rocco J. Gennaro
Higher-Order (HO) theories of consciousness have in common the idea that what makes a mental state conscious is that it is the object of some kind of higher-order representation. This volume presents fourteen previously unpublished essays both defending and criticizing this approach to the problem… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 56] 2004. xii, 368 pp.
Inference and Anticipation in Simultaneous Interpreting: A probability-prediction model
Ghelly V. Chernov
Until now, Ghelly Chernov’s work on the theory of simultaneous interpretation (SI) was mostly accessible only to a Russian-speaking readership. Finally, Chernov’s major work, originally published in Russia in 1987 under the title Основы Синхронного Перевода (Introduction to Simultaneous… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 57] 2004. xxx, 266 pp.
Mind and Causality
Edited by Alberto Peruzzi
Which causal patterns are involved in mental processes?On what mechanisms does the self-organisation of cognitive structure rest?Can a naturalistic view account for the basic resources of intentionality, while avoiding the objections to reductive materialism?By considering the developmental,… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 55] 2004. xiv, 235 pp.
Narrative Counselling: Social and linguistic processes of change
Peter Muntigl
What actually happens in counselling interactions? How does counselling bring about change? How do clients end up producing new and alternative stories of their lives and relationships? By addressing these questions and others, Peter Muntigl explores the narrative counselling process in the context… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 11] 2004. x, 347 pp.
A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism
Michel Paradis
This volume is the outcome of 25 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. In addition to reviewing the world literature and providing a state-of-the-art account, including a critical assessment of the bilingual neuroimaging studies, it proposes a set of hypotheses about… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 18] 2004. viii, 299 pp.
Philosophy of the Brain: The brain problem
Georg Northoff
"What is the mind?""What is the relationship between brain and mind?"These are common questions. But "What is the brain?" is a rare question in both the neurosciences and philosophy. The reason for this may lie in the brain itself: Is there a "brain problem"?In this fresh and innovative book, Georg… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 52] 2004. x, 433 pp.
The Structure and Development of Self-Consciousness: Interdisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Dan Zahavi, Thor Grünbaum and Josef Parnas
Self-consciousness is a topic of considerable importance to a variety of empirical and theoretical disciplines such as developmental and social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy. This volume presents essays on self-consciousness by prominent psychologists, cognitive… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 59] 2004. xiv, 160 pp.
The Structure of Time: Language, meaning and temporal cognition
Vyvyan Evans
One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time, asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 12] 2004. x, 286 pp.
Attention and Implicit Learning
Edited by Luis Jiménez
Attention and Implicit Learning provides a comprehensive overview of the research conducted in this area. The book is conceived as a multidisciplinary forum of discussion on the question of whether implicit learning may be depicted as a process that runs independently of attention. The volume also… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 48] 2003. x, 385 pp.
Caging the Beast: A theory of sensory consciousness
Paula Droege
A major obstacle for materialist theories of the mind is the problem of sensory consciousness. How could a physical brain produce conscious sensory states that exhibit the rich and luxurious qualities of red velvet, a Mozart concerto or fresh-brewed coffee? Caging the Beast: A Theory of Sensory… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 51] 2003. x, 181 pp.
Interpretation and Understanding
Marcelo Dascal †
Our species has been hunting for meaning ever since we departed from our cousins in the evolutionary tree. We developed sophisticated forms of communication. Yet, as much as they can convey meaning and foster understanding, they can also hide meaning and prevent comprehension. Indeed, we can never… read more[Not in series, 120] 2003. xxii, 714 pp.
Multiple Analogies in Science and Philosophy
Cameron Shelley
A multiple analogy is a structured comparison in which several sources are likened to a target. In Multiple analogies in science and philosophy, Shelley provides a thorough account of the cognitive representations and processes that participate in multiple analogy formation. Through analysis of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 11] 2003. xvi, 167 pp.
On Becoming Aware: A pragmatics of experiencing
Nathalie Depraz, Francisco J. Varela and Pierre Vermersch
This book searches for the sources and means for a disciplined practical approach to exploring human experience. The spirit of this book is pragmatic and relies on a Husserlian phenomenology primarily understood as a method of exploring our experience. The authors do not aim at a neo-Kantian a… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 43] 2003. viii, 281 pp.
Touching for Knowing: Cognitive psychology of haptic manual perception
Edited by Yvette Hatwell, Arlette Streri and Edouard Gentaz
The dominance of vision is so strong in sighted people that touch is sometimes considered as a minor perceptual modality. However, touch is a powerful tool which contributes significantly to our knowledge of space and objects. Its intensive use by blind persons allows them to reach the same levels… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 53] 2003. x, 322 pp.
Consciousness Emerging: The dynamics of perception, imagination, action, memory, thought, and language
Renate Bartsch
This study of the workings of neural networks in perception and understanding of situations and simple sentences shows that, and how, distributed conceptual constituents are bound together in episodes within an interactive/dynamic architecture of sensorial and pre-motor maps, and maps of conceptual… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 39] 2002. x, 256 pp.
Consciousness Evolving
Edited by James H. Fetzer
A collection of stimulating studies on the past, the present, and the future of consciousness, Consciousness Evolving contributes to understanding some of the most important conceptual problems of our time. The advent of the modern synthesis together with the human genome project affords a platform… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 34] 2002. xx, 253 pp.
Consciousness Recovered: Psychological functions and origins of conscious thought
George Mandler †
This integrated approach to the psychology of consciousness arises out of Mandler’s 1975 paper that was seminal in starting the current flood of interest in consciousness. The book starts with this paper, followed by a novel psychological/evolutionary theoretical discussion of consciousness, and… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 40] 2002. xii, 142 pp.
Emotional Cognition: From brain to behaviour
Edited by Simon C. Moore and Mike Oaksford
Emotional Cognition gives the reader an up to date overview of the current state of emotion and cognition research that is striving for computationally explicit accounts of the relationship between these two domains. Many different areas are covered by some of the leading theorists and researchers… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 44] 2002. vi, 350 pp.
Language, Vision and Music: Selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999
Edited by Paul Mc Kevitt, Seán Ó Nualláin and Conn Mulvihill
Language, vision and music: what common cognitive patterns underlie our competence in these disparate modes of thought? Language (natural & formal), vision and music seem to share at least the following attributes: a hierarchical organisation of constituents, recursivity, metaphor, the possibility… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 35] 2002. xii, 433 pp.
Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 1: Culture, sensory interaction, speech, conversation
Fernando Poyatos
In a progressive and systematic approach to communication, and always through an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, this first volume presents culture as an intricate grid of sensible and intelligible sign systems in space and time, identifying the semiotic and interactive problems… read more[Not in series, NCAD 1] 2002. xxvi, 371 pp.
Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 2: Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction
Fernando Poyatos
Paralanguage and kinesics define the tripartite nature of speech. Volume 2 builds on Poyatos’ book Paralanguage (1993) – reviewed by Mary Key as “the most amplified description of paralanguage available today”. It covers our basic voice components; the many normal or abnormal voice types; the… read more[Not in series, NCAD 2] 2002. xviii, 458 pp.
Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 3: Narrative literature, theater, cinema, translation
Fernando Poyatos
This volume, based on the first two, identifies the verbal and nonverbal personal and environmental components of narrative and dramaturgic texts and the cinema — recreated in the first through the ‘reading act’ according to gaze mechanism and punctuation — and traces the coding-decoding processes… read more[Not in series, NCAD 3] 2002. xx, 287 pp.
Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: 3 Volumes (set)
Fernando Poyatos
The interdisciplinary field of Nonverbal Communication Studies is covered in these three volumes in a great variety of aspects, including sensory exchanges, intercultural communication and problems, and the deeper levels of personal as well as person-environment interactions. Taking roots in… read more[Not in series, NCAD S] 2002. 1180 pp.
Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse
Edited by Carl Friedrich Graumann and Werner Kallmeyer
‘Perspective’ and ‘viewpoint’ are widely used in everyday talk as well as in the specialist languages of the social, cognitive, and literary sciences. Taken from the field of visual perception and representation, these concepts have acquired a general meaning and significance, as characteristics of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 9] 2002. vi, 400 pp.
Simulation and Knowledge of Action
Edited by Jérôme Dokic and Joëlle Proust
The current debate between theory theory and simulation theory on the nature of mentalisation has reached no consensus yet, although many now think that some hybrid theory is needed. This collection of essays represents an effort at re-evaluating the scope of simulation theory, while also… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 45] 2002. xxii, 271 pp.
Tone of Voice and Mind: The connections between intonation, emotion, cognition and consciousness
Norman D. Cook
Tone of Voice and Mind is a synthesis of findings from neurophysiology (how neurons produce subjective feeling), neuropsychology (how the human cerebral hemispheres undertake complementary information-processing), intonation studies (how the emotions are encoded in the tone of voice), and music… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 47] 2002. x, 293 pp.
Unfolding Perceptual Continua
Edited by Liliana Albertazzi
The book analyses the differences between the mathematical interpretation and the phenomenological intuition of the continuum. The basic idea is that the continuity of the experience of space and time originates in phenomenic movement. The problem of consciousness and of the spaces of… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 41] 2002. vi, 296 pp.
Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective
Jan Nuyts
The relationship between language and conceptualization remains one of the major puzzles in language research. This monograph addresses this issue by means of an in depth corpus based and experimental investigation of the major types of expressions of epistemic modality in Dutch, German and English. read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 5] 2001. xx, 428 pp.
Face Recognition: Cognitive and computational processes
Sam S. Rakover and Baruch Cahlon
Face Recognition: Cognitive and Computational Processes critically discusses current research in face recognition, leading to an original approach with criminological applications. The book covers The methodological and philosophical basis of research in face recognition. Findings and their… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 31] 2001. x, 304 pp.
Finding Consciousness in the Brain: A neurocognitive approach
Edited by Peter G. Grossenbacher
How does the brain go about the business of being conscious? Though we cannot yet provide a complete answer, this book explains what is now known about the neural basis of human consciousness.The last decade has witnessed the dawn of an exciting new era of cognitive neuroscience. For example,… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 8] 2001. xvi, 326 pp.
Pattern and Process: A Whiteheadian perspective on linguistics
Michael Fortescue
The purpose of this book is to illustrate the relevance to linguistics today of Whiteheads philosophy of organism. Although largely ignored by linguists, Whitehead has in fact much to say as regards the cognitive processes underpinning language pattern. His theory of symbolism conceives of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 6] 2001. viii, 311 pp.
The Structure of Arguments
Izchak M. Schlesinger, Tamar Keren-Portnoy and Tamar Parush
An important tool for scientific study in any field is a formal language in which the phenomena can be described and hypotheses formulated. In this book a formal notation is developed for the description of the cognitive structure of arguments. The analyses based on this notation are more… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 7] 2001. xx, 263 pp.
Text Representation: Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects
Edited by Ted J.M. Sanders, Joost Schilperoord and Wilbert Spooren
This book brings together linguistics and psycholinguistics. Text representation is considered a cognitive entity: a mental construct that plays a crucial role in both text production and text understanding.The focus is on referential and relational coherence and the role of linguistic… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 8] 2001. viii, 363 pp.
Writing Organization: (Re)presentation and control in narratives at work
Carl Rhodes
Carl Rhodes examines the implicit power of writing and authorship that is at play when people and organisations are (re)presented in research. To explore this, the book reports a research project in the area of organisational storytelling that investigates how people in one organisation used… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 7] 2001. xvi, 134 pp.
Beyond Dissociation: Interaction between dissociated implicit and explicit processing
Edited by Yves Rossetti and Antti Revonsuo
Analysis and dissociation have proved to be useful tools to understand the basic functions of the brain and the mind, which therefore have been decomposed to a multitude of ever smaller subsystems and pieces by most scientific approaches. However, the understanding of complex functions such as… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 22] 2000. x, 372 pp.
Beyond Physicalism
Daniel D. Hutto
Unlike standard attempts to address the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, which assume our understanding of consciousness is unproblematic, this book begins by focusing on phenomenology and is devoted to clarifying the relations between intentionality, propositional content and experience.… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 21] 2000. xvi, 306 pp.
The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, affect and self-organization — An anthology
Edited by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton
These new studies by prominent neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers work toward a coherent framework for understanding emotion and its contribution to the functioning of consciousness in general, as an aspect of self-organizing, embodied subjects. Distinguishing consciousness from… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 16] 2000. xxii, 276 pp.
The Development of Implicit and Explicit Memory
Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Harlene Hayne and Michael Colombo
This is the only book that examines the theory and data on the development of implicit and explicit memory. It first describes the characteristics of implicit and explicit memory (including conscious recollection) and tasks used with adults to measure them. Next, it reviews the brain mechanisms… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 24] 2000. x, 322 pp.
Exploring the Self: Philosophical and psychopathological perspectives on self-experience
Edited by Dan Zahavi
The aim of this volume is to discuss recent research into self-experience and its disorders,and to contribute to a better integration of the different empirical and conceptual perspectives. Among the topics discussed are questions like ‘What is a self?,’ ‘What is the relation between the… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 23] 2000. viii, 299 pp.
Facial Information Processing: A multidisciplinary perspective
Itiel E. Dror and Sarah V. Stevenage
Research in areas from psychology through computer science to neuroscience and clinical case studies. read moreSpecial issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 8:1 (2000) viii, 276 pp.
Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition: Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb
Edited by David G. Lockwood, Peter H. Fries and James E. Copeland
This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors range from cognitive approaches including Stratificational grammar to more socially oriented ones including Systemic Functional linguistics.… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 163] 2000. xxxiv, 656 pp.
Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness: New methodologies and maps
Edited by Max Velmans
How can one investigate phenomenal consciousness? As in other areas of science, the investigation of consciousness aims for a more precise knowledge of its phenomena, and the discovery of general truths about their nature. This requires the development of appropriate first-person, second-person and… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 13] 2000. xii, 381 pp.
Language Processing and Simultaneous Interpreting: Interdisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Birgitta Englund Dimitrova and Kenneth Hyltenstam
This volume brings together papers from the areas of psychology, general linguistics, psycholinguistics, as well as from simultaneous interpreting. Their common focus is how theories and methodologies from various disciplines can be applied to the study of simultaneous interpreting, and also to… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 40] 2000. xvi, 164 pp.
Microgenetic Approach to the Conscious Mind
Talis Bachmann
Many secrets of nature have been discovered since we have a better understanding of microstructures, for example subatomic spheres in physics and genetic structures in biochemistry. This book is set to convey an overview of the history, methods, findings and theoretical accounts of microgenetic… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 25] 2000. xiv, 298 pp.
Narrative Identity
Michael Bamberg and Allyssa McCabe
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 10:1 (2000) 265 pp.
Spatial Cognition: Foundations and applications
Edited by Seán Ó Nualláin
Spatial Cognition brings together psychology, computer science, linguistics and geography, discussing how people think about space (our internal cognitive maps and spatial perception) and how we communicate about space, for instance giving route directions or using spatial metaphors. The… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 26] 2000. xvi, 366 pp.
Tapping and Mapping the Processes of Translation and Interpreting: Outlooks on empirical research
Edited by Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit and Riitta Jääskeläinen
This volume brings together cognitive psychologists, interpreting scholars and translation researchers, who look at the process phenomena involved in translation and interpreting (T/I) from various linguistic vantage points.The focus is on methodology and the problems that loom large in a… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 37] 2000. x, 176 pp.
Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations
Edited by Catherine Fuchs and Stéphane Robert
Significant new developments in brain activity research have revived the debate on the universality of language and its neural basis. Within this debate, the question of language diversity and its implications for cognition remains central and controversial. It is here investigated in an original… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 3] 1999. x, 229 pp.
Metonymy in Language and Thought
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden
Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 4] 1999. vii, 423 pp.
Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language
Sydney M. Lamb
The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our abilities, our means of recognizing a face in a crowd, of conversing about anything we experience or imagine, of forming thoughts and developing ideas, of instantly understanding words coming rapidly in conversation. How does it manage all… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 170] 1999. xii, 416 pp.
The Presence of Mind
Daniel D. Hutto
Will our everyday account of ourselves be vindicated by a new science? Or, will our self-understanding remain untouched by such developments? This book argues that beliefs and desires have a legitimate place in the explanation of action. Eliminativist arguments mistakenly focus on the vehicles of… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 17] 1999. xiv, 252 pp.
The Primacy of Movement
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
Through diligent and rigorous attention to both natural history and phenomenological accounts of kinetic phenomena, particularly the phenomenon of self-movement, this richly interdisciplinary book brings to the fore the long-neglected topic of animate form and with it, a long-neglected inquiry into… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 14] 1999. xxxiv, 583 pp.
Stratification in Cognition and Consciousness
Edited by Bradford H. Challis and Boris M. Velichkovsky
The notion of stratification has played an important role in linguistics and evolutionary studies for some time, but its role in cognitive science has not yet been well articulated and identified. What is meant by stratification? What is the role and value of stratification in the contemporary… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 15] 1999. viii, 293 pp.
The Concept of Reference in the Cognitive Sciences
Edited by Amichai Kronfeld and Lawrence D. Roberts
An interdisciplinary look at the concept of reference, using perspectives from the philosophy of language and mind, logic and formal semantics, to developmental psychology and cognitive science. read moreSpecial issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 6:1/2 (1998) vii, 364 pp.
Consciousness and Qualia
Leopold Stubenberg
This is a philosophical study of qualitative consciousness, characteristic examples of which are pains, experienced colors, sounds, etc. Consciousness is analyzed as the having of qualia. Phenomenal properties or qualia are problematical because they lack appropriate bearers. The relation of having… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 5] 1998. x, 367 pp.
Language Structure, Discourse and the Access to Consciousness
Edited by Maxim I. Stamenov
The focus of this collective volume is on the mutual determination of language structure, discourse patterns and the accessibility to consciousness of mental contents of different types of organization and complexity. The contributions address the following problems, among others: the history of… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 12] 1997. xii, 364 pp.
The Language of Emotions: Conceptualization, expression, and theoretical foundation
Edited by Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven †
Since the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Darwin's The Language of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), emotionology has become a respectable and even thriving research domain again. The domain of human emotions is most important for mankind, emotions being right in the center of our… read more[Not in series, 85] 1997. xviii, 337 pp.
Two Sciences of Mind: Readings in cognitive science and consciousness
Edited by Seán Ó Nualláin, Paul Mc Kevitt and Eoghan Mac Aogáin
The Reaching for Mind workshop, held at AISB ’95, explicitly addressed itself to the current crisis in Cognitive Science. In particular, the issue of how this discipline can address consciousness was a leitmotiv in the workshop. The conclusion seems inescapable that there is a need for two sciences… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 9] 1997. xii, 498 pp.
Consciousness and Self-Consciousness: A defense of the higher-order thought theory of consciousness
Rocco J. Gennaro
This interdisciplinary work contains the most sustained attempt at developing and defending one of the few genuine theories of consciousness. Following the lead of David Rosenthal, the author argues for the so-called 'higher-order thought theory of consciousness'. This theory holds that what makes… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 6] 1996. x, 220 pp.
Foundations of Understanding
Natika Newton
How can symbols have meaning for a subject? Foundations of Understanding argues that this is the key question to ask about intentionality, or meaningful thought. It thus offers an alternative to currently popular linguistic models of intentionality, whose inadequacies are examined: the goal should… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 10] 1996. x, 211 pp.
Fractals of Brain, Fractals of Mind: In search of a symmetry bond
Edited by Earl Mac Cormac and Maxim I. Stamenov
This collective volume is the first to discuss systematically what are the possibilities to model different aspects of brain and mind functioning with the formal means of fractal geometry and deterministic chaos. At stake here is not an approximation to the way of actual performance, but the… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 7] 1996. x, 359 pp.
Locating Consciousness
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Locating Consciousness argues that our qualitative experiences should be aligned with the activity of a single and distinct memory system in our mind/brain. Spelling out in detail what we do and do not know about phenomenological experience, this book denies the common view of consciousness as a… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 4] 1995. xviii, 266 pp.
The Postmodern Brain
Gordon G. Globus †
This interdisciplinary work discloses an unexpected coherence between recent concepts in brain science and postmodern thought. A nonlinear dynamical model of brain states is viewed as an autopoietic, autorhoetic, self-organizing, self-tuning eruption under multiple constraints and guided by an… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 1] 1995. xii, 188 pp.
Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness: An introduction
Mari Jibu and Kunio Yasue
This introduction to quantum brain dynamics is accessible to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The authors, a brain scientist and a theoretical physicist, present a new quantum framework for investigating advanced functions of the brain such as consciousness and memory. The book is the first to… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 3] 1995. xvi, 244 pp.
Questioning Consciousness: The interplay of imagery, cognition, and emotion in the human brain
Ralph D. Ellis
Questioning Consciousness brings together neuroscientific, psychological and phenomenological research, combining in a readable format recent developments in image research and neurology. It reassesses the mind-body relation and research on 'mental models', abstract concept formation, and… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 2] 1995. viii, 262 pp.
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Saussure, Hjelmslev, Lacan and others
Michel Arrivé
If you read or reread Freud, it is difficult not to find on a single page references to language: from speech to text, from slip of the tongue to word play, from letter to meaning-passing inevitably through the strange notion of literal meaning, that fascinated Freud. In short, the unconscious is… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 4] 1992. xvi, 178 pp.
The Linguistics of Literacy
Edited by Pamela A. Downing, Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan
This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988. The theme of the conference was the relationship between linguistics and literacy. In this volume, a selection of papers are presented which… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 21] 1992. xx, 334 pp.
Point Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language
Edited by Lynn Eubank
Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussion… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 3] 1991. x, 439 pp.
Language and Schizophrenia
Janusz Wrobel
This book investigates the functioning of linguistic phenomena, especially in the area of semantics and pragmatics of the language of schizophrenics. By making semantics and pragmatics the primary objects of this work, the author departs from the traditional approach of those psycholinguistic and… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 33] 1989. viii, 132 pp.
The Language of Psychotherapy
Rudolf Ekstein
Ekstein's book brings together papers on a number of themes which have occupied his thinking during the last 40 years. In the Wiener Kreis, the Vienna circle of philosophers, he studied, together with his professor Moritz Schlick, the philosophy of science, the analysis of language, and the… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 11] 1989. xviii, 336 pp.
Grundzüge einer Psychologie des Zeichens (1901)
Richard Gätschenberger
Although Richard Gätschenberger can be regarded as one of the important sign theorists in the first third of the 20th century, nothing much about the man and his works is currently known. Long before there was a widespread philosophical interest in language, Gätschenberger had already laid the… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 3] 1987. xv, 135 pp.