BIC SubjectsCognition & cognitive psychology

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.

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.

Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement

Edited by Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa and Cornelia Müller

Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement is an interdisciplinary volume with contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and movement therapists. Part one provides the phenomenologically grounded definition of body memory with its different typologies. Part two follows the aim to integrate… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 84] 2012. vii, 468 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.