BISAC SubjectsPSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses

Danièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino

Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses describes the collective elaboration of a situated cognitive approach with an emphasis on the relations between language and cognition within and across different sensory modalities and practices. This approach, grounded in 40 years of empirical… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 24] 2021. xxv, 598 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On Being Moved: From mirror neurons to empathy

Edited by Stein Bråten

In this collective volume the origins, neurosocial support, and therapeutic implications of (pre)verbal intersubjectivity are examined with a focus on implications of the discovery of mirror neurons. Entailing a paradigmatic revolution in the intersection of developmental, social and neural… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 68] 2007. x, 333 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.

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.

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.

Narrative Intelligence

Edited by Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers

Narrative Intelligence (NI) — the confluence of narrative, Artificial Intelligence, and media studies — studies, models, and supports the human use of narrative to understand the world. This volume brings together established work and founding documents in Narrative Intelligence to form a common… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 46] 2003. viii, 342 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.

Quantum Closures and Disclosures: Thinking-together postphenomenology and quantum brain dynamics

Gordon G. Globus †

Quantum Closures and Disclosures thinks together two seemingly irreconcilable discourses: An application of quantum field theory to brain functioning, called quantum brain dynamics, and the continental postphenomenological tradition, especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida.… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 50] 2003. xxii, 198 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.