Working Memory and Human Cognition (Counterpoints)

Gender Differences in Human Cognition (C

📁 Gender Differences in Human Cognition (Counterpoints - Cognition, Memory and Language)

✍ John T. E. Richardson, Paula J. Caplan, Mary Crawford, Janet Shibley Hyde 📂 Library 📅 1997 🌐 English

For years, both psychologists and the general public have been fascinated with the notion that there are gender differences in cognitive abilities; even now, flashy cover stories exploiting this idea dominate major news magazines, while research focuses on differences in verbal, mathematical, spatia

Gender Differences in Human Cognition (C

📁 Gender Differences in Human Cognition (Counterpoints - Cognition, Memory and Language)

✍ John T. E. Richardson, Paula J. Caplan, Mary Crawford, Janet Shibley Hyde 📂 Library 📅 1997 🌐 English

For years, both psychologists and the general public have been fascinated with the notion that there are gender differences in cognitive abilities; even now, flashy cover stories exploiting this idea dominate major news magazines, while research focuses on differences in verbal, mathematical, spatia

Models of Visuospatial Cognition (Counte

📁 Models of Visuospatial Cognition (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language)

✍ Manuel de Vega, Margaret Jean Intons-Peterson, Philip N. Johnson-Laird, Michel D 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

This second volume in the Counterpoints Series, which explores issues in psychology, child development, linguistics, and neuroscience, focuses on alternative models of visual-spatial processing in human cognition. This text offers extended chapters from three of the most respected and recognized inv

Figurative Language and Thought (Counter

📁 Figurative Language and Thought (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language)

✍ Albert N. Katz, Cristina Cacciari, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., Mark Turner 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, traditional approaches

Figurative Language and Thought (Counter

📁 Figurative Language and Thought (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language)

✍ Albert N. Katz, Cristina Cacciari, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., Mark Turner 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Figurative Language and Thought (Counter

📁 Figurative Language and Thought (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language)

✍ Albert N. Katz, Cristina Cacciari, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., Mark Turner 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, traditional approaches