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Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
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Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action
The majority of research on human perception and action examines sensors and effectors in relative isolation. What is less often considered in these research domains…
read moreJune 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-6288-1 (Psychology Press)
Thinking With Data
The chapters in Thinking With Data are based on presentations given at the 33rd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition. The Symposium was motivated by the confluence…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5422-0 (Psychology Press)
Building Object Categories in Developmental Time
The study of object category development is a central concern in the field of cognitive science. Researchers investigating visual and auditory perception, cognition, language acquisition,… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-4491-7 (Psychology Press)
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Perceptual Organization in Vision
Behavioral and Neural Perspectives
Understanding visual perceptual organization remains a challenge for vision science. Perceptual Organization in Vision: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives explores ideas emanating from behavioral, developmental, neuropsychological,… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-3873-2 (Psychology Press)
Cognition and Instruction
Twenty-five Years of Progress
This volume is based on papers presented at the 30th Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition. This particular symposium was conceived in reference to the 1974… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-3824-4 (Psychology Press)
Mechanisms of Cognitive Development
Behavioral and Neural Perspectives
This volume considers how children's thinking evolves during development, with a focus on the role of experience in causing change. It brings together cutting-edge research… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-3276-1 (Psychology Press)
The Emergence of Language
For nearly four centuries, our understanding of human development has been controlled by the debate between nativism and empiricism. Nowhere has the contrast between these… read more1999 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-3011-8 (Psychology Press)
Scientific Approaches to Consciousness
There are many ways to approach the understanding of consciousness. Questions about these ways have occupied philosophers and metaphysicians for centuries. During the early growth… read more1996 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-1472-9 (Psychology Press)
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Implicit Memory and Metacognition
Metacognition is a term that spans many sub-areas in psychology and means different things to different people. A dominant view has been that metacognition involves… read more1996 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-1860-4 (Psychology Press)
Mind Matters
A Tribute To Allen Newell
Based on a symposium honoring the extensive work of Allen Newell -- one of the founders of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and the… read more1996 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-1364-7 (Psychology Press)