Books on Social and Behavioral Sciences - Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Books

Motivational Psychology of Human Development - book by Heckhausen, J.

DESCRIPTION: The idea for this book grew out of the conference "Motivational Psychology of Ontogenesis" held at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, in May 1998. This conference focused on the interface of development and motivation and therefore brought together schol... view more info and the price of this book.

Humane Interfaces - book by Marsh, J.P.;Gorayska, B.;Mey, J.L.

DESCRIPTION: Ever since the first successful International Cognitive Technology (CT) Conference in Hong Kong in August 1995, a growing concern about the dehumanising potential of machines, and the machining potential of the human mind, has pervaded the organisers' thinking. When setting up the agend... view more info and the price of this book.

Vision in Vehicles II - book by Gale, A.G.;Freeman, M.H.;Haslegrave, C.M.;Smith, P.;Taylor, S.P.

DESCRIPTION: An integrated approach to the problems of vision and vehicle control is presented in this volume. Current work on all aspects of vision and its relationship to vehicle design is reported on, including the internal and external design of vehicles, visual displays, and the perceptual and... view more info and the price of this book.

Vision in Vehicles III - book by Gale, A.G.;Brown, I.D.;Haslegrave, C.M.;Moorhead, I.;Taylor, S.P.

DESCRIPTION: This book is a new interdisciplinary work which presents the proceedings of the third international conference on Vision in Vehicles, the aim of which was to provide an international forum for the exchange of information on current work on all aspects of vision and its relationship to v... view more info and the price of this book.

Memory in Everyday Life - book by Davies, G.M.;Logie, R.H.

DESCRIPTION: The last decade has seen a major growth in research on how memory is used in everyday life. This volume represents a reaction to traditional laboratory-bound studies of the first half of the century which sought to identify the fundamental principles of learning and memory through the u... view more info and the price of this book.

Vision in Vehicles IV - book by Gale, A.G.;Brown, I.D.;Haslegrave, C.M.;Kruysse, H.W.;Taylor, S.P.

DESCRIPTION: This volume contains contributions illuminating much of the current research occurring in the area of visual perception. It encompasses all aspects of vision and its relationship to vehicle design, including both the internal and external design of the vehicle as well as the perceptual ... view more info and the price of this book.

Cognitive Aspects of Visual Languages and Visual Interfaces - book by Tauber, M.J.;Mahling, D.E.;Arefi, F.

DESCRIPTION: This volume contains selected papers from the 10th Interdisciplinary Workshop in Informatics and Psychology which had as its theme Cognitive Aspects in Visual Languages and Interfaces. Visual languages in general, visual programming languages in particular, and graphical or visual user ... view more info and the price of this book.

Perception and Cognition - book by d'Ydewalle, G.;van Rensbergen, J.

DESCRIPTION: The Sixth European Conference on Eye Movement (ECEM-6), which was organized at the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology of the University of Leuven (September 15-18, 1991) generated the publication of two separate books. The present volume comprises a mixture of contemporary work in va... view more info and the price of this book.

Vision in Vehicles V - book by Gale, A.G.;Brown, I.D.;Haslegrave, C.M.;Taylor, S.P.

DESCRIPTION: This book is based on the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Vision in Vehicles. The aim of the conference series is to enable international researchers from different disciplines to meet and exchange ideas on the current state-of-the-art of all aspects related to vehi... view more info and the price of this book.

Eye Movement Research - book by Findlay, J.M.;Walker, R.;Kentridge, R.W.

DESCRIPTION: This volume contains selected and edited papers from the 7th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 7) held in Durham, UK on August 31-September 3 1993. The volume is organized as follows:- Invited Lectures, Pursuit and Co-Ordination, Saccade and Fixation Control, Oculomotor Physiol... view more info and the price of this book.

The Grasping Hand - book by MacKenzie, C.L.;Iberall, T.

DESCRIPTION: The simple task of grasping objects has been studied for centuries by scientists, therapists and engineers who have tried to understand and duplicate the versatility of the human hand. Using an interdisciplinary approach and new framework for looking at prehension, the authors uncover t... view more info and the price of this book.

Visual and Oculomotor Functions - book by d'Ydewalle, G.;van Rensbergen, J.

DESCRIPTION: A collection of contemporary work in various areas of eye-movement research with an emphasis on physiological aspects is presented in this book. The contributions are divided into six sections: I. saccadic eye movements; II. smooth pursuit and motion perception; III. eye movements in pa... view more info and the price of this book.

Changes in Sensory Motor Behavior in Aging - book by Ferrandez, A.-M.;Teasdale, N.

DESCRIPTION: Recently, studies on aging processes and age-related changes in behavior have been expanding considerably, probably due to the dramatic changes observed in the demographics. This increase in the overall age and proportion of elderly people has heightened the severity of problems associa... view more info and the price of this book.

Eye Guidance in Reading and Scene Perception - book by Underwood, G.

DESCRIPTION: The distinguished contributors to this volume have been set the problem of describing how we know where to move our eyes. There is a great deal of current interest in the use of eye movement recordings to investigate various mental processes. The common theme is that variations in eye m... view more info and the price of this book.

Vision in Vehicles VI - book by Gale, A.;Brown, I.D.;Haslegrave, C.M.;Taylor, S.P.

DESCRIPTION: The original concept for the Vision in Vehicle series of international conferences was born from discussions within the Applied Vision Association which led eventually to the first conference being held in 1985. Ten years of progress later and this volume presents the selected and edite... view more info and the price of this book.

Cognitive Contributions to the Perception of Spatial and Temporal Events - book by Aschersleben, G.;Bachmann, T.;Musseler, J.

DESCRIPTION: The book is concerned with the cognitive contributions to perception, that is, with the influence of attention, intention, or motor processes on performances in spatial and temporal tasks. The chapters deal with fundamental perceptual processes resulting from the simple localization of ... view more info and the price of this book.

Vision in Vehicles VII - book by Gale, A.G.;Brown, I.D.;Haslegrave, C.M.;Taylor, S.P.

DESCRIPTION: The Seventh International Conference series on Vision in Vehicles was held in Marseilles in September 1997. This event was run in conjunction with the Applied Vision Association, the Ergonomics Society and with the participation of INRETS (Institut National de Recherche sur les Transpor... view more info and the price of this book.

A Psychological Approach to Ethical Reality - book by Hillner, K.

DESCRIPTION: The pre-eminent 19th century British ethicist, Henry Sidgwick once said: "All important ethical notions are also psychological, except perhaps the fundamental antitheses of 'good' and 'bad' and 'wrong', with which psychology, as it treats of what is and not of what ought to be, is not... view more info and the price of this book.