Psychology

Geometric Representations of Perceptual Phenomena: Papers in Honor of Tarow indow on His 70th Birthday

by R. Duncan Luce, Donald D. Hoffman & Michael D'Zmura

Based on a conference held in honor of Professor Tarow Indow, this volume is organized into three major topics concerning the use of geometry in perception:

* space -- referring to attempts to represent the...

Vision and Mind: Modeling Mental Functions

by Vadim D. Glezer

The usual method for studying mental processes entails taking words in linguistics -- or concepts in logic -- and establishing the connections and relationships between them. Thus, the traditional approach to...

Personality Development: Theoretical, Empirical, and Clinical Investigations of Loevinger's Conception of Ego Development

by P. Michiel Westenberg, Augusto Blasi & Lawrence D. Cohn

Jane Loevinger's innovative research methodology, psychometric rigor, and theoretical scope have attracted the attention of numerous scholars and researchers. Empirical investigations employing Loevinger's Washington...

Personnel Selection and Classification

by Michael G. Rumsey, Clinton B. Walker & James H. Harris

Bringing together several key elements needed to identify the most promising themes for future research in selection and classification, this book's underlying aim is to improve job performance by selecting...

Chaos, Catastrophe, and Human Affairs: Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics To Work, Organizations, and Social Evolution

by Stephen J. Guastello

Whether talking about steering a wheelbarrow over rugged terrain or plotting the course of international relations, human performance systems involve change. Sometimes changes are subtle or evolutionary, sometimes...

The Psychology of Values: The Ontario Symposium, Volume 8

by Clive Seligman, James M. Olson & Mark P. Zanna

The eighth Ontario Symposium brought together an international group of scholars who work in the area of the psychology of values. Among the categories these experts address are the conceptualizations of values,...

The Structure of Long-term Memory: A Connectivity Model of Semantic Processing

by Wolfgang Klimesch

How is information stored and retrieved from long-term memory? It is argued that any systematic attempt to answer this question should be based on a particular set of specific representational assumptions that...

Clinical Neuropsychology: Theoretical Foundations for Practitioners

by Mark E. Maruish & James A. Moses

With the emergence of clinical neuropsychology as one of the fastest growing specialties in psychology comes the need for current and future practitioners to stay abreast of the most recent research. A number...

Adaptive Reasoning for Real-world Problems: A Schema-based Approach

by Roy Turner

This book describes a method for building real-world problem solving systems such as medical diagnostic procedures and intelligent controllers for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and other robots. The...

Active Perception

by Yiannis Aloimonos

This book defines the emerging field of Active Perception which calls for studying perception coupled with action. It is devoted to technical problems related to the design and analysis of intelligent systems...

Memory Search By A Memorist

by Charles P. Thompson, Thaddeus M. Cowan & Jerome Frieman

This book describes the first comprehensive experimental research program on an individual who exhibits exceptional memory. Rajan Mahadevan, the subject of these investigations, won a place in the Guinness Book...

Conceptions of the Human Mind: Essays in Honor of George A. Miller

by Gilbert Harman

This volume is a direct result of a conference held at Princeton University to honor George A. Miller, an extraordinary psychologist. A distinguished panel of speakers from various disciplines -- psychology,...

The Development of Intersensory Perception: Comparative Perspectives

by David J. Lewkowicz & Robert Lickliter

This book provides the latest information about the development of intersensory perception -- a topic which has recently begun to receive a great deal of attention from researchers studying the general problem...

The Self-system: Developmental Changes Between and Within Self-concepts

by Annerieke Oosterwegel & Louis Oppenheimer

This book presents a longitudinal study dealing with developmental changes within and between self-concepts and their relation to personal functioning. Within the psychological literature -- and the developmental...

Mathematical Perspectives on Neural Networks

by Paul Smolensky, Michael C. Mozer & David E. Rumelhart

Recent years have seen an explosion of new mathematical results on learning and processing in neural networks. This body of results rests on a breadth of mathematical background which even few specialists possess....

Anger, Hostility, and the Heart

by Aron Wolfe Siegman & Timothy W. Smith

Research on the roles played by hostility and anger in the etiology and course of coronary heart disease (CHD) has mushroomed. Moreover, there has been considerable progress in the knowledge of neurohormonal...

Early Child Development in the French Tradition: Contributions From Current Research

by Andre Vyt, Henriette Bloch & Marc H. Bornstein

This volume shares significant contemporary "Francophone" contributions to developmental psychology outside geographic and intellectual borders of French-speaking countries. Except for the spread of Piagetian...

Development in the Workplace

by Jack Demick & Patrice M. Miller

Originally presented at the Sixth Adult Development Symposium, the papers in this volume examine possible relationships between the fields of organizational and (adult) developmental psychology with particular...

Modeling Creativity and Knowledge-Based Creative Design

by John S. Gero & Mary Lou Maher

Over the last decade research into design processes utilizing ideas and models drawn from artificial intelligence has resulted in a better understanding of design -- particularly routine design -- as a process....

Mechanisms of Age-cognition Relations in Adulthood

by Timothy A. Salthouse

This monograph is the written version of a series of talks delivered as recent MacEachran Lectures at the University of Alberta. The informal style of the lectures, and the inclusion of a relatively large number...