A market need for a single-volume, up-to-date and international synthesis of cognitive psychology in Handbook format Aims to be affordable to individuals - most competing titles are primarily expensive and are predominantly library purchases i.e. Elsevier and Wiley titles Perfect for psychology students and researchers wanting an authoritative state-of-the-art overview of the discipline. Orchestrated in a way as to be appealing to those with no background in cognitive psychology Contains contributions from the world-leading scholars. Up-to-date in terms of research practice; authorial in...

Knowledge, Concepts and Categories brings together an overview of recent research on concepts and knowledge that abstracts across a variety of specific fields of cognitive psychology. Readers will find data from many different areas: developmental psychology, formal modelling, neuropsychology, connectionism, philosophy, and so on. The book can be divided into three parts. Chapters 1 to 5 each contain a thorough and systematic review of a significant aspect of research on concepts and categories. Chapters 6 to 9 are concerned primarily with issues related to the taxonomy of human...