What is intelligence? How can we examine individual differences in intelligence? What does it mean to be very intelligent or dumb? Such questions have always pervaded human thinking, and have been raised during the development of scientific psychology. However, for many years, the practical needs of having reliable measures of intelligence have prevailed and the field has suffered the limitations of the psychometric approach. Recently, cognitive neuroscience, and in particular cognitive psychology, have proposed new models and data which have revived thinking in this area. This Special...
What is intelligence? How can we examine individual differences in intelligence? What does it mean to be very intelligent or dumb? Such questions h...
Problems with decoding, dyslexia and language disorders have attracted more interest from researchers than have specific comprehension problems and have occupied more room in specialized journals. Normal reading comprehension has also been a favourite with researchers. However, scarce interest has been paid to subjects who have comprehension difficulties. This book is an attempt to remedy this situation.
Problems with decoding, dyslexia and language disorders have attracted more interest from researchers than have specific comprehension problems and ha...
In this comprehensive text, Cesare Cornoldi and Tomaso Vecchi describe their experimental approach to the investigation of visuo-spatial cognition, based upon the analysis of individual differences. A review of the most influential theoretical advances in the study of visuo-spatial cognition is presented, including both critical analysis and comparisons between the distinct approaches. In addition, the authors describe recent research into memory for spatial configurations, mental manipulation and the active integration of visuo-spatial information. This includes studies on the effects of...
In this comprehensive text, Cesare Cornoldi and Tomaso Vecchi describe their experimental approach to the investigation of visuo-spatial cognition, ba...
