ABSTRACT

Progress in Psychological Science around the World, Volumes 1 and 2, present the main contributions from the 28th International Congress of Psychology, held in Beijing in 2004. These expert contributions include the Nobel laureate address, the Presidential address, and the Keynote and State-of-the-Art lectures. They are written by international leaders in psychology from 25 countries and regions around the world. The authors present a variety of approaches and perspectives that reflect cutting-edge advances in psychological science.

This first volume addresses neural, cognitive, and developmental issues in contemporary psychology. It includes chapters on learning, memory, and motivation, cognitive neuroscience, and attention, emotion, and language, and covers life-span developmental psychology. Volume 2 goes on to discuss social and applied issues in modern psychology.

Progress in Psychological Science around the World, with its broad coverage of psychological research and practice, and its highly select group of world renowned authors, will be invaluable for researchers, professionals, teachers, and students in the field of psychology.

chapter 1|47 pages

A perspective on judgment and choice

Mapping bounded rationality

section I|99 pages

Learning, memory, and motivation

chapter 5|17 pages

Categorization and concept formation in pigeons

A perspective on comparative cognition

chapter 7|13 pages

Memory and memory disorders

Neuroimaging correlates of organic brain damage and psychic disturbances

chapter 8|17 pages

Successful goal pursuit

section II|80 pages

Cognitive neuroscience

chapter 9|14 pages

Imaging cognition

Recent developments and a tentative hierarchical cognitive model

chapter 10|18 pages

The divided brain

chapter 12|10 pages

Objects, actions, and affordances

The cognitive neuroscience of action selection

section III|176 pages

Attention, emotion, and language

chapter 16|17 pages

Models of attention

chapter 17|17 pages

Automatic processes in emotion

Capture of attention and emotion activation

chapter 18|18 pages

Neural circuitry involved in avoidance learning and memory

The amygdala and beyond

chapter 22|17 pages

Cognitive and neuroscience perspectives on speech and sign processing

Evidence from persons with deafness, hearing impairment, and normal hearing

chapter 23|18 pages

Conscious and unconscious cognition

A graded, dynamic perspective

section IV|124 pages

Life-span developmental psychology

chapter 24|14 pages

Cognitive aging

Some recent developments

chapter 26|15 pages

Dopamine and cognitive aging

A strong relationship

chapter 27|16 pages

Touch in infancy

The development of haptic abilities in very young infants

chapter 29|23 pages

Theory of mind

A core human cognition