Spatial ability has long been regarded as important in STEM, and mental rotation, a
subcategory of spatial ability, is widely accepted as the cognitive ability with the largest …

Perception is a product of evolution. Our perceptual systems, like our limbs and livers, have
been shaped by natural selection. The effects of selection on perception can be studied …

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim
that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that …

The classic survey design reference, updated for the digital age For over two decades,
Dillman's classic text on survey design has aided both students and professionals in …

This accessible, hands-on text has now been revised and updated, with expanded coverage
of topics including how theory may emerge from exploratory data analysis. The book …

Many current neurophysiological, psychophysical, and psychological approaches to vision
rest on the idea that when we see, the brain produces an internal representation of the …

The biolinguistic perspective regards the language faculty as an “organ of the body,” along
with other cognitive systems. Adopting it, we expect to find three factors that interact to …

Emergence is what happens when an interconnected system of relatively simple elements
self-organizes to form more intelligent, more adaptive higher-level behavior. It's a bottom-up …

Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate
synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of …

This book explores the contributions, actual and potential, of complexity thinking to
educational research and practice. While its focus is on the theoretical premises and the …