Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc - Böcker

This collection of research on object perception focuses on holistic and featural properties of objects, the mechanisms that produce such properties, how people choose one type of property over another, and how such choices are improved during the...

Läs mer »

This update of the 1981 classic on neural networks includes new commentaries by the authors that show how the original ideas are related to subsequent developments. As researchers continue to uncover ways of applying the complex information proces...

Läs mer »

This work re-evaluates the use of technology in higher education. The editor draws upon case studies of the use of computer-mediated academic work and sets his conclusions in the context of social science, that is, that teachers' beliefs about com...

Läs mer »

This book addresses the issues of communication from the vantage point of phenomenology or nonreductive awareness. The authors contend that phenomenology and its various developments offer a depth of analyses of interrelated processes of awareness...

Läs mer »

This volume is the first to illustrate the application of rhetorical theory and critical perspectives to explain public relations practices. It provides a systematic and coherent statement of the critical guidelines and philosophical underpinnings...

Läs mer »

Effective narration, the telling of stories or recounting of personal experiences, is an art requiring skills that appear crucial for children's language development and literacy acquisition. This volume serves an important purpose because it pull...

Läs mer »

This book focuses on integrating health and developmental issues in children and adolescents. Its primary objective is to demonstrate how development of emotions and cognition are involved in promoting health, preventing disease, and altering dise...

Läs mer »

Through anecdotes, history, and analysis, this book offers sound advice to prepare prospective editors for the full range of their duties: editing copy, determining what is news, understanding graphics and design, directing coverage, managing peop...

Läs mer »

This volume's goal is to begin to document the dialogue processes in naturally-occurring human tutoring, in the context of informing the design of intelligent tutoring systems, and of interactive systems in general. This project represents the fir...

Läs mer »

Because reporting is changing, this volume offers readers a thorough introduction to the rapidly evolving world of gathering information for local news organizations. This easy-to-read text is filled with contemporary examples and solid advice for...

Läs mer »

This volume consists of expanded and updated versions of papers presented at the Seventh Ontario Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology. The series is designed to bring together scholars from across North America who work in the same subst...

Läs mer »

The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication examines the multifunctional ways in which seemingly productive communication can be destructive-and vice versa-and explores the many ways in which dysfunctional interpersonal communication operates acr...

Läs mer »

Examining mass communication research from a cognitive psychologist's viewpoint, this text focuses on the "knowledge" acquired from interacting with the media. It argues that we construct cognitive representations of what the world is li...

Läs mer »

This volume brings together the large body of evidence addressing the roles of text-based and and reader-based sources of coherence in reading comprehension. The contributors present the current state of cognitive theory and research on comprehens...

Läs mer »

This casebook is part of a nationwide effort to capture and use practitioner knowledge to better prepare teachers for the reality of today's classrooms, given a student population vastly different from that of even a decade ago. <br> Conscio...

Läs mer »

The major aim of this book is to introduce the ways in which scientists approach and think about a phenomenon - hearing - that intersects three quite different disciplines: the physics of sound sources; neural activity in the brain; and the psycho...

Läs mer »

This handbook assembles papers from the field of communication and aging. Simultaneous growth in the discipline of communication and in the population of elderly individuals across the world has produced an explosion of research investigating vari...

Läs mer »

This volume provides an integrated overview of communication study for the student. In preparing to teach introductory graduate courses the authors could not find a single text that provided both theoretical coverage of the broad scope of communic...

Läs mer »

Those picking up a book filled with examples and discussions of laws regulating speech by advertising and public relations practitioners may be puzzled since the First Amendment clearly mandates freedom of speech or of the press. How can there be ...

Läs mer »

This review of the research literature regarding the use and effectiveness of video-based media seeks to summarize knowledge in the area. Focusing on empirical findings, the authors include work in educational and cognitive psychology, and communi...

Läs mer »