Cognition
1. Edition November 2010
624 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
This new text provides psychologists with a look at the field of cognitive psychology while integrating neuroscience into the discussion. Experiments are included throughout to show how the concepts are applied in the field. These can be easily reproduced in the lab. Illustrations are also integrated in the chapters to reinforce the discussions. Psychologists will find this text fully bridges cognitive psychology and neuroscience in an accessible way.
R. Douglas Whitman's first edition of Cognition presents amazing breadth and excitement of cognitive psychology. Within the pages of his book, he provides,
- a clear history of the development models of the cognitive processes that provides a picture of how scientific progress proceeds,
- comprehensive explanations of individual experiments and discussions of how they lead to new models of cognitive processes, and
- an important introduction to the contributions of cognitive neuroscience without the need for extensive background in neuroscience.
Cognitive psychology continues to be a multi-disciplinary field with theoretical and research foci that overlap with virtually every aspect of psychology. In addition, over the past several decades discoveries in neuropsychology and neuroscience have had major impact upon the cognitive psychology, now often incorporated into cognitive neuroscience. Cognition, First Edition incorporates current directions in neuroscience into a modern cognitive psychology textbook without losing the fundamental content of cognitive psychology.
2. FROM SENSATION TO PERCEPTION
3. ATTENTION IN A NOISY WORLD
4. THE MODAL MODEL OF MEMORY
5. WORKING MEMORY AND THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE
6. MAKING MEMORIES
7. RETRIEVAL AND MEMORY DISTORTION
8. VARIATIONS OF LONG-TERM MEMORY
9. CATEGORIZATION AND MEANING
10. CONSCIOUSNESS
11. THE DESCRIPTION AND OVERVIEW OF LANGUAGE
12. FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN LANGUAGE THEORY
13. INFORMATION PROCESSING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
14. PROBLEM SOLVING AND REASONING
Appendix A: NEURONS
Appendix B: GEOGRAPHY OF THE BRAIN
Appendix C: IMAGING THE BRAIN
