| Description |
vii, 631 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Approaches to cognitive psychology -- Experimental cognitive psychology -- Cognitive neuropsychology -- Computational cognitive science -- Cognitive neuroscience -- Visual Perception and Attention -- Basic processes in visual perception -- Brain systems -- Colour perception -- Perception without awareness -- Depth and size perception -- Object recognition -- Perceptual organisation -- Theories of object recognition -- Brain systems in object recognition -- Face recognition -- Visual imagery -- Perception, motion, and action -- Direct perception -- Visually guided movement -- Planning-control model -- Motion perception -- Change blindness -- Attention and performance limitations -- Focused auditory attention -- Focused visual attention -- Crossmodal effects -- Visual search -- Divided attention -- Automatic processing -- Memory and Concepts -- Learning and memory -- The architecture of memory -- Working memory -- Memory processes -- Implicit learning -- Theories of forgetting -- Long-term memory systems -- Declarative memory: Episodic and semantic memory -- Procedural memory and the perceptual representation system -- Amnesia -- Everyday memory -- Autobiographical memory -- Memorable memories -- Eyewitness testimony -- Prospective memory -- Evaluation of everyday memory research -- Concepts and categories -- Organisation of concepts -- Concept learning -- Concept meaning -- Language -- The Whorfian hypothesis -- Reading and speech perception -- Reading: Introduction -- Word identification -- Reading aloud |
| Summary |
This text introduces contemporary topics such as cognitive neuropsychology, connectionism and cognition and emotion. This edition includes a new chapter on judgement and decision-making |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1995 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-608) and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library) |
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English |
| Subject |
Cognition.
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Cognitive science.
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Cognitive neuroscience.
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Cognition -- Textbooks.
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Cognitive psychology -- Textbooks.
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Cognitive psychology.
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Cognition [MESH]
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Psychology [MESH]
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Cognitive Science [MESH]
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
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Cognition.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Author |
Keane, Mark T., 1961-
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Ebooks Corporation.
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| LC no. |
18003227 |
| ISBN |
0863775500 : |
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0863775519 paperback |
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