About This Book
Thoroughly updated and restructured to reflect new directions in cognitive psychology and to be more student friendly.
New material includes:
- Cognitive neuroscience approaches such as brain scanning and imaging studies in order to illustrate the principles of brain function.
- Current research on consciousness.
Established approaches covered in depth include:
- Experimental cognitive psychology.
- Cognitive science, with its focus on cognitive modelling.
- Cognitive neuropsychology, with its focus on cognition following brain damage.
Plus:
- New and traditional approaches are integrated to provide a comprehensive, coherent and totally current overview of perception, attention, memory, concepts, language, problem solving, judgement and reasoning.
- New introductory and concluding chapters putting research developments into context.
