The Psychology of Cognition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-33361-8 (ISBN)
This comprehensive, cutting-edge textbook offers a layered approach to the study of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It embraces multiple exciting and influential theoretical approaches such as embodied cognition and predictive coding, and explaining new topics such as motor cognition, cognitive control, consciousness, and social cognition.
Durk Talsma offers foundational knowledge which he expands and enhances with coverage of complex topics, explaining their interrelatedness and presenting them together with classic experiments and approaches in a historic context. Providing broad coverage of world-class international research this richly illustrated textbook covers key topics including:
Action control and cognitive control
Consciousness and attention
Perception
Multisensory processing and perception-action integration
Motivation and reward processing
Emotion and cognition
Learning and memory
Language processing
Reasoning
Numerical cognition and categorisation
Judgement, decision making, and problem solving
Social cognition
Applied cognitive psychology
With pedagogical features that include highlights of relevant methods and historical notes to spark student interest, this essential text will be invaluable reading for all students of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Durk Talsma is Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium. His research interests include selective attention, multisensory integration, visual short-term memory, and event-related potential methodology.
Foreword
Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1. Cognitive psychology – history and development of a discipline
Chapter 2. The Brain
Part 2: Control
Chapter 3. Action and action control
Chapter 4. Consciousness and Attention
Chapter 5. Cognitive Control
Part 3: Perception
Chapter 6. Visual perception
Chapter 7. Auditory perception
Chapter 8. Mechanical perception
Part 4. Integration
Chapter 9. Multisensory integration
Chapter 10. Perception-action integration
Part 5. Emotion and motivation
Chapter 11. Motivation and reward
Chapter 12. Emotion and cognition
Chapter 14. The dynamics of our memory
Chapter 15. Everyday memory
Part 7. The Psychology of Language
Chapter 16. Language Functions
Chapter 17. Language perception and understanding
Chapter 18. Language Production
Part 8. Higher cognition
Chapter 19. Mental representations and reasoning skills
Chapter 20. Numbers and Categories
Chapter 21. Judgement and Decision making
Chapter 22. Problem solving and development of expertise
Part 9. A broader perspective
Chapter 23. Social Cognition
Chapter 24. To err is human: the role of errors in human cognition
Appendix: Bayesian inference
Glossary
References
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 315 Line drawings, color; 11 Line drawings, black and white; 128 Halftones, color; 34 Halftones, black and white; 443 Illustrations, color; 45 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 297 mm |
| Gewicht | 2400 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-33361-8 / 1032333618 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-33361-8 / 9781032333618 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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