Handbook of Cognition

✍ Scribed by Dr Koen Lamberts, Professor Rob Goldstone

• Publisher: SAGE
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 476
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Handbook of Cognition provides a definitive synthesis of the most up-to-date and advanced work in cognitive psychology in a single volume. The editors have gathered together a team of world-leading researchers in specialist areas of the field, both traditional and `hot' new areas, to present a benchmark - in terms of theoretical insight and advances in methodology - of the discipline. This book contains a thorough overview of the most significant and current research in cognitive psychology that will serve this academic community like no other volume.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Contents
......Page 6
Preface
......Page 17
Part One:
Perception, Attention and Action......Page 22
1:
Visual Perception I: Basic Principles......Page 24
2:
Visual Perception II:
High-Level Vision......Page 69
3:
Auditory Perception......Page 92
4:
Attention......Page 126
5:
Action and Motor Skills: Adaptive
Behaviour for Intended Goals......Page 151
Part Two: Learning and Memory
......Page 180
6:
Theories of Learning......Page 182
7:
Category Learning......Page 204
8:
Implicit Learning......Page 223
9:
Mechanisms of Memory......Page 242
Part Three: Language
......Page 260
10:
Language Comprehension......Page 262
11:
Speech Perception......Page 276
12:
Reading......Page 297
Part Four: Reasoning and Decision Making
......Page 316
13: Reasoning
......Page 318
14:
Judgment and Decision Making......Page 342
Part Five: Cognitive Neuropsychology
......Page 360
15:
The Cognitive Neuropsychology of
Object Recognition and Action......Page 362
16:
Cognitive Neuropsychology of
Learning and Memory......Page 386
17:
The Cognitive Neuropsychology
of Language......Page 403
Part Six: Modelling Cognition
......Page 426
18:
Mathematical Modelling of Cognition......Page 428
19:
Model Evaluation, Testing
and Selection......Page 443

Index......Page 458