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9780761972778 Academic Inspection Copy

Handbook of Cognition

  • ISBN-13: 9780761972778
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
  • Edited by Koen Lamberts, Edited by Rob Goldstone
  • Price: AUD $430.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 20/10/2004
  • Format: Hardback (246.00mm X 184.00mm) 480 pages Weight: 1020g
  • Categories: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR]
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A market need for a single-volume, up-to-date and international synthesis of cognitive psychology in Handbook format Aims to be affordable to individuals - most competing titles are primarily expensive and are predominantly library purchases i.e. Elsevier and Wiley titles Perfect for psychology students and researchers wanting an authoritative state-of-the-art overview of the discipline. Orchestrated in a way as to be appealing to those with no background in cognitive psychology Contains contributions from the world-leading scholars. Up-to-date in terms of research practice; authorial in tone; will be a benchmark reference work for many years to come. Covers traditional aspects of cognitive psychology (memory, attention, perception etc) and newer, 'hot' areas too (cognitive neuroscience, computational & mathematical modeling).
PART ONE: PERCEPTION, ATTENTION AND ACTION Visual Perception I - Johan Wagemans, Felix A Wichmann and Hans Op de Beeck Basic Principles Visual Perception II - William G Hayward, Michael J Tarr High-Level Vision Auditory Perception - Christopher J Plack Attention - Claus Bundesen and Thomas Habekost Action and Motor Skills - Yvonne Delevoye-Turrell and Alan M Wing Adaptive Behaviour for Intended Goals PART TWO: LEARNING AND MEMORY Theories of Learning - Michael E Young and Edward A Wasserman Category Learning - John K Kruschke Implicit Learning - David R Shanks Mechanisms of Memory - Ian Neath and Aimee M Surprenant PART THREE: LANGUAGE Language Comprehension - Alan Garnham Speech Perception - James M McQueen Reading - Alexander Pollatsek and Keith Rayner PART FOUR: REASONING AND DECISION MAKING Reasoning - Nick Chater, Evan Heit and Mike Oaksford Judgment and Decision Making - Craig R M McKenzie Cognitive Neuropsychology The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Object Recognition and Action - Glyn W Humphreys and M Jane Riddoch Cognitive Neuropsychology of Learning and Memory - Barbara J Knowlton The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language - Randi C Martin and Denise H Wu PART FIVE: MODELLING COGNITION Mathematical Modelling of Cognition - Koen Lamberts Model Evaluation, Testing and Selection - In J Myung, Mark A Pitt and Woojae Kim
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