The Psychology of Cognition

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