- 794 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Endorsement Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 Control
- Part 3 Perception
- Part 4 Integration
- Part 5 Emotion and Motivation
- Part 6 Learning and Memory
- Part 7 The Psychology of Language
- Part 8 Higher Cognition
- Part 9 A Broader Perspective
- Appendix: Bayesian inference
- Glossary
- References
- Index