Product Description: This book brings together psychological, sociological, and anthropological approaches to core topics in cognition. Leaders in the field present different perspectives on classification, reasoning, socialization, the development of infant cognition and scientific thought, and many other topics...read more

Product Description: This book examines a profound and mysterious puzzle: how does the biological tissue that makes up the brain give rise to the activities that our culture refers to as 'the mind'? How does the three pounds of electric sponge stowed in the top of your head allow you to experience enchantment in front of the evening landscape, and then make you remember the shopping, say 'Damn!' and head off to the supermarket? It explains what the sciences have to say about planning and action, language, memory, attention, emotions and vision...read more

Cognitive Psychology provides a dynamic and exciting insight into such topics as attention, memory, judgement and decision making. It also introduces the latest computational and imaging techniques used to broaden our understanding of this fascinating subject.

Explains what the sciences have to say about planning and action, language, memory, attention, emotions and vision. This book traces the historical development of ideas about the brain and its function from antiquity to the age of neuro-imaging.