Eysenck, Michael W.

Cognitive psychology : a student's handbook / Michael W. Eysenck, Mark T. Keane. - 6th ed. - Hove ; New York : Psychology Press, 2010. - vii, 752 p. : ill ; 25 cm.

Previous ed.: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Approaches to human cognition -- Basic processes in visual cognition -- Object and face recognition -- Perception, motion and action -- Attention and performance -- Learning, memory and forgetting -- Long-term memory systems -- Everyday memory -- Reading and speech perception -- Language comprehension -- Language production -- Problem solving and expertise -- Judgement and decision making -- Inductive and deductive reasoning -- Cognition and emotion -- Consciousness.

This sixth edition has been substantially updated and restructured in line with new developments in cognitive psychology and the way it is studied at undergraduate level. In particular it focuses on cognitive neuroscience.

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Cognition--Textbooks.
Cognitive psychology--Textbooks.

BF311 / .E935 2010

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