Cognitive Psychology: Mind and brain

Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain is a university textbook whose organising argument is that cognitive psychology can no longer be taught apart from the brain. Rather than adding neuroscience as a closing chapter or a set of boxed asides, the book incorporates findings about neural mechanism into the standard topics themselves, on the stated grounds that this is how the field actually looks today and that students need that foundation before they can read current research. The sequence begins with how the brain gives rise to the mind, then moves through perception and attention, representation and knowledge in long term memory, encoding and retrieval, working memory and executive processes. Later chapters take in emotion and cognition, decision making, problem solving and reasoning, motor cognition and mental simulation, and language. The pairing of emotion with cognition, and of motor processes with mental simulation, reflects the same commitment, namely that processes once treated as peripheral to thinking belong inside an account of it. The volume runs to just over six hundred pages with plates, and carries an extensive bibliography and indexes.

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