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Cognition in the Real World offers a fresh take on cognitive psychology by focusing on everyday behaviours to place our understanding of the mind in a real-world context. Instead of looking at functions in isolation, it explores how different cognitive processes work together when we perform common activities.
List of contents
- 1: Alastair D. Smith: Introduction
- Part 1: Perception and Attention
- 3: Tom Foulsham: Looking behaviour in real-world search
- 4: Harriet Allen: Attention and driving
- 5: Markus Bindemann and Matthew C. Fysh: Person identification at passport control: Matching of unfamiliar faces
- 6: Elizabeth Sheppard: Cultural differences in visual cognition
- 7: Alastair D. Smith: Perception and Attention: Summary
- Part 2: Movement and Action
- 9: Alastair D. Smith: Making my mark: Using drawing behaviour to understand cognitive impairment
- 10: Lauren Marsh: The Principles of People Watching: Understanding the actions and intentions of others
- 11: Alastair D. Smith: Finding your way: Navigation and the acquisition of spatial knowledge
- 12: Alastair D. Smith: Movement and Action: Summary
- Part 3: Memory and Emotion
- 14: Kate Bailey and Peter Chapman: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Memory for Emotional Experiences
- 15: Chris J. A. Moulin: Been there, done that: A cognitive account of déjà vu
- 16: Catherine Loveday: Prokofiev makes me productive: Examining the possibility of music as a cognitive enhancer
- 17: Alastair D. Smith: Memory and Emotion: Summary
- Part 4: Speech and Language
- 19: Anne Cutler, Janise Farrell, and Laurence Bruggeman: Passing the time of day: The cognition of chatting
- 20: Ruth Filik: Are you being serious? Detection of irony and sarcasm in language
- 21: Walter van Heuven: Learning an additional language: Consequences for language and cognitive processes
- 22: Alastair D. Smith: Speech and Language: Summary
- Part 5: Learning and Decision-Making
- 23: Alastair D. Smith: Learning and Decision-Making: Introduction
- 24: Mark Haselgrove and Nicola Byrom: Associative learning and personality
- 25: Fenja Ziegler: Making choices for others: The psychology of surrogate decision-making
- 26: Richard J. Tunney: The psychology of financial crises: How biases in individual decision-making affect the efficiency of markets
- 27: Alastair D. Smith: Learning and Decision-Making: Summary
- Part 6: Commentary
- 28: Vicki Bruce: Cognition in time and place
About the author
Dr Alastair D. Smith is an Associate Professor (Reader) in the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth. He received a BSc in Psychology from the University of Birmingham, and a PhD from the University of Bristol, where he then worked as a Research Fellow. He took up a lectureship at the University of Nottingham in 2008, and moved to his current role in 2017. Dr Smith runs the Spatial Behaviour Laboratory at Plymouth and is also a Lab Head in the Brain Research and Imaging Centre (BRIC). His work focuses on the cognitive and neural foundations of human spatial abilities and he has published research on typical and atypical function using a variety of empirical methods.
Summary
Cognition in the Real World offers a fresh take on cognitive psychology by focusing on everyday behaviours to place our understanding of the mind in a real-world context. Instead of looking at functions in isolation, it explores how different cognitive processes work together when we perform common activities.
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The approach is excellent and innovative and the focus on cognitive processes underpinning real-world problems would make the subject more popular among students.
