Psychology of Cognition - An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience

This cutting-edge textbook offers a layered approach to the study of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It embraces 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.

List of contents

Foreword
Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1. Cognitive psychology - history and development of a discipline
Chapter 2. The Brain
Part 2: Control
Chapter 3. Action and action control
Chapter 4. Consciousness and Attention
Chapter 5. Cognitive Control
Part 3: Perception
Chapter 6. Visual perception
Chapter 7. Auditory perception
Chapter 8. Mechanical perception
Part 4. Integration
Chapter 9. Multisensory integration
Chapter 10. Perception-action integration
Part 5. Emotion and motivation
Chapter 11. Motivation and reward
Chapter 12. Emotion and cognition
Chapter 14. The dynamics of our memory
Chapter 15. Everyday memory
Part 7. The Psychology of Language
Chapter 16. Language Functions
Chapter 17. Language perception and understanding
Chapter 18. Language Production
Part 8. Higher cognition
Chapter 19. Mental representations and reasoning skills
Chapter 20. Numbers and Categories
Chapter 21. Judgement and Decision making
Chapter 22. Problem solving and development of expertise
Part 9. A broader perspective
Chapter 23. Social Cognition
Chapter 24. To err is human: the role of errors in human cognition
Appendix: Bayesian inference
Glossary
References

About the author

Durk Talsma is Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium. His research interests include selective attention, multisensory integration, visual short-term memory, and event-related potential methodology.

Summary

This cutting-edge textbook offers a layered approach to the study of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It embraces 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.

Product details

• Authors: Durk Talsma
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2023
• EAN: 9781032333618
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3233361-8
• No. of pages: 822
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; memory, Perception, PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Learning, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Psychology: emotions, Social, group or collective psychology, Neurosciences, Psycholinguistics, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Intelligence & reasoning, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics