Thoroughly revised and updated, this work covers the fundamental topics in cognitive psychology such as perception, attention and pattern recognition, memory, language, problem solving and reasoning.
This volume is intended for people in the field of memory (from advanced undergraduates to seasoned researchers), although it will be of interest to those who would like a comprehensive overview of the fundamental regularities in cognitive ...
Surveys contemporary theories of perception, criticizing mechanistic information-processing models and stressing differences between perception in the external world and in experimental laboratory situations
An appendix reviews the major features of human neuroanatomy and basic aspects of neural signaling. As before, this edition includes an extensive glossary of key terms.
This second edition provides a practical guide for those interested in the professional application of neuropsychological approaches and techniques in clinical practice.
In this second edition, Mayer includes double the number of experimental comparisons, 6 new principles - signalling, segmenting, pertaining, personalization, voice and image principles.
Principles of Visual Attention contains a detailed review of the most important research done on attention in vision, spanning cognitive psychology, brain imaging, patient studies, and recordings from single cells in the visual cortex.
This volume provides an overview of recent research on the nature, causes, and consequences of cognitive consistency.
This occurs when both stimuli fall within the range of the original receptive field (Moran & Desimone, 1985). Furthermore, when the task requires a finer discrimination between, say, the orientation of two lines, the response of a ...
Medin and Ross present the principles of cognitive psychology within a framework of ambiguity, that is, the mind's ability to adapt to the challenges posed by the ambiguity of the...
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