The Psychology of Cognition: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience

This comprehensive, cutting-edge textbook offers a layered approach to the study of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It embraces multiple 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.Durk Talsma offers foundational knowledge which he expands and enhances with coverage of complex topics, explaining their interrelatedness and presenting them together with classic experiments and approaches in a historic context. Providing broad coverage of world-class international research this richly illustrated textbook covers key topics including:Action control and cognitive controlConsciousness and attentionPerceptionMultisensory processing and perception-action integrationMotivation and reward processingEmotion and cognitionLearning and memoryLanguage processingReasoningNumerical cognition and categorisationJudgement, decision making, and problem solvingSocial cognitionApplied cognitive psychologyWith pedagogical features that include highlights of relevant methods and historical notes to spark student interest, this essential text will be invaluable reading for all students of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Read more