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| Preface | |
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| Approaches to cognitive psychology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Experimental cognitive psychology | |
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| Cognitive neuropsychology | |
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| Computational cognitive science | |
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| Cognitive neuroscience | |
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| Outline of this book | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Visual Perception and Attention | |
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| Basic processes in visual perception | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Brain systems | |
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| Colour perception | |
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| Perception without awareness | |
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| Depth and size perception | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Object recognition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Perceptual organisation | |
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| Theories of object recognition | |
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| Brain systems in object recognition | |
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| Face recognition | |
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| Visual imagery | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Perception, motion, and action | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Direct perception | |
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| Visually guided movement | |
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| Planning-control model | |
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| Motion perception | |
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| Change blindness | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Attention and performance limitations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Focused auditory attention | |
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| Focused visual attention | |
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| Crossmodal effects | |
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| Visual search | |
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| Divided attention | |
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| Automatic processing | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Memory and Concepts | |
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| Learning and memory | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The architecture of memory | |
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| Working memory | |
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| Memory processes | |
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| Implicit learning | |
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| Theories of forgetting | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Long-term memory systems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Declarative memory: Episodic and semantic memory | |
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| Procedural memory and the perceptual representation system | |
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| Amnesia | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Everyday memory | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Autobiographical memory | |
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| Memorable memories | |
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| Eyewitness testimony | |
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| Prospective memory | |
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| Evaluation of everyday memory research | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Concepts and categories | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Organisation of concepts | |
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| Concept learning | |
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| Concept meaning | |
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| Language | |
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| The Whorfian hypothesis | |
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| Reading and speech perception | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reading: Introduction | |
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| Word identification | |
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| Reading aloud | |
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| Reading: Eye-movement studies | |
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| Listening to speech | |
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| Theories of spoken word recognition | |
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| Cognitive neuropsychology | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Language comprehension | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Parsing | |
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| Pragmatics | |
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| Individual differences: Capacity theory | |
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| Discourse processing | |
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| Story processing | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Language production | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic aspects of spoken language | |
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| Theories of speech production | |
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| Cognitive neuropsychology: Speech production | |
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| Writing: The main processes | |
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| Spelling | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Thinking and Reasoning | |
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| Problem solving and expertise | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Problem solving | |
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| Transfer of training | |
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| Expertise | |
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| Theories of expertise | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Creativity and discovery | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Creativity | |
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| Hypothesis testing | |
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| Scientific discovery | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Judgement and decision making | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Judgement research | |
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| Decision making | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Reasoning and deduction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Deductive reasoning | |
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| Theories of deductive reasoning | |
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| Dual-system theories | |
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| Brain systems in thinking and reasoning | |
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| Are humans rational? | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Present and Future | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Consciousness: Nature and functions | |
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| Theories of consciousness | |
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| Perception without awareness | |
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| Is consciousness unitary? | |
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| Whither brain imaging? | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |