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Preface | |
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How the Brain Gives Rise to the Mind | |
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A Brief History: How We Got Here | |
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In the Beginning: The Contents of Consciousness | |
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Psychology in the World | |
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Behaviorism: Reaction against the Unobservable | |
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The Cognitive Revolution | |
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Understanding the Mind: The Form of Theories of Cognition | |
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Mind and Brain | |
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Mental Representation | |
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Mental Processing | |
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Why the Brain? | |
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Debate: What Is the Nature of Visual Mental Imagery? | |
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The Cognitive Brain | |
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Neurons: The Building Blocks of the Brain | |
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Structure of the Nervous System | |
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Studying Cognition | |
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Converging Evidence for Dissociations and Associations | |
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Behavioral Methods | |
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Correlational Neural Methods: The Importance of Localization | |
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Causal Neural Methods | |
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Modeling | |
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Neural-Network Models | |
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Overview of the Book | |
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Revisit and Reflect | |
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Perception | |
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What It Means to Perceive | |
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How It Works: The Case of Visual Perception | |
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The Structure of the Visual System | |
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Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processing | |
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Learning to See | |
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Building from the Bottom Up: From Features to Objects | |
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Processing Features, the Building Blocks of Perception | |
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Putting It Together: What Counts, What Doesn't | |
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Achieving Visual Recognition: Have I Seen You Before? | |
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A Brain That Cannot Recognize | |
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Models of Recognition | |
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A Closer Look: Visual Feature Detectors in the Brain | |
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Debate: A Set of Blocks or Cat's Cradle: Modular or Distributed Representations? | |
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Interpreting from the Top Down: What You Know Guides What You See | |
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Using Context | |
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Models of Top-Down Processing | |
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In Models and Brains: The Interactive Nature of Perception | |
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Refining Recognition | |
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Resolving Ambiguity | |
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Seeing the "What" and the "Where" | |
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Revisit and Reflect | |
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Attention | |
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The Nature and Roles of Attention | |
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Failures of Selection | |
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Debate: Cars and Conversation | |
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Successes of Selection | |
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Explaining Attention: Information-Processing Theories | |
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Early versus Late Attentional Selection | |
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Spotlight Theory | |
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Feature Integration Theory and Guided Search | |
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Looking to the Brain | |
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Electrophysiology and Human Attention | |
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Functional Neuroimaging and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation | |
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Competition: A Single Explanatory Framework for Attention? | |
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A Closer Look: Competition and Selection | |
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Revisit and Reflect | |
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Representation and Knowledge in Long-Term Memory | |
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Roles of Knowledge in Cognition | |
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Representations and Their Formats | |
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Memories and Representations | |
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Four Possible Formats for Representations | |
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A Closer Look: Behavioral Evidence for Mental Imagery | |
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Debate: Do Amodal Representations Exist? | |
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Multiple Representational Formats in Perception and Simulation | |
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From Representation to Category Knowledge | |
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The Inferential Power of Category Knowledge | |
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The Multimodal Nature of Category Knowledge | |
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Multimodal Mechanisms and Category Knowledge: Behavioral Evidence | |
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Multimodal Mechanisms and Category Knowledge: Neural Evidence | |
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Structures in Cateogry Knowledge | |
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Exemplars and Rules | |
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Prototypes and Typicality | |
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Background Knowledge | |
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Dynamic Representation | |
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Category Domains and Organization | |
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Distinguishing Domains of Category Knowledge in the Brain | |
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Taxonomies and the Search for a "Basic Level" | |
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Revisit and Reflect | |
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Encoding and Retrieval from Long-Term Memory | |
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The Nature of Long-Term Memory | |
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The Forms of Long-Term Memory | |
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The Power of Memory: The Story of H.M. | |
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Multiple Systems for Long-Term Learning and Remembering | |
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Encoding: How Episodic Memories Are Formed | |
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The Importance of Attention | |
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Levels of Processing and Elaborative Encoding | |
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A Closer Look: Transfer Appropriate Processing | |
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Enhancers of Encoding: Generation and Spacing | |
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Episodic Encoding, Binding, and the Medial Temporal Lobe | |
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Consolidation: The Fixing of Memory | |
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Retrieval: How We Recall the Past from Episodic Memory | |
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Pattern Completion and Recapitulation | |
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Episodic Retrieval and the Frontal Lobes | |
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Cues for Retrieval | |
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The Second Time Around: Recognizing Stimuli by Recollection and Familiarity | |
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Misremembering the Past | |
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Debate: "Remembering," "Knowing," and the Medial Temporal Lobes | |
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The Encoding Was Successful, But I Still Can't Remember | |
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Ebbinghaus's Forgetting Function | |
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Forgetting and Competition | |
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Nondeclarative Memory Systems | |
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Priming | |
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Beyond Priming: Other Forms of Nondeclarative Memory | |
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Revisit and Reflect | |
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Working Memory | |
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Using Working Memory | |
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A Computer Metaphor | |
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Implications of the Nature of Working Memory | |
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From Primary Memory to Working Memory: A Brief History | |
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William James: Primary Memory, Secondary Memory, and Consciousness | |
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Early Studies: The Characteristics of Short-Term Memory | |
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The Atkinson-Shiffrin Model: The Relationship of Short-Term and Long-Term Memory | |
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The Baddeley-Hitch Model: Working Memory | |
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Understanding the Working Memory Model | |
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The Phonological Loop: When It Works and When It Doesn't | |
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The Visuospatial Scratchpad | |
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The Central Executive | |
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Debate: How Are Working Memory Functions Organized in the Brain? | |
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Are There Really Two Distinct Storage Systems? | |
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How Working Memory Works | |
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Mechanisms of Active Maintenance | |
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The Role of the Prefrontal Cortex: Storage or Control? | |
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A Closer Look: Mechanisms of Working Memory Storage in the Monkey Brain | |
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Current Directions | |
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The Episodic Buffer | |
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Person-to-Person Variation | |
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The Role of Dopamine | |
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Revisit and Reflect | |
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Executive Processes | |
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The Frontal Lobe Connection | |
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Frontal Damage and the Frontal Hypothesis | |
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Executive Attention | |
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A Neural-Network Model of Conflict in Processing | |
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Executive Attention and Categorization | |
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The Role of Consciousness | |
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A Closer Look: Prefrontal Damage, Reasoning, and Category Decision | |
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Switching Attention | |
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The Costs of Switching | |
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A Framework for Understanding Task Switching | |
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The Neural-Switcher Hypothesis | |
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What Gets Switched? | |
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Inhibition of Response | |
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Representative Cases of Response Inhibition | |
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Development of Response Inhibition | |
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Sequencing | |
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Mechanisms for Sequencing | |
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Sequencing Connected Items | |
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Monitoring | |
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Monitoring Working Memory | |
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Monitoring for Errors | |
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Debate: How Many Executive Processes Does It Take ...? | |
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Revisit and Reflect | |
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Emotion and Cognition | |
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The Connection | |
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Defining Emotion | |
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Basic Emotions | |
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Dimensional Approaches | |
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Manipulating and Measuring Emotion | |
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Manipulation by Mood Induction | |
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Manipulation by Evocative Stimuli | |
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Measuring Emotion Directly | |
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Measuring Emotion Indirectly | |
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Emotional Learning: Acquiring Evaluations | |
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Classical Conditioning | |
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Instrumental Conditioning: Learning by Reward or Punishment | |
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Instructional and Observational Learning | |
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A Closer Look: Expressing Imaginary Fears | |
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Mere Exposure | |
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Emotion and Declarative Memory | |
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Arousal and Memory | |
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Stress and Memory | |
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Mood and Memory | |
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Memory for Emotional Public Events | |
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Emotion, Attention, and Perception | |
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Emotion and the Capture of Attention | |
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Facilitation of Attention and Perception | |
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Debate: Is the Detection of Threat Automatic? | |
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Revisit and Reflect | |
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Decision Making | |
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The Nature of a Decision | |
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The Science of Decision Making | |
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The Decision Tree | |
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Rational Decision Making: The Expected Utility Model | |
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How the Model Works | |
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The Expected Utility Model and Behavioral Research | |
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General Limitations of the Expected Utility Model | |
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Neural Bases of Expected Utility Calculations | |
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Human Decision Making and the Expected Utility Model: How Close a Fit? | |
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Preference, Transitivity, and Procedural Invariance: Behavioral Violations | |
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Rationality-Up to a Point | |
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Debate: Are Humans Rational Animals? | |
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Framing Effects and Prospect Theory | |
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The Role of Emotions in Valuation: The Allais Paradox | |
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The Role of Emotions in Valuation: Temporal Discounting and Dynamic Inconsistency | |
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A Closer Look: Separate Systems Value Immediate versus Delayed Reward | |
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Judgments in the Face of Ambiguity | |
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Judgments about Likelihood in the Face of Uncertainty | |
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Complex, Uncertain Decision Making | |
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Revisit and Reflect | |
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Problem Solving and Reasoning | |
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The Nature of Problem Solving | |
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The Structure of a Problem | |
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Problem Space Theory | |
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Strategies and Heuristics | |
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The Role of Working Memory and Executive Processes | |
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How Experts Solve Problems | |
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Analogical Reasoning | |
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Using Analogies | |
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Theories of Analogical Reasoning | |
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Beyond Working Memory | |
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Inductive Reasoning | |
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General Inductions | |
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Specific Inductions | |
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Critical Brain Networks | |
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Deductive Reasoning | |
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Categorical Syllogisms | |
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Conditional Syllogisms | |
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Errors in Deductive Thinking | |
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Theories of Deductive Reasoning | |
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A Closer Look: Logic and Belief | |
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Debate: Errors and Evolution | |
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Linguistic versus Spatial Basis | |
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Revisit and Reflect | |
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Motor Cognition and Mental Simulation | |
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The Nature of Motor Cognition | |
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Perception-Action Cycles | |
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The Nature of Motor Processing in the Brain | |
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The Role of Shared Representations | |
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Mental Simulation and the Motor System | |
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Motor Priming and Mental Representation | |
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Motor Programs | |
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Mental Simulation of Action | |
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A Closer Look: Taking Perspective | |
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Imitation | |
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The Development of Imitation | |
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The Cognitive Components of Imitation | |
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Simulation Theories of Action Understanding | |
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Debate: How Do We Know Whose Plan It Is? | |
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Mirror Neurons and Self-Other Mapping | |
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Biological Motion | |
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The Perception of Biological Motion | |
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Processing Biological Motion | |
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Motor Cognition in Motion Perception | |
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Revisit and Reflect | |
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Language | |
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The Nature of Language | |
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Levels of Language Representation | |
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Language versus Animal Communication | |
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Processes of Language Comprehension | |
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The Triangle Model of the Lexicon | |
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Ambiguity: A Pervasive Challenge to Comprehension | |
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Speech Perception | |
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A Closer Look: Multiple Hypotheses during Spoken Word Recognition | |
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Representing Meaning | |
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Sentence Comprehension | |
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Figurative Language | |
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Reading | |
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Processes of Language Production | |
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Grammatical Encoding | |
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Phonological Encoding | |
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Integrating Grammatical and Phonological Stages | |
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Language, Thought, and Bilingualism | |
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Language and Thought | |
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Bilingualism | |
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Debate: Are There Sensitive Periods for the Acquisition of Language? | |
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Revisit and Reflect | |
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Glossary | |
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References | |
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Subject Index | |
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Author Index | |