Cognition

Scott Sinnett is an associate professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Daniel Smilek is an associate professor at the University of Waterloo. Alan Kingstone is a professor at the University of British Columbia.

• 1. IntroductionCase Study: What Is Cognition?Cognitive Psychology and Information ProcessingInformation TheoryModels of Information-ProcessingEcological ValidityMetacognition and Cognitive PsychologyThe Range of Cognitive Psychology2. Cognitive NeuroscienceCase Study: Head OfficeThe Brain as the Organ of the MindThe Relation between Mind and BrainMethods in Cognitive Neuroscience3. PerceptionCase Study: An Unusual Perceptual ExperienceThe Physiology of Visual Perception NEWThe Ventral Pathway and Object RecognitionContext and Feedback Effects in PerceptionThe Dorsal Pathway and the Relation between Perception and ActionInteractions Between the Ventral and Dorsal PathwaysMultimodal Perception4. The Varieties of AttentionCase Study: A Total WreckJames's Description of AttentionSelective AttentionDual Tasks and the Limits of AttentionTask SwitchingSustained Attention NEWOvert Visual Attention5. Memory SystemsCase Study: What Was That Movie . . . ?Understanding Memory Systems NEWModal Model of Memory- Sensory Memory NEW- Short-Term Memory NEW- Long-Term MemoryWorking MemoryFurther Developments in Memory Systems TheoryConnectionist Models of MemoryAging and Memory Disorders6. Memory Traces and Memory SchemasCase Study: When Memory FailsIntroductionSchema-based Theories of MemoryScriptsAutobiographical Memory NEWLevels of ProcessingTwo Approaches to Memory Research7. ImageryCase Study: Time-Space Synesthesia and Number FormsMemory and ImagerySynesthesia and Eidetic ImageryMental RotationEgocentric Perspective TransformationsControversy over the Nature of Mental ImageryCognitive Maps and Mental ModelsAuditory Imagery NEW8. ConceptsCase Study: Grasping a New ConceptThe Classical ApproachLearning Complex RulesWittgenstein's Analysis of ConceptsRosch and PrototypicalityEmbodied CognitionFolk Biology9. LanguageCase Study: Reading in the "Olden Days"The Structure of Language - The Building Blocks of Language NEWTransformational GrammarThe Innateness HypothesisCommunication and ComprehensionThe Social Context of LanguageLanguage, Cognition, and Culture10. Problem-SolvingCase Study: Vaccinating in the Wake of Wakefield NEWInsight Problems and the Gestalt Theory of ThinkingCurrent Approaches to Insight ProblemsFunctional Fixedness and the Design of ToolsThe Flexibility-Rigidity DimensionArtificial Intelligence Approaches to Problem-SolvingThinking Aloud as a Method for Studying Human Problem-SolvingCan Computer Programs Experience Insight?Solving Problems in Science11. Reasoning, Judgment, and ChoiceCase Study: The (In)famous Hockey Stick NEWReasoningJudgment and ChoiceEcological RationalityTraining in Statistical Reasoning12. Intelligence and CreativityCase Study: A Child ProdigyThe Concept of Intelligence: Historical BackgroundGeneral Intelligence (g)The Flynn EffectSternberg's Theory of Successful IntelligenceHoward Gardner and the Theory of Multiple IntelligencesExpertiseCreativity13: 13. Consciousness - NEWCase Study: BlindsightDistinguishing among Different Levels of ConsciousnessUnconscious Perception?Consciousness and the Grand Illusion?Meta-consciousness?Consciousness and the Brain?Deficits of ConsciousnessGlossaryNote: All chapters end with- Summary- Case Study Wrap-Up- Key Concepts- In the Know: Review Questions- Links to Other Chapters- Further Reading

My goal in teaching Cognitive Psychology is to share my enthusiasm for this subject with students, and I feel like this text would help me to do that; it's current, engaging, and appropriately challenging."