Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Cognitive psychology : history, methods, and paradigms
  • The brain : an overview of structure and function
  • Perception : recognizing patterns and objects
  • Attention : deploying cognitive resources
  • Working memory : forming and using new memory traces
  • Retrieving memories from long-term storage
  • Knowledge representation : storing and organizing information in long-term memory
  • Visual imagery and spatial cognition
  • Language
  • Thinking and problem solving
  • Reasoning and decision making
  • Cognitive development through adolescence
  • Individual differences in cognition
  • Glossary
  • Credits and sources
  • References
  • Index
  • About the author.