Includes bibliographical references and index.

Approaches to human cognition -- Basic processes in visual perception -- Object and face recognition -- Perception, motion and action -- Attention and performance -- Learning, memory and forgetting -- Long-term memory systems -- Everyday memory -- Reading and speech perception -- Language comprehension -- Language production -- Problem solving and expertise -- Judgement and decision making -- Reasoning and hypothesis testing -- Cognition and emotion -- Consciousness.

This seventh edition has been substantially updated and restructured in line with new developments in cognitive psychology and the way it is studied at undergraduate level. In particular it focuses on cognitive neuroscience.