Includes bibliographical references and index.

Visual tour (how to use this book) -- Chapter 1 Approaches to human cognition -- Introduction -- Cognitive psychology -- Cognitive neuropsychology -- Cognitive neuroscience: the brain in action -- Computational cognitive science -- Comparisons of major approaches -- Is there a replication crisis? -- Outline of this book -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Part I Visual perception and attention -- Chapter 2 Basic processes in visual perception -- Introduction -- Vision and the brain -- Two visual systems: perception-action model -- Colour vision -- Depth perception -- Perception without awareness: subliminal perception -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 3 Object and face recognition -- Introduction -- Pattern recognition -- Perceptual organisation -- Approaches to object recognition -- Object recognition: top-down processes -- Face recognition -- Visual imagery -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 4 Motion perception and action -- Introduction -- Direct perception -- Visually guided movement -- Visually guided action: contemporary approaches -- Perception of human motion -- Change blindness -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 5 Attention and performance -- Introduction -- Focused auditory attention -- Focused visual attention -- Disorders of visual attention -- Visual search -- Cross-modal effects -- Divided attention: dual-task performance -- "Automatic" processing -- Chapter summary -- Further reading --

Part II Memory -- Chapter 6 Learning, memory and forgetting -- Introduction -- Short-term vs long-term memory -- Working memory: Baddeley and Hitch -- Working memory: individual differences and executive functions -- Levels of processing (and beyond) -- Learning through retrieval -- Implicit learning -- Forgetting from long-term memory -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 7 Long-term memory systems -- Introduction -- Declarative memory -- Episodic memory -- Semantic memory -- Non-declarative memory -- Beyond memory systems and declarative vs non-declarative memory -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 8 Everyday memory -- Introduction -- Autobiographical memory: introduction -- Memories across the lifetime -- Theoretical approaches to autobiographical memory -- Eyewitness testimony -- Enhancing eyewitness memory -- Prospective memory -- Theoretical perspectives on prospective memory -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Part III Language -- Chapter 9 Speech perception and reading -- Introduction -- Speech (and music) perception -- Listening to speech -- Context effects -- Theories of speech perception -- Cognitive neuropsychology -- Reading: introduction -- Word recognition -- Reading aloud -- Reading: eye-movement research -- Chapter summary -- Further reading

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