Cognition

Marvin M. Chun is the Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology at Yale University, with secondary appointments in the Cognitive Science Program and the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience. He received his PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he won a graduate teaching award, followed by postdoctoral training at Harvard University. Professor Chun leads a cognitive neuroscience laboratory that uses functional brain imaging and machine learning to decode and predict how people see, attend, remember, and perform optimally. His research has been honored with a Troland Award from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, an American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of cognition and human learning, and a Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Science (South Korea). His teaching has been recognized with both the Lex Hixon '63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the SocialSciences and the Phi Beta Kappa William Clyde DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College.Steven B. Most is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia (UNSW Sydney), with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. He received his BA in psychology from Brandeis University and PhD in psychology from Harvard University, where he won graduate teaching awards, followed by postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt and Yale Universities. Dr. Most leads the Motivated Attention and Perception Lab at UNSW Sydney, where his team uses behavioral and physiological measures to understand how attention, motivation, and emotion shape what people see, remember, and do, as well as how cognition affects safety and well-being in the real world (e.g., road safety). Dr. Most's research has been recognized through fellowships and awards from the National Institutes of Health, theAustralian Research Council, and the New York Academy of Sciences, and with an appointment as Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. His teaching and mentoring have been recognized with the Alpha Lambda Delta Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Delaware and both a Postgraduate Supervisor Award and an Outstanding Postgraduate Supervisor Award at UNSW Sydney.

This book is a complete, compelling, and modern description cognitive psychology. The material is clearly described in a fresh and lucid manner. The authors enhance the memorability and impact of the material by providing contextual details relevant to today's students and anyone who wants to know more about thinking and mental life. It is currently the best Cognitive Psychology textbook available. Also, there is a hardback edition available and students can rest easily knowing that Oxford University Press is a not-for-profit organization.

• CHAPTER 1 What Is Cognitive Psychology? CHAPTER 2 Cognitive Neuroscience CHAPTER 3 Perception and Mental Imagery CHAPTER 4 External Attention CHAPTER 5 Cognitive Control and Working Memory CHAPTER 6 How Memory Works CHAPTER 7 Memory Systems and Everyday Memory Failures CHAPTER 8 Knowledge, Intelligence and Cognitive Development CHAPTER 9 Judgment and Decision Making CHAPTER 10 Reasoning and Problem Solving CHAPTER 11 Language and Communication CHAPTER 12 Social Cognition