Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain (PDF)

For courses in Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Learning and Memory, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Psychology.

The first book that fully integrates information about the brain and neural processing into the standard curriculum in cognitive psychology.

Based on aneed for a text that could accurately, productively, and seamlessly integrate information on both the brain and neural processing, Edward E. Smith (Columbia University) and Stephen M. Kosslyn (Harvard University) created Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain 1.e.Without question, the study of cognition has progressed enormously over the past decade. Most importantly, much of the recent progress in cognitive studies has come from the advent of cognitive neuroscience, which uses neuroscientific methods and data to address psychological issues. However, throughout years of academic teaching, the authors came to realize that no currently available book was able to summarize and make accessible themajor findings, theories, and researchthe field had produced. Now, in this text's first edition, these issues have been addressed.Using findings in neuroscience to illuminate and motivatekey distinctions in cognitive psychology, the authors have written a cognitive psychologybook that is informed by neuroscience - the first ofits kind andone poised to set a new standard in undergraduate cognitive studies.