• ISBN13: 9781032333618
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Education & Psychology
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: December 10, 2023
• Pages: 900
• Original Price: GBP 47.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 2360 grams

This comprehensive, cutting-edge textbook offers a layered approach to the study of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It embraces multiple exciting and influential theoretical approaches such as embodied cognition and predictive coding, and explaining new topics such as motor cognition, cognitive control, consciousness, and social cognition.

Durk Talsma offers foundational knowledge which he expands and enhances with coverage of complex topics, explaining their interrelatedness and presenting them together with classic experiments and approaches in a historic context. Providing broad coverage of world-class international research this richly illustrated textbook covers key topics including:

Action control and cognitive control
Consciousness and attention
Perception
Multisensory processing and perception-action integration
Motivation and reward processing
Emotion and cognition
Learning and memory
Language processing
Reasoning
Numerical cognition and categorisation
Judgement, decision making, and problem solving
Social cognition
Applied cognitive psychology

With pedagogical features that include highlights of relevant methods and historical notes to spark student interest, this essential text will be invaluable reading for all students of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

Durk Talsma is Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium. His research interests include selective attention, multisensory integration, visual short-term memory, and event-related potential methodology.