Cognition (WSE)

This new text provides psychologists with a look at the field of cognitive psychology while integrating neuroscience into the discussion. Experiments are included throughout to show how the concepts are applied in the field. These can be easily reproduced in the lab. Illustrations are also integrated in the chapters to reinforce the discussions.

R. Douglas Whitman’s first edition of Cognition presents amazing breadth and excitement of cognitive psychology.  Within the pages of his book, he provides, a clear history of the development models of the cognitive processes that provides a picture of how scientific progress proceeds,comprehensive explanations of individual experiments and discussions of how they lead to new models of cognitive processes, and an important introduction to the contributions of cognitive neuroscience without the need for extensive background in neuroscience. Cognitive psychology continues to be a multi-disciplinary field with theoretical and research foci that overlap with virtually every aspect of psychology.  In addition, over the past several decades discoveries in neuropsychology and neuroscience have had major impact upon the cognitive psychology, now often incorporated into cognitive neuroscience. Cognition, First Edition incorporates current directions in neuroscience into a modern cognitive psychology textbook without losing the fundamental content of cognitive psychology.