Includes index.

Contents: Introduction to cognitive psychology: Cognitive processes -- Experimental psychology -- Computer models of information processing -- Cognitive neuropsychology -- Minds, brains and computers -- Perception and attention: The biological bases of perception -- Psychological approaches to visual perception -- Visual illusions -- Marr's theory -- Object recognition processes -- perception: A summary -- Attention -- The role of attention in perception -- Automaticity -- The spotlight model of visual attention -- Visual attention -- Perception, attention and consciousness -- Disorders of perception and attention: Introduction -- Blindsight -- Unilateral spatial neglect -- Visual agnosia -- Disorders of face processing - prosopagnosia and related conditions -- Memory: The nature and function of memory -- Multistore models and working memory -- Ebbinghaus and the first long-term memory experiments -- The role of knowledge, meaning and schemas in memory -- Input, processing and encoding -- Retrieval cues and feature overlap -- Retrieval mechanisms in recall and recognition -- Automatic and controlled memory processes Memory in real life -- Disorders of memory: Amnesia -- The causes of organic amnesia -- Short-term and long-term memory impairments -- Anterograde and retrograde amnesia -- Memory functions preserved in amnesia -- Other types of amnesia -- Thinking: Introduction -- Early research on problem-solving -- Problem-space theory of problem-solving -- Problem-solving and knowledge - Deductive and inductive reasoning -- Statistical reasoning -- Everyday reasoning -- Disorders of thinking: Introduction -- The frontal lobes -- Problem-solving and reasoning deficits -- The executive functions of the frontal lobes -- Languauge: Introduction -- The language system -- Psychology and linguistics -- Recognising spoken and written words -- Production of spoken words -- Sentence comprehension -- Sentence production -- Discourse level -- Disorders of language: Introduction -- Historical perspective -- Disruption to language processing at word level -- Disrution to processing of syntax -- Disruption to processing of discourse -- Computational models of cognition: Theories of cognition: From metaphors to computational models -- Symbol-based systems -- Connectionist system -- Symbols and neurons compared.