Cognition - Whitman, R. Douglas (Russell Douglas) (Hoboken, New Jersey John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011)
Ch. 1. Introduction to cognitive psychology. What is cognitive psychology? -- The innate mind and acquired mind : the rationalist and empiricist traditions -- Mind as associations -- Mind as brain : neurology, phrenology, and neuropsychology -- Mind as a network : from neurons to assemblies of neurons -- The mind as structure -- Mind as holistic : Gestalt psychology -- Mind as functional : evolution and the adaptive mind -- The adaptive mind : logical positivism and behaviorism -- Mind as rational : psycholinguistics -- Mind as an information processor : the world wars and the development of intellectual testing, information processing, and neuropsychology -- Mind as computational : computers, problem solving, and artificial intelligence -- Neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience -- ch. 2. From sensation to perception. From sensory transduction to perceptions -- Gestalt psychology : top-down constructive perception -- Pattern perception -- Binding -- ch. 3. Attention in a noisy world. A case of left-sided neglect : Federico Fellini -- The filter metaphor : the cocktail party phenomenon -- Donald Broadbent's filter model -- The leaky filter : Moray and Triesman -- The resource metaphor -- Automatic and controlled processing -- Building bridges between mind and brain : executive function, the supervisory attentional system, and the brain -- Space-based attention and neglect -- The spotlight metaphor : space-based attention -- Spatial and object-oriented neglect -- Conclusions : attention -- ch. 4. The modal model of memory. Life moment by moment -- Background for the modal model of memory -- Memory : the modal model -- George Sperling's discovery of sensory memory -- Short-term, or primary, memory -- Summary of the modal model of memory : transition to working memory and executive function -- ch. 5. Working memory and the central executive. Patient P.V. : loss of verbal short-term memory with preservation of visual short-term memory -- Working memory circa 1974 -- Working memory circa 2000 -- Future directions of working memory -- Building bridges : the central executive and the frontal lobes -- ch. 6. Making memories. PI to 31,811 digits -- Factors influencing memory encoding -- Electroconvulsive therapy and memory -- Building bridges : consolidation of encoding -- ch. 7. Retrieval and memory distortion. Ebbinghaus's memory over time -- Why do we forget? -- Memory distortion -- Conclusions : retrieval and memory distortion -- ch. 8. Variations of long-term memory. K.C. : the loss of episodic memory -- Types of long-term memory -- Declarative, explicit memory : episodic memory -- Autobiographical memory -- Nondeclarative : implicit memory -- "I know your face but I can't remember...?" : knowing versus remembering -- Do episodic memories become semantic memories? -- Building bridges : temporal lobe explicit memory and striatum implicit memory -- Conclusions : one memory or many? -- ch. 9. Categorization and meaning. The story of the plague of insomnia -- Categories and semantic networks : the classical rule-based approach -- Problems for the classical model -- Feature comparison models -- Schemata, frames, and scripts -- Imagery-based knowledge representation -- Connectionist models of mind -- Conclusions : categories and meaning -- ch. 10. Consciousness. "Now I am awake!"--the life of Clive Wearing -- The problem of consciousness -- Characteristics of consciousness -- The theatre of consciousness -- Perceptual binding as a model for consciousness -- Bridging brain and mind : the global neuronal workplace -- Awareness of self and others : mirror neurons, action, and understanding -- Conclusion : the zombie within--the purpose of consciousness -- ch. 11. The description and overview of language. The story of my life, Helen Keller -- Language and speech -- The speech signal -- Semantic, top-down influence on speech perception -- Morphemes -- Syntax : surface and deep structure -- Words, sentences, and the extraction of meaning -- From sentences to narrative and discourse -- Building bridges : inference and the brain -- Conclusions : language description and overview -- ch. 12. Fundamental issues in language theory. Nativist versus empiricist theories of language acquisition -- The source of language structure -- The development of language -- The "language gene" -- Influence of the environment -- Thought before language? -- Modularity of language -- Conclusions : language issues -- ch. 13. Information processing and artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence -- Protocol analysis--Simon -- Game theory -- Expert systems -- ch. 14. Problem solving and reasoning. Early research on problem solving : the Gestalt tradition -- Reasoning -- Mental models -- Building bridges : imaging decision making -- But are we really illogical?
Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-579) and indexes.
Keywords: Cognitive psychology -- Textbooks; Cognition -- Textbooks