Durk Talsma | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

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.