Integrated with traditional approaches to create an overview of perception, attention, memory, concepts, language, problem solving, judgement and reasoning. This fifth edition has a two-colour design, plus an array of supplementary multimedia materials. It is for students and lecturers in the field of cognitive psychology.

With guidance on how the brain works visually, complemented by instructive puzzles and graphic challenges, this book shows readers how to maximize their innate visual ability.

Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds.

Presents models of eye guidance that offer converging approaches to understanding how we inspect complex scenes. This book demonstrates that the decision about where to look involves a large number of factors from low- to high-level constraints. It offers an understanding of eye guidance in natural scenes.

Written in a clear, step-by-step style, this ideal teaching text makes cognitive therapy immediately accessible to students, beginning therapists, and seasoned practitioners who are not familiar with the cognitive approach.

An expert explains how the conventional wisdom about decision making can get us into trouble--and why experience can't be replaced by rules, procedures, or analytical methods.

A guide to areas of professional knowledge and skill which describes how assessment and formulation should evolve throughout the process. It discusses the importance of the therapist taking into account their own beliefs and emotions in formulating each case.

Neuropsychiatry stands to benefit enormously from the research framework afforded by the sequencing of the human genome and from examining the role of molecular genetics on the clinical presentation of psychiatric patients. This title gives an introduction to some important findings and implications with emphasis on cognition and mental health.

Accessible and engaging, this unique text offers concrete, practice strategies for critical and creative thinking and includes many opportunities for practicing these fundamental skills.

'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This book examines this riddle. Linking together the music of J S Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, it reveals the mysteries of human thought processes.

An acclaimed text offering a systematic and accessible presentation of the theoretical foundations of higher mental processes. Addressing both neuroscientific and information-processing approaches, the book emphasises the importance of the representation of knowledge for the field. The new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout.

How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? This book attempts to clarify the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories using illustrations, cartoons, and experiments.

A self-help guide which provides step-by-step strategies for sufferers of depression, using cognitive therapy techniques. The book explains how mind and body interact and how depression can evolve. Case histories are included.

A primer on understanding the influence of specific genetic variants on cognition, affective regulation, personality, and central nervous system disorders.

How do captains of industry and the greatest political minds come to the decisions they do? This book explains how to think in ways that help keep you one step ahead. It covers debating skills, logical reasoning and thinking 'outside the box' to tactical thinking.

The fourth edition of the work that defines the field of cognitive neuroscience, offering completely new material.

An overview and critical analysis of the study of consciousness, integrating findings from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience into a unified theoretical framework.

Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists examine the will and its pathologies from theoretical and empirical perspectives, offering a conceptual overview and discussing schizophrenia, depression, prefrontal lobe damage, and substance abuse as disorders of volition.

Experts discuss the wide variety of investigative tools available to cognitive neuroscience, including transcranial magnetic stimulation, neuroscience computation, fMRI, imaging genetics, and neuropharmacology, with particular emphasis on convergence of techniques and innovative uses.

Influence: Science and Practiceis an examination of the psychology of compliance (i.e. uncovering which factors cause a person to say yes to another's request). Written in a narrative style combined with scholarly research, Cialdini combines evidence from experimental work with the techniques and strategies he gathered while working as a salesperson, fundraiser, advertiser, and in other ...