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Scientists from many disciplines, including physics, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience, contribute to the study of cognition. Cognitive psychology, the science of the human mind and of how people process information, is at the core of empirical investigations into the nature of mind and thought.
This anthology is based on the assumption that cognitive psychology is at heart empirical philosophy. Many of the core questions about thought, language, perception, memory, and knowledge of other people's minds were for centuries the domain of philosophy. The book begins with the philosophical foundations of inquiry into the nature of mind and thought, in particular the writings of Descartes, and then covers the principal topics of cognitive psychology including memory, attention, and decision making.
The book organizes a daunting amount of information, underlining the essentials, while also introducing readers to the ambiguities and controversies of research. It is arranged thematically and includes many topics not typically taught in cognition courses, including human factors and ergonomics, evolutionary psychology, music cognition, and experimental design.
The contributors include: Daniel Dennett, Daniel Kahneman, Jay McClelland, Donald Norman, Michael Posner, Stephen Palmer, Eleanor Rosch, John Searle, Roger Shepard, and Anne Treisman.
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Comprising a selection of previously published works by experts in cognition, the 39 chapters in this edited volume treat such topics as philosophical foundations, perception, memory, language, expertise, and decision making. Levitin (McGill Univ.) intends this book to serve neither as a textbook nor as a collection of the most important readings in cognitive psychology, but rather as a reader for advanced students studying cognition. Levitin's idiosyncratic interests have inevitably shaped his choice of selections. One might quibble that he dedicates only two chapters to attention and two to memory, whereas he gives three chapters to the more specialized topics of music cognition and human-computer interaction--his personal interests. The success of the book as a reader will therefore depend on the overlap between the teacher's and the editor's interests within cognitive psychology. Further, the organizing principles Levitin uses to group and sequence chapters and sections are not always transparent. Nevertheless, the readings themselves are excellent. ^BSumming Up: Optional. A useful resource for upper-division undergraduates and above. R. Compton Haverford College