The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology (Oxford Library of Psychology)

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Cognitive psychology has matured and flourished in the last half-century, as new theories, research tools, and theoretical frameworks have allowed cognitive psychologistsand researchers to explore a broad array of topics. In the same vein, the depth of understanding and the methodological and theoretical sophistication have also grown inwonderful ways. Given the expanse of the field, an up-to-date and inclusive resource such as this handbook is needed for aspiring generalists who wish to read the bookcover to cover, and for the many readers who are simply curious to know the current happenings in other cognition laboratories.

Guided by this need, this volume's 64 chapters cover all aspects of cognition, spanning perceptual issues, attention, memory, knowledge representation, language, emotionalinfluences, judgment, problem solving, and the study of individual differences in cognition. Additional chapters turn to the control of complex actions and the social, cultural, and developmental context of cognition. The authors include a mix of well-established influential figures and younger colleagues in order to gain an understanding of the field'sforward trajectory. The volume also includes a mix of "tutorial" chapters and chapters that powerfully represent a particular research team's point of view.

Table of contents

1. Introduction to the Handbook
Daniel Reisberg

Part One: Gaining Information about the Visual World

2. Perceptual Organization in Vision
Mary A. Peterson and Ruth Kimchi

3. Object Recognition
John E. Hummel

4. Face Recognition
Gillian Rhodes

5. Eye Movements
John M. Henderson

6. Event Perception
Barbara Tversky and Jeffrey M. Zacks

Part Two: Attention and Awareness

7. Perception and Attention
Ronald A. Rensink

8. Spatial Attention
Kyle R. Cave

9. Disorders of Attention
Robert H Logie

10. The Nature and Status of Visual Resources
Steven L. Franconeri

11. Automaticity
Agnes Moors

12. Unconscious Processes
John F. Kihlstrom

Part Three: Memory

13. Episodic Memory
David A. Gallo and Mark E. Wheeler

14. Semantic Memory
Ken McRae and Michael Jones

15. Implicit Memory
Neil W. Mulligan and Miri Besken

16. The Sources of Memory Errors
Cara Laney

17. Through the SCAPE Looking-Glass: Sources of Performance and Sources of Attribution
Jason P. Leboe and Bruce W. A. Whittlesea

18. Event-Based Prospective Remembering: An Integration of Prospective Memory and Cognitive Control Theories
Julie M. Bugg, Mark A. McDaniel, and Gilles O. Einstein

19. Metamemory
John Dunlosky and Keith W. Thiede

20. Memory in Educational Settings
Elizabeth J. Marsh and Andrew C. Butler

Part Four: Knowledge and mental representation

21. The Nature of Mental Concepts
Arthur B. Markman and Jonathan R. Rein

22. Culture, Expertise, and Mental Categories
Kathy E. Johnson

23. Models of Categorization
Andy J. Wills

24. The Perceptual Representation of Mental Categories
Diane Pecher

25. Mental Images
Daniel Reisberg

Part Five: Text and Language

26. Speech Perception
Sven L. Mattys

27. Spoken Word Perception
James S. Magnuson, Daniel Mirman, and Emily Myers

28. Basic Processes in Reading
Keith Rayner and Alexander Pollatsek

29. Text Comprehension
Morton Ann Gernsbacher and Michael P. Kaschak

30. Discourse Comprehension
Arthur C. Graesser and Carol Forsyth

31. Early Word Learning
Melissa Koenig and Caitlin Cole

32. Relations between Language and Thought
Lila Gleitman and Anna Papafragou

33. The Evolution of Language
Derek Bickerton

Part Six: The Role for Emotion

34. Emotion Perception: Putting the Face in Context
Maria Gendron, Batja Mesquita, and Lisa Feldman Barrett

35. Emotion, Stress, and Memory
Siobhan M. Hoscheidt, Bhaktee Dongaonkar, Jessica Payne, and Lynn Nade

36. Emotion-Cognition Interaction
Jeffrey R. Huntsinger and Simone Schnall

37. An Emotion Regulation Perspective on Belief Change
Matthew Tyler Boden and James J. Gross

Part Seven: Judgment, Reasoning, and Choice

38. Judgment under Uncertainty
Ben R. Newell

39. Induction
Brett K. Hayes and Evan Heit

40. Reasoning
Jonathan St T Evans

41. The Mental Models Perspective
Philip N. Johnson-Laird

42. Analogical Learning and Reasoning
Dedre Gentner and Linsey A. Smith

43. Decision Making
Maarten Speekenbrink and David R. Shanks

44. Affective Forecasting and Well Being
Barry Schwartz and Roseanna Sommers

Part Eight: Thinking in Specialized Domains

45. Spatial Reasoning
Holger Schultheis and Laura A. Carlson

46. Causal Reasoning
Michael R. Waldmann and York Hagmayer

47. Moral Thinking
Liane L. Young

Part Nine: Problem Solving and Creativity

48. Problem Solving
Richard E. Mayer

49. Insight
Jessica I. Fleck, Mark Beeman, and John Kounios

50. Creativity
Dean Keith Simonton and Rodica Ioana Damian

Part X: How Do We Differ?

51. Contemporary Theories of Intelligence
James C. Kaufman, Scott Barry Kaufman, and Jonathan A. Plucker

52. Genes and Intelligence
Thais S. Rizzi and Danielle Posthuma

53. Cognitive Style
Maria Kozhevnikov

Part Eleven: Practice and Skilled Performance

54. Planning and Performing Physical Actions
David A. Rosenbaum

55. The Psychology of Practice: Lessons from Spatial Cognition
David H. Uttal and Nathaniel G. Meadow

56. Experts and Their Superior Performance
K. Anders Ericsson and Tyler J. Towne

Part Twelve: The Social and Cultural Context

57. Self-Knowledge
Isabelle M. Bauer and Roy F. Baumeister

58. Person Perception
Gordon B. Moskowitz and Michael J. Gill

59. Theory of Mind
Dana Samson

60. Attitude Change
Galen V. Bodenhausen and Bertram Gawronski

61. Cultural Differences
Yuri Miyamoto and Brooke Wilken

Part Thirteen: A Developmental Perspective

62. The Development of Cognitive Control from Infancy through Childhood
Katherine C. Morasch, Vinaya Raj, and Martha Ann Bell

63. The Development of Attention
Greg D. Reynolds, Mary L. Courage, and John E. Richards

64. Cognitive Aging
Paul Verhaeghen

65. Epilogue: Looking Forward
Daniel J. Reisberg