Cognitive Psychology

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What is special about the human brain? Richard Passingham The mental gap between man and ape is immense. As the brain is the organ of the mind, we must assume that throughout evolution there were changes in the brain that created this gap. This book is a search for those changes. Written in a lively style, the book is a far-reaching and exciting quest for those things that make humans unique. 29 May 2008 | £29.95 | Hardback | 288 pages More details and ordering information

Sensorimotor Foundations of Higher Cognition Patrick Haggard, Yves Rossetti, and Mitsuo Kawato The latest volume in this prestigious series is dedicated to exploring how much of higher cognitive function can be explained by reduction to simpler sensorimotor processes. With state of the art chapters, from world leading psychologists, it uses a series of specific cognitive domains to examine the sensorimotor bases of human cognition. 1 November 2007 | £75.00 | hardback | 502 pages More details and ordering information

Memory, Attention, and Decision-Making A unifying computational neuroscience approach Edmund Rolls 2 August 2007 | £44.95 | hardback | 760 pages More details and ordering information

Bayesian Rationality The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning Mike Oaksford and Nick Chater 22 February 2007 | £31.00 | paper | 290 pages More details and ordering information

Working Memory, Thought, and Action Alan Baddeley 15 March 2007 | £22.50 | paper | 400 pages More details and ordering information