An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology. Processes and Disorders
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Author(s): D. Groome (Ed.)
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1841695432
Format: hardback
449pp
Price: £49.95
Review Date: 21 November 2006
Review: This undergraduate textbook covers all key areas of cognition, including perception, attention, long-term memory, working memory, thinking and language. Alongside chapters on normal cognitive function, there are also chapters on related disorders (agnosia, amnesia, thought disorder and aphasia) to provide a thorough insight into the nature of cognition. There are chapters on: perception, attention, disorders of perception and attention, long-term memory, working memory, disorders of memory, thinking –problem-solving and reasoning, disorders of thinking – executive functions and the frontal lobes, language, disorders of language, and computation models of cognition.