Cognitive Psychology Arena

Coming Soon: Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook, 6th Edition

Previous editions have established this best-selling student handbook as THE cognitive psychology textbook of choice, both for its academic rigour and its accessibility.

This sixth edition continues this tradition.

It has been substantially updated and revised to reflect new developments in the field, especially within cognitive neuroscience.

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Cognitive Neuroscience: A New Journal

We are now taking submissions for our new journal Cognitive Neuroscience.

Launching in 2010 and edited by Jamie Ward (University of Sussex, UK), and with no page or colour charges in the printed edition, it will fill an important niche by publishing shorter papers (up to 4000 words) with fast reviewing and rapid online publication (within 6 weeks of acceptance).

We hope that this exciting new journal will become an important focal point for researchers in this field.

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New: Cognitive Assessment: An Introduction to the Rule Space Method

This book introduces the Rule Space Method, a technique that transforms unobservable knowledge and skill variables into observable and measurable attributes.

The methodology is ideal for highlighting patterns derived from test scores used in evaluating progress.

The Rule Space Method helps teachers understand what scores mean by helping them ascertain an individual's cognitive strengths and weaknesses.

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New Textbook: Understanding Consciousness, 2nd Edition

This book provides a unique survey and evaluation of consciousness studies, along with an original analysis of consciousness that combines scientific findings, philosophy and common sense.

Building on the widely praised first edition of the book, this new edition adds fresh research, and deepens the original analysis in a way that reflects some of the fundamental changes in the understanding of consciousness that have taken place over the last 10 years.

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Cognitive Neuroscience of Language

We are pleased to announce in 2009 the publication of Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, a new Special Section of the journal Language and Cognitive Processes.

Call for Papers: if you have an article on any aspect of how the development of cognitive neuroscience methodologies has impacted the empirical scope of experimental language studies, we would like to see it! Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal's Manuscript Central site, clearly marked for Cognitive Neuroscience of Language.

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New Textbook: Memory, by Alan Baddeley, Michael Eysenck, and Michael Anderson

This full-color textbook, written by three of the world's leading researchers in Memory, presents a thorough, accessible and appealing overview of the subject.

Each chapter of the book is written by one of the three authors, an approach which takes full advantage of their individual expertise, style and personality.

This enhances students' enjoyment of the book, allowing them to share the authors' own fascination with human memory.

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New Edition of Textbook: Foundations of Sensation and Perception, Second Edition by George Mather

This full-color textbook provides students with a thorough analysis of our perceptual experience, how it relates to the physical properties of the world and how it is linked to the biological properties of the brain.

The first edition of this comprehensive introduction to Sensation and Perception has been highly praised for its unique approach, which begins with the minor senses and progresses to vision.

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New Textbook: Fundamentals of Psychology - by Michael W. Eysenck

Aimed at those new to the subject, this clear and reader-friendly full-color textbook will help students explore and understand the essentials.

Fundamentals of Psychology combines an authoritative tone, a huge range of psychological material and an informal, analogy-rich style. The text expertly blends admirably up-to-date empirical research and real-life examples and applications, and is both readable and factually dense.

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New Free Shipping Levels for UK, US and Canadian orders

We've lowered the amount you have to spend to get free shipping for orders in the UK and we've introduced a brand new free shipping threshold for customers in the US and Canada.

From now on, UK customers only need to spend £20 to qualify for free shipping (reduced from our previous post-free threshold of £30).

And US and Canadian customers can now also get free shipping on their orders by spending $35 (USD) or more.

Please note: these free shipping thresholds only apply to online orders placed through this website using our standard shipping service, not our express shipping service or for orders placed by other methods.

New Podcast: Interview with Professor Alan Baddeley

Alan Baddeley is Professor of Psychology at York and one of the world's leading authorities on Human Memory.

He is celebrated for devising the influential working memory model with Graham Hitch in the early 1970s, a model which still proves valuable today in recognising the functions of short-term memory. He is one of Psychology Press' most eminent authors, having written, among other things, two key memory textbooks: Essentials of Human Memory and Human Memory.

In this podcast we talk to Alan Baddeley about how he came to be interested in memory research, and why his ground-breaking working memory model almost didn’t see the light of day!

We also discuss various mechanisms of memory such as what exactly happens when you experience déjà vu or when something is on the tip of your tongue, and we ask the expert for methods for improving the memory.

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