Highlights
More Concise, New Pedagogy
Briefer than its predecessors, the Third Edition moves to an open, single-column format and includes new thematic previews at the beginning of each chapter. These previews get students thinking about the central concepts in the chapter before they begin reading.
Strengthened Coverage of Neuroscience
Highlights of the Third Edition’s expanded coverage of neuroscience:
- Chapter 2 guides students through the basics of neuroanatomy and neurochemistry, demonstrating the significance of neuroscience to cognitive psychology, explaining the methodological issues involved in distinguishing correlation and causation in neuroscience, and using a study by Tong et al as a concrete example to demonstrate the power of neuroimaging.
- Chapter 3’s discussion of object recognition now includes coverage of viewpoint-dependence, which has important neuroscientific implications.
- Chapter 13 includes new coverage of neuropsychological research on emotion’s important role in decision-making.
- Chapter 15 discusses "workspace" conceptions of consciousness as an example of the intersections between cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
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