Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Approaches to human cognition -- Part I: Visual perception and attention --Basic processes in visual perception -- Object and face recognition -- Perception, motion and action -- Attention and performance -- Part II: Memory --Learning, memory and forgetting -- Long-term memory systems -- Everyday memory -- Part III: Language --Reading and speech perception -- Language comprehension -- Language production -- Part IV: Thinking and reasoning --Problem solving and expertise -- Judgement and decision making -- Inductive and deductive reasoning -- Part V: Broadening horizons --Cognition and emotion -- Consciousness.

This sixth edition has been substantially updated and restructured in line with new developments in cognitive psychology and the way it is studied at undergraduate level. In particular it focuses on cognitive neuroscience.