Arthur B. Markman

Douglas L. Medin

Brian H. Ross

This book presents a coherent overview of cognitive psychology organized by themes that cut across topic areas. Written by well-known researchers, it is up-to-date in describing ongoing controversies in research, providing summaries of key experiments that distinguish between them and promoting thinking critically about current research and theories. The focus on the importance of physical and computational constraints on cognition is preserved throughout the book.

Cognitive Psychology

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter provides a thoughtful integration of a body of work. Volume 41 includes in its coverage chapters on multimedia learning, brain imaging, and memory, among others.

Advances in Research and Theory

Psychology of Learning and Motivation

David Irwin

Use of visual information is used to augment our knowledge, decide on our actions, and keep track of our environment. Even with eyes closed, people can remember visual and spatial representations, manipulate them, and make decisions about them. The chapters in Volume 42 of Psychology of Learning and Motivation discuss the ways cognition interacts with visual processes and visual representations, with coverage of figure-ground assignment, spatial and visual working memory, object identification and visual search, spatial navigation, and visual attention.

Brian H. Ross

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