Durk Talsma is Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium. His research interests include selective attention, multisensory integration, visual short-term memory, and event-related potential methodology.

Foreword

Part 1: Introduction

Chapter 1. Cognitive psychology - history and development of a discipline

Chapter 2. The Brain

Part 2: Control

Chapter 3. Action and action control

Chapter 4. Consciousness and Attention

Chapter 5. Cognitive Control

Part 3: Perception

Chapter 6. Visual perception

Chapter 7. Auditory perception

Chapter 8. Mechanical perception

Part 4. Integration

Chapter 9. Multisensory integration

Chapter 10. Perception-action integration

Part 5. Emotion and motivation

Chapter 11. Motivation and reward

Chapter 12. Emotion and cognition

Chapter 14. The dynamics of our memory

Chapter 15. Everyday memory

Part 7. The Psychology of Language

Chapter 16. Language Functions

Chapter 17. Language perception and understanding

Chapter 18. Language Production

Part 8. Higher cognition

Chapter 19. Mental representations and reasoning skills

Chapter 20. Numbers and Categories

Chapter 21. Judgement and Decision making

Chapter 22. Problem solving and development of expertise

Part 9. A broader perspective

Chapter 23. Social Cognition

Chapter 24. To err is human: the role of errors in human cognition

Appendix: Bayesian inference

Glossary

References