'The opening[s] of the chapters are very stimulating and grab the reader's interest. Also, the author does a good job of including many well-thought out and well-chosen examples … to help the reader to understand the abstract concepts presented in the chapters.' Dr Shahram Ghiasinejad, University of Central Florida
1. The evolution of the pre-cognitive control of action; 2. The evolution of cognition; 3. Motor action and motor skills; 4. Mental attention: attention and consciousness; 5. Serial learning, perceptual skills, and talent; 6. Vision; 7. Semantic memory and language; 8. Infant learning and language learning; 9. Categorization and causal learning; 10. Semantic learning; 11. Recognition; 12. Recall; 13. Autobiographical memory; 14. Reasoning; 15. Problem solving and intelligence.
