As with his best-selling first edition, Ronald T. Kellogg seeks to provide students with a synthesis of cognitive psychology at its best, encapsulating relevant background, theory, and research within each chapter. Understanding cognitive psychology now requires a deeper understanding of the brain than was true in the past. In his thoroughly revised second edition, the author highlights the tremendous contributions from the neurosciences, most notably neuroimaging, in recent years and approaches cognition in the context of both its development and its biological, bodily substrate.

Using the findings of recent neuroscience, a psychologist reveals what sets humans apart from all other species, offering a fascinating exploration of our marvelous and sometimes frightening cognitive abilities and potentials. According to human genome research, there is a remarkable degree of overlap in the DNA of humans and chimpanzees. So what accounts for the rapid development of human culture throughout history and the extraordinary creative and destructive aspects of human behavior that make us so different from our primate cousins? Kellogg explores in detail five distinctive parts of...

In this third edition Kellogg offers expanded coverage of neuroimaging, electroencephalography, and magnetoencephalography. Throughout all of the chapters, the neuroscience of cognitive processes is stressed. Other key areas of expanded coverage include multitasking, the impact of emotion on memory encoding and retrieval, the discovery of individuals with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, and much more. With discussions of new research implemented throughout, the author strives to effectively blend the new with the old to provide a thorough understanding of the fundamental concepts of...