This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements:

• Popup definitions of key terms throughout the book to help readers understand a wide variety of specialist terms used within cognitive neuroscience




• Interactive flashcards for each chapter




• Multiple choice questions to help test knowledge

This comprehensive, cutting-edge textbook offers a layered approach to the study of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It embraces exciting alternative and influential theoretical approaches such as embodied cognition and predictive coding, and explaining new topics such as motor cognition, cognitive control, consciousness, and social cognition.

Durk Talsma offers foundational knowledge which he expands and enhances with coverage of complex topics, explaining their interrelatedness and presenting them together with classic experiments and approaches in a historic context. Providing broad coverage of world-class international research this richly illustrated textbook covers key topics including:

• Action Control and Cognitive Control




• Consciousness and attention




• Perception




• Multisensory processing




• Motivation and reward processing




• Emotion and cognition




• Learning and memory




• Language processing




• Reasoning




• Numerical cognition and categorization




• Judgement, decision making and problem solving




• Social cognition




• Applied cognitive psychology

With pedagogical features that include highlights of relevant methods and historical notes to spark student interest, this essential text will be invaluable reading for all students of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.