Overview
In the late-1980s, visual cognition was a small subfield of cognitive psychology, and the standard texts mainly discussed just iconic memory in their sections on visual cognition. In the subsequent two decades, and especially very recently, many remarkable new aspects of the processing of brief visual stimuli have been discovered -- change blindness, repetition blindness, the attentional blink, newly-discovered properties of visual short-term memory and of the face recognition system, the influence of reentrant processing on visual perception, and the surprisingly intimate relationships between eyeblinks and visual cognition. This volume provides up-to-date tutorial reviews of these many new developments in the study of visual cognition written by the leaders in the discipline, providing an incisive and comprehensive survey of research in this dynamic field.
Full Product Details
Author: Veronika Coltheart (Macquarie University, Australia)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Psychology Press Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.676kg
ISBN: 9781848728530
ISBN 10: 1848728530
Pages: 390
Publication Date: 27 January 2010
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The eyeblink chapter I enjoyed simply because it prompted thought and questions about things I hadn't previously considered, which is what a book aimed at this level should do. ! Senior academics who regularly supervise projects spanning the areas discussed, and departments/libraries with at least a moderate focus on visual cognition research, would benefit strongly from having this text available as a starting point for their postgraduate students. -- Craig Hedge, University of Bristol, in Perception
"""The eyeblink chapter I enjoyed simply because it prompted thought and questions about things I hadn't previously considered, which is what a book aimed at this level should do. ! Senior academics who regularly supervise projects spanning the areas discussed, and departments/libraries with at least a moderate focus on visual cognition research, would benefit strongly from having this text available as a starting point for their postgraduate students."" -- Craig Hedge, University of Bristol, in Perception"
The eyeblink chapter I enjoyed simply because it prompted thought and questions about things I hadn't previously considered, which is what a book aimed at this level should do. ... Senior academics who regularly supervise projects spanning the areas discussed, and departments/libraries with at least a moderate focus on visual cognition research, would benefit strongly from having this text available as a starting point for their postgraduate students. - Craig Hedge, University of Bristol, in Perception
Author Information
Veronika Coltheart is Associate Professor in psychology and member of MACCS at Macquarie University in Australia. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Coltheart was educated in Australia, where she received a B.A. from the University of Sydney and a Ph.D. from Monash University. Her previous academic posts held are: University of Guelph, Canada, and City of London Polytechnic, UK (subsequently London Guildhall University). Coltheart's research interests include: cognition of briefly presented visual stimuli; repetition blindness and the attentional blink; phonological coding in reading and STM; and learning to read.
