There is growing evidence that face recognition is “special” but less certainty concerning the
way in which it is special. The authors review and compare previous proposals and their …

The right hemispheric lateralization of face recognition, which is well documented and
appears to be specific to the human species, remains a scientific mystery. According to a …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Are faces recognized using more holistic representations than other types of stimuli? Taking
holistic representation to mean representation without an internal part structure, we interpret …

First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the
cognitive sciences. It presents a model for understanding the visual processing underlying …

The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

Fundamental to spatial knowledge in all species are the representations underlying object
recognition, object search, and navigation through space. But what sets humans apart from …

A century ago, Freud demonstrated both the influence of unapprehended thought on our
feelings and behaviors, and the power of language to bring about lasting emotional and …

The cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying category-specific knowledge remain
controversial. Here we report that, across multiple tasks (viewing, delayed match to sample …

This textbook augments the first edition through the inclusion of a set of reseach and review
papers selected by the authors to supplement the contents of each chapter by providing a …