Marvin Chun - Cognition

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Cognition

Marvin M. Chun

Yale University

Steven B. Most

University of New South Wales, Sydney

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Names: Chun, Marvin M., author. | Most, Steven B., author.

Title: Cognition / Marvin M. Chun, Yale University, Steven B. Most, The University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: Chun and Mosts Cognition brings new, modern vitality to course materials by presenting exciting findings from cognitive psychology in a way that students can easily grasp. Highlighting everyday-life applications, Cognition motivates students to share in the excitement of cognitive psychology through highly relevant examples, discussions, and demonstrations. Its engaging prose and pedagogical features, such as Think for Yourself and See for Yourself, immerse students in the process of scientific discovery. This comprehensive text presents both classic and contemporary research, emphasizing conceptual understanding and lifelong discovery. In addition, the authors integrate exciting new topic areas such as emotion and highlight essential connections to social, clinical, and developmental psychology.--Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021009441 (print) | LCCN 2021009442 (ebook) | ISBN 9780199950638 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190878733 | ISBN 9780190878726 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Cognition. | Perception. | Memory. | Developmental psychobiology.

Classification: LCC BF311 .C53918 2021 (print) | LCC BF311 (ebook) | DDC 153--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021009441

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Marvin M. Chun is the Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology at Yale University, with secondary appointments in the Cognitive Science Program and the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience. He received his PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he won a graduate teaching award, followed by postdoctoral training at Harvard University. Professor Chun leads a cognitive neuroscience laboratory that uses functional brain imaging and machine learning to decode and predict how people see, attend, remember, and perform optimally. His research has been honored with a Troland Award from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, an American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of cognition and human learning, and a Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Science (South Korea). His teaching has been recognized with both the Lex Hixon 63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences and the Phi Beta Kappa William Clyde DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College.

Steven B. Most is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia (UNSW Sydney), with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. He received his BA in psychology from Brandeis University and PhD in psychology from Harvard University, where he won graduate teaching awards, followed by postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt and Yale Universities. Dr. Most leads the Motivated Attention and Perception Lab at UNSW Sydney, where his team uses behavioral and physiological measures to understand how attention, motivation, and emotion shape what people see, remember, and do, as well as how cognition affects safety and well-being in the real world (e.g., road safety). Dr. Mosts research has been recognized through fellowships and awards from the National Institutes of Health, the Australian Research Council, and the New York Academy of Sciences, and with an appointment as Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. His teaching and mentoring have been recognized with the Alpha Lambda Delta Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Delaware and both a Postgraduate Supervisor Award and an Outstanding Postgraduate Supervisor Award at UNSW Sydney.

Before writing Cognition, Professors Chun and Most collaborated on research examining how emotional stimuli capture attention.

Preface

Marvin M. Chun

Yale University

Steven B. Most

University of New South Wales, Sydney