Books in the Oxford Psychology Series series

The Evolution of Memory Systems sets out a bold and exciting new theory about memory. It proposes that several memory systems arose during evolution and that they did so for the same general reason: to transcend problems and exploit opportunities encountered by specific ancestors at particular times and places in the distant past.

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) allow the electrical activity of the brain to be recorded from normal humans. This book provides an introduction for the non-specialist to the ERP method as applied to the study of cognitive processing - attention, the mental clock, memory, and language.

Contemporary theories of speech perception have concentrated on consonant perception, and this volume is intended as a balance to such bias. The authors propose a computational theory of auditory vowel perception, accounting for vowel identification in the face of acoustic differences between speakers and speaking rate and stress.

This book focuses on vision as an 'active' process. It goes beyond most accounts of vision where the focus is on seeing, to provide an integrated account of seeing AND looking.

What is it about human brains that make some people more intelligent than others? In an authoritative and critical account, Professor Ian Deary reviews historical, cognitive, and biological research on the foundations of human mental ability. Authoritative, thought provoking, and controversial, the book attempts to answer the age old question of why some people seem more clever than others

The mental gap between man and ape is immense. As the brain is the organ of the mind, we must assume that throughout evolution there were changes in the brain that created this gap. This book is a search for those changes. Written in a lively style, the book is a far-reaching andrexciting quest for those things that make humans unique.

First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the cognitive sciences. For this new edition, a very substantial and illustrated epilogue has been added to the book in which Milner and Goodale review the key developments that support or challenge the views that were put forward in the first edition.

Eichenbaum and Cohen provide a synopsis of what is known about memory and brain.

Reviews the history of the scientific development of lightness theory and outlines and critiques the theories of lightness, laying out the strengths and weaknesses of each. This work presents author's argument that previous models of lightness perception fail to capture the errors and illusions present in human perception.

Weaves together the common threads of the four major topics that comprise the core of false memory research: theories of false memory, adult experimental psychology of false memory, false memory in legal contexts, and false memory in psychotherapy. This book provides a picture of our understanding of human false memory.

'Working Memory, Thought, and Action' is the magnum opus of one of the most influential cognitive psychologists of the past 50 years. This new volume on the model he created (with Grahame Hitch) discusses the developments that have occurred within the model in the past twenty years, and places it within a broader context.

Everyone has experienced visual discomfort of some kind or another. Visual stimuli which cause discomfort exist in a variety of everyday situations, from eye strain induced by VDU screens to garish carpets. Dr Wilkins has produced a unified theory of the mechanisms underlying visual discomfort, which has a number of applications including the treatment of epilepsy and the design of glasses.

This is a study of how response times influence thinking about the mind. Professor Luce provides a review of the experimental data, and puts forward the idea of the hazard function. This function exaggerates the differences that normal analysis methods often obscure.

What are the mental processes involved in listening to, performing, and composing music? What is involved in 'understanding' a piece of music? The author addresses these questions by surveying growing experimental literature on the subject.

Organized to help the reader find needed information quickly and easily, this book emphasizes psychophysical experiments which measure the detection and identification of near-threshold patterns and the mathematical models used to draw inferences from experimental results.

This book deals with brain mechanisms in human communicative behaviour, from a broadly biological point of view. Particular attention is paid to the control mechanisms of the oral, manual, and brachial movements which form the basics of our communication systems, and the way in which these interface with auditory and visual systems.

S.S. Stevens' famous paper, On the psychophysical law, ignited a controversy relating to people's subjective judgements of physical reality. This brings together a diversity of ideas and a wealth of experimental evidence, and provides a challenging perspective on the question which has fragmented the research community for nearly 40 years.