ABSTRACT
The subject of this book, Attention and Pattern Recognition, comes under the Routledge Modular Psychology series that deals with cognitive psychology. Solso (1998) defines cognitive psychology as ‘the scientific study of the thinking mind’ and points out that it is concerned with a variety of areas of research including perception, pattern recognition, attention, memory, language and thinking. These research areas are closely related and there is considerable overlap between them. This is particularly true of attention, pattern recognition and perception. As Greene and Hicks (1984) point out: ‘We can only perceive things we are attending to; we can only attend to things we perceive.’
