ABSTRACT

Appropriate as a textbook for graduate courses, The Evolution and Function of Cognition provides a systematic and progressively inclusive integration of the facts and principles of cognitive psychology. It includes contributions of information processing and reaction, and emphasizes historical continuity. In addition, the book shows how evolutionary psychology fits in with the mainstream of thought in psychological theory.

The Evolution and Function of Cognition will benefit scholars and researchers interested in the general topics of evolutionary psychology and cognitive science.

chapter |33 pages

Background

chapter |23 pages

Foundations

chapter |23 pages

Overview

chapter |35 pages

Sensory Input

chapter |39 pages

Perceptual Structuring

chapter |44 pages

Learning—Memory

chapter |59 pages

Apperception

chapter |31 pages

Reaction

chapter |22 pages

Language

chapter |4 pages

Epilogue