The wide range of topics in this book will ensure that students on all first-year courses have a good grounding in the subject.

Eamon Fulcher is a senior lecturer at University College Worcester, where he teaches cognitive psychology on the BSc undergraduate psychology programme. He graduated with a degree in psychology from Middlesex University and obtained a PhD in the Neural Systems Engineering Laboratory at Imperial College, London. After spending one year as a research assistant to Alan Baddeley at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at Cambridge, he moved into higher education as a lecturer. He is an active researcher in the areas of anxiety and attention, connectionism, and evaluative learning, and has published his findings in numerous articles in international journals.

Foundations of cognitive psychology Perception Attention Learning Memory Language Problem-solving and creativity Cognition and emotion Computer models of cognition and connectionism