A robbery victim tries to remember how the crime unfolded and who was present at the scene. A medical patient recalls the doctor saying that the pain in her sid

The essays range across fields foundational to cognitive science, including perception, attention, memory, and language, using formal, experimental, and neurosc

Although attention, perception and memory are identifiable components of the human cognitive system, this book argues that for a complete understanding of any o

If we lose our memories, are we still ourselves? Is identity merely a collection of electrical impulses? What separates us from animals, or from computers? From

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we a