Cognitive Psychology

A document containing an introduction to cognitive psychology, how the world is represented in our brains, experimental cognitive psych, cognitive neuropsych, cognitive neuroscience.

A document that details information about the eye, colour vision, how stimulus information travels from the eye to the brain, visual processing in V1 and V2, the "what" and "where" pathway, functional specialisation theory, object recognition, the cognitive psychology of object recognition and face perception.

A document detailing the processes surrounding hemispheric neglect and extinction, how these processes can be explained, and the cognitive explanation for ADHD, the etiology and treatment for ADHD.

A document describing what the attentional blink is, limits of attentional blink and the theories of it.

A document that details information surrounding attention, including auditory attention. It includes different theories such as the attenuation theory and the central capacity theory.

describes different phases of memory such as short term memory, long term memory, working memory and how that relates to language.

A document introducing different types of memory, factors that can affect the encoding, retrieval and interference of a memory and what a reminiscence bump is.

A document detailing the concept of executive functions, how they work in practice, psychological tasks that test executive functions and theoretical accounts of executive functions.

Lecture notes from week 1 to 10 on Cognitive Psychology

Lecture notes on Visual Perception, Week 2