Preface to Instructors • xxv- Expanded sections on localization of function and the distributed representation
in the brain. - New Something to Consider: “‘Mind Reading’ by Measuring Brain Activity.”
CHAPTER 3 PERCEPTION
- Completely rewritten to reflect contemporary research in perception. New topics
include the role of context in perception, physical and semantic regularities in the
environment, and parallel processing streams. - Increased focus on top-down versus bottom-up processing.
- New section on the connection between perception and action.
- New Demonstrations: “Two Quarters” (size constancy); “Visualizing Scenes and Objects.”
- New Method: “Brain Ablation.”
- New Something to Consider: “Mirror Neurons.”
CHAPTER 4 ATTENTION
- Material on inattentional blindness and change detection has been moved from the
perception chapter to this chapter. - Section on overt attention (eye movements) rewritten.
- New section on covert attention.
- New Demonstrations: “Detecting a Target” (divided attention); “Looking for a
Face in the Crowd” (scanning).
CHAPTER 5 SHORT-TERM AND WORKING MEMORY
- Rewritten section on how information is coded in STM.
- New Demonstrations: “Remembering Letters” (chunking); “Recalling Visual Pat-
terns” (visual coding). - New Something to Consider: “The Advantages of Having a More Efficient Work-
ing Memory.” - New Method: “Reading Span.”
CHAPTER 6 LONG-TERM MEMORY: STRUCTURE
- This is the first part of the old Chapter 6 in the second edition, which introduces
the basic types and dimensions of long-term memory. - Discussion of conditioning added to section on implicit memory.
- Rewritten section on priming, which distinguishes between repetition priming and
conceptual priming. - Distinction between explicit and implicit memory clarified.
- New Methods: “Recognition Memory”; “Avoiding Explicit Remembering in a
Priming Experiment.” - New Demonstration: “Mirror Drawing.”
- New Something to Consider: “Memory Loss in the Movies.”
CHAPTER 7 LONG-TERM MEMORY: ENCODING AND RETRIEVAL
- This is the second part of Chapter 6 from the second edition, which focuses on the
interrelationship between encoding and retrieval. - New explanation of the circularity in the definition of depth of processing, to illus-
trate why LOP theory became less popular.
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