Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: An introduction to classic studies in cognitive psychology / Michael W. Eysenck and David Groome -- Attention : beyond Cherry's (1953) cocktail party problem / Michael W. Eysenck -- Perception : beyond Gibson's (1950) direct perception / Vicki Bruce and Yoav Tadmor -- Computational approaches to perception : beyond Marr's (1982) computational approach to vision / George Mather -- Perception and action : beyond Goodale and Milner's (1992) separate visual pathways / Glyn Humphreys -- Attention : beyond Stroop's (1935) colour-word interference phenomenon / Colin MacLeod -- Amnesia : beyond Scoville and Milner's (1957) research on HM / Howard Eichenbaum -- Working memory : beyond Baddeley and Hitch's (1974) working memory / Robert Logie -- Memory systems : beyond Tulving's (1972) episodic and semantic memory / Michael W. Eysenck and David Groome -- Encoding and retrieval : beyond Tulving and Thomson's (1973) encoding specificity principle / James Nairne -- Human problem solving : beyond Newell, Shaw, and Simon's (1958) theory of human problem solving / Fernand Gobet and Peter Lane -- Heuristics and biases : beyond Tversky and Kahneman's (1974) judgment under uncertainty / Klaus Fiedler and Momme von Sydow -- Decision making under risk : beyond Kahneman and Tversky's (1979) prospect theory / Ben Newell -- Language : beyond Chomsky's (1957) syntactic structures / Trevor Harley and Siobhan MacAndrew -- Cognitive neuropsychology of language : beyond Marshall and Newcombe's (1973) patterns of paralexia / Max Coltheart.