Cognitive psychology book, by authors Claudette Fortin and Robert Rousseau. Academic work on information processing.

a university textbook widely used in courses on psychology, cognitive sciences, education and neuroscience.
It explains cognitive psychology clearly and in a structured way.

* it contains many examples and diagrams ;
* each chapter summarizes the important concepts ;
* it presents cognition according to the information processing model, widely used in modern psychology.  

good introduction book for students.

The book explains how the human brain :

* receives information ;
* selects it ;
* encodes it ;
* stores it in memory ;
* then retrieves it to think, understand and act.  

It covers in particular :

* perception ;
* attention ;
* memory ;
* language ;
* problem solving ;
* decision making ;
* learning 

The book is aimed at :

* students in psychology ;
* future teachers ;
* researchers in cognition ;
* people who are curious to understand how the human mind works.