CogLab Online Version 2.0 (with Printed Access Card) by Greg Francis, Ian Neath

Synopsis

Don't go to class without it! COGLAB clarifies key concepts in cognitive psychology using a variety of classic and current experiments that you actually participate in to show you how the mind works. Nothing is more powerful than seeing the effects of these experiments yourself! Experiencing a variety of important experimental studies will help you understand each experiment, the data, and the significance of the study. And now, you can access COGLAB from anywhere in the world through the Internet with a web browser that supports java programming.

Biography

Greg Francis is a professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He earned his Ph.D. in cognitive and neural systems from Boston University in 1993. His research investigates properties of neural networks and visual perception. He also was coauthor of the Coglab Reader,
Coglab on a CD, and Social Psychology Laboratory.

Ian Neath is currently a department chair at Memorial University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale University in 1991. He regularly teaches both the undergraduate and graduate courses on human memory, as well as courses on introductory psychology, cognitive psychology, and simulation modeling. He has published many articles on memory in professional journals. In addition, he co-authored another Wadsworth textbook, HUMAN MEMORY: AN INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH, DATA, AND THEORY, 2nd edition, Coglab on a CD, Coglab Reader, and Social Psychology Laboratory.