New Methods in Cognitive Psychology

This book provides an overview of cutting-edge methods currently being used in cognitive psychology, which are likely to appear with increasing frequency in coming years. Once built around univariate parametric statistics, cognitive psychology courses now seem deficient without some contact with methods for signal processing, spatial statistics, and machine learning. There are also important changes in analyses of behavioral data (e.g., hierarchical modeling and Bayesian inference) and there is the obvious change wrought by the advancement of functional imaging. This book begins by discussing the evidence of this rapid change, for example the movement between using traditional analyses of variance to multi-level mixed models, in psycholinguistics. It then goes on to discuss the methods for analyses of physiological measurements, and how these methods provide insights into cognitive processing. New Methods in Cognitive Psychology provides senior undergraduates, graduates and researchers with cutting-edge overviews of new and emerging topics, and the very latest in theory and research for the more established topics.

Introduction Chapter 1 - An Introduction to Mixed Models for Experimental Psychology, by Henrik Singmann and David Kellen Chapter 2 - Bayesian Hierarchical Models In Psychological Science: A Tutorial, by Jeffrey N. Rouderand Jordan M. Province Chapter 3 – The Megastudy Paradigm: A New Direction for Behavioral Research in Cognitive Science, by Michael J. Cortese Chapter 4 - How to Test Cognitive Theory with fMRI, by Christopher H. Chathamand David Badre Chapter 5 – Mapping Functional Connectivity and Network Dynamics with Resting State MRI, by Shella D. Keilholz, Garth J. Thompson, Matthew E. Magnuson and Wen-Ju Pan Chapter 6 - Multivariate neuroimaging analysis: new methods for finding linear relationships in the nonlinear brain, by Thomas Naselaris Chapter 7 - Electrophysiological phase synchrony in distributed brain networks as a promising tool in the study of cognition, by Irene van de Vijver & Michael X Cohen Chapter 8 - A tutorial for transcranial magnetic and electrical stimulations in cognitive psychology, by Jacqueline M. Thompson & Roi Cohen Kadosh

Daniel Spieler is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has researched in memory, aging, and visual perception, and his main teaching areas are introductory cognitive psychology and statistics. Eric Schumacher isProfessor of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research investigates both the cognitive and the neuroscientific aspects of the processes and representations required to carry out flexible behavior across a wide variety of domains.