This course provides an understanding of the mental processes involved in cognition, perception, attention, memory, thinking, language and reasoning processes. The core focus will be on how information is received, perceived, filtered, stored, retrieved and conveyed and it will provide an understanding of the mental processes through which information is acquired, processed and conveyed.
Cognitive science by 
Cognitive Psychology in and Out of the Laboratory by 
An introduction to cognitive psychology by 
Fundamentals of cognitive psychology by
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Introduction a) Nature and Scope of Cognitive Psychology b) Historical Perspective in evolution of Neural Basis of Cognition a) Neural representation of information (Islamic references in Quran) b) Organization of the brain and neural localization of function c) Information coding in visual cells Perception and Attention a) Sensory memory: Iconic memory& Echoic memory b) Pattern recognition: Template matching and Feature Analysis c) Speech recognition and Voice onset time Language a) Language comprehension: Parsing, Semantic considerations and Utilization. Recitation of Quran b) Language and thought c) Child language Acquisition (Arabic/cultural) d) Psycholinguistics e) Object Perception
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f) Spatial vs. linear representation g) Depth Perception h) Colour Perception Quranic i) Perception of Movement Knowledge Representation a) Perception based knowledge b) Meaning based knowledge Memory a) Implicit and Explicit memory b) Retention in episodic memory c) Working memory and long term memory d) Interference: Fan effect e) Recall vs. recognition f) Memorization of Quran Thinking and Problem solving a) Mean –end Analysis b) Problem Solving by Analogy c) Heuristic and algorithms Reasoning a) Deductive and inductive reasoning Aql b) Conditional reasoning
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Cognitive psychology by 
Essential Cognitive Psychology (Classic Edition) by 
