New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology: Volume 3, Perceptual and Cognitive Processes

Explores how foundational mathematical ideas can be employed in the understanding of a variety of psychological phenomena.

The New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology provides a rigorous introduction to the key foundational, theoretical, and applied areas of the field of mathematical psychology. Volume 3 focuses on key content areas in perceptual and cognitive processes, and effectively complements the previous volumes by covering recent developments.The field of mathematical psychology began in the 1950s and includes both psychological theorizing, in which mathematics plays a key role, and applied mathematics motivated by substantive problems in psychology. Central to its success was the publication of the first Handbook of Mathematical Psychology in the 1960s. The psychological sciences have since expanded to include new areas of research, and significant advances have been made both in traditional psychological domains and in the applications of the computational sciences to psychology. Upholding the rigor of the original Handbook, the New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology reflects the current state of the field by exploring the mathematical and computational foundations of new developments over the last half-century. The third volume provides up-to-date, foundational chapters on early vision, psychophysics and scaling, multisensory integration, learning and memory, cognitive control, approximate Bayesian computation, and encoding models in neuroimaging.