Cognitive Psychology
Psychology by definition is the study of behavior and the underlying mental processes.
To that end, scientific methods are employed in an attempt to create a coherent view of what is observed. Ulric Neisser best defined the field of cognitive psychology as "refer[ing] to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered and used" (Cognitive Psychology, 1967).
The Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Michigan extends cognitive psychology's aims to the biological and chemical processes that underlie human thinking. Medical science has enabled cognitive scientists to 'see' what is occuring in the