Cognitive Psychology: Essential Readings

Description: Cognitive psychology is an enormous field with a rich history. One problem confronting instructors in cognitive psychology courses is covering such diverse topics as pattern recognition, attention, memory, language, decision making and problem solving. It is virtually impossible to both cover these topics and also provide details regarding the beauty of the experimental studies that have tackled important topics in a single text book or in a semester of lectures. The goal of this book is to help fill this void and provide students with the opportunity to learn about the details of the actual articles and chapters that have had major influences in the development of this discipline. Table of Contents: Cognitive Psychology: An Overview. Part 1: Methods of Cognitive Psychology. 'D. Marr,' Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information. 'S.E. Petersen, P.T. Fox, M.I. Posner, M.A. Mintun, M.E. Raichle,' Positron Emission Tomographic Studies of the Cortical Anatomy of Single Word Processing. 'D.E. Rumelhart, J.L. McClelland, G.E. Hinton,' The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing. 'C. Sacchett, G.W. Humphreys,' Calling a Squirrel a Squirrel but a Canoe a Wigwam: A Category-specific Deficit for Artefactual Objects and Body Parts. 'S. Sternberg,' Memory-scanning: Mental Processes Revealed by Reaction-time Experiments. Part 2: Pattern Recognition. 'P.D. Eimas, J.D. Corbit,' Selective Adaptation of Linguistic Feature Detectors. 'U. Neisser,' Pattern Recognition. 'D.J. Simons, D.T. Levin,' Failure to Detect Changes to People during a Real-world Interaction. 'F. Tong, K. Nakayama, J.T. Vaughan, N. Kanwisher,' Binocular Rivalry and Visual Awareness in Human Extrastriate Cortex. Part 3: Attention. 'E.C. Cherry,' Some Experiments on the Recognition of Speech, with One and with Two Ears. 'M.I. Posner, C.R.R. Snyder,' Attention and Cognitive Control. 'J.R. Stroop,' Studies of Interference in Serial Verbal Reactions. 'S.P. Tipper,' Selection for Action: The Role of Inhibitory Mechanisms. Part 4: Imagery. 'M.J. Farah,' The Neural Basis of Mental Imagery. 'R.A. Finke, S. Pinker, M.J. Farah,' Reinterpreting Visual Patterns in Mental Imagery. 'S.M. Kosslyn, T.M. Ball, B.J. Reiser,' Visual Images Preserve Metric Spatial Information: Evidence from Studies of Image Scanning. 'R.N. Shepard, J. Metzler,' Mental Rotation of Three-dimensional Objects. Part 5: Memory. 'A. Baddeley,' Working Memory. 'D. Bruce, A. Dolan, K. Phillips-Grant,' On the Transition from Childhood Amnesia to the Recall of Personal Memories. 'F.I.M. Craik, E. Tulving,' Depth of Processing and the Retention of Words in Episodic Memory. 'E.F. Loftus, D.G. Miller, H.J. Burns,' Semantic Integration of Verbal Information into a Visual Memory. 'L.L. Jacoby, V. Woloshyn, C. Kelley,' Becoming Famous without Being Recognized: Unconscious Influences of Memory Produced by Dividing Attention. 'H.L. Roediger III, K.B. McDermott,' Creating False Memories: Remembering Words not Presented in Lists. 'E. Tulving,' How Many Memory Systems are There? Part 6: Accessing and Representing Knowledge. 'D.A. Balota, R.F. Lorch, Jr.,' Depth of Automatic Spreading Activation: Mediated Priming Effects in Pronunciation but Not in Lexical Decision. 'J.D. Bransford, M.K. Johnson,' Contextual Prerequisites for Understanding: Some Investigations of Comprehension and Recall. 'R. Brown, D. McNeill,' The 'Tip of the Tongue' Phenomenon. 'A.M. Collins, M.R. Quillian,' Retrieval Time from Semantic Memory. Part 7: Categorization. 'D.L. Medin,' Concepts and Conceptual Structure. 'M.I. Posner, S.W. Keele,' On the Genesis of Abstract Ideas. 'E. Rosch, C.B. Mervis, W.D. Gray, D.M. Johnson, P. Boyes-Braem,' Basic Objects in Natural Categories. Part 8: Judgment and Decision-making. 'A. Tversky, T. Gilovich,' The Cold Facts about the 'Hot Hand' in Basketball. 'A. Tversky, D. Kahneman,' Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. 'A. Tversky, D. Kahneman,' The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice. Part 9: Language Development. 'J. Berko,' The Child's Learning of English Morphology. 'V. Fromkin, S. Krashen, S. Curtiss, D. Rigler, M. Rigler,' The Development of Language in Genie: A Case of Language Acquisition beyond the 'Critical Period'. 'G.F. Marcus, S. Vijayan, S. Bandi Rao, P.M. Vishton,' Rule Learning by Seven-month-old Infants. 'J.R. Saffran, R.N. Aslin, E.L. Newport,' Statistical Learning by 8- -month-old infants Jenny R. Saffran, Richard N. Aslin and Elissa L. Newport X: Language Language and the Brain Norman Geschwind The non-anomalous nature of anomalous utterances Victoria A. Fromkin Functional neuroanatomy of the cognitive process of mapping during discourse comprehension David A. Robertson, Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Seline J. Guidotti, Rachel R.W. Robertson, William Irwin, Bryan J. Mock and Mary E. Campana Lexical access during sentence comprehension: (Re)Consideration of context effects David A. Swinney XI: Reasoning and Problem Solving Expert performance: Its structure and acquisition K. Anders Ericsson and Neil Charness Schema induction and analogical transfer Mary L. Gick and Keith J. Holyoak Intuitive reasoning about abstract and familiar physics problems Mary Kister Kaiser, John Jonides and Joanne Alexander Appendix: Reading Journal Articles in Cognitive Psychology Henry L. Roediger, III and David A. Gallo