Synopses & Reviews
The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline. Volume 51 includes chapters on such varied topics as emotion and memory interference, electrophysiology, mathematical cognition, and reader participation in narrative.
* Volume 51 of the highly regarded Psychology of Learning and Motivation series * An essential reference for researchers and academics in cognitive science * Relevant to both applied concerns and basic research
About the Author
Brian Ross received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1982. He is a professor in the UIUC Department of Psychology and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Cognitive Science Group. His fields of professional interest are cognitive psychology, human memory and learning, problem solving, acquisition of cognitive skills, remindings in learning and problem solving, and concepts and categories. Honors and awards: Arnold O. Beckman Research Award (1991, 1982); Beckman Fellow, UIUC Center for Advanced Study (1985-86); Sigma Xi.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Table of Contents
1 Common nouns and the object categories they pick out
Barbara Malt
2. Causal-Based Categorization: State of the Art
Bob Rehder
3. The Influence of Verbal and Nonverbal Processing on Category Learning
John Paul Minda
4. How listeners learn to listen: Understanding links between language production and comprehension
Duane G.Watson
5. Defining and Explaining Automaticity in Reading Comprehension
Katherine Rawson
6. Vision and space: Rethinking scene perception
Helene Intraub
7. Spatial Thinking
Mary Hagerty
8. Toward an integrative theory of hypothesis generation, probability judgment, and information search.
Micahel Dougherty, Rick P.Thomas, Nicholas Lange
9. The Self-Organization of Cognitive Structure
James A. Dixon, Damian Stephen, Rebecca Boncoddo, Jason Anastas