Synopses & Reviews
The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter provides a thoughtful integration of a body of work.
Review
Praise for the Series
"A remarkable number of landmark papers... An important collection of theory and data."
--CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY
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
G. Storms, Exemplar Models in the Study of Natural Language Concepts.
K. McRae, Semantic Memory: Some Insights from Feature-Based Connectionist Attractor Networks.
M.J. Spivey and R. Dale, On the Continuity of Mind: Towards a Dynamical Account of Cognition.
P. Dixon and S. Glover, Action and Memory.
N.W. Mulligan and J.P. Lozito, Self-Generation and Memory.
C. Hertzog and J. Dunlosky, Aging, Metacognition, and Cognitive Control.
E. Hirshman, the Psychopharmacology of Memory and Cognition: Promises, Pitfalls, and a Methodological Framework.