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Part of the Key Readings in Cognition series

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 textbook 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

Part 1. Methods and Theories in Cognitive Psychology. D.A. Balota, E.J. Marsh, Cognitive Psychology: An Overview. Part 2. Methodological Perspectives. S. Sternberg, Vision: A Computational Investigation Into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information, Memory-scanning: Mental Processes Revealed by Reaction-time Experiments. 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 Ddeficit for Artefactual Objects and Body Parts. 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. Part 3. Pattern Recognition. U. Neisser, Pattern Recognition. P.D. Eimas, J.D. Corbit, Selective Adaptation of Linguistic Feature Detectors. 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 4. Attention. E.C. Cherry, Some Experiments on the Recognition of Speech, With One and With Two Ears. J.R. Stroop, Studies of Interference in Serial Verbal Reactions. M.I. Posner, C.R.R. Snyder, Attention and Cognitive Control. S.P. Tipper, Selection for Action: The Role of Inhibitory Mechanisms. Part 5. 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. R.A. Finke, S. Pinker, M.J. Farah, Reinterpreting Visual Patterns in Mental Imagery. M.J. Farah, The Neural Basis of Mental Imagery. Part 6. Episodic Memory. 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. A. Baddeley, Working Memory. D. Bruce, A. Dolan, K. Phillips-Grant, On the Transition From Childhood Amnesia to the Recall of Personal Memories. E. Tulving, How Many Memory Systems are There?

Part 7. Using and Accessing Pre-existing Knowledge Structures. A.M. Collins, M.R. Quillian, Retrieval Time From Semantic Memory. D.A. Balota, R.F. Lorch, Jr, Depth of Automatic Spreading Activation: Mediated Priming Effects in Pronunciation But Not in Lexical Decision. R. Brown, D. McNeill, The "Tip of the Tongue" Phenomenon. J.D. Bransford, M.K. Johnson, Contextual Prerequisites For Understanding: Some Investigations of Comprehension and Recall. Part 8. Categorization. E. Rosch, C.B. Mervis, W.D. Gray, D.M. Johnson, P. Boyes-Braem, Basic Objects in Natural Categories. M.I. Posner, S.W. Keele, On the Genesis of Abstract Ideas. D.L. Medin, Concepts and Conceptual Structure.

Part 9. Language Development. 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". J. Berko, The Child's Learning of English Morphology. J.R. Saffran, R.N. Aslin, E.L. Newport, Statistical Learning by Eight-Month-Old Infants. G.F. Marcus, S. Vijayan, S.B. Rao, P.M. Vishton, Rule Learning by Seven-Month-Old Infants.

Part 10. Language. V.A. Fromkin, The Non-anomalous Nature of Anomalous Utterances. D.A. Swinney, Lexical Access During Sentence Comprehension: (Re)Consideration of Context Effects. N. Geschwind, Language and the Brain. D.A. Robertson, M.A. Gernsbacher, S.J. Guidotti, R.R.W. Robertson, W. Irwin, B.J. Mock, M.E. Campana, Functional Neuroanatomy of the Cognitive Process of Mapping During Discourse Comprehension. Part 11. Judgment and Decision-Making. A. Tversky, D. Kahneman, The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice. A. Tversky, D. Kahneman, Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. A. Tversky, T. Gilovich, The Cold Facts About the "Hot Hand" in Basketball. Part 12. Reasoning and Problem Solving. M.L. Gick, K.J. Holyoak, Schema Induction and Analogical Transfer. M.K. Kaiser, J. Jonides, J. Alexander, Intuitive Reasoning About Abstract and Familiar Physics Problems. K.A. Ericsson, N.Charness, Expert Performance: Its Structure and Acquisition. Appendix. H.L. Roediger III, D.A. Gallo, Reading Journal Articles in Cognitive Psychology.