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1. A Behaviorist Looks at Form Recognition

   By William R. Uttal

   For many years behaviorism was criticized because it rejected the study of perception. This rejection was based on the extreme view that percepts were internal subjective experiences and thus not subject to examination. This book argues that this logic is incorrect and shows how visual perception,...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
2. Dualism

   The Original Sin of Cognitivism

   By William R. Uttal

   Directed to scholars and senior-level graduate students, this book is an iconoclastic survey of the history of dualism and its impact on contemporary cognitive psychology. It argues that much of modern cognitive or mentalist psychology is built upon a cryptodualism--the idea that the mind and brain...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Psychomythics

   Sources of Artifacts and Misconceptions in Scientific Psychology

   By William R. Uttal

   Psychology deals with the most complex subject matter of any science. As such, it is subject to misunderstandings, artifacts, and just simple errors of data, logic, and interpretation. This book teases out the details of some of the sources of these errors. It considers errors in psychological data...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Psychology Press
4. Neural Theories of Mind

   Why the Mind-Brain Problem May Never Be Solved

   By William R. Uttal

   In this fascinating book, William R. Uttal raises the possibility that, however much we learn about the anatomy and physiology of the brain and psychology, we may never be able to cross the final bridge explaining how the mind is produced by the brain. Three main classes of mind-brain theory are...

   Published May 25th 2005 by Psychology Press
5. The War Between Mentalism and Behaviorism

   On the Accessibility of Mental Processes

   By William R. Uttal

   Series: Scientific Psychology Series

   This book considers one of the most fundamental, but only infrequently considered, issues in psychology--Are mental processes accessible by means of verbal reports and/or experimental assays? It is argues that this is the main characteristic distinguishing between behaviorism and mentalistic...

   Published August 31st 1999 by Psychology Press
6. The War Between Mentalism and Behaviorism

   On the Accessibility of Mental Processes

   By William R. Uttal

   Series: Scientific Psychology Series

   This book considers one of the most fundamental, but only infrequently considered, issues in psychology--Are mental processes accessible by means of verbal reports and/or experimental assays? It is argues that this is the main characteristic distinguishing between behaviorism and mentalistic...

   Published August 31st 1999 by Psychology Press
7. Toward A New Behaviorism

   The Case Against Perceptual Reductionism

   By William R. Uttal

   Series: Scientific Psychology Series

   This volume examines the scientific basis of reductionist approaches to understanding visual perception. The author makes the provocative argument that contemporary neuroscience and cognitive science have gone off on a wild-goose chase in the search for reductionist explanations of perceptual...

   Published October 31st 1997 by Psychology Press
8. The Swimmer

   An Integrated Computational Model of A Perceptual-motor System

   By William R. Uttal, Gary Bradshaw, Sriram Dayanand, Robb Lovell, Thomas Shepherd

   Series: Scientific Psychology Series

   This research monograph describes a large programming project in which an underwater organism, capable of perceiving, learning, deciding, and navigating, is computationally simulated. The developed computational model serves as a contemporary theory of perceptual-motor performance, embodying much...

   Published April 30th 1992 by Psychology Press
9. The Perception of Dotted Forms

   By William R. Uttal

   Published March 31st 1987 by Psychology Press