Cognitive Psychology

Psych 6011

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Note that not all of these readings are primary, more information after the start of class.

Anderson, J. A. (1998).  Learning arithmetic with a neural network: Seven times seven is about fifty. In D. Scarborough and S. Sternberg (Eds), An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 4. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. (pdf document)

Anderson, J. R. (1991). Reflections of the environment in memory. Psychological Science, 2, 396-408. (pdf document)

Baddeley, A. (1996).  The fractionation of working memory.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 93, 13468-13472.  (pdf document)

Biederman, I. (1987).  Recognition-by-components: A theory of human image understanding.  Psychological Review,  94, 115-147.  (pdf document)

Bock, K., & Levelt, W. (1994).  Language production: Grammatical encoding.  In M. A. Gernsbacher, Ed. Handbook of Psycholinguistics.  San Diego: Academic Press.  (pdf document)

Chater, N. & Oaksford, M. (1999).  Ten years of the rational analysis of cognition.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 57-65. (pdf document)

Dosher, B. A. (1998).  Models of visual search: Finding a face in the crowd. In D. Scarborough and S. Sternberg (Eds), An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 4. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. (pdf document)

Farah, M. J. (1995).  Dissociable systems for visual recognition: A cognitive neuropsychology approach.  In S. M. Kosslyn and D. N. Osherson, (Eds). An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 2.  Cambridge MA: MIT Press.  (pdf document)

Garry, M., & Polaschek, D. L. L. (2000).  Imagination and memory.  Current Directions in Psychlogy, 9, 6-10.  (pdf document)

Hubel, D. H. (2000).  Exploration of the primary visual cortex, 1955-78.  In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed),Cognitive Neuroscience: A Reader,   Malden MA: Blackwell. (pdf document)

Kanwisher, N. & Wojciulik, E. (2000).  Visual attention: Insights from brain imaging.  Nature Neuroscience, 1, 91-100.  (pdf document)

Kosslyn, S. M. (1995).  Visual imagery.  In S. M. Kosslyn & D. N. Osherson, (Eds). An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 2.  Cambridge MA: MIT Press. (pdf document)

Laurence, S., & Margolis, E. (1999).  Concepts and cognitive science.  In E. Margolis and S. Laurence (Eds), Concepts and Categories, Cambridge MA: MIT Press. (pdf document)

Marr, D. (1982).  Chatper 1: The philosophy and approach.  In D. Marr, Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing visual information. New York: Freeman. (pdf document)

Marr, D. (1982).  Chatper 2: Representing the image.  In D. Marr, Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing visual information. New York: Freeman. (pdf document)

Massaro, D. W. (1998).  Models for reading letters and words.  In D. Scarborough and S. Sternberg (Eds), An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 4. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.(pdf document)

McClelland, J. L, McNaughton, B. L., & O'Reilly, R. C. (1995).  Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: Insights from the success and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory.  Psychological Review, 102, 419-457. (pdf document)

McClelland, J. L., & Rumelhart, D. E. (1981).  An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: Part 1. An account of basic findings.Psychological Review, 88, 375-407.  (pdf document)

Medin, D. L., Goldstone, R. L., & Gentner, D. (1993).  Respects for similarity.  Psychological Review, 100, 254-278.  (pdf document)

Miller, J. L. (1992).  Speech perception.  In L. R. Gleitman & M. Liberman, (Eds),An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 1: Language.  Cambridge MA: MIT Press. (pdf document)

Osherson, D. N. (1995). Probability judgement.   In E. E. Smith & D. N. Osherson, (Eds),An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 3: Thinking.  Cambridge MA: MIT Press. (pdf document)

Pashler, H. (1995). Attention and visual perception: Analyzing divided attention. In S. M. Kosslyn & D. N. Osherson, (Eds). An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 2.  Cambridge MA: MIT Press. (pdf document)

Roberts, S. (2004). Self-experimentation as a source of new ideas: Ten examples about sleep, mood, health, and weight. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 227-288. (pdf document)

Roediger, H. L., & McDermott, K. B. (2000).  Tricks of memory.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 9, 123-127.  (pdf document)

Rolls, E. T. (2000).  Memory systems in the brain.  Annual Review of Psychology, 51, 599-630.  (pdf document)

Schooler. L. J., & Anderson, J. R. (1997).  The role of process in the rational analysis of memory.  Cognitive Psychology, 32, 219-250. (pdf document)

Schmolck, H., Buffalo, E. A., Squire, L. R. (2000).  Memory distortions develop over time: Recollections of the O.J. Simpson trial verdict after 15 and 32 months.  Psychological Science, 11, 39-45.  (pdf document)

Sejnowski, T. J., & Churchland, P. S. (1989).  Brain and Cognition.  In M. I. Posner, Ed. Foundations of Cognitive Science.  Cambridge MA: MIT Press. (pdf document)

Shepard, R. N. (1988). Toward a universal law of generalization for psychological science. Science, 237, 1317-1323. (pdf document)

Shepard, R. N. (2001). Perceptual-cognitive universals as reflections of the world. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 581-601. (pdf document)

Simons, D. J., & Levin, D. T. (1997).  Change blindness.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1, 261-267. (pdf document)

Sloman, S. A., & Rips, L. J. (1998).  Similarity as an explanatory construct.  Cognition, 65, 87-101. (pdf document)

Steedman, M. (1998).  Cognitive algorithms:  Questions of representation and computation in building a theory.  In D. Scarborough and S. Sternberg (Eds), An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol 4. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. (pdf document)

Tarr, M., & Bulthoff, H. H. (1998).  Image-based object recognition in man, monkey, and machine.  Cognition, 67, 1-20. (pdf document)

Tversky, A. (1977).  Features of similarity.  Psychological Review, 84, 327-352. (pdf document)

Winkielman, P., Schwarz, N., & Belli, R. F. (1998).  The role of ease of retrieval and attribution in memory judgements:  Judging your memory as worse despite recalling more events.  Psychological Science, 9, 124-127.  (pdf document)