The Science of the Mind
2001 and Beyond
Published on 20. July 1995
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-19-508064-3 (ISBN)
Description
The editors of this book invited some of the most distinguished cognitive scientists of our day to be frankly speculative about how they see their field in the year 2001. Contributors discuss topics that range from artificial intelligence and memory to gene splicing and cognitive development. Whilst wide ranging, the central theme is the nature of human cognition - and the nature of the field of cognitive psychology - and how they may change over the next century.
Reviews / Votes
"The essays offer amusing summaries of major breakthrough areas of psychology and neurobiology ... This volume is especially interesting for how psychologists feel about the future of what we can know now, a future very much operationally defined by the tools we invent. Recommended for academic psychologists or as an introduction to major trends in research psychology." -- The Reader's Review"The essays offer amusing summaries of major breakthrough areas of psychology and neurobiology ... This volume is especially interesting for how psychologists feel about the future of what we can know now, a future very much operationally defined by the tools we invent. Recommended for academic psychologists or as an introduction to major trends in research psychology." -- The Reader's Review
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line figures
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
722 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-508064-3 (9780195080643)
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Persons
Robert L. Solso is Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. His many published works include Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Cognition and the Visual Arts. Dominic Massaro is Professor of Psychology at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Book Editor for the American Journal of Psychology.
Content
PART I: Introductory Comments and General Theories
1: R.L. Solso: Turning the Corner
2: G.H. Bower: Empowering People Through Friendly Technology: Psychology in the Twenty-first Century
3: R.W. Sperry: The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution
4: R.N. Shepard: Mental Universals: Toward a Twenty-first Century Science of Mind
PART II: Developmental Theories and Neurocognition
5: H. Gardner: Perennial Antinomies and Perpetual Redrawings: Is There Progress in the Study of Mind?
6: J.M. Mandler: The Death of Developmental Psychology
7: S.M. Kosslyn: Freud Returns?
PART III: Memory, Perception, and Ecology
8: B.B. Murdock: Human Memory in the Twenty-first Century
9: R.J. Sternberg: The Miller's Tale: A Speculative Glimpse into the Cognitive Psychology of the Future
10: R.L. Gregory: The Future of Psychology
11: M.T. Turvey and R.E. Shaw: Toward an Ecological Physics and a Physical Psychology
PART IV: Language and Categorization
12: J.J. Jenkins: Unintended Consequences and the Future of Psychology
13: W.J.M. Levelt: Chapters of Psychology
14: D.W. Massaro: From Speech-is-Special to Talking Heads: The Past to the Present
15: G. Lakoff: The Neurocognitive Self: Conceptual Research in the Twenty-first Century and the Rethinking of What a Person Is
PART V: Applied and Social Cognition
16: D.A. Norman: The Future of the Mind Lies in Technology
17: E. Hunt: Pulls and Pushes on Cognitive Psychology: The View Towards 2001
18: R. Sommer: The Fortieth Anniversary of the National Institute of Cognitive Ecology
19: J.B. Pittinger: Some Assembly Required: Biased Speculations on the Future of Human Factors Design
PART VI: Major Themes and Common Threads
20: D.W. Massaro and R.L. Solso: Perennial Issues for the Next Century
1: R.L. Solso: Turning the Corner
2: G.H. Bower: Empowering People Through Friendly Technology: Psychology in the Twenty-first Century
3: R.W. Sperry: The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution
4: R.N. Shepard: Mental Universals: Toward a Twenty-first Century Science of Mind
PART II: Developmental Theories and Neurocognition
5: H. Gardner: Perennial Antinomies and Perpetual Redrawings: Is There Progress in the Study of Mind?
6: J.M. Mandler: The Death of Developmental Psychology
7: S.M. Kosslyn: Freud Returns?
PART III: Memory, Perception, and Ecology
8: B.B. Murdock: Human Memory in the Twenty-first Century
9: R.J. Sternberg: The Miller's Tale: A Speculative Glimpse into the Cognitive Psychology of the Future
10: R.L. Gregory: The Future of Psychology
11: M.T. Turvey and R.E. Shaw: Toward an Ecological Physics and a Physical Psychology
PART IV: Language and Categorization
12: J.J. Jenkins: Unintended Consequences and the Future of Psychology
13: W.J.M. Levelt: Chapters of Psychology
14: D.W. Massaro: From Speech-is-Special to Talking Heads: The Past to the Present
15: G. Lakoff: The Neurocognitive Self: Conceptual Research in the Twenty-first Century and the Rethinking of What a Person Is
PART V: Applied and Social Cognition
16: D.A. Norman: The Future of the Mind Lies in Technology
17: E. Hunt: Pulls and Pushes on Cognitive Psychology: The View Towards 2001
18: R. Sommer: The Fortieth Anniversary of the National Institute of Cognitive Ecology
19: J.B. Pittinger: Some Assembly Required: Biased Speculations on the Future of Human Factors Design
PART VI: Major Themes and Common Threads
20: D.W. Massaro and R.L. Solso: Perennial Issues for the Next Century