Cognitive Psychology Arena

Toward A New Behaviorism

The Case Against Perceptual Reductionism

• By William R. Uttal

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...

Published November 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Studies in Perception and Action Iv

Ninth Annual Conference on Perception and Action

• Edited by John M. Kennedy, Mark Schmuckler

As busy as teachers and scholars are, rarely do they find the time to sample widely from the table of scientific inquiry. This book offers...

Published July 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Psychophysics

The Fundamentals

• By George A. Gescheider

This third edition of a classic text which was first published in 1976 is the only comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of psychophysics currently available. It has...

Published May 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Adaptive Spatial Alignment

• By Gordon M. Redding, Benjamin Wallace

For most people, prism adaptation is an amusing demonstration, first experienced perhaps in an introductory psychology course. This monograph relates this peculiar phenomenon to the...

Published January 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Sensation and Judgment

Complementarity Theory of Psychophysics

• By John C. Baird

Psychophysical theory exists in two distinct forms -- one ascribes the explanation of phenomena and empirical laws to sensory processes. Context effects arising through the...

Published December 1st 1996 by Psychology Press.

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Scientific Approaches to Consciousness

• Edited by Jonathan D. Cohen, Jonathan W. Schooler

There are many ways to approach the understanding of consciousness. Questions about these ways have occupied philosophers and metaphysicians for centuries. During the early growth...

Published November 1st 1996 by Psychology Press.

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Signal Detection Theory and Roc Analysis in Psychology and Diagnostics

Collected Papers

• By John A. Swets

Signal detection theory--as developed in electrical engineering and based on statistical decision theory--was first applied to human sensory discrimination 40 years ago. The theoretical intent...

Published May 1st 1996 by Psychology Press.

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Suspense

Conceptualizations, Theoretical Analyses, and Empirical Explorations

• Edited by Peter Vorderer, Hans J�rgen Wulff, Mike Friedrichsen

This volume begins with the general assumption that suspense is a major criterion for both an audience's selection and evaluation of entertaining media offerings. This...

Published April 1st 1996 by Routledge.

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Geometric Representations of Perceptual Phenomena

Papers in Honor of Tarow indow on His 70th Birthday

• Edited by R. Duncan Luce, Donald D. Hoffman, Michael D'Zmura, Geoffrey Iverson, A. Kimball Romney

Based on a conference held in honor of Professor Tarow Indow, this volume is organized into three major topics concerning the use of geometry in...

Published July 1st 1995 by Psychology Press.

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Memory for Odors

• Edited by Frank R. Schab, Robert G. Crowder

The power of odors to unlock human memory is celebrated in literature and anecdote, but poorly documented by science. Odors -- perhaps more than other...

Published July 1st 1995 by Psychology Press.

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