Current Directions in Cognitive Science
(APS) Association for Psychological Science
Barbara A. Spellman, University of Virginia
Daniel T. Willingham, University of Virginia

ISBN-10: 0131919911
ISBN-13: 9780131919914

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 192 pp
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VISUAL PERCEPTION.

Mack, A. (2003). Inattentional Blindness: Looking Without Seeing.

Behrmann, M. (2000). The mind's eye mapped onto the brain's matter.

Martino, G., & Marks, L. E. (2001). Synesthesia: Strong and weak.

MEMORY.

Garry, M., & Polaschek, D. L. L. (2000). Imagination and memory.

McNally, R. J.(2003). Recovering memories of trauma: A view from the laboratory.

Wells, G. L., Olson, E. A., & Charman, S. D. (2002). The confidence of eyewitnesses in their identifications from lineups.

Brown, V. R., & Paulus, P. B. (2002). Making group brainstorming more effective: Recommendations from an associative memory perspective.

ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING AND CAUSAL REASONING.

Öehman, A., & Mineka, S. (2003). The malicious serpent: Snakes as a prototypical stimulus for an evolved module of fear.

Thompson, S. C. (1999). Illusions of control: How we overestimate our personal influence.

Spellman, B. A., & Mandel, D. R. (1999). When possibility informs reality: Counterfactual thinking as a cue to causality.

Norenzayan, A., & Nisbett, R. E. (2000). Culture and causal cognition.

SOLVING PROBLEMS AND MAKING DECISIONS.

Klahr, D., & Simon, H. A. (2001). What have psychologists (and others) discovered about the process of scientific discovery?

Siegler, R. S. (2000). Unconscious insights.

Mellers, B. A., & McGraw, A. P. (2001). Anticipated emotions as guides to choice.

Yaniv, I. (2004). The benefit of additional opinions.

LANGUAGE.

Saffran, J. R. (2003). Statistical language learning: Mechanisms and constraints.

Landauer, T. K. (1998). Learning and representing verbal meaning: The latent semantic analysis theory.

Ferreira, F., Bailey, K. G. D., & Ferraro, V. (2002). Good-enough representations in language comprehension.

Zwaan, R. A. (1999). Situation models: The mental leap into imagined worlds.

Minds and Brains.

Miller, G. A., & Keller, J. (2000). Psychology and neuroscience: Making peace.

Roser, M. & Gazzaniga, M. S. (2004). Automatic brains-Interpretative minds.

Povinelli, D. J., & Bering, J. M. (2002). The mentality of apes revisited.

Nickerson, R. S. (2001). The projective way of knowing: A useful heuristic that sometimes misleads.

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