An Introduction to Classic Studies in Cognitive Psychology [under construction]
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Attention
- 2: Beyond Cherry's (1953) Cocktail Party Phenomenon
- 6: Beyond Stroop's (1935) Colour-Word Interference Phenomenon
Perception
- 3: Beyond Gibson's (1950) Direct Perception
- 4: Beyond Marr's (1982) Computational Approach to Vision
- 5: Beyond Goodale and Milner's Separate Visual Pathways
Amnesia and Language
- 7: Amnesia: Beyond Scoville and Milner's (1957) Research on HM
- 15: Language: Beyond Chomsky's (1957) Syntactic Structures
Memory I
- 8: Beyond Baddeley and Hitch's Working Memory
- 9: Beyond Tulving's (1972) Episodic and Semantic Memory
Memory II
- 10: Beyond Tulving and Thomson's Encoding Specificity
- 11: Beyond Loftus and Palmer's Misinformation Effect
Thinking and Problem Solving
- 12: Beyond Newell, Shaw, and Simon's (1958) Theory of Human Problem Solving
- 13: Beyond Tversky and Kahneman's Judgement Under Uncertainty
- 14: Beyond Tversky and Kahneman's Prospect Theory
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