The Nature of thought : essays in honor of D.O. Hebb

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The Nature of thought : essays in honor of D.O. Hebb

edited by Peter W. Jusczyk, Raymond M. Klein

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1980

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First published in 1980. This is a collection of lectures around Professor Emeritus Don O.Hebb of Dalhousie University on the major trends in cognitive psychology. It includes essays on Hebb's ideas and impact on current psychological theorizing; his 'structure of thought', and a collection under the section of 'Information-Processing Analysis'.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 1 D. O. Hebb, Raymond M. Klein
  • Chapter 2 The Structure of Thought, D. O. Hebb
  • Part 2 Information-Processing Analysis
  • Chapter 3 Information-Processing Explanations of Understanding, Herbert A. Simon
  • Chapter 4 The Comparative Study of Serially Integrated Behavior in Humans and Animals, T. G. Bever, R. O. Straub, H. S. Terrace, D. J. Townsend
  • Part 3 Attention and Performance
  • Chapter 5 Mental Chronometry and the Problem of Consciousness, Michael I. Posner
  • Chapter 6 The Limits of Cognition, Ulric Neisser
  • Part 4 Mental Representation
  • Chapter 7 On Weighing Things in Your Mind, Allan Paivio
  • Chapter 8 The Lingua Mentis and Its Role in Thought, Peter W. Jusczyk, Bruce Earhard
  • Chapter 9 On the Psychology of Structural Simplicity, Janet Krueger, Daniel Osherson
  • Part 5 Mind and Brain
  • Chapter 10 Cognitive and Neural Maps, Lynn Nadel
  • Chapter 11 Component Properties of the Memory Machine, Graham V. Goddard

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