Working memories : postmen, divers and the cognitive revolution
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Working memories : postmen, divers and the cognitive revolution
Routledge, 2019
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Technological developments during the Second World War led to an approach that linked ideas from computer science to neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy and psychology, known today as the Cognitive Revolution. Leaving behind traditional behaviourist approaches popular at the time, psychology began to utilise artificial intelligence and computer science to develop testable theories and design groundbreaking new experiments. The Cognitive Revolution dramatically changed the way that psychological research and studies were conducted and proposed a new way of thinking about the mind.
In Working Memories, Alan Baddeley, one of the world's leading authorities on Human Memory, draws on his own personal experience of this time, recounting the radical development of a pioneering science in parallel with his own transatlantic, vibrant and distinguished career.
Detailing the excitement and sometimes frustration experienced in taking psychology into the world beyond the laboratory, Working Memories presents unique insights into the mind and psychological achievements of one of the most influential psychologists of our time.
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Contents
Preface
Further Reading
Leeds 1934-53
Chapter 1 - Growing up in Yorkshire
London 1953-56
Chapter 2 - Psychology in the 1950s: Seeds of the Cognitive Revolution
Princeton - Los Angeles 1956-77
Chapter 3 - The Trip of a Lifetime
Leeds and Bristol 1957-58
Chapter 4 - In Search of a Job
Cambridge 1958-67
Chapter 5 - From Cognitive Science to Applied Psychology
Chapter 6 - Psychology Under Water
Chapter 7 - Practical Applications and Theoretical Implications: Postmen and Watchkeepers
Chapter 8 - Acoustic and Semantic codes: Evidence for Separate Memory Systems?
Sussex 1967-72
Chapter 9 - From Full-time Research to a New University
Chapter 10 -Amnesia
San Diego 1970-71
Chapter 11 - California and New Directions in Memory Research
Chapter 12 - The Emergence of Semantic Memory
Returning to Sussex 1971-72
Chapter 13 - Working Memory and the Phonological Loop
Stirling 1972-74
Chapter 14 - Working Memory and Visual Imagery
Cambridge 1974-95
Chapter 15 - Returning to the Unit
Chapter 16 - Encounters with the Law
Chapter 17 - Stress: From Sky Diving to Anaesthetics
Chapter 18 - When Long-term Memory Fails
Chapter 19 - Working Memory and Language
Chapter 20 - Boston and the Central Executive
Chapter 21 - Psychology Around the World
Bristol 1995-2003
Chapter 22 -The Episodic Buffer
Chapter 23 - Patients, Parasites and Mobile Phones
Stanford 2001-02
Chapter 24 - Working Memory in Context: Neuroscience, Emotion and Philosophy
Returning to Yorkshire 2003 -
Chapter 25 - Exploring the Episodic Buffer
Chapter 26 - Summing up: From Behaviourism to Cognitive Neuroscience
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