The Science of the Mind

Robert L. Solso is Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. His many published works include Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Cognition and the Visual Arts. Dominic Massaro is Professor of Psychology at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Book Editor for the American Journal of Psychology.

• PART I: Introductory Comments and General Theories1: R.L. Solso: Turning the Corner2: G.H. Bower: Empowering People Through Friendly Technology: Psychology in the Twenty-first Century3: R.W. Sperry: The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution4: R.N. Shepard: Mental Universals: Toward a Twenty-first Century Science of MindPART II: Developmental Theories and Neurocognition5: H. Gardner: Perennial Antinomies and Perpetual Redrawings: Is There Progress in the Study of Mind?6: J.M. Mandler: The Death of Developmental Psychology7: S.M. Kosslyn: Freud Returns?PART III: Memory, Perception, and Ecology8: B.B. Murdock: Human Memory in the Twenty-first Century9: R.J. Sternberg: The Miller's Tale: A Speculative Glimpse into the Cognitive Psychology of the Future10: R.L. Gregory: The Future of Psychology11: M.T. Turvey and R.E. Shaw: Toward an Ecological Physics and a Physical PsychologyPART IV: Language and Categorization12: J.J. Jenkins: Unintended Consequences and the Future of Psychology13: W.J.M. Levelt: Chapters of Psychology14: D.W. Massaro: From Speech-is-Special to Talking Heads: The Past to the Present15: G. Lakoff: The Neurocognitive Self: Conceptual Research in the Twenty-first Century and the Rethinking of What a Person IsPART V: Applied and Social Cognition16: D.A. Norman: The Future of the Mind Lies in Technology17: E. Hunt: Pulls and Pushes on Cognitive Psychology: The View Towards 200118: R. Sommer: The Fortieth Anniversary of the National Institute of Cognitive Ecology19: J.B. Pittinger: Some Assembly Required: Biased Speculations on the Future of Human Factors DesignPART VI: Major Themes and Common Threads20: D.W. Massaro and R.L. Solso: Perennial Issues for the Next Century

"The essays offer amusing summaries of major breakthrough areas of psychology and neurobiology ... This volume is especially interesting for how psychologists feel about the future of what we can know now, a future very much operationally defined by the tools we invent. Recommended for academic psychologists or as an introduction to major trends in research psychology." -- The Reader's Review"The essays offer amusing summaries of major breakthrough areas of psychology and neurobiology ... This volume is especially interesting for how psychologists feel about the future of what we can know now, a future very much operationally defined by the tools we invent. Recommended for academic psychologists or as an introduction to major trends in research psychology." -- The Reader's Review