International Perspectives On Psychological Science, II: The State of the Art

by Bertelson,Paul

• ISBN13: 9780863773006
• ISBN10: 0863773001
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-05-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

The essays appearing in these two volumes are based on Keynote (Vol. 1) and State of the Art (Vol. 2) Lectures delivered at the XXVth International Congress of Psychology, in Brussels, July 1992. The Brussels Congress was the latest in a series of conferences which are organized at regular intervals under the auspices of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), the main international organization in the field of Scientific Psychology. The first of those meetings took place in Paris in 1889. An important function of the International Congresses is to promote communication between different specializations in Psychology. Speakers were therefore asked to present lectures and discussions in their own fields of study, in a way that would be accessible to fellow psychologists active in other fields. State?of?the?Art lecturers were specifically asked to prepare a tutorial review on a topic which, in the view of the Program Committee, had recently given rise to particularly important developments.These contributions are included in Volume Two. Keynote lecturers were left free to address whatever subject they felt was of greatest interest. The chapters in Volume 1 are preceded by the Presidential Address by Mark R. Rosenzweig.

Table of Contents

Volume I

Some Surprising Findings about Memory and its Biological Bases: IUPsyS Presidential Address

Descartes, Turing and the Future

Comparative Cognition of Identity

The Interaction of Nature and Nurture in Development: A Parallel Distributed Processing Perspective

The Skill of Speaking

Attentional Regulation: From Mechanism to Culture

Neuropsychology of Reading: Universal and Language-specific Features of Reading Impairment

Why Developmental Research Needs Evolutionary Theory: To Ask Interesting Questions

The Self in Translation

The Levels Endeavour in Psychology and Cognitive Psychology

Volume II

Face Recognition

Mental Representation of Visual Objects and Events

Perception and Action in Space Representation: Evidence from Unilateral Neglect

Implicit Memory: A Tutorial Review

Associative Computation

Language Perception in Visual and Auditory Modalities: Similarities and Differences

Discourse Processing

Elementary and Complex Units of Behaviour

The Use of Neural Transplants to Restore Cognitive Deficits

The Psychophysiology of Emotion: Evolutionary and Non-Conscious Origins

Two Routes to Persuasion: State-of-the Art

Conflict and Cooperation: Motivational Bases

Analysis and Measurement of Mental Load

Participation Research in Organisational Psychology

Motivation and Volition

Learning Theory and Instruction

Cross-cultural Perspectives on Parenting

The Developing World and the Science of Psychology: A Mutually Reinforcing Relationship

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