Applied Cognitive Science Reading List
General Qualifying Exam
Fall, 2003

Note: This list is intended as a general guide to important theories and ideas in the field of applied cognitive science.  The general qualifying test will not incorporate questions based on minutia from the articles on this list.  Instead the questions will be synthetic, integrative, or comparative in nature.  You should be able to answer questions on the qualifying exam by having a good command of this material, but the questions are not wedded to this set of readings.  Readings not specifically listed here (e.g., material from courses, current journal articles, anthologies of important contributions) are also good sources to utilize in preparing for the exam.

Books:

Anderson, J.R. & Lebiere, C. (1998).  The atomic components of thought.  Erlbaum.

Cowan, N. (1997).  Attention and memory: An integrated framework.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Durso, F., Nickerson, R., Schvaneveldt, R., Dumais, S., Lindsay, S., & Chi, M. (Eds.)  (1999).  The handbook of applied cognition.  New York: Wiley.

Goldhaber, D.E. (2000).  Theories of human development: Integrative perspectives.  Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing.

Kunda, Z. (2000).  Social cognition: Making sense of people.  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Pinker, S. (1997). How the mind works.  New York: W.W. Norton, Inc.

Simon, H. A. (1996).  Sciences of the Artificial.  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Articles:

Anderson, J.R. (1982).  Acquisition of cognitive skill.  Psychological Review, 89, 369-406.

Anderson, J. R. (2002). Spanning seven orders of magnitude: A challenge for cognitive modeling. Cognitive Science, 26, 85-112.

Anderson, J. R., & Fincham, J. M. (1994). Acquisition of procedural skills from examples. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 1322-1340.

Anderson, J.R., & Reder, L. (1999).  The fan effect: New results and theories.  Journal of Experimental Psychology, General, 128, 186-197.

Bertenthal, B.I. (1996).  Origins and early development of perception, action, and representation.  Annual Review of Psychology, 47, 431-459.

Bruner, J. (1997).  Celebrating divergence: Piaget and Vygotsky.  Human Development, 40, 63-73.

Cavanaugh, J.C., & Whitbourne, S.K. (1999).  Research methods.  In J.C. Cavanaugh & S.K. Whitbourne (Eds.)  Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.  (pp 33-64).  New York: Oxford University Press.

Daneman, M., & Merikle, P.M. (1996).  Working memory and language comprehension: A meta-analysis.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3, 422-433.

Doane, S.M., Sohn, Y.W., McNamara, D.S., & Adams, D. (2000).  Comprehension-based skill acquisition.  Cognitive Science, 24, 1-52.

Engle, R.W., Cantor, J., & Carullo, J.J. (1992).  Individual differences in working memory and comprehension: A test of four hypotheses.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 972-992.

Ericsson, K. A. & Kintsch, W. (1995). Long term working memory. Psychological Review, 102, 211-245.

Ericsson, K.A. & Lehmann, A.C. (1996). Expert and exceptional performance: Evidence of maximal adaptation to task constraints. Annual Review of Psychology, 273-305.

Goldstone, R.L. (1998). Perceptual Learning. Annual Review of Psychology, 585-612.

Hambrick, D.Z., & Engle, R. W. (2002). Effects of domain knowledge, Working memory capacity, and age on cognitive performance: An investigation of the Knowledge-Is-Power Hypothesis. Cognitive Psychology, 44, 339-387.

Hoffman, L (1991). The influence of the family environment on personality: Accounting for sibling differences.  Psychological Bulletin, 110, 187-203.

Kintsch, W. (1988). The use of knowledge in discourse processing: A construction integration model. Psychological Review, 95, 163-182.

Lakoff, G. (1993). The contemporary theory of metaphor.  In A. Ortony (Ed.), Metaphor and Thought.  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Loftus, E.F. (1997).  Memory for a past that never was.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 6, 61-70.

Logan, G.D. (1988).  Toward an instance theory of automatization.  Psychological Review, 95, 492-527.

Luck, S.J., Vecera, S.P. (2002).  Attention.  In H. Pashler & S. Yantis (Eds.), Steven's Handbook of Experimental Psychology (3rd ed.), Vol. 1: Sensation and Perception. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 235-286.

MacWhinney, B. (1998).  Models of the emergence of language.  Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 199-227.

Marr, D. (1982).  Vision: A computational investigation into the human processing of visual information. (Read Chapter 1 only!)  New York: W. H. Freeman.

McClelland, J.L., & Rumelhart, D.E. (1981).  An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: I.  An account of basic findings.  Psychological Review, 88, 375-407.

Meyer, D.E., & Kieras, D.E. (1997).  A computational theory of executive cognitive processes and multiple task performance.  Part 1: Basic mechanisms.  Psychological Review, 104, 2-65.

Rayner, K. (1998).  Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research. Psychological Bulletin, 124, 372-422.

Richardson, A., Montello, D., & Hegarty, M. (1999).  Spatial knowledge acquisition from maps and from navigation in real and virtual environments.  Memory and Cognition, 27, 741-750.

Ross, B. H., & Murphy, G. L. (1999). Food for thought: Cross-classification and category organization in a complex real-world domain. Cognitive Psychology, 38, 495-553.

Shah, P., & Miyake, A. (1996).  The separability of working memory resources for spatial thinking and language processing: An individual differences approach.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 125, 4-27.

Smith, A. D. (1996).  Memory. In J. E. Birren & K. W. Schaie (Eds.), Handbook of the Psychology of Aging (4th ed.), pp 236-250. NY: Academic Press.

Stine-Morrow, E.A.L., & Soederberg-Miller, L.M. (1999).  Basic cognitive processes.  In J.C. Cavanaugh & S.K. Whitbourne (Eds.)  Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.  (pp 186-211).  New York: Oxford University Press.

Swanson, H. L. (1999).  What develops in working memory?  A life span perspective. Developmental Psychology, 35, 986-1000.

Treisman, A.M. (1991).  Search, similarity, and integration of features between and within dimensions.  Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 17, 652-676

Uttal, D. H., & Perlmutter, M. (1989).  Toward a broader conceptualization of development: The role of gains and losses across the life-span.  Developmental Review, 9, 101-132.

Wickens, C.D., & Hollands, J.G. (2000).  Signal Detection, Information Theory, and Absolute Judgment.  In Engineering Psychology and Human Performance, Third Edition.  New York, HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.