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Ulric Neisser

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Also known as Ulric Richard Gustav Neisser

American psychologist (1928–2012)

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  • Ulric Neisser - Cognitive Psychology by Ulric Neisser 1967 (Meredith Publishing Books)
  • L'approccio ecologico in psicologia cognitiva
  • Remembering Reconsidered
  • Memory observed
  • Affect and accuracy in recall

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  • The term "cognition" refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations. Such terms as sensation, perception, imagery, retention, recall, problem-solving, and thinking, among others, refer to hypothetical stages or aspects of cognition.
  • Cognitive processes surely exist, so it can hardly be unscientific to study them.
  • The fact that the span of apprehension averages only four or five... probably results from the high rate of encoding. In a tachistoscopic experiment the subject must read the fading icon as rapidly as possible.
  • To deal with the whole visual input at once, and make discriminations based on any combination of features in the field, would require too large a brain, or too much "previous experience" to be plausible.
  • Attention is not a mysterious concentration of psychic energy; it is simply an allotment of analyzing mechanisms to a limited region of the field. To pay attention to a figure is to make certain analyses of, or certain constructions in, the corresponding part of the icon.
  • If we allow several figures to appear at once, the number of possible input configurations is so very large that a wholly parallel mechanism, giving a different output for each of them, is inconceivable.

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