Originally published in 1978, Volume 6 concludes the survey of
research and theory on learning and cognitive processes that was
envisaged when the plan for this Handbook was sketched. The primary
orientation in the planning the Handbook was to concentrate on
research and models aimed toward the development of general
cognitive theory. The first five chapters of this volume are
organized in relation to one of the research areas that had
expanded most vigorously during the period of planning and writing
of the Handbook. These chapters treat aspects of psycholinguistics
most closely related to research and theory covered in the other
volumes. Perhaps the most fertile source of new concepts and models
closely related to other branches of cognitive theory has been
research on semantic memory. This work is given a critical review
and interpretation by Smith in the first chapter of this volume,
following which some lines of theoretical developmental leading
"upward" into problems of comprehension of meaningful material are
reviewed by Kintsch, then connections "downward" into more
elementary problems of coding in memory by Johnson. Also, Johnson's
chapter shades into the very active current body of work on
perceptual and memorial processes in reading, carried further by
Baron's examination of perceptual learning in relation to letter
and word recognition. Finally, we consider inputs to the
psycholinguistic system via speech and speech perception. The
strong emphasis of Pisoni's chapter on speech perception rather
than production simply reflects both the predominance of research
on perceptual aspects of speech in the current cognitive literature
and the close relationships of this research to other lines of
investigation of perception and short-term memory. Some knowledge
of the history of the subject and some understanding of the way
some of the more persuasive concepts and principles have evolved
may serve present-day investigators better than boosting their
reading rates. The final chapter of the present volume provides
some documentation for this last suggestion.
General
| Imprint: |
Psychology Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes |
| Release date: |
June 2014 |
| First published: |
1978 |
| Editors: |
William Estes
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
322 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-84872-398-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
Cognition & cognitive psychology >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-84872-398-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781848723986 |
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