Perception, Cognition, and Language: Essays in Honor of by Barbara Landau, John Sabini, John Jonides, Elissa L. Newport
By Barbara Landau, John Sabini, John Jonides, Elissa L. Newport
Those unique empirical study essays within the psychology of notion, cognition, and language have been written in honor of Henry and Lila Gleitman, of the such a lot widespread psychologists of our time. The essays variety throughout fields foundational to cognitive technological know-how, together with belief, awareness, reminiscence, and language, utilizing formal, experimental, and neuroscientific techniques to problems with illustration and studying. An advent presents a historic viewpoint on the improvement of the sphere from the Nineteen Sixties onward. The participants have all been colleagues and scholars of the Gleitmans, and the gathering celebrates their impact at the box of cognitive science.Contributors : Cynthia Fisher, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Katherine Hirsh-Pasek, John Jonides, Phillip Kellman, Michael Kelly, Donald S. Lamm, Barbara Landau, Jack Nachmias, Letitia Naigles, Elissa Newport, W. Gerrod Parrott, Daniel Reisberg, Robert A. Rescorla, Paul Rozin, John Sabini, Elizabeth Shipley, Thomas F. Shipley, John C. Trueswell.
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But as a graduate student I had little interest in such matters. I was supported on an NSF graduate fellowship (these were the post-Sputnik times when 42 Robert A. Rescorla we all lived well) and saw my task as becoming the best researcher I could. I deeply resented having to waste my time learning to teach. I even considered making a formal challenge to the departmental requirement that we all serve as teaching assistants, no matter what our source of support. But in the end Henry prevailed. Just as Henry got me started down the road as a researcher, he got me started down the road as a teacher.
7. Henry Gleitman and William James. 8. Some of the many sides of Lila Gleitman. Chapter 3 Multiple Mentorship: One Example of Henry Gleitman’s Influence Robert A. Rescorla Henry Gleitman has inspired a large number of undergraduates, graduate students, and colleagues in psychology. But few have been as fortunate as I in interacting with Henry in all of these relationships. Indeed, I suspect that, with one or two exceptions, I have had more different academic relationships with Henry than has anyone else.
When I got my degree, I took a position at Yale. With Henry at Penn, we communicated only occasionally, although I still recall one occasion when I called him while he was briefly in the hospital. I was struck by two features of that interaction. First, he wanted to talk psychology from his hospital bed; as I recall he had recently written a paper on getting animals to understand the experimenter’s directions, which offered ways for analyzing the structure of an animal’s associative knowledge. He insisted on getting my comments on that paper.