Index

Absent-minded errors, 391
Absolute pitch, 300, 303–304, 306, 490–491, 522
Abstraction, 277, 279, 285
Adaptation, 665–679
Aerial perspective, 505
Affordance, 423–425
Agnosia, auditory, 303
Akinetic mutism, 827
Alexia, 302, 303, 825
Alzheimer’s disease, 769, 787
Ambiguity.SeealsoIllusion
perceptual, 139–142, 182
of stimuli, 139
American Psychological Association (APA), 125
American Sign Language (ASL), 262, 689, 696
Ames room, 173
Amusia, 300, 302, 764, 792
ANOVA, 127
Aphasia, 302, 805
Apparent motion, 165, 225, 229–231
Apraxia, 765
Artificial categories, 261
Artificial intelligence (AI), 37–38, 44–46, 50–51,
53, 57, 95–111, 266, 399, 567, 831
Assimilation principle, 328–329, 350
Atkinson,R.C.,andR.M.Shiffrin,296
Attention, 148–158, 363–395, 404, 405, 413, 843,
851
for action, 823–824, 827
action-slips, 389–393
automatic processing, 384–389
bottleneck theories of, 150, 381–382
disengagement of, 376
divided, 157, 369, 378
dual-task performance, 378–384
engagement of, 376–377
evaluation of theories of, 393–394
filter theory of, 150
focused, 408
focused auditory, 363–369
focused visual, 370–378
goal-directed, 148
perceptual, 148–158, 185
preattentive processing, 153–155, 158
selective, 148, 152, 829

shifting, 376–377

visual/spatial, 821

Attentional beam, 370

Attentional engagement theory, 373, 374–375

Attributes, perceived, 264

Auditory event, 219

Auditory scene analysis, 213–248

Auditory streams, 220, 225, 229

Autoassociation, 468–471

Automatic process, 387, 388, 393

Automaticity, 388–389

Automatons, 12

Avocational pursuits, 772

Awareness, 3, 148, 153, 171, 184, 296, 445, 447

Backpropagation, 473

Balint’s syndrome, 277

Base-rate frequency, 586

Basic level objects, 251, 253, 254–260, 265, 267,

268

Basic object research, 256

Basilar membrane, 218

Bayes’ rule, 127, 586

Bayesian inferencing, 127, 586

Behavioral efficiency, 392–393

Behaviorism, 7, 8, 16, 831

Belief, 338, 339, 341

Belongingness, principle of, 222, 224

Berkeley, Bishop George, 6

Best-examples model, 280–281, 285, 287, 289–

290

Bestist, 758

Between-group trials, 199

Between-subjects design, 123, 124, 125

Biases, 585–600

effectiveness of a search set, 592

imaginability, 593

retrievability of instances, 592

Big five factor model of personality, 849–850

Bilingual, 693

Binet, Alfred, 781–782

Binocular cues, 166–168

Binocular disparity, 166–167

Binocular parallax, 505

Black box, 846