Subject Index
A
Absolute identification, 267
Abstract rules, 389
Acrobat problem, 335, 336, 357
Action
mirror neurons and, 75–76
perception and, 70–76
Action pathway, 74
Action potentials, 28, 29
Adaptive memory, 200
Advertisements, 163
Affirming the antecedent, 363
Affirming the consequent, 363
Aging and cognition, 200
Alerting process, 108
Algebra problems, 328, 329
Algorithm procedure, 352
Algorithms, 62, 352
Alzheimer’s disease, 169
Ambiguity
lexical, 301–302, 303
temporary, 304
Amnesia, 149
anterograde, 149, 193
future imagining and, 200
graded, 193
implicit memory and, 162–163, 164
retrograde, 149, 193
Amygdala, 197, 198, 208
Analogical encoding, 344–345
Analogical paradox, 345
Analogical problem solving, 340–346
analogical encoding and, 344–345
creative thinking and, 349
in vivo research on, 345–346
radiation problem and, 340–344, 345
Analogical transfer, 340
Analogies, 339, 340–346
Analysis of problems, 347
Analytic introspection, 8–9
Anaphoric inference, 310
Animals
language used by, 294, 321
mental time travel in, 169
physiological research using, 71n
Anisomycin, 195–196
Antecedents, 362–363
Anterograde amnesia, 149, 193
Apparent motion, 79, 145
Articulatory rehearsal process, 132Articulatory suppression, 133–134
Artificial intelligence, 13–14
Association techniques, 187
Attended message, 13
Attention, 80–113
attenuation theory of, 86
autism and, 109–110
automatic processing and, 92
brain damage and control of, 136
CogLab experiments on, 113
cognitive load and, 87
cognitive resources and, 87–90
controlled processing and, 93
covert, 82, 102–104, 106–107
definition of, 82
divided, 82, 91–95
early experiments on, 13
exogenous vs. endogenous, 98
eye movements and, 98–102
eyewitness testimony and, 227–228
feature integration theory and, 104–106
filter model of, 13, 83–85
late selection models of, 87
location-based, 102–103
memory and, 112
object-based, 102, 103–104
overt, 82, 98–102
physiology of, 106–108
resources related to, 112
review questions on, 90–91, 98, 110,
111–112
selective, 82, 83–91
social situations and, 109–110
summary points about, 111
visual perception and, 95–98
working memory and, 136, 137, 141
Attentional blink, 113
Attention controller, 136
Attenuation theory of attention, 86
Attenuator, 86
Audiovisual mirror neurons, 76
Auditory coding, 128, 153
Auditory imagery, 270–271, 290
Auditory stimuli
coding of, 128, 153
echoic memory of, 122
Autism, 109–110
Autobiographical memory (AM), 204,
205–207
definition of, 205
life events and, 206–207multidimensional nature of, 205–206
review questions on, 213, 235
summary points about, 234
Autobiographical photos (A-photos),
205–206
Automatic processing, 92
Availability heuristic, 369–371
Axons, 26B
Back propagation, 258
Balint’s syndrome, 106
Base rate, 372
Basic level of categories, 248
Beautiful Mind, A (Nasar), 5
Behavioral approach, 15–16
Behaviorism, 9
Skinner’s operant conditioning and, 10
Tolman’s cognitive maps and, 11–12
Watson’s founding of, 9–10
Bias
confirmation, 374
memory and, 236
omission, 385
reasoning and, 374
Bilingualism, 321–322
Blindness, inattentional, 95–96
Blind spot, 79
Book companion website, 20
Bottleneck model, 85
Bottom-up processing, 50–52
behavioral approach to, 51–52
eye movements determined by, 100
physiological approach to, 50
visual perception and, 284
Bourne Identity, The (film), 165–166Brain Asymmetry
attention and, 106–108
categorization in, 260–263
CogLab experiments on, 45
connectionist networks and, 259
decision making and, 384–385
distributed processing in, 36–37
early studies of, 25–26
experience-dependent plasticity of,
68–69
feature detectors in, 38–39
language processing in, 296, 313–314
localization of function in, 29–36
measuring activity in, 30–32Subject Index
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