MDye | Summer 2013

Survey Course: Critical Thinking for the Cognitive

Sciences

1. Concepts & Categories I

Rosch, E. & Mervis, C.B. (1975). Family resemblances: Studies in the
internal structures of categories. Cognitive Psychology, 7, 573-605.
Barsalou, L. W. (1985). Ideals, central tendency, and frequency of
instantiation as determinants of graded structure in categories. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 11(4),
629654.
Goldstone, R. L., & Steyvers, M. (2001). The sensitization and
differentiation of dimensions during category learning. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: General, 130(1), 116139.
Thomas, K. (1996). Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in
England: 1500-1800.*

2. Concepts & Categories 2

Malt, B. C., Sloman, S. A., Gennari, S., & Shi, M. (1999). Knowing versus
naming: Similarity and the linguistic categorization of artifacts. Journal
of Memory and Language, 40(2), 230262.
Wisniewski, E. J., & Medin, D. L. (1994). On the interaction of theory and
data in concept learning. Cognitive Science, 18(2), 221281.
Sloman, S. A. (1998). Categorical inference is not a tree: The myth of
inheritance hierarchies. Cognitive Psychology, 35(1), 133.
Medin, D.L., & Schaffer, M.M. (1978). Context theory of classification
learning. Psychological Review, 85(3), 207238.

3. Similarity & Analogy

Tversky, A. (1977). Features of Similarity. Psychological Review, 84(4),
327352.
Medin, D. L., Goldstone, R. L., & Gentner, D. (1993). Respects for
Similarity. Psychological Review, 100(2), 254278.
Gentner, D. (1983). Structure-Mapping: A theoretical framework for
analogy. Cognitive Science, 7(2), 155-170.
Gick, M.L. & Holyoak, K.J. (1980). Analogical problem solving. Cognitive
Psychology, 12(3), 306-355.

4. Causal Reasoning
Hanson, N.R. (1955). Causal Chains. Mind, LXIV(255), 289311.
Mackie, J. L. (1965). Causes and Conditions. American Philosophical
Quarterly, 2, 245264.
Schank, R.C. & Abelson, R.P. (1975). Scripts, plans, and knowledge.
Proceedings of the 4th international joint conference on Artificial
intelligence (pp. 151-157).

5. Information Processing
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Sperling, G. (1960). The information available in brief visual

presentations. Psychological Monographs: General and Applied, 74, 1-
29.
Miller, G.A. (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some
limits on our capacity for processing information. Psychological Review,
63(2), 81-97.

6. Learning
Gibson, J.J. & Gibson, E.J. (1955). Perceptual learning; differentiation or
enrichment? Psychological Review, 62(1), 3241.
Rescorla, R. A. (1988). Pavlovian conditioning. Its not what you think it
is. The American Psychologist, 43(3), 151160.

7. Applied Learning
Ericsson, K. A., & Lehmann, A. C. (1996). Expert and exceptional
performance: Evidence on maximal adaptations on task constraints.
Annual Review of Psychology, 47. 273-305.
Roediger, H. L., III, & Butler, A. C. (2011). The critical role of retrieval
practice in long-term retention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15(1),
2027.
Kornell, N., & Bjork, R. A. (2008). Learning concepts and categories: Is
spacing the enemy of induction? Psychological Science, 19(6), 585
592.

8. Memory & Language

Loftus, E. F. (1975). Leading questions and the eyewitness report.
Cognitive Psychology, 7(4), 560572.
Anderson, R. C., & Pichert, J. W. (1978). Recall of previously unrecallable
information following a shift in perspective. Journal of Verbal Learning
and Verbal Behavior, 17(1), 112.
Bransford, J. D., & Johnson, M. K. (1972). Contextual prerequisites for
understanding: Some investigations of comprehension and recall.
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11(6), 717726.
Anderson, J.R. (1974). Retrieval of propositional information from long-
term memory. Cognitive Psychology, 6(4), 451-474.

9. Memory Processes
Tulving E. (1972). Episodic and semantic memory. (Tulving E &
Donaldson W, eds.) Organization of memory. New York: Academic
Press, p. 381-403.
Tulving, E. & Pearlstone, Z. (1966). Availability versus accessibility of
information in memory for words. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal
Behavior, 5, 381-91.
Anderson, J. R., & Schooler, L. J. (1991). Reflections of the environment
in memory. Psychological Science, 2(6), 396408.

10. Decision Making

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Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under uncertainty:

Heuristics and biases. Science, 185, 1124-1131.
Todd, P.M. & Gigerenzer, G. Environments that make us smart: Ecological
rationality. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16(3), 167-171.

11. Information Foraging

Hills, T. T., Jones, M. N., & Todd, P. M. (2012). Optimal foraging in
semantic memory. Psychological Review, 119(2), 431440.
Hills, T. T., Todd, P. M., & Goldstone, R. L. (2008). Search in external and
internal spaces: evidence for generalized cognitive search processes.
Psychological Science, 19(8), 802808.
12. Framing the Problem
Brooks, R.A. (1991). Intelligence without representation. Computers and
Thought, IJCAI-91.
Simon, H.A. (1996). The Sciences of the Artificial.*

*Selected Excerpts
Updated: May 2013