Books in the Scientific Psychology Series series

In this two volume festschrift, contributors explore the theoretical developments (Volume I) and applications (Volume II) in traditional cognitive psychology domains, and model other areas of human performance that benefit from rigorous mathematical approaches. It brings together former classmates, students and colleagues of Dr. James T. Townsend, a pioneering researcher in the field since the early 1960s, to provide a current overview of mathematical modeling in psychology. TownsendΓÇÖs research critically emphasized a need for rigor in the practice of cognitive modeling, and for providing mathematical definition and structure to ill-defined psychological topics. The research captured demonstrates how the interplay of theory and application, bridged by rigorous mathematics, can move cognitive modeling forward.

In this two volume festschrift, contributors explore the theoretical developments (Volume I) and applications (Volume II) in traditional cognitive psychology domains, and model other areas of human performance that benefit from rigorous mathematical approaches. It brings together former classmates, students and colleagues of Dr. James T. Townsend, a pioneering researcher in the field since the early 1960s, to provide a current overview of mathematical modeling in psychology. TownsendΓÇÖs research critically emphasized a need for rigor in the practice of cognitive modeling, and for providing mathematical definition and structure to ill-defined psychological topics. The research captured demonstrates how the interplay of theory and application, bridged by rigorous mathematics, can move cognitive modeling forward.

This book examines the question--are mental processes accessible-- within the context of reviewing the past, present, and desirable future of behaviorism.

This volume addresses the relatively underexplored methodology of localist (as opposed to distributed) connectionist modeling of cognitive processes. It will interest experimental psychologists and cognitive scientists, both theoretical and applied.

This volume brings together outstanding researchers from around the world whose mathematical psychological approach adds rigor and specificity to our models of behavioral phenomena. For experimental psychologists, particularly mathematical psychologists.

This new monograph presents Dr. Luce's current understanding of the behavioral properties people exhibit (or Should exhibit) when they make selections among alternatives and how these properties lead to numerical reprentations of those preferences.

Measurement and Representation of Sensations offers a glimpse into the most sophisticated current mathematical approaches to psychophysical problems. In this book, editors Hans Colonius and Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, top scholars in the field, present

This book examines the basis for measurement- how to measure what we measure and the meaning of what we measure. It is expected to appeal to those interested in measurement in the fields of psych, econ, med, edu, soc, & other applied social sciences.

This work examines the basis for measurement - how to measure what we measure and the meaning of what we measure. The text suggests that empiricalness can be intersected with any other concepts to produce "meaningful and empirical relations" and "empirical laws".

This book is designed to be an introduction to the theories of measurement and meaningfulness, and not a comprehensive study of those topics. A major theme of this book is the psychophysical measurement of subjective intensity. This has been a subject of intense interest in psychology from the very beginning of experimental psychology. And from that beginning to the present day, it has continuously generated major controversies involving measurement and meaningfulness.

Comprising four parts this volume covers: theories of psychophysical judgment; timing and dynamics of human performance; psychophysics of memory; and neural and representational models.

This volume offers an overview of localist connectionism. Localist connectionism provides a means of evolving from verbal-boxological models of human cognition to computer-implemented algorithmic models.

This volume summarizes the recent progress in mathematical psychology as seen by some of the leading figures in the field and some young researchers. A variety of topics are covered, including: decision and choice; psychophysics and psychometrics; and knowledge representation.

This work admits the validity of the two forms of psychophysical theory by arguing that the same empirical phenomena should be conceptualized in two alternative, apparently contradictory, ways. The complementarity theory stresses the "mutually completing" nature of two distinct models.

Presents Anderson's cumulative progress in unified social psychology. This book shows how these laws apply to topics in social and personality psychology such as person cognition, attitudes, moral cognition, group dynamics, and self-cognition. This work broadens the appreciation of Anderson's treatment of psychological processes.

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A comprehensive review of the applications of a variety of formal techniques to questions in facial perception and memory for cognitive psychologists and scientists.

The subjects covered in this work include: quantitative models of perceiving and remembering faces; the perfect Gestalt; face spaces and other aspects of face perception; predicting similarity ratings to faces using physical descriptions; and the role of category specific processes.

This work examines the behavioural properties people exhibit (or should exhibit) when they make selections among alternatives, and how these properties lead to numerical representations of those preferences. It includes axiomatic theoretical formulations.

This text examines the scientific basis of reductionist approaches to understanding visual perception. The author considers the "misdirection" of efforts to explain perceptual and other mental functions in terms of internal cognitive mechanisms, formal models or the brain's neural structures.

This volume examines the question - are mental processes accessible - within the context of reviewing the past, present and desirable future of behaviourism.

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Addresses the question of whether sensory channels, similar to those operate in vision and audition, also operate in the sense of touch. Based on the results of psychophysical and neurophysiological experimentation, this title makes a case that channels operate in the processing of mechanical stimulation of the sensitive glabrous skin of the hand.

Offers a glimpse into the most sophisticated mathematical approaches to psychophysical problems. This book presents a broad spectrum of approaches and techniques to classical problems in psychophysics at different levels of stimulus complexity.

This review of Signal Detection Theory in engineering, statistics and psychology, leads to the separate measurement of the two independent factors in all discrimination tasks, discrimination acuity and decision criterion. It also describes the application of ROC analysis to diagnostic tasks.

This study's goal is to help students develop skills of scientific inferences. The author has developed "the experimental pyramid" which summarizes the philosophy of the book. Containing six levels, the pyramid portrays a hierarchy of considerations involved in empirical investigation.

With an emphasis on developments taking place in Germany during the nineteenth century, this book provides in-depth examinations of the key contributions made by the pioneers of scientific psychology. Their works brought measurement and mathematics into the study of the mind.