Harold Pashler is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. He received undergraduate degrees in Psychology and in Logic & Philosophy of Science with honors from Brown University and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania (1985). His research interests include basic cognitive processes and mechanisms, selective attention and visual perception, and human learning and practice effects, with implications for how people can learn more efficiently. He has authored and edited classic texts on attention (The Psychology of Attention, MIT Press, 1998; Attention, Taylor & Francis Press, 1998) and served as Editor in Chief of the Third Edition of the four-volume Stevens Handbook of Experimental Psychology (Wiley, 2001). He is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists and the American Psychological Society and received the Troland Research Award in 1999 from the National Academy of Sciences "for his many experimental breakthroughs in the study of spatial attention and executive control, and for his insightful analysis of human cognitive architecture." He has served as an associate editor of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Psychology, the American Journal of Psychology, Visual Cognition, and several other major journals within the field.
"...More than 300 scholars worldwide, with multidisciplinary
expertise, contributed to this work.... The strengths of this new
encyclopedia are its currency and its breadth and depth in
exploring the multidimensional nature of the human mind. This
extensive, highly informative publication will be a great reference
resource for professionals, researchers, and students concentrating
on cognitive science and related disciplines. Summing Up:
Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above."
*M. Slobodinsky*
This two-volume set "is a cross-disciplinary effort to convey the
latest information related to studies 52 Against the Grain I
December 2012- January 2013 of the mind and brain "from not just
the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience but also the
fields of philosophy, economics, anthropology, linguistics,
computer science, molecular biology, education, and literature.
*Against the Grain*
Intended to be an introduction to the topic, The Encyclopedia of
the Mind would be a meaningful addition to community-college and
undergraduate libraries. The interdisciplinary approach and
inclusion of multiple perspectives allow readers to gain
understanding of the complexity of the mind and the different
disciplines it reaches across. The arrangement and subject access
through the "Reader’s Guide" provide ease of access to the
information within this set, making it user-friendly for both
novice users and those with subject expertise.
*Booklist*
Best for college-level readers seeking information in the fields of
cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
*Library Journal*
Editor Harold Pashler does a good job in collecting the writings of
disparate specialists in psychology under one umbrella... were I
still employed in the field of psychology I would value access to
this work, either as a hard copy, or in the online version.
*Nurturing Potential*
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