Chronometric Explorations of Mind: The Third Paul M. Fitts Lectures, Delivered at the University of Michigan, September 1976Professor Posner describes a unified experimental approach to the study of the mind based on experiments concerning the time course of human information processing. Drawing systematically on studies of performance, subjective experience, and brain processes, he develops relationships between cognitive psychology and neuroscience. |
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MENTAL CHRONOMETRY | 1 |
CONSCIOUS ATTENTION | 6 |
PROCESSING SYSTEMS | 27 |
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Chronometric Explorations of Mind: The Third Paul M. Fitts Lectures ... Michael I. Posner No preview available - 1986 |
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