Flashcards: Cognitive psychologists

Herman A. Witkin (2 August 1916 – 8 July 1979) was an American psychologist who specialized in the spheres of cognitive psychology and learning psychology.

Jerome Seymour Bruner (October 1, 1915 – June 5, 2016) was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology.

Ronald Wayne Langacker (born December 27, 1942) is an American linguist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.

Gordon H. Bower (born December 30, 1932) is a cognitive psychologist studying human memory, language comprehension, emotion, and behavior modification.

Vladimir J. Konečni (born October 27, 1944) is an American and Serbian psychologist, aesthetician, poet, dramatist, fiction writer, and art photographer, currently an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego.

Harold Bekkering (born 19 October 1965) is a Dutch professor of cognitive psychology at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour of the Radboud University Nijmegen.

Christine E. Dickson is an American cognitive psychologist.

Stephan Lewandowsky (born 3 June 1958) is an Australian psychologist.

Sian L. Beilock is a Professor at the University of Chicago.

Larry L. Jacoby is an American cognitive psychologist specializing in research on human memory.

Philip N. Johnson-Laird (born 12 October 1936) is a professor at Princeton University's Department of Psychology and author of several notable books on human cognition and the psychology of reasoning.

Keith Rayner (June 20, 1943 – January 21, 2015) was a cognitive psychologist best known for pioneering modern eye-tracking methodology in reading and visual perception.

Lera Boroditsky (born 1976 in Belarus) is a cognitive scientist and professor known for her research in the fields of language and cognition.

Nora S. Newcombe is the James H.

Wendell R. Garner (January 21, 1921 – August 14, 2008) was a Yale University psychology researcher credited with making significant contributions to the cognitive revolution, in which George Miller and others applied emerging research from the fields of artificial intelligence and computer science to test ideas about human mental processes.

John Robert Anderson (born August 27, 1947) is a Canadian-born American psychologist.

Rolf Reber (born 17 May 1959) is professor of psychology at the University of Oslo.

Helmut Leder (born 1963 in Bardenberg, Germany) is a Professor of Psychology at the Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna, in Austria.

Claus-Christian Carbon (born 23 March 1971 in Schweinfurt, Germany) is a Full Professor of Psychology at the Department of General Psychology and Methodology, Institute of Psychology of the University of Bamberg, in Germany.

Eldar Shafir (Hebrew: אלדר שפיר) is an American behavioral scientist, and the co-author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (with Sendhil Mullainathan).

James Lloyd "Jay" McClelland (born December 1, 1948) is the Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford University, where he was formerly the chair of the Psychology Department.

Norbert Schwarz is Provost Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and a co-director at the USC Dornsife Mind and Society Center.

Tor D. Wager is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder, as well as the director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at this university.

Herbert Herb Clark (born 1940) is a psycholinguist currently serving as Professor of Psychology at Stanford University.

Susan A. Clancy is a cognitive psychologist and Associate professor in Consumer behaviour at INCAE as well as being a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University.

Lorenza S. Colzato (born 20 September 1974) is an Italian cognitive psychologist whose research "aims to understand the neural and neuromodular underpinnings of cognitive control in humans.

John Donald Read (born 1943) is a Canadian psychologist and is currently employed as professor of psychology and chair of the psychology department at Simon Fraser University in Canada.