Modular Processes in Mind and Brain (Draft)
Ranjit Kumar Chandra 1992 Vitamin-Mineral Supplements and Health: Critique of Replications
Professor of Psychology
Office: 332C, 3401 Walnut Street, C-Wing
Brief Biography
Curriculum Vitae
Courses and Seminars
Three most recent:
Psychology 600-302:
Proseminar on Human Information Processing
[a seminar for graduate students]
Description
Psychology 357:
Experiments in Cognitive Science: Human Information Processing
[a laboratory course for undergraduates].
Description
Link to Class Web-page (and Syllabus)
Psychology 751-302: Topics in the Psychology of Human Attention
[a seminar for graduate students].
Description
Syllabus (pdf file; Acrobat Reader needed)
Other
RT Experimentation (A manual for students)
pdf file (Acrobat Reader needed)
Some Pretty RT Data (To accompany the above manual)
pdf file
General:
Human experimental and mathematical psychology.
Particular:
Visual encoding, attention, and retrieval;
Perception of time and temporal order;
Production of rhythmic patterns;
Control of movement sequences in speech production and typewriting;
Memory search;
Reaction time methods and models;
Decomposition of complex mental processes.
SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS AND MEETING PAPERS
Cognitive Science:
Scarborough, D. & Sternberg, S. (Eds.) (1998)
Invitation to Cognitive Science, Volume 4: Methods, Models,
and Conceptual Issues.
MIT Press. Pp. 1-xiv, 1-950.
Description and Table of Contents
Structure of Mental Processes:
Sternberg, S. (2003) Process decomposition from double dissociation of subprocesses.
Cortex, 39, 180-182.
(Contribution to Cortex Forum on Double Dissociation. See www.masson.it/cortex/39(1).htm)
(pdf file)
Sternberg, S. (2001) Separate modifiability, mental modules,
and the use of pure and composite measures to reveal them. Acta
Psychologica, 106, 147-246.
Sternberg, S. (1998) Discovering mental
processing stages: The method of additive factors.
In D. Scarborough & S. Sternberg (Eds.) op. cit., Pp. 703-863.
Contents
Roberts, S. & Sternberg, S. (1993) The meaning of
additive reaction-time effects: Tests of three
alternatives.
In D. E. Meyer & S. Kornblum (Eds.)
Attention and Performance XIV: Synergies in
Experimental Psychology, Artificial Intelligence,
and Cognitive Neuroscience. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T.
Press. Pp. 611-653
Abstract
Full Text (pdf file)
Visual Processing and Working Memory:
Sternberg, S. (1998) Inferring mental operations
from reaction-time data: How we compare objects.
In D. Scarborough & S. Sternberg (Eds.), op. cit., Pp. 365-454.
Contents
Pantzer, T. & Sternberg, S. (1998) Effects of display size on mean RT:
Serial versus shared-capacity parallel operations.
Poster presented at
the Psychonomic Society Meeting, Dallas, November.
Abstract
Sternberg, S., Knoll, R.L. & Turock, D.L. (1985)
Direct access by spatial position in visual
memory: 1. Synopsis of principal findings.
.
AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum.
Abstract
Sternberg, S. & Knoll, R.L. (1985) Transformation
of visual memory revealed by latency of rapid
report. AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum.
Abstract
Sternberg, S. & Scarborough, D. L. (1971) Parallel testing
of stimuli in visual search.
In A. Gydikov, V. Bakalska, et al. (Eds.)
Visual Information Processing and Control of Motor Activity
(Proceedings of the International Symposium, July23rd-26th, 1969
of the Institute of Physiology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
Full Text (pdf file)
Sternberg, S. (1969) Memory-scanning: Mental processes
revealed by reaction-time experiments.
American Scientist, 57, 421-457.
Full Text (pdf file)
Sternberg, S. (1969) Two invariances in retrieval of
contextual information from memory.
Paper presented at EPA, April 1969.
Full Text (pdf file)
Sternberg, S. (1967) Retrieval of contextual information from
memory. Psychonomic Science, 8, 55-56.
Full Text (pdf file)
Sternberg, S. (1966) High-speed scanning in
human memory. Science, 153, 652-654.
Full Text (pdf file)
Motor Control:
Sternberg, S., Monsell, S, Knoll, R.L., & Wright, C.E.
(1978) The latency and duration of rapid movement sequences:
Comparisons of speech and typing.
In G. E. Stelmach (Ed.) Information Processing in
Motor Control and Learning. New York: Academic Press.
Pp. 117-152.
Full Text (pdf file)
Sternberg, S., Knoll, R.L. Monsell, S. & Wright,
C.E. (1988) Motor programs and hierarchical
organization in the control of rapid speech.
Phonetica, 45, 175-197.
Abstract
Full Text (pdf file)
Sternberg, S., Knoll, R.L., & Turock, D.L. (1990)
Hierarchical control in the execution of action
sequences: Tests of two invariance principles.
In M. Jeannerod (Ed.) Attention and Performance XIII.
Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, Pp. 3-55.
Abstract
Contents and Full Text (pdf file)
Time Perception and Production:
Sternberg, S. & Pantzer, T. (1997) Timing of repeated movements: Test of a
two-stage model.
Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society Meeting,
Philadelphia, November.
Abstract
Sternberg, S. & Knoll, R. L. (1984) Perception, production,
and imitation of time ratios by skilled musicians.
In J. Gibbon & L. G. Allan (Eds.) Timing and Time Perception.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 423, Pp. 429-441.
Full Text (pdf file)
Sternberg, S., Knoll, R.L. & Zukofsky, P. (1982)
Timing by skilled musicians.
In D. Deutsch (Ed.)
The psychology of music. New York: Academic Press. Pp. 181-239.
Contents and Full Text (pdf file)
Sternberg, S. & Knoll, R. L. (1973)
The perception of temporal order: Fundamental issues and a
general model.
In S. Kornblum (Ed.) Attention and
performance IV. New York: Academic Press. Pp. 629-685.
Abstract
Contents and Full Text (pdf file)
SPECIAL PLOTS AND TABLES
Paper-and-Pencil "Memory Search" Experiment
plot (pdf file)
Procedure
Multiplicative Time Distortion
Plots (pdf file)
Means and Variances of Self-Terminating Search:
Effects of Mixing Search Rates Over Trials.
plots (pdf file)
Bricolo et al. (2002): Inferred Search Time Variances.
plots (pdf file)
Variability versus Effect Size in Reaction-Time Experiments.
(pdf file)
Contribution to Attention and Performance XX (Functional
Neuroimaging of Visual Cognition)
Separate Modifiability and the Search for Processing Modules: Text (pdf file)
Figure 1 (TMS example) (pdf file)
Figure 2 (fMRI example) (pdf file)
Reaction-time data relevant to fMRI example (pdf file)
Main Effects in fMRI example (pdf file)
Manual Pages for Parasite System
Parasite Man1 Pages (Commands)
Parasite Man2 Pages [Subroutines (system calls)]
Parasite Man3 Pages [Subroutines (library)]
Parasite Man4 Pages [Special Files (low-level device access)]
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