When a child learns to tie her shoes —perhaps using the “bunny ears” method or the “squirrel and the tree” — her parents probably don’t think of the lesson as a moment of cultural reinforcement.
APS Fellow and Charter Member David Everett Rumelhart, Professor of Psychology (Emeritus) died at age 68 on March 13, 2011 from complications of a progressive neurodegenerative disease. After completing a PhD in mathematical psychology at
Edward E. Smith University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Edward E. Smith is one of the world’s leading cognitive psychologists. He has conducted important research on mental chronology, human short-term and semantic memory, language understanding, and memory
