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In Memoriam: Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001)
Herbert A. Simon APS Fellow Herbert A. Simon, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics and many prestigious international scientific awards for his work in cognitive psychology and computer science, died February 9th at
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Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
Voicing Psychology at Big Blue BY JAMES R. LEWIS As an engineering psychologist at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), I’m involved in commercializing the voice and speech technologies developed by IBM Research. These technologies include
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Different Views of Individual Differences
Only gradually over time has it has dawned on me that most cognitive psychologists, including myself, view individual differences in how people learn and remember in a markedly different way than do many laypersons and
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Teaching With a Nobel-Prize Winner
I’ve had my share of rewarding classroom experiences, but the one I’ve enjoyed most has been the privilege of team-teaching a course with Nobel prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever. The course focuses on inventions and how
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Spotlight on Research: A Specific Cognitive Weakness Is Attributed to a Single Gene Deletion
Behavioral neuroscience has passed another milestone; for the first time, a specific weakness in cognitive ability has been linked to deletion of a single gene. APS Fellow Carolyn B. Mervis (Emory University) is part of
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Cognitive/Perceptual Psychologist Seonghee Hong (1963-1994)
