The Science of the Mind 2001 and Beyond [Hardcover]

What would happen if someone brought together the finest minds in psychology to reflect on the past century and speculate on the future of the field in the twenty-first century? Robert Solso and Dominic Massaro did just that, and the result is this fascinating, insightful, and sometimes humorous collection of essays from leading psychologists, among them Gordon Bower, Howard Gardner, Richard Gregory, Earl Hunt, Stephen Kosslyn, Jean Mandler, Donald Norman, Roger Shepard, Roger Sperry, and Robert Sternberg. American psychology recently reached its centennial, and these contributions offer a glimpse of what sorts of developments and innovations we can expect over the next century. For anyone with a professional or personal interest in psychology, this wide-ranging work will provoke thought and discussion about the shape of psychology as we approach the next century.

PART I: Introductory Comments and General Theories
1. Turning the Corner,R.L. Solso
2. Empowering People Through Friendly Technology: Psychology in the Twenty-first Century,G.H. Bower
3. The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution,R.W. Sperry
4. Mental Universals: Toward a Twenty-first Century Science of Mind,R.N. Shepard
PART II: Developmental Theories and Neurocognition
5. Perennial Antinomies and Perpetual Redrawings: Is There Progress in the Study of Mind?,H. Gardner
6. The Death of Developmental Psychology,J.M. Mandler
7. Freud Returns?,S.M. Kosslyn
PART III: Memory, Perception, and Ecology
8. Human Memory in the Twenty-first Century,B.B. Murdock
9. The Miller's Tale: A Speculative Glimpse into the Cognitive Psychology of the Future,R.J. Sternberg
10. The Future of Psychology,R.L. Gregory
11. Toward an Ecological Physics and a Physical Psychology,M.T. Turvey and R.E. Shaw
PART IV: Languaglþ