An Odyssey in Learning and Perception

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Part 1 Experimental psychology in the 30s (1932-1942): bilateral transfer of the conditioned response in the human subject, J.J. Gibson and G. Raffel retention and the interpolated task, with james J. Gibson sensory generalization with voluntary reactions a systematic application of the concepts of generalizaton and differentiation to verbal learning retroactive inhibition as a function of degree of generalization between tasks retrospect and prospect - are theories recycles?. Part 2 Comparative research on learning and development (1952-1970): the role of shock in reinforcement the effect of prolonged exposure to visually presented patterns on learning to discriminate them, with R.D. Walk the effectiveness of prolonged exposure to cutouts vs. painted patterns for facilitation of discrimination behaviour of light and dark reared rats on a visual cliff, with R.D. Walk and T.J. Tighe development of perception - discrimination of depth compared with discrimination of graphic symbols, reprinted from J.C. Wright and J. Kagan (eds.) the development of perception as an adaptive process, Eleanor J. Gibson retrospect and prosepct - comparative psycholoogy and animal cognition. Part 3 Perception - psychophysics to transormations (1954-1959): the effect of training on absolute estimation of distance over the ground, with R. Bergman the effect of prior training with a scale of distance on absolute and relative judgments of distance over ground, with R. Bergman and J. Purdy distance judgment by the method of fractionation, with J. Purdy continuous perspective transformations and the perception of ridig motion with J.J. Gibson motion parallax as a determinant of perceived depth with J.J. Gibson, O.W. Smith and H. flock retrospect and prospect - psychophysics to computation. Part 4 Perceptual learning (1955-1969): perceptual learning - differentiation of enrichment? with J.J. Gibson reply by L. Postman - association theory and perceptual learning what is learned in perceptual learning? a reply to professor postman perceptual learning perceptual development and the reduction of uncertainty trends in perceptual development retrospect and prospect - the coming of age of perceptual development. Part 5 Years of significance - research on reading (1965-1977): learning to read confusion matrices for graphic patterns obtained with a latency measure with F. Schapiro and A. Yonas the ontogeny of reading perceptual learning and the theory of word perception how perception really develops: a veiw from outside the network in D. Laberge and S.J. Samuels (eds.) reading in retrospect - perception, cognition or both?. Part contents.