An Odyssey in Learning and Perception

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.