Psych vocab

Elizabeth Loftus

Elizabeth F. Loftus is an American cognitive psychologist and expert on human memory. She has conducted extensive research on the malleability of human memory

Endel Tulving

Endel Tulving is an Estonian Canadian experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist whose research on human memory has influenced psychological scientists, neuroscientists, and clinicians.

Eric Kandel

Eric Richard Kandel is an Austrian-American neuroscientist and a University Professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

Fergus Craik

Fergus Ian Muirden Craik FRS is a cognitive psychologist known for his groundbreaking research on levels of processing in memory.

Gary Lynch

Gary Lynch is a neuroscientist at UC-Irvine. His lab studies memory. His lab did research involving the role of long-term potentiation in memory

George Sperling

George Sperling is an American cognitive psychologist. He is a Distinguished Professor of both Cognitive Science and Neurobiology & Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. Sperling documented the existence of iconic memory.

Gordon Bower

Gordon H. Bower is a cognitive psychologist studying human memory, language comprehension, emotion, and behavior modification. He received his Ph.D. in learning theory from Yale University in 1959.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to describe the learning curve.

James McGaugh

James L. McGaugh is an American neurobiologist working in the field of learning and memory. He is currently a Research Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California, Irvin

Karl Lashley

Karl Spencer Lashley was a psychologist and behaviorist remembered for his contributions to the study of learning and memory.

Larry Cahill

Larry Cahill. Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior School of Biological Sciences PH.D., University of California, Irvine, 1990

Richard Shiffrin

Richard Shiffrin is the Luther Dana Waterman Professor of cognitive science for the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Richard Atkinson

The theory of human memory which Atkinson put forward with his student Richard Shiffrin has been influential in shaping research in the field of experimental psychology. Advances in computer-assisted instruction and methods for optimizing the learning process have been among the applied outcomes of his theoretical investigations.

Wilder Penfield

Wilder Graves Penfield OM CC CMG FRS was an American-Canadian pioneering neurosurgeon once dubbed "the greatest living Canadian." Wikipedia