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