Perception, Cognition, and Language : Essays in Honor of Henry and Lila Gleitman

The essays range across fields foundational to cognitive science, including perception, attention, memory, and language, using formal, experimental, and neuroscientific approaches to issues of representation and learning.

These original empirical research essays in the psychology of perception, cognition, and language were written in honor of Henry and Lila Gleitman, two of the most prominent psychologists of our time. The essays range across fields foundational to cognitive science, including perception, attention, memory, and language, using formal, experimental, and neuroscientific approaches to issues of representation and learning. An introduction provides a historical perspective on the development of the field from the 1960s onward. The contributors have all been colleagues and students of the Gleitmans, and the collection celebrates their influence on the field of cognitive science.

Contributors
Cynthia Fisher, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Katherine Hirsh-Pasek, John Jonides, Phillip Kellman, Michael Kelly, Donald S. Lamm, Barbara Landau, Jack Nachmias, Letitia Naigles, Elissa Newport, W. Gerrod Parrott, Daniel Reisberg, Robert A. Rescorla, Paul Rozin, John Sabini, Elizabeth Shipley, Thomas F. Shipley, John C. Trueswell

Barbara Landau is Professor of Psychology and Linguistics and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Delaware. John Sabini is Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Elissa L. Newport,/b> is George Eastman Professor and Chair of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester. John Jonides is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.