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Here is the list of the one hundred most influential works in cognitive
science from the 20th century as selected by our panel of esteemed
judges from all the nominations we received.
The works on the list are rank ordered, with #1 being the most
influential.
The one hundred most influential works in cognitive
science from the 20th century
- Syntactic Structures
Chomsky, N. (1957)
The Hague: Mouton
- Vision: a computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information
Marr, D. (1982)
San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.
- Computing machinery and intelligence
Turing, A. M. (1950)
Mind, 59, 433-460.
- The organization of behavior; a neuropsychological theory
Hebb, D.O. (1949)
Wiley-Interscience, New York
- Parallel distributed processing: Explorations in the microstructure of cognition
Rumelhart, D. E., McClelland, J. L. (1986)
MIT Press: Cambrige, Mass
- Human problem solving
Newell, A., & Simon, H. A. (1972)
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
- The modularity of mind: An essay on faculty psychology
Fodor, J. (1983)
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
- Remembering: A study in experimental and social psychology
Bartlett, F. C. (1932)
Cambridge, England: The University Press
- The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information
Miller, G. A. (1956)
Psychological Review, 63, 81-97
- Perception and Communication
Broadbent, D. (1958)
New York: Pergamon Press
- The senses considered as perceptual systems
Gibson, J. J. (1966)
Boston, MA: Hougton Mifflin.
- A mathematical theory of communication
Shannon C. E. (1948)
Bell System Technical Journal, 27, 379-423
- On computable numbers: With an application to the Entscheidungsproblem
Turing, A.M. (1936)
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, ser. 2, 42,
- A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity
McCulloch, W. S., & Pitts, W. (1943)
Mathematical Biophysics, 5:115-133 (pp. 18-27).
- Hemisphere deconnnection and unity in conscious awareness
Sperry, R. W. (1968)
American Psychologist 23 (10), 723-733.
- Cognitive maps in rats and men
Tolman, E.C. (1948)
Psychological Review 55, 189-208
- Ferrier lecture: Functional architecture of macaque monkey visual cortex
Hubel, D.H. and Wiesel, T.N. (1977)
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 198, 1-59.
- The Conceptual Framework of Psychology
Brunswik, E. (1952)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- A review of Skinner's "Verbal Behavior"
Chomsky, N. (1959)
Language, 35, 26-58
- Cognitive Psychology
Neisser, U. (1967)
Cognitive Psychology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:Prentice-Hall.
- Signal detection theory and psychophysics
Green, D.M., and Swets, J.A. (1966)
New York: Wiley
- A study of thinking
Bruner, J. R., Goodnow, J. J., & Austin, G. A. (1956)
New York: Wiley
- Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects
Shepard, R.N., and Metzler, J. (1971)
Science, 171, 701-703
- The Sciences of the Artificial
Simon, H. A. (1969)
MIT Press, 1969
- The problem of serial order in behavior
Lashley, K. S. (1951)
In Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior, Wiley, pp. 112-136.
- Psychophysics: Introduction to its perceptual, neural, and social prospects
Stevens, S. S. (1975)
New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons. 1975, v, 329.
- The Architecture of Cognition
Anderson, J.R. (1983)
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
- Thought and Language (Myshlenie i rech'.)
Vygotsky, Lev (1964 (original work 1934))
(E.Hanfmann and G. Vakar, Trans.). Cambridge, M.I.T Press.
- Plans and the Structure of Behavior
Miller, G.A., Galanter, E, and Pribram, K.H. (1960)
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
- Aspects of the theory of syntax
Chomsky, N. (1965)
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Unified Theories of Cognition
Newell, A. (1990)
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Wiener, N. (1948)
New York: Wiley
- On the psychology of prediction
Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1973)
Psychological Review, 80, 237-251
- Single units and sensation: A neuron doctrine for perceptual psychology?
Barlow, H. (1972)
Perception, 1, 371-394
- Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development
Gibson, E.J. (1969)
Appleton, Century and Croft
- The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
Gibson, J. J. (1979)
- Natural Categories
Rosch, E. (1973)
Cognitive Psychology, 7,573-605
- What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain
Lettvin, J.Y., Maturana, H.R., McCulloch, W.S., & Pitts, W.H. (1959)
Proceedings of the IRE, Vol. 47, No. 11, pp. 1940-51.
- Design for a Brain: The Origins of Adaptive Behavior
Ashby, W. Ross (1960)
New York: Willey
- Theory of games and economic behavior
Von Neumann, J., & Morgenstern, O. (1964)
([3d ] ed.). New York,: Science Editions J. Wiley.
- The information available in brief visual presentations
Sperling, G. (1960)
Psychological Monographs, 74 (Whole number 498)
- Minds, brains and programs
Searle J.R. (1980)
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3.
- High-speed memory scanning in human memory
Sternberg, S. (1966)
Science, 153, 652-654.
- A framework for representing knowledge
Minsky, M. (1975)
In P. H. Winston (Ed.), The Psychology of Computer Vision. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 211-277.
- Biological foundations of language
Lenneberg, E. H. (1967)
New York: Wiley
- The child's conception of the world
Piaget, J. (1930)
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World.
- Levels of Processing: A framework for memory research
Craik, F.I. and Lockhart, R. S. (1972)
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 12, 599-607.
- Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions
Stroop, J. (1935)
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 643-661
- Theory of self-reproducing automata
Von Neumann, J., & Burks, A. W. (1966)
Urbana,: University of Illinois Press.
- The perception of the Visual World
Gibson, J. J. (1950)
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press
- Principles of Gestalt Psychology
Koffka, K. (1935)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.
- On the existence of neurones in the human visual system selectively sensitive to the orientation and size of retinal images
Blakemore, C., & Campbell, F.W. (1969)
Journal of Physiology, 203, 203-260
- Recognition-by-components: a theory of human image understanding
Biederman, I. (1987)
Psychological Review, 94, 115-147.
- Philosophical investigations
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1953)
New York: Macmillan, c1953
- A feature integration theory of attention
Treisman, A. and Gelade, G. (1980)
Cognitive Psychology, 12, 97-136
- The Working Brain: An Introduction to Neuropsychology
Luria, A. R. (1973)
New York: Basic Books.
- Foundations of Cyclopean Perception
Julesz, B. (1971)
Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
- The Construction of Reality in the Child
Piaget, J. (1954)
NY: Ballantine Books
- The language of thought
Fodor, J. A. (1975)
New York: Crowell
- Encoding specificity and retrieval processes in episodic memory
Tulving, E. and Thompson, D. (1973)
Psychological Review, 80, 352-373.
- The formation of learning sets
Harlow, H. F. (1949)
Psychological Review, 1949, 56, 51-65
- Mental models: Towards a cognitive science of language, inference, and consciousness
Johnson-Laird, P. M. (1983)
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press
- What Computers Can't Do
Dreyfus, H. L. (1972)
MIT Press
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Kuhn, T. S. (1962)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- The Bisected Brain
Gazzaniga, M. (1970)
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts
- The Intentional Stance
Dennett, D. C. (1987)
MIT Press.
- Posterior parietal association cortex of the monkey: command functions for operations within extrapersonal space
Mountcastle VB, Lynch JC, Georgopoulos A, Sakata H, Acuna C (1975)
J Neurophysiol 38:871-908
- Judgments under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases
Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974)
Science, 185, 1124-1131.
- The analysis of proximities: Multidimensional scaling with an unknown distance function
Shepard, R. N. (1962)
Psychometrika, 27(2), 125-140
- Application of Fourier Analysis to the Visibility of Gratings
Campbell, F.W., and Robson, J.G. (1968)
Journal of Physiology. 197: 551-566.
- Working memory
Baddeley, A.D., and Hitch, A.D. (1974)
In G. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation, Vol. 8; pp 47-89). New York: Academic Press
- Language, Thought and Reality; selected writings
Whorf, B. L. (ed. by J. Carroll) (1956)
Boston, MA: MIT Press.
- Two cortical visual systems
Ungerleider, L.G. and Mishkin, M. (1982)
In D.J. Ingle, M.A. Goodale, and R.J.W. Mansfield (Eds.), Analysis of visual behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
- Perceptrons
Minsky, M., & Papert, S. (1969)
(1969) Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Sensory mechanisms, the reduction of redundancy, and intelligence
Barlow, H. B. (1959)
Proceedings of the symposium on the mechanization of thought processes. National Physical Laboratory. HMSO, London,
- Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions
Scoville, W. B., and Milner, B. (1957)
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 20,
- Working Memory
Baddeley, A. (1986)
Oxford University Press
- Scripts, plans, goals, and understanding
Schank, R. C. and Abelson, R. P. (1977)
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Chronometric Explorations of Mind
Posner, M. I. (1978)
Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawerence Erlbaum Associates
- Segregation of form, color, movement and depth: Anatomy, physiology and perception
Livingstone M. & Hubel D. (1988)
Science, 240(4853):740-9, 1988
- Visual Perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis
Johansson G. (1973)
Perception & Psychophysics, Vol. 14 (2); 201-211
- The interpretation of dreams
Freud, S. (1927)
(1st English Edition) London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
- The Nature of Explanation
Craik, K. (1943)
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
- The coordination and regulation of movements
Bernstein, N.A. (1967)
Oxford, New York: Pergamon Press
- The Integrative Action of the Nervous System
Sherrington, Charles S., Sir (1906)
New York: Scribner's Sons
- Toward a model of text comprehension and production
Kintsch, W. and van Dijk, T. A. (1978)
Psychological Review, 85, 363-394.
- Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection
Edelman, G. M. (1987)
New York: Basic Books
- Lightness and retinex theory
Land, E. H. and McCann, J. J. (1971)
Journal of the Optical Society of America, 61 (1), 1-11.
- The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map
O'Keefe, J., and Nadel, L. (1979)
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol 2(4).
- The Mentality of Apes
Koehler, W. (1925)
New York: Harcourt and Brace
- Language comprehension in ape and child
Savage-Rumbaugh, E. Sue (1993)
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (serial no.233), vol 58, nos. 3-4.
- Circuitry of primate prefrontal cortex and the regulation of behavior by representational memory
Goldman-Rakic, P.S. (1987)
Handbook of Physiology, vol5(1), American Physiological Society, Bethesda, MD: 373-417
- Speech perception in infants
Eimas, P.D., Siqueland, E.R., Jusczyk, P., & Vigorito, J. (1971)
Science Vol 171 (3968), 303-306
- The Operational Analysis of Psychological Terms
Skinner, B. F. (1945)
Psychological Review, 52, 270-277
- Mental rotation of the neuronal population vector
Georgopoulos, Apostolos P., Lurito, Joseph T., Petrides, Michael., Schwartz, Andrew B., et al. (1989)
Science. Vol 243(4888), Jan 1989, 234-236.
- Consciousness Explained
Dennett, D. C. (1991)
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co.
- The interpretation of structure from motion
Ullman, S. (1979)
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B., 203, 405-426
- Cognition in the Wild
Hutchins, E (1995)
Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press
- Acquisition of cognitive skill
Anderson, J. R. (1982)
Psychological Review, 89, 369-406
- Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes
Atkinson, R. C. and Shiffrin, R. M. (1968)
In K. W. Spence and J. T. Spence (Eds.), The Psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory (vol. 2). New York: Academic Press.
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