The Top 100 most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th century
(sorted by first author)

99.	Acquisition of cognitive skill Anderson, J. R. (1982) Psychological Review, 89, 369-406
27.	The Architecture of Cognition Anderson, J.R. (1983) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
39.	Design for a Brain: The Origins of Adaptive Behavior Ashby, W. Ross (1960) New York: Willey
100.	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.
77.	Working Memory Baddeley, A. (1986) Oxford University Press
71.	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
34.	Single units and sensation: A neuron doctrine for perceptual psychology? Barlow, H. (1972) Perception, 1, 371-394
75.	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,
8.	Remembering: A study in experimental and social psychology Bartlett, F. C. (1932) Cambridge, England: The University Press
84.	The coordination and regulation of movements Bernstein, N.A. (1967) Oxford, New York: Pergamon Press
53.	Recognition-by-components: a theory of human image understanding Biederman, I. (1987) Psychological Review, 94, 115-147.
52.	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
10.	Perception and Communication Broadbent, D. (1958) New York: Pergamon Press
22.	A study of thinking Bruner, J. R., Goodnow, J. J., & Austin, G. A. (1956) New York: Wiley
18.	The Conceptual Framework of Psychology Brunswik, E. (1952) Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
70.	Application of Fourier Analysis to the Visibility of Gratings Campbell, F.W., and Robson, J.G. (1968) Journal of Physiology. 197: 551-566.
1.	Syntactic Structures Chomsky, N. (1957) The Hague: Mouton
19.	A review of Skinner's "Verbal Behavior" Chomsky, N. (1959) Language, 35, 26-58
30.	Aspects of the theory of syntax Chomsky, N. (1965) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
47.	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.
83.	The Nature of Explanation Craik, K. (1943) Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
66.	The Intentional Stance Dennett, D. C. (1987) MIT Press.
96.	Consciousness Explained Dennett, D. C. (1991) Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co.
63.	What Computers Can't Do Dreyfus, H. L. (1972) MIT Press
87.	Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection Edelman, G. M. (1987) New York: Basic Books
93.	Speech perception in infants Eimas, P.D., Siqueland, E.R., Jusczyk, P., & Vigorito, J. (1971) Science Vol 171 (3968), 303-306
7.	The modularity of mind: An essay on faculty psychology Fodor, J. (1983) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
59.	The language of thought Fodor, J. A. (1975) New York: Crowell
82.	The interpretation of dreams Freud, S. (1927) (1st English Edition) London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
65.	The Bisected Brain Gazzaniga, M. (1970) New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts
95.	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.
35.	Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development Gibson, E.J. (1969) Appleton, Century and Croft
50.	The perception of the Visual World Gibson, J. J. (1950) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press
11.	The senses considered as perceptual systems Gibson, J. J. (1966) Boston, MA: Hougton Mifflin.
36.	The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception Gibson, J. J. (1979)
92.	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
21.	Signal detection theory and psychophysics Green, D.M., and Swets, J.A. (1966) New York: Wiley
61.	The formation of learning sets Harlow, H. F. (1949) Psychological Review, 1949, 56, 51-65
4.	The organization of behavior; a neuropsychological theory Hebb, D.O. (1949) Wiley-Interscience, New York
17.	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.
98.	Cognition in the Wild Hutchins, E (1995) Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press
81.	Visual Perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis Johansson G. (1973) Perception & Psychophysics, Vol. 14 (2); 201-211
62.	Mental models: Towards a cognitive science of language, inference, and consciousness Johnson-Laird, P. M. (1983) Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press
57.	Foundations of Cyclopean Perception Julesz, B. (1971) Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
33.	On the psychology of prediction Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1973) Psychological Review, 80, 237-251
86.	Toward a model of text comprehension and production Kintsch, W. and van Dijk, T. A. (1978) Psychological Review, 85, 363-394.
90.	The Mentality of Apes Koehler, W. (1925) New York: Harcourt and Brace
51.	Principles of Gestalt Psychology Koffka, K. (1935) New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.
64.	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Kuhn, T. S. (1962) Chicago: University of Chicago Press
88.	Lightness and retinex theory Land, E. H. and McCann, J. J. (1971) Journal of the Optical Society of America, 61 (1), 1-11.
25.	The problem of serial order in behavior Lashley, K. S. (1951) In Cerebral Mechanisms in Behavior, Wiley, pp. 112-136.
45.	Biological foundations of language Lenneberg, E. H. (1967) New York: Wiley
38.	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.
80.	Segregation of form, color, movement and depth: Anatomy, physiology and perception Livingstone M. & Hubel D. (1988) Science, 240(4853):740-9, 1988
56.	The Working Brain: An Introduction to Neuropsychology Luria, A. R. (1973) New York: Basic Books.
2.	Vision: a computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information Marr, D. (1982) San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.
14.	A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity McCulloch, W. S., & Pitts, W. (1943) Mathematical Biophysics, 5:115-133 (pp. 18-27).
9.	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
29.	Plans and the Structure of Behavior Miller, G.A., Galanter, E, and Pribram, K.H. (1960) New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
44.	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.
74.	Perceptrons Minsky, M., & Papert, S. (1969) (1969) Cambridge: MIT Press.
67.	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
20.	Cognitive Psychology Neisser, U. (1967) Cognitive Psychology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:Prentice-Hall.
31.	Unified Theories of Cognition Newell, A. (1990) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
6.	Human problem solving Newell, A., & Simon, H. A. (1972) Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
89.	The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map O'Keefe, J., and Nadel, L. (1979) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol 2(4).
46.	The child's conception of the world Piaget, J. (1930) New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World.
58.	The Construction of Reality in the Child Piaget, J. (1954) NY: Ballantine Books
79.	Chronometric Explorations of Mind Posner, M. I. (1978) Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawerence Erlbaum Associates
37.	Natural Categories Rosch, E. (1973) Cognitive Psychology, 7,573-605
5.	Parallel distributed processing: Explorations in the microstructure of cognition Rumelhart, D. E., McClelland, J. L. (1986) MIT Press: Cambrige, Mass
91.	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.
78.	Scripts, plans, goals, and understanding Schank, R. C. and Abelson, R. P. (1977) Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
76.	Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions Scoville, W. B., and Milner, B. (1957) Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 20,
42.	Minds, brains and programs Searle J.R. (1980) The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3.
12.	A mathematical theory of communication Shannon C. E. (1948) Bell System Technical Journal, 27, 379-423
69.	The analysis of proximities: Multidimensional scaling with an unknown distance function Shepard, R. N. (1962) Psychometrika, 27(2), 125-140
23.	Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects Shepard, R.N., and Metzler, J. (1971) Science, 171, 701-703
85.	The Integrative Action of the Nervous System Sherrington, Charles S., Sir (1906) New York: Scribner's Sons
24.	The Sciences of the Artificial Simon, H. A. (1969) MIT Press, 1969
94.	The Operational Analysis of Psychological Terms Skinner, B. F. (1945) Psychological Review, 52, 270-277
41.	The information available in brief visual presentations Sperling, G. (1960) Psychological Monographs, 74 (Whole number 498)
15.	Hemisphere deconnnection and unity in conscious awareness Sperry, R. W. (1968) American Psychologist 23 (10), 723-733.
43.	High-speed memory scanning in human memory Sternberg, S. (1966) Science, 153, 652-654.
26.	Psychophysics: Introduction to its perceptual, neural, and social prospects Stevens, S. S. (1975) New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons. 1975, v, 329.
48.	Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions Stroop, J. (1935) Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 643-661
16.	Cognitive maps in rats and men Tolman, E.C. (1948) Psychological Review 55, 189-208
55.	A feature integration theory of attention Treisman, A. and Gelade, G. (1980) Cognitive Psychology, 12, 97-136
60.	Encoding specificity and retrieval processes in episodic memory Tulving, E. and Thompson, D. (1973) Psychological Review, 80, 352-373.
3.	Computing machinery and intelligence Turing, A. M. (1950) Mind, 59, 433-460.
13.	On computable numbers: With an application to the Entscheidungsproblem Turing, A.M. (1936) Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, ser. 2, 42,
68.	Judgments under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974) Science, 185, 1124-1131.
97.	The interpretation of structure from motion Ullman, S. (1979) Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B., 203, 405-426
73.	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
49.	Theory of self-reproducing automata Von Neumann, J., & Burks, A. W. (1966) Urbana,: University of Illinois Press.
40.	Theory of games and economic behavior Von Neumann, J., & Morgenstern, O. (1964) ([3d ] ed.). New York,: Science Editions J. Wiley.
28.	Thought and Language (Myshlenie i rech'.) Vygotsky, Lev (1964 (original work 1934)) (E.Hanfmann and G. Vakar, Trans.). Cambridge, M.I.T Press.
72.	Language, Thought and Reality; selected writings Whorf, B. L. (ed. by J. Carroll) (1956) Boston, MA: MIT Press.
32.	Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Wiener, N. (1948) New York: Wiley
54.	Philosophical investigations Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1953) New York: Macmillan, c1953