Encyclopedia of the Mind

Harold Pashler is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. He received undergraduate degrees in Psychology and in Logic & Philosophy of Science with honors from Brown University and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania (1985). His research interests include basic cognitive processes and mechanisms, selective attention and visual perception, and human learning and practice effects, with implications for how people can learn more efficiently. He has authored and edited classic texts on attention (The Psychology of Attention, MIT Press, 1998; Attention, Taylor & Francis Press, 1998) and served as Editor in Chief of the Third Edition of the four-volume Stevens Handbook of Experimental Psychology (Wiley, 2001). He is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists and the American Psychological Society and received the Troland Research Award in 1999 from the National Academy of Sciences "for his many experimental breakthroughs in the study of spatial attention and executive control, and for his insightful analysis of human cognitive architecture." He has served as an associate editor of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Psychology, the American Journal of Psychology, Visual Cognition, and several other major journals within the field.

"...More than 300 scholars worldwide, with multidisciplinary expertise, contributed to this work.... The strengths of this new encyclopedia are its currency and its breadth and depth in exploring the multidimensional nature of the human mind. This extensive, highly informative publication will be a great reference resource for professionals, researchers, and students concentrating on cognitive science and related disciplines. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above." -- M. Slobodinsky This two-volume set "is a cross-disciplinary effort to convey the latest information related to studies 52 Against the Grain I December 2012- January 2013 of the mind and brain "from not just the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience but also the fields of philosophy, economics, anthropology, linguistics, computer science, molecular biology, education, and literature. -- Tom Gilson * Against the Grain * Intended to be an introduction to the topic, The Encyclopedia of the Mind would be a meaningful addition to community-college and undergraduate libraries. The interdisciplinary approach and inclusion of multiple perspectives allow readers to gain understanding of the complexity of the mind and the different disciplines it reaches across. The arrangement and subject access through the "Reader's Guide" provide ease of access to the information within this set, making it user-friendly for both novice users and those with subject expertise. -- Janet Pinkley * Booklist * Best for college-level readers seeking information in the fields of cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. -- Christine Sharbrough * Library Journal * Editor Harold Pashler does a good job in collecting the writings of disparate specialists in psychology under one umbrella... were I still employed in the field of psychology I would value access to this work, either as a hard copy, or in the online version. -- Stephen Bray * Nurturing Potential *