Noted for: the modern science of language acquisition; word learning; language and thought; power and solidarity in language; the “tip of the Read more about Roger Brown
Noted for: the “Cognitive Revolution,” the “new look” in perception; “A Study of Thinking;" research on children’s cognitive development and its Read more about Jerome Bruner
Noted for: Paired-associate learning paradigm in memory research; first female president of the American Psychological Read more about Mary Whiton Calkins
Noted for: factor analysis of personality; models of the factorial structure of personality and intelligence; “fluid” versus “crystallized” Read more about Raymond Cattell
Noted for: The “Matching Law” of the allocation of behavior; the training of complex visual concepts in pigeons; intelligence and class structure Read more about Richard J Herrnstein
William James, philosopher and psychologist, was instrumental in establishing Harvard's psychology department, which at its inception was tied to the Read more about William James
Noted for: The search for the “engram”; representation and processing in the mammalian cerebral cortex; localization and mass action in the brain; Read more about Karl Lashley
Noted for: The Cognitive Revolution; helping to found the fields of cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and cognitive neuroscience; “The Read more about George Miller
