In this two volume festschrift, contributors explore the theoretical developments (Volume I) and applications (Volume II) in traditional cognitive psychology domains, and model other areas of human performance that benefit from rigorous mathematical approaches. It brings together former classmates, students and colleagues of Dr. James T. Townsend, a pioneering researcher in the field since the early 1960s, to provide a current overview of mathematical modeling in psychology. Townsends research critically emphasized a need for rigor in the practice of cognitive modeling, and for providing mathematical definition and structure to ill-defined psychological topics. The research captured demonstrates how the interplay of theory and application, bridged by rigorous mathematics, can move cognitive modeling forward.
1. The Neural Basis of General Recognition Theory F. Gregory Ashby and
Fabian A. Soto
2. Visual Processing Capacity Sųren Kyllingsbęk
3. On the
Relationship between Perceived Structural Complexity and Temporal Judgments
Ronaldo Vigo and Derek E. Zeigler
4. The Mental Representation of Roman
Letters: Revisiting Townsends 1971 Letter-identification Data Peter Cassey
and Ami Eidels
5. Exposing the Hidden Ideal Stephen W. Link
6. Hearing What
We See: The Temporal Dynamics of Audiovisual Speech Integration Nicholas
Altieri
7. Processing Characteristics of Monaural Tone Detection: A Reaction
Time Perspective on a Classic Psychoacoustic Problem Jennifer J. Lentz, Yuan
He, Joseph W. Houpt, Julia M. Delong and James T. Townsend
8. Characterizing
and Quantifying Human Bandwidth: On the Utility and Criticality of the
Construct of Capacity Michael J. Wenger and Stephanie E. Rhoten
9. Modeling
Stress Effects on Coping-Related Cognition Richard W. J. Neufeld
10. Systems
Factorial Technology Provides New Insights on the Perceptual Comparison and
Decision Process in Change Detection Yang Cheng-Ta
11. Individual Differences
C(t) Leslie M. Blaha and Joseph W. Houpt
Joseph W. Houpt is Assistant Professor of Psychology, Wright State University, USA.
Leslie M. Blaha is Engineering Research Psychologist, United States Air Force Research Laboratory, USA.