Psychomythics: Sources Of Artifacts And Misconceptions In Scientific Psychology

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Uttal has written an important book that deserves to be read. He raises many interesting questions and identifies in a transparent manner a host of possible methodological and conceptual pitfalls of psychological research, of which any cognitive scientist should be aware. It invites researchers to be ever critical on one's background assumptions and choice of research methods.

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PSYCHOMYTHICS Sources of Artifacts and Misconceptions in Scientific Psychology BOOKS BY WILLIAM R. UTTAL • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Real Time Computers: Techniques and Applications in the Psychological Sciences Generative Computer Assisted Instruction (with Miriam Rogers, Ramelle Hieronymus, and Timothy Pasich) Sensory Coding: Selected Readings (Editor) The Psychobiology of Sensory Coding Cellular Neurophysiology and Integration: An Interpretive Introduction An Autocorrelation Theory of Form Detection The Psychobiology of Mind A Taxonomy of Visual Processes Visual Form Detection in 3-Dimensional Space Foundations of Psychobiology (with Daniel N. Robinson) The Detection of Nonplanar Surfaces in Visual Space The Perception of Dotted Forms On Seeing Forms The Swimmer: An Integrated Computational Model of a Perceptual-Motor System (with Gary Bradshaw, Sriram Dayanand, Robb Lovell, Thomas Shepherd, Ramakrishna Kakarala, Kurt Skifsted, and Greg Tupper) Toward a New Behaviorism: The Case Against Perceptual Reductionism Computational Modeling of Vision: The Role of Combination (with Ramakrishna Kakarala, Sriram Dayanand, Thomas Shepherd, Jaggi Kalki, Charles Lunskis Jr., and Ning Liu) The War Between Mentalism and Behaviorism: On the Accessibility of Mental Processes The New Phrenology: On the Localization of Cognitive Processes in the Brain A Behaviorist Looks at Form Recognition Psychomythics: Sources of Artifacts and Misconceptions in
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