Ulric Neisser
Biographic Data
| ID | 2750805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulric Neisser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulric |
| FAMILY NAME | Neisser |
| SIGNATURE | NEISSER U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 223 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Memory development
Language-dependent recall of autobiographical memories.
Two studies of autobiographical memory explored the hypothesis that memories become more accessible when the linguistic environment at retrieval matches the linguistic environment at encoding. In Experiment 1, Russian-English bilinguals were asked to recall specific life experiences in response to word prompts. The results supported the hypothesis of language-dependent recall: Participants retrieved more experiences from the Russian-speaking peri…
The conceptual self in context
"What is the self-concept, and how does it develop? Do people in different cultures have sharply different concepts of self? Can we believe what our informants tell us on this point? What is known about the self-concepts of depressives and schizophrenics? How does meditation affect the sense of self? Is there an inner "self of selves," as William James once suggested? These are among the most hotly debated questions in the social sciences today."…
Never a dull moment
Never a dull moment
Intelligence
Ulric Neisser (Chair) Gwyneth Boodoo Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. A. Wade Boykin Nathan Brody Stephen J. Ceci Diane E Halpern John C. Loehlin Robert Perloff Robert J. Sternberg Susana Urbina Emory University Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Howard University Wesleyan University Cornell University California State University, San Bernardino University of Texas, Austin University of Pittsburgh Yale …
The Remembering Self
This book brings a surprisingly wide range of intellectual disciplines to bear on the self-narrative and the self. The same ecological/cognitive approach that successfully organized Ulric Neisser's earlier volume on The Perceived Self now relates ideas from the experimental, developmental, and clinical study of memory to insights from post-modernism and literature. Although autobiographical remembering is an essential way of giving meaning to our…
The Role of the Self in Recollections of a Seminar
It has often been suggested that memory for life experiences is primarily orga-nized around the self. To test this hypothesis, students who had participated in a semester-long seminar were asked to recall various events (e.g., discussions in which they had participated, reports that they or others had presented, class demonstrations, interruptions, etc.). It was not the case that these cued recalls were primarily organized around the self. The se…
Two perceptually given aspects of the self and their development
A case of misplaced nostalgia
A case of misplaced nostalgia
Observational Learning of Ballet Sequences
This study explored the role of movement-produced (kinematic) information in the observational learning of a complex motor and aesthetic skill. Thirty-four female college students with no prior dance training watched 30 s videotaped ballet routines and then attempted to perform them. Each participant dancer served in one of three conditions which varied the kind of stimulus information presented: In kinematic with music, dancers saw the sequence …
Five kinds of self‐knowledge
Self‐knowledge is based on several different forms of information, so distinct that each one essentially establishes a different ‘self. The ecological self is the self as directly perceived with respect to the immediate physical environment; the interpersonal self, also directly perceived, is established by species‐specific signals of emotional rapport and communication; the extended self is based on memory and anticipation; the private self appe…
Point of view in personal memories
John Dean's memory
Obituary
Gibson' s Ecological Optics
Some Variables Affecting the Vividness of Imagery in Recall
Several variables were studied as they relate to vividness of imagery in recall. Thirty‐two subjects, pre‐selected for high and low imagery, worked with two types of block designs. With one type they were repeatedly asked either to summon up visual images and copy them, or else to recall the designs with the aid of imagery and other resources of memory. The results showed no differences in accuracy between the two groups of subjects, but the bett…
Searching Through Word Lists
Two experiments are reported in which subjects searched through lists of words, looking for targets defined only in terms of their meaning (e.g. ‘any animal’). Under these conditions, scanning is much slower than when the target is a known word, or a member of a small fixed set. It is argued that printed words are processed in two stages, termed ‘stimulus examination’ and ‘memory examination’ respectively. Preliminary data relevant to other aspec…
Redirecting the Search Process
Subjects scanned through lists of words looking for proper names. Some lists contained cue words which made it possible to skip a number of lines. One or two seconds were needed to make such a skip; hence cues for short skips were not used. Interpretation is in terms of a higher‐order process which controls the scanning pattern
The Multiplicity of Thought
Many writers have distinguished two types of mental processes. One kind of thinking is conscious, straightforward, predictable, and rather pedestrian; the other is confused, rich, productive of novelty, emotionally charged, and generally outside of consciousness. It is suggested that the latter arises from a multiplicity of processes going on together, while the former represents a single sequence among the crowd. These concepts are clarified by …
Intelligence
Ulric Neisser (Chair) Gwyneth Boodoo Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. A. Wade Boykin Nathan Brody Stephen J. Ceci Diane E Halpern John C. Loehlin Robert Perloff Robert J. Sternberg Susana Urbina Emory University Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Howard University Wesleyan University Cornell University California State University, San Bernardino University of Texas, Austin University of Pittsburgh Yale …
Gibson' s Ecological Optics
The Multiplicity of Thought
Many writers have distinguished two types of mental processes. One kind of thinking is conscious, straightforward, predictable, and rather pedestrian; the other is confused, rich, productive of novelty, emotionally charged, and generally outside of consciousness. It is suggested that the latter arises from a multiplicity of processes going on together, while the former represents a single sequence among the crowd. These concepts are clarified by …
Some Variables Affecting the Vividness of Imagery in Recall
Several variables were studied as they relate to vividness of imagery in recall. Thirty‐two subjects, pre‐selected for high and low imagery, worked with two types of block designs. With one type they were repeatedly asked either to summon up visual images and copy them, or else to recall the designs with the aid of imagery and other resources of memory. The results showed no differences in accuracy between the two groups of subjects, but the bett…
The Multiplicity of Thought
Many writers have distinguished two types of mental processes. One kind of thinking is conscious, straightforward, predictable, and rather pedestrian; the other is confused, rich, productive of novelty, emotionally charged, and generally outside of consciousness. It is suggested that the latter arises from a multiplicity of processes going on together, while the former represents a single sequence among the crowd. These concepts are clarified by …
Searching Through Word Lists
Two experiments are reported in which subjects searched through lists of words, looking for targets defined only in terms of their meaning (e.g. ‘any animal’). Under these conditions, scanning is much slower than when the target is a known word, or a member of a small fixed set. It is argued that printed words are processed in two stages, termed ‘stimulus examination’ and ‘memory examination’ respectively. Preliminary data relevant to other aspec…
Redirecting the Search Process
Subjects scanned through lists of words looking for proper names. Some lists contained cue words which made it possible to skip a number of lines. One or two seconds were needed to make such a skip; hence cues for short skips were not used. Interpretation is in terms of a higher‐order process which controls the scanning pattern
Some Variables Affecting the Vividness of Imagery in Recall
Several variables were studied as they relate to vividness of imagery in recall. Thirty‐two subjects, pre‐selected for high and low imagery, worked with two types of block designs. With one type they were repeatedly asked either to summon up visual images and copy them, or else to recall the designs with the aid of imagery and other resources of memory. The results showed no differences in accuracy between the two groups of subjects, but the bett…
Gibson' s Ecological Optics
John Dean's memory
Obituary
Point of view in personal memories
Five kinds of self‐knowledge
Self‐knowledge is based on several different forms of information, so distinct that each one essentially establishes a different ‘self. The ecological self is the self as directly perceived with respect to the immediate physical environment; the interpersonal self, also directly perceived, is established by species‐specific signals of emotional rapport and communication; the extended self is based on memory and anticipation; the private self appe…
Two perceptually given aspects of the self and their development
A case of misplaced nostalgia
A case of misplaced nostalgia
Observational Learning of Ballet Sequences
This study explored the role of movement-produced (kinematic) information in the observational learning of a complex motor and aesthetic skill. Thirty-four female college students with no prior dance training watched 30 s videotaped ballet routines and then attempted to perform them. Each participant dancer served in one of three conditions which varied the kind of stimulus information presented: In kinematic with music, dancers saw the sequence …
The Role of the Self in Recollections of a Seminar
It has often been suggested that memory for life experiences is primarily orga-nized around the self. To test this hypothesis, students who had participated in a semester-long seminar were asked to recall various events (e.g., discussions in which they had participated, reports that they or others had presented, class demonstrations, interruptions, etc.). It was not the case that these cued recalls were primarily organized around the self. The se…
The Remembering Self
This book brings a surprisingly wide range of intellectual disciplines to bear on the self-narrative and the self. The same ecological/cognitive approach that successfully organized Ulric Neisser's earlier volume on The Perceived Self now relates ideas from the experimental, developmental, and clinical study of memory to insights from post-modernism and literature. Although autobiographical remembering is an essential way of giving meaning to our…
Intelligence
Ulric Neisser (Chair) Gwyneth Boodoo Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. A. Wade Boykin Nathan Brody Stephen J. Ceci Diane E Halpern John C. Loehlin Robert Perloff Robert J. Sternberg Susana Urbina Emory University Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Howard University Wesleyan University Cornell University California State University, San Bernardino University of Texas, Austin University of Pittsburgh Yale …
The conceptual self in context
"What is the self-concept, and how does it develop? Do people in different cultures have sharply different concepts of self? Can we believe what our informants tell us on this point? What is known about the self-concepts of depressives and schizophrenics? How does meditation affect the sense of self? Is there an inner "self of selves," as William James once suggested? These are among the most hotly debated questions in the social sciences today."…
Never a dull moment
Never a dull moment
Language-dependent recall of autobiographical memories.
Two studies of autobiographical memory explored the hypothesis that memories become more accessible when the linguistic environment at retrieval matches the linguistic environment at encoding. In Experiment 1, Russian-English bilinguals were asked to recall specific life experiences in response to word prompts. The results supported the hypothesis of language-dependent recall: Participants retrieved more experiences from the Russian-speaking peri…
Memory development
Psychology (20 works) · Cognitive psychology (14 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Cognitive science (6 works) · Recall (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Autobiographical memory (4 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (4 works)