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Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology that investigates the mental processes—including attention, memory, perception, language, reasoning, and problem-solving—by which humans acquire, process, and store information.

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Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions.

J. Ridley Stroop · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1935 · 18.3K citations · Full text

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The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information.

George Miller · Psychological Review · 1956 · 17.5K citations

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The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information.

George Miller · Psychological Review · 1994 · 17.3K citations

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The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis

Akira Miyake, Naomi P. Friedman, Michael J. Emerson et al. · Cognitive Psychology · 2000 · 15.5K citations

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Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective

Albert Bandura · Annual Review of Psychology · 2001 · 14.8K citations

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Authors

177.1K

  1. DL
    Daniel L. Schacter

    Harvard University, United States

    333 publications · 51.9K citations

    120

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  2. FI
    Fergus I. M. Craik

    University of Toronto, Canada

    168 publications · 41.9K citations

    89

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  3. AB
    Alan Baddeley

    MRC Biostatistics Unit, United Kingdom

    201 publications · 32.7K citations

    85

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  4. RJ
    Raymond J. Dolan

    University College London, United Kingdom

    132 publications · 26K citations

    75

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  5. JD
    John D. E. Gabrieli

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    126 publications · 21.4K citations

    75

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Institutions

14.8K

  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    229 h-index

    4.7K publications

    536.7K citations

  2. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    214 h-index

    2.4K publications

    392K citations

  3. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    210 h-index

    3.4K publications

    390.6K citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    197 h-index

    3.5K publications

    361.6K citations

  5. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    194 h-index

    2.3K publications

    340.2K citations

  6. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    187 h-index

    2.7K publications

    298.9K citations

  7. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    183 h-index

    2.5K publications

    264.1K citations

  8. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    183 h-index

    2.1K publications

    247.8K citations

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  1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    1.3K publications · 295.4K citations

    266

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  2. Psychological Review

    1.1K publications · 379.9K citations

    266

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  4. Journal of Experimental Psychology General

    1.4K publications · 242K citations

    236

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  5. Psychological Science

    1.1K publications · 171.2K citations

    216

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See also

Cognitive Psychology

Core Processes

Theoretical Models

Neural Basis

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