ABSTRACT

There was a time even before Cornell, and even before Cognitive Psychology was written-and I was there. I was Dick’s graduate student and assistant at Brandeis University. To prove it, there is a published Neisser and Stoper (1965) paper on the topic of visual search, admittedly not the most widely cited paper in the literature. Even in those prehistoric (and, forgive me, precognitive) days at Brandeis, Dick had a deep-seated mistrust of experiments done with subjects held in head restraints in dark rooms while, in his later words, “the experimenter illuminated their retinae at his own pleasure” (Neisser, 1976, p. 25).