ABSTRACT
Of the many topics in the field of cognitive psychology that the work of George Mandler has illuminated, his contributions to our understanding of the nature of memory and of consciousness are perhaps the most central. Mandler's insightful analyses of mental life-in particular, his 1985 "Cognitive psychology: An essay in cognitive science"-have never failed to inform, inspire, charm, and challenge. However, until recently, I have viewed his work from the vantage point of an interested outsider. My own longstanding research committment to problems of perceptual representation, in particular the representation of visual objects and transformations on objects, seemed somewhat removed from the issues to which Mandler's most concentrated efforts were directed.
