Gordon Bower
Albert Ray Lang Professor (Emeritus)
Primary Area:
Cognitive Secondary Area:
Cognitive-Social Email:
gbower@stanford.edu Office Location:
Jordan Hall, Building 420 Room 314 Office Phone:
(650) 725-2417 Administration:
Roz Grayson
Research Topics:
learning and memory,
motivation and emotion
Research Summary
Study of human memory, mnemonic devices, retrieval strategies, recording strategies, and category learning. Interests in cognitive processes, emotion, imagery, language and reading comprehension as they relate to memory.
Education
Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, Yale University, 1959