Review: Perception and Communication by Donald Broadbent
I'm taking this class for my AA degree in Psych and to transfer to UCI as a Psych major in the Fall, but after I get there I'm hoping to switch to Cognitive Science with a concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience. The book I chose is Perception and Communication by Donald Broadbent. I was interested in this one because I wanted to pick a classic in the field to read. The author is one of the earliest psychologists to do research into cognition when behaviorism was dominating experimental psychology, and this book is frequently cited as important to the Cognitive Revolution of the mid-20th century. At this time, Broadbent was a member of the Applied Psychology Unit of the Medical Research Council of Great Britain. This book was actually originally published before there was a labeled subfield of cognitive psychology, but the author’s work was important to its formation. In the book, Broadbent discusses hi...