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Note however that there was an earlier publication of the same name: Thomas Verner Moore's 'Cognitive Psychology', published in 1939. Neisser was not aware of that book when he chose his title (cf. Surprenant & Neath (1997), Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 4(3), 342-349).

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