Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The ups and downs of cognitive psychology: attention and other 'executive functions' -- 2 Psychology in the 1950s: a personal view -- 3 Learning theory and the cognitive revolution, 1961-1971: a personal perspective -- 4 Face recognition in our time -- 5 Cognitive science now and then -- 6 Ageing memory: ageing memories -- 7 Psycholinguistics in our time -- 8 Two brains-my life in science -- 9 A perception of perception -- 10 Social psychology in our time: from 'fun and games' to grown-up science -- 11 Thirty years of object recognition -- 12 Reasoning -- 13 Weber's Law -- 14 Fifty years of neuropsychological memory research. The score: methods 5-theory 2 -- 15 Mental chronometry: long past, bright future -- 16 A life in grey areas: cognitive gerontology from 1957 to 2007 -- 17 From little slips to big disasters: an error quest -- 18 Visual perception 1950-2000 -- 19 Human performance: from then to now -- 20 The perception of time -- 21 From effects to systems in neuropsychology -- 22 Experimental psychopathology and psychological treatment -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.