Selected Scientific Papers

Foundations for a General Theory of Human Memory

Technical reports authored with Richard M. Shiffrin on the foundations for a General Theory of Human Memory. These six reports are part of a series of 323 reports published from 1955 to 1992 by the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University.

Reprints

Reprints of some articles on memory and cognition.

Human Memory and the Learning Process

A book of collected papers assembled by Russian colleagues, translated into Russian, and published in 1980 by the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. The reference is Human Memory and the Learning Process: Selected Papers of Richard C. Atkinson, edited by Y. Zabrodin and B. F. Lomov. Moscow: Progress Publishing House, 1980.

Stanford Technical Reports

Technical reports authored by Atkinson while at Stanford University. These reports are part of a series of reports published by the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences. The complete set of reports can be found at http://suppes-corpus.stanford.edu/imsss-technical-reports.

Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI)

Selected papers on adaptive instructional systems to teach (a) reading in the first three grades of elementary school, (b) a computer programming language at the college level, and (c) a foreign language vocabulary. The research was carried out at the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University from about 1962 to 1975. For a quick survey, peruse the articles marked with an asterisk (*).

College Admissions and the SAT

Selected papers on standardized testing and access to American universities.

Research Universities/Science Policy

For a quick survey, peruse the articles marked with an asterisk (*).