Gordon H. Bower
Cognitive psychologist known for influential work on memory, learning, imagery, and hypothesis-testing models of cognition, and for mentoring many prominent students.
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Mar 27, 2026 • 48min
From Rats to Hypotheses: Gordon Bower
Gordon Bower, a pioneering cognitive psychologist famous for work on memory, imagery, and hypothesis-testing models. He recounts shifts from behaviorism to computational approaches. He discusses animal-learning labs, associative memory projects, mental imagery and mnemonics, hypothesis-sampling models of concept learning, and how abrupt learning transitions shaped his methods and mentoring.
