James Townsend (psychologist) explained

James Tarlton Townsend
Birth Date:July 9, 1939
Nationality:American
Field:cognitive psychology, mathematical psychology
Work Institution:University of Hawaiʻi, Purdue University, Indiana University
Alma Mater:California State University, Fresno, Stanford University
Doctoral Advisor:Richard C. Atkinson
Doctoral Students:F. Gregory Ashby

James Tarlton Townsend is a Distinguished Rudy Professor of Psychology at Indiana University, Bloomington.[1] [2] He is known for his work in mathematical psychology, particularly in distinguishing parallel and serial processing and for models of perception.

Education and career

Townsend received an A.B. in Psychology from Fresno State College in 1961. In 1962, he began his graduate work under Richard Atkinson at the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University. After completing his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1966, Townsend joined the faculty at the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii. Two years later, in 1968, Townsend moved to Purdue University where he received tenure in 1971 and became a full professor in 1977. During that period, Townsend spent time as a visiting associate professor in William Kaye Estes’s lab at Rockefeller University (1972-1973), a visiting scholar at the Institut für Psychologie at the Technische Universität, Braunschweig, a visiting scholar in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (1982), and as a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University (1986).[3] In 1989, Townsend became a Rudy Professor in the Department of Psychology at Indiana University. Townsend became a Distinguished Professor in 2008.[4]

Research

Townsend's major theoretical contributions include Systems Factorial Technology,[5] General Recognition Theory[6] and Decision field theory.[7]

Townsend coauthored an influential book on modeling in psychology with F. Gregory Ashby, The Stochastic Modeling of Elementary Psychological Processes.[8] [9] [10] [11] He has also edited multiple volumes on mathematical psychology.[12] [13] [14]

In 1985 and again in 2004, Townsend served as the president of the Society for Mathematical Psychology[15] and has more recently served as the president of the Configural Processing Consortium.[16] He served as editor of the Journal of Mathematical Psychology from 1985 to 1989.[17]

Awards

Notes and References

  1. James Townsend . IU News Room . March 24, 2008 . 2013-06-13.
  2. Web site: James Townsend: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences: Indiana University Bloomington . Psych.indiana.edu . 2013-08-24.
  3. Web site: James T. Townsend - Vita - Biographical Date . Indiana.edu . 2013-08-24.
  4. Web site: Honoree -- James Townsend . https://archive.today/20130626180206/http://www.iu.edu/~uha/search-awards/honoree.phtml?id=2109 . dead . 2013-06-26 . Indiana University Honors and Awards . 2013-06-13.
  5. Townsend, J.T. & Nozawa, G. (1995). Spatio-temporal properties of elementary perception: An investigation of parallel, serial and coactive theories. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 39, 321-360.
  6. Ashby, F. G., & Townsend, J. T. (1986). Varieties of perceptual independence. Psychological Review, 93, 154-179.
  7. Busemeyer, J., & Townsend, J. T. (1993). Decision field theory: A dynamic-cognitive approach to decision making. Psychological Review, 100(3) pages 432-459.
  8. Townsend, J. T., & Ashby, F. G. (1983). The Stochastic Modeling of Elementary Psychological Processes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  9. Link, S. (1986). Wogols, Turgles and Whimpf and Things. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, pages 85-90.
  10. (1984). Book Reviews. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 37, 293-296.
  11. Diederich, A. (2010). Mathematical Psychology. In The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology. (Volume 3, pages 971-974). New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons.
  12. B. Berglund, J. T. Townsend, Rossi, G. B. & Pendrill, L. (Eds.), (2012). Measurement with Persons: Theory and Methods. New York: Taylor & Francis Group.
  13. Wenger, M. J., & Townsend, J. T. (2001). Computational, Geometric, and Process Issues in Facial Cognition: Progress and Challenges. Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum.
  14. Geissler, H. G., Link, S., & Townsend, J. T. (1992). Cognition, Information Processing and Psychophysics: Basic Issues. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  15. Web site: Board Members . Society for Mathematical Psychology . 2013-06-13.
  16. Web site: CPC 2012 - Organizers . Indiana.edu . 2012-11-14 . 2013-08-24.
  17. Web site: Editorial Board Members . Mathpsych.org . 2013-08-24.
  18. Web site: MathPsych - The Society of Mathematical Psychology . mathpsych.org . 2020-08-01.
  19. Web site: SEP - The Society of Experimental Psychologists . Sepsych.org . 2013-08-24.
  20. Web site: The Experimental Psychology Bulletin . Apa.org . 2013-08-24.
  21. Web site: Association for Psychological Science: APS Fellows . Psychologicalscience.org . 2013-08-24 . 2017-06-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170625182651/http://www.psychologicalscience.org/fellows/fellows-new.cfm . dead.

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