Guide to the Eleanor Gibson Papers,
1906-1999, 1935-1999 (bulk)

Collection Number: 14-23-2658

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:

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2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Compiled by:

Sarah K. Gordon

Date completed:

June 12, 2003

EAD encoding:

Sarah K. Gordon, June 2003

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Eleanor Gibson papers, 1906-1999, 1935-1999

Correspondence, articles, notes, slides, photographs, videotapes.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Abstract:

Material relating to Eleanor J. Gibson's education, research, and career as a Professor of Psychology.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Psychology and holder of the Susan Linn Sage Chair, Cornell University.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Collection includes Eleanor Gibson's Masters Thesis from Smith; PhD Thesis from Yale; and other material from her graduate studies. Items relating to her teaching career include lecture notes, demonstration materials, experiment designs, examinations and students' papers. Also included are grant proposals and data from experiments conducted at Cornell's Graduate Psychological Laboratories in various aspects of perception and learning such as childhood reading disorders, scanning, word perception, and information processing; material for Psychology of Reading; and An Odyssey in Learning and Perception ; vitae and biographical sketches; 1992 National Medal of Science Award memorabilia; articles by Eleanor J. Gibson, James J. Gibson, and other psychology scholars separated by author and subject; notes and slides for lectures, talks, and colloquiums; folders of correspondence; tape recording of E.G. Boring's 1967 speech on the founding of the Society of Experimental Psychologists delivered at the centennial of the birth of Edward B. Titchener; and assorted floppy disks.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Gibson, Eleanor Jack.

Boring, E.G.

Cornell University. Dept. of Psychology.

Cornell University. Graduate Psychological Laboratories.

Society of Experimental Psychologists.

Subjects:

Psychology--Study and teaching.

Environmental psychology.

Learning, Psychology of.

Reading, Psychology of.

Perceptual learning.

Perception.

Children--Research.

Women college students.

Occupations:

Women psychologists.

Psychologists.

Women college teachers.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Eleanor Gibson Papers, #14-23-2658. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIAL

Gibson, James J. papers,1922-1980.

Interviews by Kathryn M. Moore, 1975-1976.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Eleanor Gibson Material, 1933-1999

Material from Eleanor Gibson's undergraduate and graduate studies including her masters and doctoral theses, vitae and biographical sketches, correspondence, material relating to her 1992 National Medal of Science Award, and articles written by Eleanor Gibson.

Series II. Subject Files, 1906-1998

Notes and articles arranged by subject.

Series III. Psychology Scholar Files, 1941-1997

Notes and articles by colleagues and other psychology scholars

Series IV. Talks, Lectures, and Classes, 1931-1998

Notes, slides, and articles for classes, lectures, and talks.

Series V. Experiments and Grants, 1943-1980

Grant proposals, data from experiments.

Series VI. Book Publication Files 1917-1978

Material for book

Series VII. Miscellaneous

CONTAINER LIST

Date	Description	Container
	Series I. Eleanor Gibson Material
	Memoir:family biographical materials, 1978-2001	Box 16	Folder 1
	Master's Thesis:Efficiency of Retention as Dependent Upon the Similarity of the Interpolated Task, 1933	Box 10	Folder 9
	E.J.G.'s Notebook from Yale	Box 1	Folder 1
	Comparative Psychobiology notes from Yale	Box 2	Folder 13
	Animal Psychology notes from Yale	Box 2	Folder 14
	Syllabus from Yale class, 1935-1936	Box 1	Folder 2
	Articles by E.J.G., 1937-1979	Box 12	Folder 1--22
	Doctoral Thesis:A Systematic Application of the Concepts of Generalization And Differentiation to Verbal Learning, 1938	Box 10	Folder 10
	Studies in Generalization and Differentiation: 5 articles by E.J.G., 1939-1943	Box 1	Folder 9
	Six articles by E.J.G.: Studies in Generalization and Differentiation, 1939-1959	Box 12	Folder 43
	Correspondence: 1939 - 1943, 1963 -1968	Box 6	Folder 1
	Elkind, David - correspondence regarding E.J.G.'s Learning to Read article in Science, 1965	Box 7	Folder 18
	Correspondence: 1969-1971	Box 6	Folder 2
	Correspondence: 1972 - 1973	Box 6	Folder 3
	Correspondence: 1974-1979	Box 6	Folder 4
	Articles by E.J.G. and biographical sketch from A History of Psychology in Autobiography, 1980	Box 12	Folder 23
	Correspondence: 1980	Box 6	Folder 5
	Correspondence: January - June 1981	Box 6	Folder 6
	Correspondence: July - December 1981	Box 6	Folder 7
	Articles by E.J.G., 1981-1992	Box 12	Folder 24-34
	Correspondence: January - April 1982	Box 6	Folder 8
	Correspondence: May - December 1982	Box 6	Folder 9
	Correspondence: 1983	Box 6	Folder 10
	Correspondence: 1984	Box 6	Folder 11
	Correspondence: Dartmouth 1984-1986	Box 6	Folder 24
	Correspondence: 1985	Box 6	Folder 12
	Correspondence: 1986	Box 6	Folder 13
	Correspondence: 1987	Box 6	Folder 14
	Correspondence: 1988	Box 6	Folder 15
	International Society of Ecological Psychology, 1988-1993	Box 10	Folder 12
	Correspondence: 1989	Box 6	Folder 16
	Correspondence: 1990	Box 6	Folder 17
	Correspondence: 1991	Box 6	Folder 18
	Article: Eleanor J. Gibson: Learning to Perceive and Perceiving to Learn, by Herbert L. Pick Jr., 1992	Box 12	Folder 35
	Correspondence: 1992	Box 6	Folder 19
	National Medal of Science Award material, 1992	Box 10	Folder 11
	Articles by E.J.G., 1993	Box 12	Folder 36-38
	Correspondence: 1993	Box 6	Folder 20
	Correspondence: 1994	Box 6	Folder 21
	Paper on George Elliot for book group, 1995	Box 12	Folder 39
	Correspondence: 1995-1996	Box 6	Folder 22
	Articles by E.J.G., 1996-1997	Box 12	Folder 40-41
	Articles by E.J.G.,undated, ca. 1990-1997	Box 12	Folder 42
	Correspondence: 1997-1999	Box 6	Folder 23
	Correspondence: undated	Box 6	Folder 25
	Vitae and biographical sketches	Box 10	Folder 8
	Series II. Subject Files
	A Linguistic Analysis of First Grade Reading Errors	Box 7	Folder 8
	Acquired Distinctiveness	Box 13	Folder 22
	Affordances, 1938-1976	Box 13	Folder 23
	Affordances, 1977-1986	Box 13	Folder 24
	Affordances 1981-1988	Box 16	Folder 2
	Affordances, 1987-1988	Box 13	Folder 25
	Affordances , 1989-1990	Box 13	Folder 26
	Affordances, 1991 - 1993	Box 14	Folder 1
	Animal studies: Bats: sonar signal processing 1976	Box 16	Folder 3
	Animal studies: birds: migration, sensory perception studies 1958-1975	Box 16	Folder 4
	Animal studies: hummingbirds: adaptation, decision making 1981-1993	Box 16	Folder 5
	Animal studies: birds: prenatal behavior 1970	Box 16	Folder 6
	Animal studies: California sea lion: attention shift and errorless reversal learning 1967	Box 16	Folder 7
	Animal studies: cats, rats: sensory discrimination, brain function 1934-1970	Box 16	Folder 8
	Animal studies: elephant seal dialects 1969	Box 16	Folder 9
	Animal studies: environment and ecology 1969-1970	Box 16	Folder 10
	Animal studies: hearing in animals 1973	Box 16	Folder 11
	Animal studies: insects: sensory perception, motor patterns 1969-1970	Box 16	Folder 12
	Animal studies: language in non-human (primates mostly) 1969-1981	Box 16	Folder 34
	Animal studies: monkeys: sensory perception, discrimination, language, developmental behavior, intelligence 1940-1977	Box 16	Folder 13
	Animal studies: planaria: conditioned discrimination 1964	Box 16	Folder 14
	Animal studies: quails and rats: sensory cues and aversions, discrimination learning, perceptual organization 1950-1971	Box 16	Folder 15
	Animal studies: snakes: chemical-cue preferences of newborn 1971	Box 16	Folder 16
	Animal studies: discrimination, stroboscopic movement 1953-1965	Box 16	Folder 17
	Aphasia and Localization articles, 1962	Box 7	Folder 10
	Aphasia and Localization articles, 1962-1968	Box 7	Folder 11
	APU Reprints: linguistic psychology articles, 1963-1966	Box 7	Folder 4
	Articles on Information, Events, and Affordances, 1977-1986	Box 12	Folder 44
	Articles on Perceptual Theory, 1955-1986	Box 12	Folder 45
	Articulation articles, 1962-1966	Box 7	Folder 13
	Auditory perception and reading 1962-1965	Box 16	Folder 18
	Bibliography of Baby Biographies	Box 1	Folder 7
	Bilingualism, 1962-1968	Box 5	Folder 19
	Categorical Perception, 1949-1977	Box 14	Folder 2
	Categorical Perception, 1979-1982	Box 14	Folder 3
	Causality, Predictability, and Intention 1956-1978	Box 14	Folder 4
	Causality, Predictability, and Intention 1979-1990	Box 14	Folder 5
	Classic Reprints:articles collected by E.J.G., 1935-1959	Box 14	Folder 6
	Cloze Procedure - Readability, 1953	Box 7	Folder 21
	Cognition, 1969-1982	Box 14	Folder 7
	Cognition, 1983- 1987	Box 14	Folder 8
	Cognitive processes 1960	Box 16	Folder 19
	Color Vision in infants, 1974-1977	Box 14	Folder 9
	Communication in infants 1977-1996	Box 16	Folder 20
	Comparative Psychology: old reprints, 1951-1953	Box 10	Folder 4
	Concept Formation, 1957-1964	Box 5	Folder 18
	Concepts and memory 1985 1993	Box 16	Folder 21
	Confusion Matrices in Speech Communication, 1961	Box 7	Folder 12
	Confusion Matrices, 1957-1971	Box 7	Folder 16
	Connectionism, 1988-1997	Box 14	Folder 10
	Control 1967-1994	Box 16	Folder 22
	Control and intentionality 1979-1989	Box 16	Folder 23
	Core knowledge 1992-1998	Box 16	Folder 24
	Cultural Differences in Perception, 1973-1976	Box 14	Folder 11
	Deaf Reading, 1960	Box 7	Folder 20
	Development 1994-1998	Box 16	Folder 25
	Developmental Psychology, 1941-1986	Box 14	Folder 12
	Differentiation and Predifferentiation, 1942-1962	Box 14	Folder 13
	Dyslexia: notes, articles, papers, 1931, 1960-1965	Box 10	Folder 31
	Dyslexia: notes, articles, papers, 1966-1970	Box 9	Folder 18
	Dyslexia: notes, articles, papers, 1971-1972	Box 4	Folder 21
	Dyslexia: notes, articles, papers, 1973	Box 3	Folder 20
	Early Learning 1971-1994	Box 16	Folder 26
	Ecological self 1973-1990	Box 16	Folder 27-28
	Environmental Psychology, 1975-1988	Box 14	Folder 14
	Event Perception, 1957-1977	Box 14	Folder 15
	Event Perception, 1978-1981	Box 14	Folder 16
	Event Perception, 1982-1984	Box 14	Folder 17
	Event Perception, 1985	Box 14	Folder 18
	Event Perception, 1986-1987	Box 14	Folder 19
	Event Perception, 1988-1991	Box 14	Folder 20
	Exploration and Action, 1950-1977	Box 14	Folder 22
	Exploration and Action, 1978 -1984	Box 14	Folder 23
	Exploration and Action, 1985-1986	Box 14	Folder 24
	Extrinsic Awards and Motivation, 1959-1975	Box 15	Folder 1
	Faces 1970-1977	Box 15	Folder 2
	Faces 1978-1985	Box 15	Folder 3
	Faces 1986-1990	Box 15	Folder 4
	Fairy tales 1944-1992	Box 16	Folder 29
	Flexibility 1978-1996	Box 16	Folder 30
	Flow Patterns 1971-1984	Box 15	Folder 5
	Flow Patterns 1985-1990	Box 15	Folder 6
	Form and Shape, Perception and Discrimination, 1957-1959	Box 5	Folder 20
	Form and Shape, Perception and Discrimination, 1960-1962	Box 5	Folder 21
	Functionalism	Box 16	Folder 31
	Gestalt Principles 1937-1981	Box 15	Folder 7
	Grammatical Categories in Learning, 1961-1965	Box 6	Folder 30
	History of Child Psychology, 1979	Box 15	Folder 8
	Humans: early development 1970 1987	Box 16	Folder 32
	Infant Hearing 1963-1984	Box 15	Folder 9
	Information Processing and Sequential Relationship, 1954	Box 7	Folder 14
	Information Processing, 1958-1992	Box 15	Folder 10
	Intermodal 1977-1998	Box 16	Folder 33
	Intermodal Perception, 1927-1977	Box 15	Folder 11
	Intermodal Perception, 1978-1982	Box 15	Folder 12
	Intermodal Perception, 1983-1989	Box 15	Folder 13
	Language Development, 1959-1977	Box 15	Folder 14
	Language Development, 1978-1982	Box 15	Folder 15
	Language Development, 1983-1984	Box 15	Folder 16
	Language Development, 1985-1986	Box 15	Folder 17
	Language Development, 1987-1988	Box 15	Folder 18
	Language Development, 1989-1991	Box 15	Folder 19
	Language Development, 1993-1996	Box 15	Folder 20
	Learning: notes 1987-1995	Box 16	Folder 35
	Learning theory 1966-1989	Box 16	Folder 36
	Learning theory: its foundations in early development 1990-1995	Box 16	Folder 37
	Learning to read 1965	Box 16	Folder 38
	Locomotion - optical 1978-1996	Box 17	Folder 1
	Locomotor development 1958-2001	Box 17	Folder 2
	Mirror Research, 1906-1978	Box 15	Folder 21
	Nature of perceptual change 1976-1994	Box 17	Folder 3
	Notes on Burr's Comparative Neurology	Box 1	Folder 23
	Objects, 1965-1986	Box 15	Folder 22
	Objects, 1988	Box 15	Folder 23
	Objects, 1967-1997	Box 17	Folder 4-5
	Old Form Perception Reprints, 1920-1949	Box 5	Folder 13
	Old Form Perception Reprints, 1951-1956	Box 5	Folder 14
	Old Form Perception Reprints, 1958-1961	Box 5	Folder 15
	Optics of Infancy, 1957-1978	Box 9	Folder 1
	Perception of Order and Regularity, 1963-1965	Box 10	Folder 30
	Perception, Perceptual Learning, 1920-1956	Box 9	Folder 2
	Perception, Perceptual Learning, 1957-1963	Box 9	Folder 3
	Perception, Perceptual Learning, 1964-1972	Box 9	Folder 4
	Perception, Perceptual Learning, 1975-1989	Box 9	Folder 5
	Perceptual Development and Reading Research, 1975	Box 1	Folder 8
	Perceptual judgement 1952	Box 17	Folder 6
	Perceptual learning 1955-2001	Box 17	Folder 7
	Phylogenesis of Vision, 1949	Box 1	Folder 25
	Phylogeny of Perception 1958-1999	Box 17	Folder 8
	Pictoral Perception, 1906-1976	Box 9	Folder 6
	Pictoral Perception, 1977-1979	Box 9	Folder 7
	Pictoral Perception, 1980-1981	Box 9	Folder 8
	Pictoral Perception, 1982-1988	Box 9	Folder 9
	Preadapted Coordination of systems, 1970-1979	Box 9	Folder 10
	Preadapted Coordination of systems, 1980-1986	Box 9	Folder 11
	Primate Perception and Learning reprints, 1938-1953	Box 5	Folder 16
	Proximity Analysis for Information Processing, 1962, 1967	Box 7	Folder 5
	Reading articles, 1963-1964	Box 7	Folder 9
	Reading in Children with Sensory and Motor Defects: papers and bibliography, 1969-1970	Box 2	Folder 37
	Reading Research Quarterly, Winter 1965, Winter 1968	Box 7	Folder 6
	Reading Skills, 1981-1983	Box 9	Folder 12
	Receptive fields 1940-1977	Box 17	Folder 9
	Reprints on Attention, 1918-1928	Box 5	Folder 12
	Role of Inflection in Word Perception,paper and notes, 1970-1971	Box 8	Folder 3
	Scanning and Detection articles, 1964-1966	Box 8	Folder 6
	Self: as agent 1976-1995	Box 17	Folder 10
	Self: differentiation from world 1974-1989	Box 17	Folder 11
	Self: specification as a place 1974-1986	Box 17	Folder 12
	Sensory perception: binocular depth perception 1974	Box 17	Folder 13
	Sensory perception and thinking 1939-1972	Box 17	Folder 14
	Space 1946-1995	Box 17	Folder 15
	Spatial Perception, 1956-1981	Box 9	Folder 13
	Spatial Perception, 1982-1986	Box 9	Folder 14
	Spatial Perception, 1987-1988	Box 9	Folder 15
	Spatial Perception, 1989-1995	Box 9	Folder 16
	Spelling patterns, 1960-1968	Box 8	Folder 26
	Spelling patterns, 1960-1968	Box 8	Folder 27
	Stroop Effect in Chinese Children	Box 7	Folder 30
	Supporting surfaces 1978-1992	Box 17	Folder 16
	The Cognitive Basis for Linguistic Structures, T.G. Bever, 1968	Box 6	Folder 29
	Tools and Tool Use, 1932-1997	Box 9	Folder 17
	Transfer and flexibility in skill development 1992-1995	Box 17	Folder 17
	Transformational Theory of Grammar and Language, 1964-1965	Box 7	Folder 3
	Unit Formation, 1959-1964	Box 7	Folder 19
	Visual perception 1956-1972	Box 17	Folder 18
	Visual perception and distance 1952-1961	Box 17	Folder 19
	Visual perception and reading 1962-1977	Box 17	Folder 20
	Visual System/Visual Cliff, 1949-1982	Box 5	Folder 22
	Word Association Reprints, 1962-1965	Box 5	Folder 17
	Word Classification, 1961-1964	Box 7	Folder 7
	Word Perception Articles, 1963-1965	Box 6	Folder 26
	Word Perception: Haskins Laboratories, Alvin M. Liberman articles, 1951-1959	Box 6	Folder 27
	Word Perception: Haskins Laboratories, Alvin M. Liberman articles, 1960-1965	Box 6	Folder 28
	Writing, 1961	Box 7	Folder 17
	Nature of perceptual change 1976-1994	Box 15	Folder 13
	Floppy disks: articles and chapters	Box 17	Folder 21
	Card file: articles	Box 17	Folder 22
	Series III. Psychology Scholar Files
	Adolf, Karen	Box 10	Folder 6
	Adolf, Karen	Box 10	Folder 13
	Bahrick, Lorraine E. 1998-2001	Box 18	Folder 1
	Baillargeon, Renee, ca. 1987	Box 10	Folder 14
	Best, Catherine Therese, 1981-1994	Box 10	Folder 15
	Bingham, Geoffrey P., 1989-1993	Box 10	Folder 16
	Bower, T.G.R., 1964-1992	Box 10	Folder 17
	Brill, Blandine, 1989-1990	Box 10	Folder 18
	Church, Joseph, 1964	Box 10	Folder 19
	Clifton, Rachel K., 1988-1997	Box 10	Folder 20
	Clifton, Rachel K., 2000-2002	Box 18	Folder 2
	Ellis, Henry C., 1962-1967	Box 10	Folder 1
	Ellis, Henry C., 1968	Box 10	Folder 2
	Eppler,Marion, 1988	Box 10	Folder 7
	Evans, Selby, 1965-1967	Box 7	Folder 15
	Fantz, Robert E., 1956-1967	Box 10	Folder 21
	Fraiberg, Selma, ca. 1968-1969	Box 10	Folder 22
	Garcia, John, 1966-1987	Box 18	Folder 3
	Gibson,James J., 1944-1998	Box 12	Folder 46
	Granrud, Carl E. 1988	Box 10	Folder 23
	Gustafson, Gwen E. 1979-1988	Box 10	Folder 24
	Hagen, Margaret, 1978-1990	Box 10	Folder 25
	Hull, Clark L. 1929-1952	Box 18	Folder 4-5
	Hull [Clark L.] and Tolman [Edward C.]: notes, reprints 1929-1942	Box 18	Folder 6
	Keil, Frank, 1991-1992	Box 10	Folder 26
	Kellman, Philip J. 1987-1992	Box 10	Folder 27
	Landau, Barbara, 1979	Box 10	Folder 28
	Lee, David, 1976-1992	Box 10	Folder 29
	Lipsitt, Lewis P., 1979-1982	Box 13	Folder 1
	Mandler, Jean, 1977-1993	Box 13	Folder 2
	Menzel, Emil 1964-1983	Box 18	Folder 7-8
	Miller, David B. 1988	Box 18	Folder 9
	Neisser, Ulric, 1964-1994	Box 13	Folder 3
	Newell, Karl, 1986, 1989	Box 13	Folder 4
	Reed, Edward S., 1994-1995	Box 13	Folder 5
	Rieser, John, 1988-1989	Box 13	Folder 6
	Rochat, Philippe, 1988-1994	Box 13	Folder 7
	Rochat, Philippe, 1995-1997	Box 13	Folder 8
	Rosch, Eleanor, 1971-1976	Box 13	Folder 9
	Rovee-Collier, Carolyn, 1978-1986	Box 13	Folder 10
	Schmuckler, Mark A., 1990	Box 13	Folder 11
	Slater, Alan, 1985-1990	Box 13	Folder 12
	Smitsman, Ad W., 1985-1988	Box 13	Folder 13
	Spelke, Elizabeth, 1976-1992	Box 13	Folder 14
	Spelke, Elizabeth, 1976-1992	Box 13	Folder 14
	Spelke, Elizabeth, 1998-2002	Box 18	Folder 10
	Tenney, Yvette: 1973	Box 8	Folder 7
	Thelen, Esther, 1984-1986	Box 13	Folder 16
	Tolman, Edward C. 1935-1951	Box 18	Folder 11
	Trevarthen, Colwyn, 1978-1989	Box 13	Folder 17
	Turvey, M.T., 1986-1991	Box 13	Folder 18
	Von Hofsten, Claes, 1982-1985	Box 13	Folder 19
	Von Hofsten, Claes, 1988-1996	Box 13	Folder 20
	Vurpillot, Eliane, 1956-1959	Box 7	Folder 2
	Vurpillot, Eliane, 1960-1964	Box 7	Folder 29
	Walker-Andrews, Arlene, 1988-1994	Box 13	Folder 21
	Weigl, Egon:On the Psychology of So-called Processes of Abstraction, 1941	Box 1	Folder 37
	Series IV. Talks, Lectures, and Classes
	Comparative Psychology Course: Mr. Pierce's collection of articles, 1907-1914	Box 2	Folder 10
	Comparative Psychology Course, ca. 1931-1939	Box 2	Folder 8
	Comparative Psychology Course: Bibliographies, Notes, Articles, 1931-1939	Box 2	Folder 23
	Comparative Psychology Course: Illustrative Material, ca. 1931-1939	Box 2	Folder 9
	Comparative Psychology Course: 34a Lectures on genetic psychology, ca. 1931-1939	Box 2	Folder 21
	Comparative Psychology Course: 34a Reading lists, exams, 1931-1936	Box 2	Folder 24
	Child Development Seminar, ca. 1933-1939	Box 11	Folder 34
	Comparative Psychology Course : 34a Course Lectures, 1937-1938	Box 2	Folder 18
	Preadapted coordinations: internodal equivalence and coordination 1937-1978	Box 18	Folder 30
	Preadapted coordinations: intermodal relations 1937-1984	Box 18	Folder 29
	Comparative Psychology Course : 34a Course, 1938-1939	Box 2	Folder 17
	Comparative Psychology Course : Maze Experiment, 1938-1939	Box 2	Folder 19
	Comparative Psychology Course: Notes on Animal Genetic Psychology for 34a, 1938-1939	Box 2	Folder 22
	Comparative Psychology Course: Questionnaires on Animal Psychology from 34a, 1938-1939	Box 2	Folder 20
	Learning Review for Seniors, 1938-1939	Box 1	Folder 35
	Comparative Psychology Course : 34b Course, 1940	Box 2	Folder 16
	Comparative Psychology Course : 34b Course 1940-1941	Box 2	Folder 15
	Comparative Psychology Course : 34b Course, 1941-1942	Box 2	Folder 12
	Comparative Psychology Course : 34b Course Outlines, 1941-1942, 1948	Box 2	Folder 11
	Psychology 11: Lectures, Smith College, 1941-1942	Box 1	Folder 45
	Psychology 11: Old Experiments and Special Lectures, Smith College, 1941-1942	Box 1	Folder 46
	Psychology 12: Course outlines, Smith College, 1946-1947	Box 1	Folder 47
	Psychology 12: Course outlines and exams, Smith College, 1947-1948	Box 1	Folder 48
	Psychology 12: Course notes, 1948-1949	Box 1	Folder 49
	Psychology 12: First Semester, Smith College, 1948-1949	Box 1	Folder 50
	Psychology 12: Outlines, 1948-1949	Box 1	Folder 51
	Psychology 12: First and Second Year Quizzes, 1948-1949	Box 2	Folder 1
	Psychology 12: Midyear exams, 1948-1949	Box 2	Folder 2
	Psychology 12: Spring Quiz, 1948-1949	Box 2	Folder 3
	Psychology 12: Final Examination, 1948-1949	Box 2	Folder 4
	Psychology 12: Demonstration Materials, 1948-1949	Box 2	Folder 5
	Psychology 12: Sample Final Examination from Dartmouth, 1948-1949	Box 2	Folder 6
	Psychology 12: Sample Final Examination, 1948-1949	Box 2	Folder 7
	Comparative Psychology Course Notes, 1948	Box 1	Folder 21
	Psychology 208:Learning, Exams, 1950	Box 1	Folder 33
	Psychology 208:Learning,Lecture outlines, 1950	Box 1	Folder 34
	Psychology 208:Learning, Material, 1950-1954	Box 1	Folder 36
	Photograph of Black Abstraction by Georgia O'Keefe, 1954	Box 1	Folder 32
	Differentiation 1955-2001	Box 18	Folder 18
	Motivation: visual stimuli (see also affordances) 1956 1979	Box 18	Folder 25
	Events: lecture notes, reprints 1957-1979	Box 18	Folder 21
	What Psychology is about 1957-2001	Box 19	Folder 5
	Visual Cliff material for speech at Barnard, ca. 1961	Box 1	Folder 26
	Active Touch Photographs, 1962	Box 11	Folder 33
	Learning Project Conference Papers, 1963	Box 7	Folder 26
	Learning Project Conference Papers, 1963	Box 7	Folder 27
	Learning Project Conference Papers, 1963	Box 7	Folder 28
	Linguistics Seminar, 1963	Box 1	Folder 20
	Perceptual and Linguistic Aspects of Reading Skill, conference papers, 1963-1964	Box 7	Folder 22
	Perceptual and Linguistic Aspects of Reading Skill, conference papers, 1963-1964	Box 7	Folder 23
	Berkeley Seminar on Cognitive Studies and Curriculum Development, 1964	Box 1	Folder 22
	Concept Formation Conference, 1964	Box 7	Folder 25
	Learning, Remembering and Forgetting, conference at Princeton, 1964	Box 7	Folder 24
	Perceptual Learning Seminar, 1965	Box 1	Folder 19
	Berkeley paper:Perceptual Learning in Educational Situations, 1966-1967	Box 1	Folder 13
	Motivation: perception of face and people 1968-1978	Box 18	Folder 26
	Comparative psychology 1970	Box 18	Folder 12
	Scanning and reading 1970-1976	Box 18	Folder 33
	Colloquium on Meaning, Fall 1972	Box 1	Folder 12
	Psychology 309, 1972	Box 1	Folder 16
	Attention: readings 1972-1978	Box 18	Folder 16
	Slides for Ecological Optics, 1972-1979	Box 11	Folder 1
	Stroop, Kukish and Golintoff Rosinski 1972-1982	Box 18	Folder 35
	Environmental layout: lecture notes 1973-1976	Box 18	Folder 20
	Pictorial perception: course outlines, notes 1973-1979	Box 18	Folder 19
	Set and selection 1973-1979	Box 18	Folder 34
	Learning conference 1973-1989	Box 19	Folder 2
	Course on Perceptual Learning, Fall 1974	Box 11	Folder 2
	Psychology 309, 1974	Box 1	Folder 17
	Language development: notes, reprints 1975-1979	Box 18	Folder 23
	Psychology 209, 1976	Box 1	Folder 18
	Psychology 308: Perceptual Learning, Fall 1976	Box 1	Folder 15
	Preadapted coordinations: perception of objects: notes 1976-1979	Box 18	Folder 31
	Preadapted coordinations: unity 1976-1980	Box 18	Folder 32
	Attention, development of: course materials 1977	Box 18	Folder 17
	Psych 309 course outlines 1977-1978	Box 18	Folder 13
	Psych 309 & 263B course outlines 1977-1978	Box 18	Folder 14
	History of Developmental Psychology seminar at Cornell, Fall 1977	Box 11	Folder 3
	History of Developmental Psychology seminar at Cornell, Fall 1977	Box 11	Folder 4
	Perceptual Learning and Development course at UCONN, 1977	Box 11	Folder 5
	Psychology 309 Notes (UC Davis), 1978	Box 11	Folder 6
	Pictorial perception: course outlines, notes, 1978	Box 18	Folder 27
	Psychology 263B: course outlines, notes	Box 18	Folder 15
	Attention seminar 1979	Box 19	Folder 1
	EPA Symposium:Women in Academia, 1979	Box 1	Folder 11
	Minnesota Seminar, Fall 1980	Box 1	Folder 3
	Echoic Memory 1981	Box 18	Folder 19
	Ecological Approach to Perception and Perceptual Development (S.Carolina), ca. 1981	Box 11	Folder 7
	Conference on Event Perception, 1982	Box 11	Folder 8
	Lecture and Conference notes from Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China, 1982-1983	Box 11	Folder 9
	William James Seminar: Psych 561, Spring 1983	Box 1	Folder 5
	Penn Seminar, Spring 1984	Box 1	Folder 4
	Penn Workshop Paper, 1984	Box 11	Folder 10
	Seminar on Perception and Perceptual Development: Historical perspectives and the ecological approach, 1985	Box 11	Folder 12
	Uppsala Conference, 1985	Box 11	Folder 11
	Dartmouth Seminar on Child Development, 1986	Box 11	Folder 14
	Quick Talk on Ecological Approach vs. Constructivist 1986	Box 11	Folder 13
	University of South Carolina commencement speech 1987	Box 19	Folder 4
	Trieste Symposium, 1987	Box 11	Folder 15
	Emory Colloquium Paper and Slides on Mobility, 1988	Box 11	Folder 16
	Exploratory behavior 1988	Box 18	Folder 22
	Geneva Talk - Affordances in Perceptual Development, 1989	Box 11	Folder 17
	Miami University of Ohio Conference, 1989	Box 11	Folder 18
	Perceptual Learning Seminar at Emory, 1990	Box 11	Folder 20
	Cornell Colloquium, Spring 1991	Box 11	Folder 22
	Cornell Centennial Paper on Information, July 1991	Box 11	Folder 24
	ISSBD Symposium on Dynamic Systems in Development, 1991	Box 11	Folder 23
	University of Minnesota Conference, 1991	Box 11	Folder 21
	Minnesota Seminar, Spring 1992	Box 11	Folder 26
	Notes and Overheads for Affordances Colloquium, 1992	Box 11	Folder 27
	Duke Colloquium, 1993	Box 11	Folder 29
	Perceptual development colloquium 1993	Box 19	Folder 3
	Prolegomena Paper for Storrs Conference, 1994	Box 11	Folder 30
	USC Seminar, 1995	Box 11	Folder 31
	Virginia Tech Talk with Slides, 1998	Box 11	Folder 32
	Cognitive Group Talk	Box 11	Folder 35
	Conference on Pre-School Education papers	Box 7	Folder 1
	Demonstrations for Introductory Course: Acquisition and Extinction of Anticipatory Responses	Box 1	Folder 38
	Demonstrations for Introductory Course: Retroactive Inhibition	Box 1	Folder 39
	Early Development Lecture	Box 11	Folder 36
	Emory Colloquium Talk	Box 11	Folder 37
	Flow Pattern Symposium	Box 11	Folder 38
	Guiding Locomotion, Poster and Slides	Box 11	Folder 19
	Information Based Theory of Perceptual Development: Notes and Slides	Box 11	Folder 39
	Iowa Talk	Box 11	Folder 40
	James J. Gibson Information Lecture with slides	Box 11	Folder 41
	Jill Kerr Conway Talk	Box 11	Folder 42
	Lecture on the History of Developmental Psychology	Box 1	Folder 10
	Lectures on Conditioning	Box 1	Folder 30
	Maternal Behavior Lecture	Box 1	Folder 29
	Miami University of Ohio Paper: Learning to Perceive or Perceiving to Learn?	Box 11	Folder 25
	Miscellaneous Slides	Box 11	Folder 45
	Motivation: differential rearing	Box 18	Folder 24
	Notes for Colloquium on Distance Experts - WWII	Box 1	Folder 31
	Reading Conference Paper:Analysis of the Reading Process as Perceptual Learning	Box 1	Folder 14
	Reading lists for majors and minors in perceptual development	Box 1	Folder 6
	Speeches on Generalization and Discrimination Learning	Box 1	Folder 24
	Trends in perceptual development	Box 18	Folder 36
	Visual Cliff photographs and negatives	Box 11	Folder 43
	Walkway photograph and slide	Box 11	Folder 44
	Possible mutations [overheads for teaching]	Box 18	Folder 28
	Series V. Experiments and Grants
	Fear Schedule: Experiment on the fears of college women, ca. 1940-1945	Box 1	Folder 40
	Anger Survey Checklists, ca. 1940-1949	Box 1	Folder 41
	Thematic Apperception Test, 1943	Box 1	Folder 28
	Vocational Interest Tests, 1945	Box 1	Folder 27
	Students' descriptions of Anger, notes, 1947-1948	Box 1	Folder 42
	Students' descriptions of Anger, notes, 1948-1949	Box 1	Folder 43
	Data on Emotionally Toned Sylloqisms	Box 1	Folder 44
	Distance Estimation Experiment on Cornell Arts Quadrangle, 1954	Box 5	Folder 23
	E.J.G. and R.D. Walk NSF grant proposal, 1955	Box 10	Folder 5
	Ideas for new research and experiments, ca. 1960s	Box 1	Folder 52
	Rearing experiments, receptor fields, microelectrode recording 1963-1975	Box 19	Folder 6
	Reading Grant: First Proposal and Award, 1968-1970	Box 8	Folder 8
	Word-Picture Experiment: Articles, 1968-1972	Box 8	Folder 12
	Anagram Experiment, 1969-1972	Box 8	Folder 14
	Anagram Experiment, 1969-1972	Box 8	Folder 15
	Event Perception Experimental set up used by Mundy-Castle illustration photo, 1969	Box 14	Folder 21
	Reading Grant: Quarterly Progress Reports, 1969-1972	Box 8	Folder 9
	Rigid Motion vs. Deformation,experiment data	Box 7	Folder 31
	Scanning Experiment with Category Structure: Punch cards, 1970-1972	Box 8	Folder 1
	Reading Grant: Equipment, 1970-1972	Box 8	Folder 11
	Redundant Cues experiment, 1970-1972	Box 8	Folder 16
	Scanning Experiment with Category Structure, 1970-1972	Box 8	Folder 17
	Scanning Experiment with Category Structure, 1970-1972	Box 8	Folder 18
	Scanning Experiment with Category Structure, 1970-1972	Box 8	Folder 19
	Scanning Experiment with Category Structure, 1970-1972	Box 8	Folder 20
	Scanning Experiment with Category Structure, 1970-1972	Box 8	Folder 21
	Scanning Experiment with Category Structure, 1970-1972	Box 8	Folder 22
	Scanning Experiment with Category Structure, 1970-1972	Box 8	Folder 23
	Scanning Experiment with Category Structure, 1970-1972	Box 8	Folder 24
	Scanning Experiment with Category Structure, 1970-1972	Box 8	Folder 25
	Scanning Experiment with Orthographic Structure, ca. 1971	Box 8	Folder 2
	Reading Grant: Contract extension, 1971-1973	Box 8	Folder 10
	Word-Picture Experiment: Notes, data, paper summary, 1971-1972	Box 8	Folder 13
	Letter and Color Redundancy Experiment Data sheets, ca. 1972	Box 8	Folder 4
	Infant Motion Study, 1974	Box 7	Folder 32
	Spencer Foundation Grant proposal and correspondence, 1978-1980	Box 10	Folder 3
	Alphabet Experiment	Box 8	Folder 5
	5" Floppy Disk:Walkway Data From Mainframe, February 19, 1985	Box 11	Folder 52
	Aperture obstacle film [16mm film]	Box 20
	Events [videocassette]	Box 20
	Fowler, Vicki: experiments [videocassette]	Box 20
	Habituation: Johansson film [videocassette]	Box 20
	Hole/patch tapes: data mixed up with other studies [videocassette]	Box 20
	Infant exploration of objects (Palmer) [videocassette]	Box 20
	Square moving room infants #1-2 [videocassette ]	Box 20
	Moving room #3-5 [videocassette ]	Box 20
	Optical transitions [videocassette]	Box 20
1985	Total demo [videocassette]	Box 20
	A visual cliff [videocassette]	Box 20
	Blank [videocassette]	Box 20
	Walkway #1-8, 10-14, 17-20 [videocassettes]	Box 21
	New walkway demo [videocassette]	Box 21
	Series VI. Book publication materials
	Psychology of Reading
	Chapter 1: miscellaneous material	Box 2	Folder 25
	Chapter 1: Discriminability of Letters	Box 2	Folder 26
	Chapter 1: Articles, 1972-1974	Box 2	Folder 27
	Chapter 1: Article- Reading Between the Lines: A Study of Selective Attention in Good and Poor Readers, Dale M. Willows, 1972	Box 2	Folder 28
	Chapter 2 material, 1968-1972	Box 2	Folder 29--30
	Chapter 3: Language Acquisition material, 1955-1975	Box 2	Folder 31
	Chapter 5: Writing Systems material, 1932, 1965-1971	Box 2	Folder 32
	Chapter 5: Writing Systems material, 1972-1973	Box 2	Folder 33
	Chapter 5: Writing Systems material, 1974-1978	Box 2	Folder 34
	Chapter 6: Word Recognition material	Box 2	Folder 35--36
	Chapter 6: Word Recognition material, 1897, 1950-1978	Box 3	Folder 1--7
	Chapter 7: Prereading and Pretraining Skills, 1955-1976	Box 3	Folder 8--14
	Chapter 8: Initial Reading and Decoding, 1942-1975	Box 3	Folder 15--19
	Chapter 8: Initial Reading and Decoding, 1942-1975	Box 3	Folder 16
	Chapter 8: Initial Reading and Decoding, 1942-1975	Box 3	Folder 17
	Chapter 8: Initial Reading and Decoding, 1942-1975	Box 3	Folder 18
	Chapter 8: Initial Reading and Decoding, 1942-1975	Box 3	Folder 19
	Chapter 8: Initial Reading and Decoding, 1942-1975	Box 4	Folder 1
	Chapter 8: Initial Reading and Decoding, 1942-1975	Box 4	Folder 2
	Chapter 8: Initial Reading and Decoding, 1942-1975	Box 4	Folder 3
	Chapter 8: Initial Reading and Decoding, 1942-1975	Box 4	Folder 4
	Chapter 8: Initial Reading and Decoding, 1942-1975	Box 4	Folder 5
	Chapter 8: Initial Reading and Decoding, 1942-1975	Box 4	Folder 6
	Chapter 8: Initial Reading and Decoding, 1942-1975	Box 4	Folder 7
	Chapter 8: Initial Reading and Decoding, 1942-1975	Box 4	Folder 8
	Chapter 9: Transition, 1966-1975	Box 4	Folder 9
	Chapter 10: Learning from Reading, 1917, 1947-1974	Box 4	Folder 10
	Chapter 10: Learning from Reading, 1917, 1947-1974	Box 4	Folder 11
	Chapter 10: Learning from Reading, 1917, 1947-1974	Box 4	Folder 12
	Chapter 10: Learning from Reading, 1917, 1947-1974	Box 4	Folder 13
	Chapter 11: Models, 1968-1974	Box 4	Folder 14
	Chapter 11: Models, 1968-1974	Box 4	Folder 15
	Chapter 11: Models, 1968-1974	Box 4	Folder 16
	Chapter 11: Models, 1968-1974	Box 4	Folder 17
	Part III, 1960-1978	Box 4	Folder 18
	Part III, 1960-1978	Box 4	Folder 19
	Part III, 1960-1978	Box 4	Folder 20
	Part III, 1960-1978	Box 5	Folder 1
	Part III, 1960-1978	Box 5	Folder 2
	Part III, 1960-1978	Box 5	Folder 3
	Part III, 1960-1978	Box 5	Folder 4
	Part III, 1960-1978	Box 5	Folder 5
	Part III, 1960-1978	Box 5	Folder 6
	Part III, 1960-1978	Box 5	Folder 7
	General Reviews, 1961-1965	Box 5	Folder 8
	General Reviews, 1967-1970	Box 5	Folder 9
	General Reviews, 1971	Box 5	Folder 10
	General Reviews, 1971-1973	Box 5	Folder 11
	An Odyssey in Learning and Perception
	Perceptual development: historical perspective (chapter 1) 1970-1995	Box 18	Folder 7
	Methods and motivation in infants (Chapter 3, part II) 1964-1995	Box 19	Folder 8
	Perceptual development (Chapter 4) 1968-1998	Box 19	Folder 9-10
	Attention in perceptual development (Chapter IV) 1972-1979	Box 19	Folder 11
	Attention and perception (Chapter V) 1979-1980	Box 19	Folder 12
	Locomotion (Chapter 7) 1956-1995	Box 19	Folder 13
	Beyond infancy (Chapter X) 1990-1996	Box 19	Folder 14
	Perception in language: information in speech (Chapter 13) 1994	Box 19	Folder 15
	Illustrations, figures 1992	Box 19	Folder 16
	Publisher correspondence 1991	Box 19	Folder 17
	Indices: author, subject	Box 19	Folder 18
	Preface, introduction 1990	Box 19	Folder 19
	Permissions received 1983-1990	Box 19	Folder 20
	Works cited 1932-1987	Box 19	Folder 21-23
	Odyssey file cards ("most up to date")	Box 19	Folder 24
	Odyssey ("most up to date")	Box 19	Folder 25
	Series VII. Miscellaneous
	Awards for Distinguished Scientific Achievement, (list) 1999	Box 19	Folder 26
	Review of paper, 1997	Box 19	Folder 27
	Correspondence re papers by others 2001-2002	Box 19	Folder 28
	Language and perception, George A. Miller and Philip N. Johnson-Laird [book] 1976	Box 22
	Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development: Basic cognitive processes in children, edited by John C. Wright and Jerome Kagan [book] 1976	Box 22
	Studies in learning 1950-1960, Eleanor J. Gibson [2 copies, book] 1950-1960	Box 22
	Child psychology, edited by Harold W. Stevenson with assistance of Jerome Kagan and Charles Spiker [book] 1963	Box 22
	Toward a literate society, John B. Carroll and Jeanne S. Chall [book] 1975	Box 22
	Analysis of reading skill, Harry Levin, Eleanor J. Gibson, James J. Gibson [book] 1968	Box 22
	Communicating by language, edited by James F. Kavanagh [book] 1968	Box 22
	Analysis of reading skill: a program of basic and applied research, Harry Levin, Eleanor J. Gibson, James J. Gibson [report] 1968	Box 22	Folder 1
	Toward an ecological theory of autism, Katherine A. Loveland [paper] 2000	Box 22	Folder 2
	The relationship between perceptual development and reading skill, Eleanor J. Gibson [report] 1971	Box 22	Folder 3
	Audio Cassette - E.G. Boring's Society of Experimental Psychologists / Edward B. Titchener centennial speech, 1967	Box 11	Folder 48
	Audio Recording of same E.G. Boring speech	Box 11	Folder 49
	VHS - The Man Who Made Up His Mind, BBC Horizon, January 1994	Box 11	Folder 46
	VHS - Optic Motions	Box 11	Folder 47
	Audio Cassette - unmarked	Box 11	Folder 50
	3" Floppy Disk - unformatted	Box 11	Folder 51

Guide to the Eleanor Gibson Papers, 1906-1999, 1935-1999 (bulk)

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Guide to the Eleanor Gibson Papers,
1906-1999, 1935-1999 (bulk)

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library