Gordon H. Bower

Gordon H. Bower is a cognitive psychologist studying of human memory, language comprehension, emotion, and behavior modification. He received his Ph.D. in learning theory from Yale University in 1959. He is currently holds the A. R. Lang Chair Professorship at Stanford University.

He was voted no 42 in the list of most notable psychologists of the 20th century, published by Hagbloom {2002}

Publications

 * Bower, G. H. (1999). A brief history of memory research. In E. Tulving & F. I. M. Craik (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Memory. New York: Oxford University Press..
 * Rinck, M., Bower, G. H. (1999). Goals as generators of activation in narrative understanding. In S. Goldman, A. Graesser, & P. van den Broek, (Eds.), Narrative Comprehension, Causality, and Coherence: Essays in Honor of Tom Trabasso. Saddle River, N.J.: Erlbaum Publishers..