References
Everyone we name in Grey Matter, what we rely on them for, and where to check it. If we cite someone, they belong on this list.
Carl Jung
The idea of archetypes as recurring patterns rather than invented characters is his.
born 1944Carol S. Pearson
The specific set of twelve archetypes, and the four motivations they sort into, is her arrangement.
born 1936Jean Shinoda Bolen
The women's twelve on this site descend from her goddess archetypes rather than from Pearson's set.
1913–1994Roger Sperry
The split-brain experiments that everything about hemispheres ultimately rests on are his.
born 1974Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Her work on the adolescent brain is the basis for saying development continues well past the teens, and for saying it does not stop at a number.
1929–2022Roger Shepard
The mental rotation experiment, and the finding that decision time rises linearly with angle, is his with Jacqueline Metzler.
born 1965Stanislas Dehaene
The account of mirror invariance, and of what learning to read has to undo, is largely his.
born 1939Michael Gazzaniga
The interpreter, the finding that the speaking hemisphere invents reasons for what the other half did, is his.
born 1947Henry L. Roediger III
The testing effect, the finding that retrieving something is a better way to learn it than reviewing it, is largely his work with Jeffrey Karpicke.
1920–2012George A. Miller
The limited capacity of short-term memory, and chunking as the way around it, come from his 1956 paper.
born 1934Alan Baddeley
The working memory model these articles use is his, with Graham Hitch.
publishing todayAlexa Mousley
The finding that brain wiring reorganises in five stretches, with turning points near 9, 32, 66 and 83, is from work she led.
publishing todayBing Ren
The account of the hippocampus reorganising itself between roughly 50 and 75, at the level of gene regulation rather than behaviour, comes from work he is corresponding author on.
born 1976Kirk Erickson
The widely quoted finding that a year of walking grew the hippocampus by about 2% is from the trial he led.
born 1934Peter Schnohr
The comparison of life expectancy across different sports, in which racket sports come out furthest ahead, is from the cohort he founded and co-authored.
publishing since the 1970sWilliam O'Barr
The finding that the speech features blamed on women actually track powerlessness, not sex, is his with Bowman Atkins.
publishing todayLinda Carli
The finding that tentative speech can make a speaker more persuasive rather than less, depending on who is listening, is hers.
publishing todayCampbell Leaper
The measured size of the gap between how tentatively men and women actually speak comes from the meta-analysis he led with Rachael Robnett.