Selected Publications

 Cooper, L. A. and Shepard, R. N. (1973) Chronometric studies of the rotation of mental images. In W. G. Chase (Ed.), Visual information processing. New York: Academic Press.

Cooper, L. A. (1975) Mental rotation of random two-dimensional shapes. Cognitive Psychology, 7, 20-43.

Cooper, L. A. (1976) Demonstration of a mental analog of an external rotation. Perception and Psychophysics, 19, 296-302.

Cooper, L. A. and Podgorny, P. (1976) Mental transformation and visual comparison processes: Effects of complexity and similarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2 503-514.

Cooper, L. A. and Shepard, R. N. (1978) Transformations on representations of objects in spaceIn E. C. Carterette and M. P. Friedman (Eds.), Handbook of perception, Volume VIII: Perceptual Coding. New York: Academic Press.

Glushko, R. J. and Cooper, L. A. (1978) Spatial comprehension and comparison processes in verification tasks. Cognitive Psychology, 10, 391-421.

Cooper, L. A. (1980) Recent themes in visual information processing: A selected overview. In R. E. Nickerson (Ed.), Attention and performance VIII. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Shepard, R. N. and Cooper, L. A. (1982) Mental images and their transformations. Cambridge, MA/London, England: MIT Press.

Cooper, L. A. and Regan, D. T. (1983) Attention, perception and intelligence. In R. Sternberg (Ed.), The handbook of human intelligence. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Cooper, L. A. and Shepard, R. N. (1984) Turning something over in the mind. Scientific American, 251(6), 106-117.

Cooper, L. A. and Mumaw, R. (1985) Human spatial aptitude. In R. Dillon and R. Schmitt (Eds.), Individual differences in cognitive processes. New York: Academic Press.

Cooper, L. A. (1988) The role of spatial representations in complex problem solving. In S. Schiffer and S. Steele, (Eds.), Cognition and representation. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Cooper, L. A. (1989) Mental models of the structure of visual objects. In B. Shepp and S. Ballesteros (Eds.), Object perception: Structure and process. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Nadel, L., Cooper, L. A., Culicover, P. and Harnish, R. M. (1989) (Eds.), Neural connections and mental computations. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Schacter, D. L., Cooper, L. A., and Delaney, S. M. (1990a) Implicit memory for unfamiliar objects depends on access to structural descriptions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 119, 5-24.

Schacter, D.L., Cooper, L.A., and Delaney, S.M. (1990b) Implicit memory for visual objects and the structural description system. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 28, 367-372.

Cooper, L.A. (1990) Mental representation of three-dimensional objects in visual problem solving and recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 16, 1097-1106.

Schacter, D.L., Cooper, L.A., Delaney, S.M., Peterson, M.A., and Tharan, M. (1991) Implicit memory for possible and impossible objects: Constraints on the construction of structural descriptions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 17, 3-19.

Schacter, Cooper, L.A., Tharan, M., and Rubens, A.B. (1991) Preserved priming of novel objects in patients with memory disorders. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,3, 117-130.

Cooper, L.A. (1991a) Understanding complex images: Perspectives from visual cognition. Investigative Radiology, 26, 765-768.

Cooper, L.A. (1991b) Dissociable aspects of the mental representation of visual objects. In R.N. Logie and M. Denis (Eds.) Images in human cognition. (pp. 3-34). Amsterdam: Elsevier Press.

Cooper, L. A. & Munger, M. P. (1992) Extrapolating and remembering positions along cognitive trajectories: Uses and limitations of analogies to physical motion. In N. Eilan, W. Brewer, & R. McCarthy (Eds.), Spatial representation. London: Blackwell.

Cooper, L. A., Schacter, D. L., Ballesteros, S., and Moore, C. (1992) Priming and recognition of transformed three-dimensional objects: Effects of size and reflection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 43-57.

Shepard, R. N., & Cooper, L. A. (1992) Representation of colors in the blind, color-blind, and normally sighted. Psychological Science, 3, 97-104.

Schacter, D. L., Cooper, L. A., & Valdeserri, M. (1992) Implicit and explicit memory for novel visual objects in older and younger adults. Psychology and Aging, 7, 299-308.

Cooper, L. A., & Schacter, D. L. (1992) Dissociations between structural and episodic representations of visual objects. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1, 141-146.

Cooper, L. A. & Munger, M. P. (1993) Extrapolating and remembering positions along cognitive trajectories: Uses and limitations of analogies to physical motion. In N. Eilan, W. Brewer, & R. McCarthy (Eds.), Spatial representation, (pp. 112-131). London: Blackwell.

Schacter, D. L., & Cooper, L. A. (1993) Implicit and explicit memory for novel visual objects: Structure and function. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 995-1009.

Schacter, D. L., Cooper, L. A., & Treadwell, J. (1993) Preserved priming of novel objects across size transformations in amnesic patients. Psychological Science, 4, 331-335.

Cooper, L. A. (1993) Multiple representations for mental imagery. Computational Intelligence, 9, 334-336.

Cooper, L. A. (1994) Probing the nature of the mental representation of visual objects: Evidence from cognitive dissociations. In S. Ballesteros (Ed.), Cognitive approaches to human perception, (pp. 199-221). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Cooper, L. A., & Hochberg, J. (1994) Objects of the mind: The role of mental representations in visual perception and cognition. In S. Ballesteros (Ed.), Cognitive approaches to human perception (pp. 223-239). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Cooper, L. A. (1994) Mental representations of visual objects and events. In P. Eelen, M. Richelle, G. d'Ydewalle, and P. Bertelson (Eds.), International perspectives on psychological science, Volume 2: State of the art, (pp. 29-49) Hillsdale, NJ, USA, & UK: Erlbaum.

Cooper, L. A. (1994) Perception. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Human Intelligence, (pp. 791-795). New York: Macmillan.

Schacter, D. L., & Cooper, L. A. (1995) Bias in the priming of object decisions: Logic, assumption, and data. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 768-776.

Schacter, D. L., Reiman, E., Uecker, A., Polster, M. R., Yun, L. S., & Cooper, L. A. (1995) Brain regions associated with retrieval of structurally coherent visual information. Nature, 376, 587- 590.

Cooper, L. A. (1995) Varieties of visual representation: How are we to analyze the concept of mental image? Neuropsychologia, 33, 1575-1582. (Also to be reprinted in a volume, Mental Imagery, M. Behrmann, S. M. Kosslyn, and M. Jeannerod, Eds., Elsevier Press.)

Bernstein, L. J., & Cooper, L. A. (1996) Direction of motion influences perceptual identification of ambiguous figures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Cooper, L. A., & Lang, J. (1996) Imagery and visual-spatial representations. In E. L. Bjork & R. A. Bjork (Eds.), Memory, Volume 10, Handbook of Perception and Cognition, (page 129-164).

Hilton, H. J. & Cooper, L. A. (1996). Structural representations of objects: Invariance over a shape distorting transformation. Perception Supplement (25), 48.