Ulric Gustav Neisser was born in Kiel, Germany, on December 8, 1928. Neisser's father, Hans Neisser, was a distinguished Jewish economist. In 1923 he married Neisser's mother, … See more

Neisser was an early exponent of one of a key conceptualizations of memory, the view, now widely accepted, that memory represents an active … See more

Books and book chapters
• Neisser, U. (1967). Cognitive psychology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 978-0131396678 See more

Neisser attended Harvard University in the late 1940s, graduating in 1950 with a summa cum laude in psychology. He subsequently … See more

The rapidly developing field of cognitive psychology received a major boost from the publication in 1967 of the first, and most influential, of … See more

Neisser died due to Parkinson's disease on February 17, 2012, in Ithaca, New York. See more

• Roediger, H. L.; Neisser, Ulric; Winograd, Eugene (1990). "Remembering Reconsidered: Ecological and Traditional Approaches to the … See more