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...Kosslyn and Stellar offer thedepartment's more than 200 undergraduateconcentrators classes which explore the questionof whether the brain is a computer, and theregulation of internal environment, hormones andperceptual motor skills...
...Kosslyn's confusion does much to enlightendiscussion of psychology's development. Pattullosays it's possible that psychology has not yetdetermined its relation to other disciplines, andsays the current preoccupation with hard sciencemight be a trend that will pass. "You're still inthe stage of laying the groundwork," he says...
...Harvard these trends have made themselves felt. Areas of psychology that border the natural sciences have captured most of Harvard's attention in recent years. Younger faculty members, such as Professor Stephen Kosslyn and Associate Professor James R. Stellar, are not the white-coated, ink blot-bearing researchers of late-night television. They use computers to study behavior and want to discover the biological causes of human action. Older members of the department say the work of the two men would not even have been recognized as psychological research 20 years...
There is also the larger question of exactlywhat an interdisciplinary approach to humanbehavior means in the age of the integratedcircuit. Asked what forces he feels were mostimportant in moving psychologists frominterdisciplinary study, Kosslyn, whose interestis in cognition, at first said there was no movefrom interdisciplinary work...
...Kosslyn is at the cutting edge of his field,but he agrees with Pattullo. "It's not likethere's one future," he says. "There's a future toall of these fields."Third-year graduate student ALAN SOKOLOFFtries his hand at unraveling the mysteries of themind...