Mark Henry Ashcraft (December 8, 1949 – September 6, 2022)
was an American academic and the chair of the Department of
Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...
at the
University of Nevada Las Vegas
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada, United States. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 to 1969. I ...
.
He received his PhD in
cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of human mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.
Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, whi ...
from the
University of Kansas
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in 1975.
His research was primarily in the area of
numerical cognition
Numerical cognition is a subdiscipline of cognitive science that studies the cognitive, developmental and neural bases of numbers and mathematics. As with many cognitive science endeavors, this is a highly interdisciplinary topic, and includes re ...
, including topics such as mental arithmetic and math anxiety.
He has published multiple books and articles on cognitive psychology,
including:
* ''Human Memory and Cognition''. Prentice Hall (1997);
* ''Cognition''. Prentice Hall; 4th ed. (2005);
Death
Ashcraft died on September 6, 2022, at his home in
Henderson, Nevada
Henderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, about southeast of downtown Las Vegas. It is the List of cities in Nevada, 2nd most populous city in Nevada, after Las Vegas, with 317,610 residents. The city is part of the Las Vegas V ...
, aged 72. He was survived, immediately, by his wife, Mary, and their two children.
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1949 births
2022 deaths
Academics from Louisville, Kentucky
University of Kansas alumni
University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty
21st-century American psychologists
20th-century American psychologists
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