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Kenneth Craik, early workings with Magdalen Vernon
Kenneth Craik was a short-lived philosopher and psychologist who spent his early years studying philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Later on, he would go to have a fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge where he met and worked with Magdalen Vernon who he worked with to help publish papers with her about dark adaptation in 1941 and 1943. With their joint teamwork on these papers, they helped open up the thoughts of what to become for Kenneth Craik to write his book. -
Kenneth Craik, The Nature of Explanation, (1943)
During this time is when Kenneth Craik would go on to write his book "The Nature of Explanation" which is the dive into understanding how the human mind creates little models inside the brain that help us break down our thought process on what our actions will be that are affected by the surrounding world. It is considered an essential part of our decision-making skills and cognitive responses. These "Mental Modules" that we build in our head still help people explain or map out what they think. -
Kenneth Craik, "Theory of Human Operators in Control Systems" (1947- 1948) Posthumous
A few years after the tragic accident to take Kenneth Craik away, the British Journal of Psychology published his two part paper called "Theory of Human Operators in Control Systems". In the 2 papers he discusses humans as the operator or the operating system, and how are cognitive functions or the reaction time threw our eyes to our minds and the time it takes for us to be aware of the action or reaction. He also discusses on the slower "the course" is the less mistakes are to be made. -
Kenneth Craik, Final works The Nature of Psychology: A Selection of Papers, Essays and Other Writings by Kenneth J. W. Craik.
In the end of his life, Kenneth Clark had many unpublished works that can be found in this book which was edited by Stephen L. Sherwood. In this book you can find A book called 'Mechanism of Human Action'. In here he discusses important ideas on learning, thinking, decision-making and on models of brain mechanism. With all of these studies about the brain the mechanics of vision and reaction, this has placed him as one of the earliest practitioners of cognitive science.
