The social or joint Simon effect has been developed to investigate how and to what extent
people mentally represent their own and other persons' action/task and how these cognitive …

Despite widespread consensus among educators that active learning leads to better
outcomes than comparatively passive forms of instruction, it is often unclear why these …

Negative Priming (NP) is an influential paradigm in cognitive psychology that was originally
developed to measure attentional selection. Yet, up to the mid-1990s, a large number of …

Cognitive control refers to the ability to repress our instantaneous urges in favor of more
appropriate responses. Current debate concerns whether cognitive control effects that are …

Highlights•A normative conception of control representations.•Representational
dimensionality and the separability versus generalizability trade-off.•Implications of …

It has been claimed that bilingualism enhances inhibitory control, but the available evidence
is equivocal. The authors evaluated several possible versions of the inhibition hypothesis by …

Synchronization of neural activity is considered essential for information processing in the
nervous system. Both local and inter-regional synchronization are omnipresent in different …

Human perception and action are tailored to the situation at hand, and thus reflect the
current intentions of the perceiver/actor. We suggest that this is achieved by an “intentional …

From the conception of Baddeley's visuospatial sketchpad, visual working memory and
visual attention have been closely linked concepts. An attractive model has advocated unity …

We offer a new account of event representation based on those aspects of object
representation that encode an object's history, and which convey the distinct states that an …