Since the concept of working memory was introduced over 50 years ago, different schools of
thought have offered different definitions for working memory based on the various cognitive …

Conceptual abstraction and analogy‐making are key abilities underlying humans' abilities to
learn, reason, and robustly adapt their knowledge to new domains. Despite a long history of …

Emotional states of consciousness, or what are typically called emotional feelings, are
traditionally viewed as being innately programmed in subcortical areas of the brain, and are …

The brain is an inherently dynamic system, and executive cognition requires dynamically
reconfiguring, highly evolving networks of brain regions that interact in complex and …

In the new edition of the international bestseller Environmental Interpretation, Sam H. Ham
captures what has changed in our understanding of interpretation during the past two …

To what extent do we know our own minds when making decisions? Variants of this
question have preoccupied researchers in a wide range of domains, from mainstream …

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many
of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second …

New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a
worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most …

This article reviews a diverse set of proposals for dual processing in higher cognition within
largely disconnected literatures in cognitive and social psychology. All these theories have …

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and
driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and …