We review 74 experiments with no, low, or high performance-based financial incentives. The
modal result has no effect on mean performance (though variance is usually reduced by …

The implicit-explicit distinction is applied to knowledge representations. Knowledge is taken
to be an attitude towards a proposition which is true. The proposition itself predicates a …

Integrating a decade-long program of empirical research with current cognitive theory, this
book demonstrates that psychological research has profound implications for current …

Previous research suggests that language learners can detect and use the statistical
properties of syllable sequences to discover words in continuous speech (eg Aslin, RN …

Acknowledgements lowe much more than I can ever say to Bill Starbuck and the late Jerome
Nesa, but there comes a time when everything which has been happily kept tacit has to be …

Four experiments used the head-turn preference procedure to assess whether infants could
extract and remember information from auditory strings produced by a miniature artificial …

Darwinism provides not only a theory of biological evolution but also supplies a more
generic process applicable to many phenomena in the behavioral sciences. Among these …

Those responsible for professional development in public and private-sector organizations
have long had to deal with an uncomfortable reality. Billions of dollars are spent on formal …

The visual environment is extremely rich and complex, producing information overload for
the visual system. But the environment also embodies structure in the form of redundancies …

The conditions (implicit or explicit) under which exposure to L2 input takes place and the
level of awareness raised while processing input may be strongly related to the learning …