Working memory is the retention of a small amount of information in a readily accessible
form. It facilitates planning, comprehension, reasoning, and problem solving. I examine the …

We summarize the various strands of research on peripheral vision and relate them to
theories of form perception. After a historical overview, we describe quantifications of the …

The idea of one's memory" filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in
general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a" full …

Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to …

Working memory (WM) is the set of mental processes holding limited information in a
temporarily accessible state in service of cognition. We provide a theoretical framework to …

Desarrollo neuropsicológico de lóbulos frontales y funciones ejecutivas presenta una breve
introducción a la neuropsicología de funciones ejecutivas y lóbulos frontales, así como a la …

What makes some explanations better than others? This paper explores the roles of
simplicity and probability in evaluating competing causal explanations. Four experiments …

The conceptual complexity of problems was manipulated to probe the limits of human
information processing capacity. Participants were asked to interpret graphically displayed …

We explored how relational complexity and featural distraction, as varied in scene analogy
problems, affect children's analogical reasoning performance. Results with 3-and 4-year …

Consecutive retestings of 92 US preschoolers (n= 30), Chinese preschoolers (n= 31), and
deaf children (n= 31) examined whether the sequences of development apparent in cross …