This article presents a comprehensive survey of research concerning interactions between
associative learning and attention in humans. Four main findings are described. First …

In an age of increasing technology, the possibility that typing on a keyboard will replace
handwriting raises questions about the future usefulness of handwriting skills. Here we …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

Summary Designed by biological [1, 2] and social [3] evolutionary pressures, facial
expressions of emotion comprise specific facial movements [4–8] to support a near-optimal …

Common sense suggests that emotions are physical types that have little to do with the
words we use to label them. Yet recent psychological constructionist accounts reveal that …

Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past
experiences to our present interactions with the environment, they enable us to recognize …

Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling
representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic …

How do children learn that the word" dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just
to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of …

How does language impact cognition and perception? A growing number of studies show
that language, and specifically the practice of labeling, can exert extremely rapid and …