After decades of effort by some of our brightest human and non-human minds, there is still
little consensus on whether or not non-human animals understand anything about the …

Accumulating evidence on the nature, function and acquisition of relational knowledge
indicates a crucial role of such knowledge in higher cognitive processes. In this review, we …

Theory of mind, or" mindreading" as it is termed in this book, is the ability to think about
beliefs, desires, knowledge and intentions. It has been studied extensively by …

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 …

According to the Cognitive Complexity and Control (CCC) theory, the development of
executive function can be understood in terms of age-related increases in the maximum …

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 …

The author has thought about working memory, not always by that name, since 1969 and
has conducted research on its infant and child development since the same year that the …

We propose that working memory and reasoning share related capacity limits. These limits
are quantified in terms of the number of items that can be kept active in working memory …

Comments on studies presented in this monograph (see records 2003-10549-002, 2003-
10549-003, 2003-10549-004, 2003-10549-005, and 2003-10549-006). The current author …