If the cortex is an associative memory, strongly connected cell assemblies will form when
neurons in different cortical areas are frequently active at the same time. The cortical …

Reviewed are studies using event‐related potentials to examine when and how sentence
context information is used during language comprehension. Results suggest that, when it …

This is the third English edition of Motivation and Action, an extensively revised version of
the second English edition and fifth German edition, with four entirely new chapters. All …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories
have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …

People sometimes solve problems with a unique process called insight, accompanied by an
“Aha!” experience. It has long been unclear whether different cognitive and neural …

Semantic Leaps explores how people combine knowledge from different domains in order to
understand and express new ideas. Concentrating on dynamic aspects of on-line meaning …

Publisher Summary This chapter explores the mechanisms underlying motivation and self-
regulation from a functional-design perspective. Traditional approaches emphasize the …

Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty
years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and …

The cognitive neuroscience of human vision draws on two kinds of evidence: functional
imaging of normal subjects and the study of neurological patients with visual disorders …