Recent studies show that dendritic spines are dynamic structures. Their rapid creation,
destruction and shape-changing are essential for short-and long-term plasticity at excitatory …

This chapter reviews research on L1ers' individual differences in the proficiency of
understanding and speaking their L1, as a function of age and/or level of education. In …

New advances in neurobiology are revealing that brain development and the learning it
enables are directly dependent on social-emotional experience. Growing bodies of research …

Scores on cognitive tasks used in intelligence tests correlate positively with each other, that
is, they display a positive manifold of correlations. The positive manifold is often explained …

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students
and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Uses common myths as a …

Although common sense suggests that environmental influences increasingly account for
individual differences in behavior as experiences accumulate during the course of life, this …

Scientific interest in expertise—superior performance within a specific domain—has a long
history in psychology. Although there is a broad consensus that a long period of practice is …

Neurodevelopmental models of schizophrenia that identify longitudinal precursors of illness
have been of great heuristic importance focusing most etiologic research over the past two …

Genetic influences on personality differences are ubiquitous, but their nature is not well
understood. A theoretical framework might help, and can be provided by evolutionary …

Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues
about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation. The authors' central contention is …