In this article, I introduce an emotion paradox: People believe that they know an emotion
when they see it, and as a consequence assume that emotions are discrete events that can …

The goal of psychology is to discover the scientifically viable constructs or categories that
will characterize what is variant and invariant in the working of the human mind. In this …

Laypeople and scientists alike believe that they know anger, or sadness, or fear, when they
see it. These emotions and a few others are presumed to have specific causal mechanisms …

Human activity is both organized and variable, dynamically changing in principled ways.
Children and adults are flexible and inventive in their action and thought, adapting old ideas …

Five experiments investigated whether adults and preschool children can perform simple
arithmetic calculations on non-symbolic numerosities. Previous research has demonstrated …

This book introduces generative grammar as an area of study and asks what it tells us about
the human mind. Wolfram Hinzen lays the foundation for the unification of modern …

Against a background of recent progress in developmental neuroscience, some of which
has been taken as challenging to the modularity hypothesis of, this article contrasts two …

Meaningful visual experience requires computations that identify objects as the same
persisting individuals over time, motion, occlusion, and featural change. This article explores …

Two experiments investigated 5-month-old infants' amodal sensitivity to numerical
correspondences between sets of objects presented in the tactile and visual modes. A …

Although children take over a year to learn the meanings of the first three number words,
they eventually master the logic of counting and the meanings of all the words in their count …