Damage to the hippocampal system disrupts recent memory but leaves remote memory
intact. The account presented here suggests that memories are first stored via synaptic …

We propose that the crucial difference between human cognition and that of other species is
the ability to participate with others in collaborative activities with shared goals and …

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

The authors report the results of some half dozen years of research into when and how
children acquire numerical skills. They provide a new set of answers to these questions, and …

The medieval curriculum comprised seven liberal arts, divided into the lower-level trivium
(grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the upper-level quadrivium (geometry, astronomy …

This study synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in
support of a new and exciting theory of mind. Most psychologists study horizontal processes …

A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action presents a
comprehensive and detailed theory of early human development based on the principles of …

One of the strengths of scientific inquiry is that it can progress with any mixture of empiricism,
intuition, and formal theory that suits the convenience of the investigator. Many sciences …

Conscious experience is one of the most difficult and thorny problems in psychological
science. Its study has been neglected for many years, either because it was thought to be …

As a cognitive neuropsychologist, Tim Shallice considers the general question of what can
be learned about the operation of the normal cognitive system from the study of the cognitive …