This handbook provides a critical review and user's guide to conducting and reporting
process tracing studies of decision making. Each chapter covers a specific method that is …

Increasing the number of available sources of information may impair or facilitate
performance, depending on the capacity of the processing system. Tests performed on …

A graph is an abstract model that represents relations among entities, for example, the
interactions between characters in a novel. A background story endows entities and …

Gestalt phenomena are often so powerful that mere demonstrations can confirm their
existence, but Gestalts have proven hard to define and measure. Here we outline a theory of …

Does processing more than one stimulus concurrently impede or facilitate performance
relative to processing just one stimulus? This fundamental question about workload capacity …

Psychology is one of the most recent sciences to issue from the mother-tree of philosophy.
One of the greatest challenges is that of formulating theories and methodologies that move …

Failure to selectively attend to a facial feature, in the part-to-whole paradigm, has been taken
as evidence of holistic perception in a large body of face perception literature. In this article …

Previous studies of global–local processing in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have
indicated mixed findings, with some evidence of a local processing bias, or preference for …

One variable is said to “stochastically dominate” another if the probability of observations
smaller than x is greater for one variable than the other, for all x. Inferring stochastic …

In the redundant target effect, participants respond faster with two (redundant) targets. We
compared the magnitude of this effect in younger and older adults, with and without …