People with hearing impairment are thought to rely heavily on context to compensate for
reduced audibility. Here, we explore the resulting cost of this compensatory behavior, in …

Inductive reasoning entails using existing knowledge to make predictions about novel
cases. The first part of this review summarizes key inductive phenomena and critically …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

Can what we know change what we see? Does language affect cognition and perception?
The last few years have seen increased attention to these seemingly disparate questions …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Language is crucial for human intelligence, but what exactly is its role? We take language to
be a part of a system for understanding and communicating about situations. In humans …

Speech perception involves prediction, but how is that prediction implemented? In cognitive
models prediction has often been taken to imply that there is feedback of activation from …

This paper introduces a special issue of Cognitive Science initiated on the 25th anniversary
of the publication of Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP), a two‐volume work that …

Previous work has shown that predictive coding can provide a detailed explanation of a very
wide range of low-level perceptual processes. It is also widely believed that predictive …

Although subjective construal (ie, our personal understanding of situations and the people
and objects within them) has been an enduring topic in social psychology, its underlying …