In signal detection theory (SDT), responses are governed by perceptual noise and a flexible
decision criterion. Recent criticisms of SDT (see, eg, Balakrishnan, 1999) have identified …

A substantial population of children and adolescents struggle with reading comprehension
despite adequate phonemic decoding (word‐level reading) and intellectual ability …

Detection Theory: A User's Guide is an introduction to one of the most important tools for the
analysis of data where choices must be made and performance is not perfect. In these …

Abstract Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has an intriguing auditory processing profile.
Individuals show enhanced pitch discrimination, yet often find seemingly innocuous sounds …

It is widely assumed that distraction reduces pain. Similarly, it is assumed that pain distracts
from concurrent, unrelated cognitive processing, reducing performance on difficult tasks …

Background Declarative verbal learning and memory are known to be lateralised to the
dominant hemisphere and to be subserved by a network of structures, including those …

In recent years there has been growing interest in the identification of people with superior
face recognition skills, for both theoretical and applied investigations. These individuals …

An explosion of recent research has studied whether placebo treatments influence health-
related outcomes and their biological markers, but almost no research has examined the …

Cognitive effort is described as aversive, and people will generally avoid it when possible.
This aversion to effort is believed to arise from a cost–benefit analysis of the actions …

Complex auditory sequences known as music have often been described as hierarchically
structured. This permits the existence of non-local dependencies, which relate elements of a …