Although the statistical tools most often used by researchers in the field of psychology over
the last 25 years are based on frequentist statistics, it is often claimed that the alternative …

Statistical inference in psychology has traditionally relied heavily on p-value significance
testing. This approach to drawing conclusions from data, however, has been widely …

Bayesian inference has become a standard method of analysis in many fields of science.
Students and researchers in experimental psychology and cognitive science, however, have …

In the field of cognitive psychology, the p-value hypothesis test has established a
stranglehold on statistical reporting. This is unfortunate, as the p-value provides at best a …

Meaning is a fundamental component of nearly all aspects of human cognition, but formal
models of semantic memory have classically lagged behind many other areas of cognition …

The integration of gestures and pictures into pedagogy has demonstrated potential for
improving adults' learning of foreign language (L2) vocabulary. However, the relative …

This tutorial explains the foundation of approximate Bayesian computation (ABC), an
approach to Bayesian inference that does not require the specification of a likelihood …

This article reviews current methods for evaluating models in the cognitive sciences,
including theoretically based approaches, such as Bayes factors and minimum description …

Recognizing a stimulus as previously encountered is a crucial everyday life skill and a
critical task motivating theoretical development in models of human memory. Although there …

Dennis and Humphreys (2001) proposed that interference in recognition memory arises
solely from the prior contexts of the test word: Interference does not arise from memory …