In order to pursue the long-term goal of losing weight, a dieter needs to resist the urge to eat
appealing, tasty foods. Beside sufficient motivation to resist these foods, dieters also need …

It seems intuitively obvious that active exploration of a new environment will lead to better
spatial learning than will passive exposure. However, the literature on this issue is decidedly …

It is shown that visuo-spatial working memory is better characterized as processes operating
on sensory information (visual appearance) and on spatial location (environmental …

Research has demonstrated navigational aids impair spatial memory, but has not
considered important spatial cognitive concepts. For example, impairment may stem from …

The role of Broca's area in sentence processing remains controversial. According to one
view, Broca's area is involved in processing a subcomponent of syntactic processing …

Decades of research have repeatedly shown that people perform poorly at estimating and
understanding conditional probabilities that are inherent in Bayesian reasoning problems …

The aim of the present study is to examine the relationship between eighth-grade
adolescents' literacy skills and mathematics word problem performance. Moreover, visuo …

A lot of research has focused on the beneficial effects of using multimedia, that is, text and
pictures, for learning. Theories of multimedia learning are based on Baddeley's working …

This article argues that conducting experiments involving the ability to control and even
manipulate the cognitive load in working memory (WM; storage and or processing load) …

Four dual-task experiments examined visuospatial, articulatory, and central executive
working memory involvement during the development and application of spatial mental …