Despite a growing body of research devoted to the study of how humans encode
environmental patterns, there is still no clear consensus about the nature of the …

Recognizing emotion from facial expressions draws on diverse psychological processes
implemented in a large array of neural structures. Studies using evoked potentials, lesions …

" In this book, Keith Stanovich attempts to resolve the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive
science-the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition. Stanovich …

Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice Bill Grabe Table of
Contents Preface Section I: Foundations of Reading Comprehension 1. The Nature of …

Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as" dog,"" man," or" intelligence," have
an underlying reality or true nature that gives objects their identity. Where does this idea …

The authors propose an interpersonal social-cognitive theory of the self and personality, the
relational self, in which knowledge about the self is linked with knowledge about significant …

Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on
prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories …

This paper presents a learning theory pertinent to dynamic decision making (DDM) called
instancebased learning theory (IBLT). IBLT proposes five learning mechanisms in the …

This lively collection of over 100 classroom activities allows teachers to exploit fully the
language learning potential of extensive reading. The activities, contributed by teachers who …

Psychological universals, or core mental attributes shared by humans everywhere, are a
foundational postulate of psychology, yet explicit analysis of how to identify such universals …