Reaction time is believed to be a good indicator of the speed and efficiency of mental
processes and is a ubiquitous variable in the behavioral sciences. Despite this popularity …

Any mature field of research in psychology—such as short-term/working memory—is
characterized by a wealth of empirical findings. It is currently unrealistic to expect a theory to …

The topic of working memory (WM) is ubiquitous in research on cognitive psychology and on
individual differences. According to one definition, it is a small amount of information kept in …

The most replicated result in the field of intelligence is the positive manifold, which refers to
an all-positive pattern of correlations among diverse cognitive tests. The positive manifold is …

Inhibition is often conceptualized as a unitary construct reflecting the ability to ignore and
suppress irrelevant information. At the same time, it has been subdivided into inhibition of …

Cognitive tasks that produce reliable and robust effects at the group level often fail to yield
reliable and valid individual differences. An ongoing debate among attention researchers is …

Is it possible to learn something without being aware of it? How does emotion influence the
way we think? How can we improve our memory? Fundamentals of Cognition, third edition …

Three studies compared bilinguals to monolinguals on 15 indicators of executive processing
(EP). Most of the indicators compare a neutral or congruent baseline to a condition that …

The aim of this study was to examine the direct and indirect effects of domain‐specific
knowledge (vocabulary knowledge and topical knowledge) and domain‐general cognitive …

We investigate biases in expectations across different settings through a large-scale
randomized experiment where participants forecast stable stochastic processes. The …