Merit-based tests and contests have become popular methods for allocating rewards – from trophies to contracts, jobs to grants, admissions to licenses. With origins in…

Creativity can be as difficult to define as it is to achieve. This is a complex and compelling area of study and this volume is…

Founded upon the psychoevolutionary theories of Darwin, Plutchik and Izard, a general socioevolutionary theory of the emotions - affect-spectrum theory - classifies a wide spectrum…

The concept of a "mental syllabary", i.e., a store of syllable-sized motor planning units, has become a cornerstone in the modeling of spoken language production.…

The behavioral and brain sciences are faced with important new challenges at the beginning of the new millennium. The enormous progress in cognitive neuroscience, and…

The book examines how well we remember what we see. Research in human memory for visual material varies tremendously across the time scales, stimuli, and…

This volume is the first comprehensive history of task analysis, charting its origins from the earliest applied psychology through to modern forms of task analysis…

Human memory is not only the repository of our past but the essence of who we are. As such, it is of enduring fascination. We…

The Handbook of Child Language Disorders provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art review of current research concerning the nature, assessment, and remediation of language…

This special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology presents a series of neuropsychological and neuro-imagining studies investigating the mental lexicon – its functional organization, its access in…