One of the most exciting recent innovations in the social sciences has been the emergence of 'behaviour economics', which extends the notion of rational choice…

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data, this…

Over the last decade, the topic of prospective memory – the encoding, storage and delayed retrieval of intended actions – has attracted much interest, and…

This is a book about speech and language. It is primarily intended for those interested in speech and its neurophysiological bases: phoneticians, linguists, educators, speech…

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues…

The central goal of this volume is to bring the learning perspective into the discussion of intuition in judgment and decision making. The book gathers…

Influential theories on affect and emotion propose a fundamental differentiation between emotion and cognition, and research paradigms designed to test them focus on differences rather…

Until recently, the body has been largely ignored in theories and empirical research in psychology, particularly in developmental psychology. Recently however, several conceptions of the…

The fields of cognitive science and education have worked hard to discover effective principles of learning with the goal of improving educational achievement. And although…

Although investigated for over 100 years, it is only now that we are beginning to understand how speed of information processing is affected in various…