Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "cognitive psychology"

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    • Cross-Dimensional Mapping of Number, Length and Brightness by Preschool Children 

      de Hevia, Maria Dolores; Vanderslice, Monica; Spelke, Elizabeth S. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Human adults in diverse cultures, children, infants, and non-human primates relate number to space, but it is not clear whether this ability reflects a specific and privileged number-space mapping. To investigate this ...

    • George A. Miller (1920–2012) 

      Pinker, Steven (American Psychological Association (APA), 2013)
      Presents an obituary for George A. Miller (1920—2012). Miller ranks among the most important psychologists of the 20th century. In addition to writing one of the best known papers in the history of psychology (“The Magical ...

    • Individual Differences in Holistic Processing Predict the Own-Race Advantage in Recognition Memory 

      DeGutis, Joseph MIchael; Mercado, Rogelio J.; Wilmer, Jeremy Bennet; Rosenblatt, Andrew (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Individuals are consistently better at recognizing own-race faces compared to other-race faces (other-race effect, ORE). One popular hypothesis is that this recognition memory ORE is caused by differential own- and other-race ...

    • Inter-Identity Autobiographical Amnesia in Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder 

      Huntjens, Rafaële J. C.; Verschuere, Bruno; McNally, Richard J. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Background: A major symptom of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID; formerly Multiple Personality Disorder) is dissociative amnesia, the inability to recall important personal information. Only two case studies have directly ...

    • Temporal Brain Dynamics of Multiple Object Processing: The Flexibility of Individuation 

      Mazza, Veronica; He, Sheng; Caramazza, Alfonso (Public Library of Science, 2011)
      The ability to process concurrently multiple visual objects is fundamental for a coherent perception of the world. A core component of this ability is the simultaneous individuation of multiple objects. Many studies have ...