Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Volume 64

Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline. Volume 64 includes chapters on such varied topics as causal reasoning, the role of affordances in memory, technology-based support for older adult communication in safety-critical domains and what edge-based masking effects can tell us about cognition.

Autorentext
Brian H. Ross is a Professor of Psychology and of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research areas have included problem solving, complex learning, categorization, reasoning, memory, and mathematical modeling. He has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Institute of Education Sciences. Ross has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Memory & Cognition, Chair of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society, and co-author of a textbook, Cognitive Psychology. He has held temporary leadership positions on the University of Illinois campus as Department Head of Psychology, Associate Dean of the Sciences, and Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Ross has degrees from Brown University (B.S., Honors in Psychology), Rutgers University (M.S. in Mathematical Statistics), Yale University (M.S. in Psychology), and Stanford University (PhD.). Ross has been Editor of The Psychology of Learning and Motivation since 2000.

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1. Beyond Born vs. Made: A New Look at Expertise
   David Z. Hambrick, Brooke N. Macnamara, Guillermo Campitelli, Fredrik Ullén, & Miriam A. Mosing
2. Explaining the Basic-Level Concept Advantage in Infants... Or is it the Superordinate-Level Advantage?
   Gregory L. Murphy
3. Believing that Humans Swallow Spiders in Their Sleep: False Beliefs as Side Effects of the Processes that Support Accurate Knowledge
   Elizabeth J. Marsh Allison D. Cantor & Nadia Brashier
4. The Role of Stimulus Structure in Human Memory
   Robert L. Greene
5. The Role of Motor Action in Memory for Objects and Words
   René Zeelenberg & Diane Pecher
6. Understanding Central Processes: the Case Against Simple Stimulus-Response Associations and for Complex Task Representation
   Eliot Hazeltine & Eric H. Schumacher
7. What Dot-Based Masking Effects can Tell us About Visual Cognition: A Selective Review of Masking Effects at the Whole-Object and Edge-Based Levels
   Todd A. Kahan
8. Technology-Based Support for Older Adult Communication in Safety-Critical Domains
   Daniel Morrow