Experimental Psychology

This latest volume in the critically acclaimed and highly influential Attention and Performance series focuses on two of the fastest moving researc...

Musical imagination and creativity are amongst the most abstract and complex aspects of musical behaviour, though, until recently, they have been d...

Does listening to Mozart make us more intelligent? Is there such a thing as a gay gene? Does the size of the brain matter? Does the moon influence ...

The conditional, if...then, is probably the most important term in natural language and forms the core of systems of logic and mental representatio...

Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who ...

The Musical Mind, published in 1985, was written by the relatively unknown John Sloboda. It made ground-breaking inroads in raising crucial questio...

'If' is one of the most important and interesting words in the English language. It is used to express hypothetical thought - an essential part of ...

Working memory - the ability to keep important information in mind while comprehending, thinking, and acting - varies considerably from person to p...

Although much of the hubris and hyperbole surrounding the 1990's Internet has softened to a reasonable level, the inexorable momentum of informatio...

We effortlessly remember all sorts of events - from simple events like people walking to complex events like leaves blowing in the wind. We can als...

The order that material, for both facts and skills, is presented or explored by a learner can strongly influence what is learned, how fast performa...

Emotion research has become a mature branch of psychology, with its own standardized measures, induction procedures, data-analysis challenges, and ...

Attention has been one of the most popular subjects in basic cognitive-psychology research, and so its study has generated much empirical data and ...

Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior brings together, for the first time, the experiments and theories that have created the new science of rules. ...

Since antiquity, people have searched for a way to understand the colours we see-what they are, how many there are, and how they can be systematica...

Everyone knows what consciousness is: it is what vanishes when we fall into dreamless sleep and reappears when we wake up or when we dream. However...

Consciousness has many elements, from sensory experiences such as vision, audition, and bodily sensation, to nonsensory aspects such as volition, e...

Our ability to think is one of our most puzzling characteristics. What it would be like to be unable to think? What would it be like to lack self-a...

Psychological studies of touch and blindness have been fraught with controversy. Within this field there remains an important theoretical divide. M...

Vision research is one of the largest and most active areas within brain research. Psychologists, neuroscientists, opthamologists and optometrists,...

The term 'episodic memory' refers to our memory for unique, personal experiences, that we can date at some point in our past - our first day at sch...

For thousands of years, one scientific puzzle has fascinated and perplexed the greatest philosophers, mathematicians, physicists, and psychologists...

Humans, like other primates, are intensely social creatures. One of the main functions of our brains is to enable us to be as skilful in social int...

Many organisms possess multiple sensory systems, such as vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. The possession of such multiple ways of sensing ...

From an early age, humans know a surprising amount about basic physical principles, such as gravity, force, mass, and shape. We can see this in the...

In 1953 a young female Japanese macaque called Imo began washing sweet potatoes before eating them, presumably to remove dirt and sand grains. Soon...

Sleep has long been a topic of fascination for artists and scientists. Why do we sleep? What function does sleep serve? Why do we dream? What signi...

Music offers a unique opportunity to better understand the organization of the human brain. Like language, music exists in all human societies. Lik...

Music offers an opportunity to better understand the organization of the human brain. Like language, music exists in all human societies. Like lang...

Donald Broadbent made a major and lasting contribution to the field of applied psychology during his long career. This book brings together many ot...

Colour has long been a source of fascination to both scientists and philosophers. In one sense, colours are in the mind of the beholder, in another...

Music educators and practicing musicians have failed to benefit as much as they could from the past two decades of music psychology research. In th...

Anthropologists have long recognized that cultural evolution critically depends on the transmission and generation of information. However, between...

Understanding classification is a major challenge for formulating theories of both human cognition and artificial intelligence. Classification is a...

Implicit memory refers to a change in task performance due to an earlier experience that is not consciously remembered. The topic of implicit memor...

This groundbreaking study on the psycholinguistics of spelling presents the author's original empirical research on spelling and supplies the theor...