The past 10 years have brought near-revolutionary changes in psychological theories about
short-term memory, with similarly great advances in the neurosciences. Here, we critically …

In this article, literature from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and social cognition is
integrated to discuss the relation between goals, attention, and consciousness. Goals are …

Miller (1956) summarized evidence that people can remember about seven chunks in short-
term memory (STM) tasks. However, that number was meant more as a rough estimate and …

The idea of one's memory" filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in
general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a" full …

Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty
years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and …

Understanding the division of labor between conscious processes and unconscious ones is
central to our understanding of the human mind. This article proposes a simple “Yes It …

Three experiments examined the involvement of newly learnt words in lexical competition.
Adult participants were familiarized with novel nonsense sequences that overlapped …

Working memory is the cognitive system in charge of the temporary maintenance of
information in view of its on-going processing. Lying at the centre of cognition, it has become …

Three experiments examined whether the mere priming of potential action effects enhances
people's feeling of causing these effects when they occur. In a computer task, participants …

Extending on the recent investigation into the implicit affective processes underlying
motivation and decision making, 5 studies examined the role of negative affect in …