Creative cognition does not just involve cognitive processes in direct service of the main task
objective (eg, idea generation), but also metacognitive processes that monitor and regulate …

In this article we review the literature on the phenomenology of retrieval from the personal
past, and propose a framework for understanding how epistemic feelings and metacognitive …

As the Internet has become a nearly ubiquitous resource for acquiring knowledge about the
world, questions have arisen about its potential effects on cognition. Here we show that …

Based on a detailed reading of Graham Wallas' Art of Thought (1926) it is argued that his
four-stage model of the creative process (Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, Verification) …

Metacognition is the first textbook to focus on people's extraordinary ability to evaluate and
control their cognitive processes. This comprehensive text covers both theoretical and …

Metacognition is the capacity to evaluate and control one's own cognitive processes.
Metacognition operates over a range of cognitive domains, such as perception and memory …

Though emotion conveys memory benefits, it does not enhance memory equally for all
aspects of an experience, nor for all types of emotional events. In this review, I outline the …

People feel they understand complex phenomena with far greater precision, coherence, and
depth than they really do; they are subject to an illusion—an illusion of explanatory depth …

A meta-analysis of 117 experiments evaluated the effects of cognitive load on duration
judgments. Cognitive load refers to information-processing (attentional or working-memory) …

Memory researchers long have speculated that certain tactics may lead people to recall
crimes that never occurred, and thus could potentially lead to false confessions. This is the …