Proponents of “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the United States have claimed that
such methods are necessary for obtaining information from uncooperative terrorism …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on how older adults use evaluative processing to
guide encoding and retrieval operations, and how older adults then use value to make …

Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and
psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, autonoetic character …

Abstract Information that initially is presumed to be correct, but that is later retracted or
corrected, often continues to influence memory and reasoning. This occurs even if the …

The study of metacognition can shed light on some fundamental issues about
consciousness and its role in behavior. Metacognition research concerns the processes by …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on
human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections …

Researchers have begun to explore animals' capacities for uncertainty monitoring and
metacognition. This exploration could extend the study of animal self-awareness and …

The dynamics of human memory are complex and often unintuitive, but certain features—
such as the fact that studying results in learning—seem like common knowledge. In 12 …

Closing the eyes helps memory. We investigated the mechanisms underlying the eyeclosure
effect by exposing 80 eyewitnesses to different types of distraction during the witness …