Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a technique for noninvasive stimulation of the
human brain. Stimulation is produced by generating a brief, high-intensity magnetic field by …

Cognitive control mechanisms permit memory to be accessed strategically, and so aid in
bringing knowledge to mind that is relevant to current goals and actions. In this review, we …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Evidence from functional neuroimaging of the human brain indicates that information about
salient properties of an object—such as what it looks like, how it moves, and how it is used …

This Handbook provides a uniquely comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest
research on prejudice, stereoty**, and discrimination. All chapters are written by eminent …

Understanding how the human brain gives rise to complex cognitive processes remains one
of the biggest challenges of contemporary neuroscience. While invasive recording in animal …

People believe they see emotion written on the faces of other people. In an instant, simple
facial actions are transformed into information about another's emotional state. The present …

What we have recently seen and attended to strongly influences how we subsequently
allocate visual attention. A clear example is how repeated presentation of an object's …

Humans are social beings, and faces convey an enormous range of social information about
identity, age, gender, mood, ethnicity, or current state and focus of attention of people, and …

People can rapidly form arbitrary associations between stimuli and the responses they make
in the presence of those stimuli. Such stimulus–response (S–R) bindings, when retrieved …