Mental rotation may be considered a prototypical example of a higher-order transformational
process that is nonsymbolic and analog as opposed to propositional. It is therefore a …

The major sex differences in cognitive skills are summarized, and the role of sex hormones
in early organization and possible maintenance of these differences is discussed. Using …

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and
driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and …

This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a
twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image …

Working memory (WM) is fundamental to many aspects of human life, including learning,
speech and text comprehension, prospection and future planning, and explicit “system 2” …

The question of object–picture recognition has received relatively little attention in both
human and comparative psychology; a paradoxical situation given the important use of …

A goal in the study of spatial development is to answer, with regard to this domain, some of
the classic questions in the history of psychology, biology, and philosophy: the extent to …

Spatial cognition is often (but wrongly) conceptualized as a single domain of cognition.
However, humans function in more than one way in the spatial world. We navigate, as do all …

Many animals manipulate their environments in ways that appear to augment cognitive
processing. Adult humans show remarkable flexibility in this domain, typically relying on …

Animal Cognition presents a clear, concise, and comprehensive overview of what we know
about cognitive processes in animals. Focusing mainly on what has been learned from …