Signaling theory: state of the theory and its future

BL Connelly, ST Certo, CR Reutzel… - Journal of …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Signaling theory is about decision-making and communication. It describes scenarios where
signalers send observable signals that carry credible information about unobservable …

The effects of handwriting experience on functional brain development in pre-literate children

KH James, L Engelhardt - Trends in neuroscience and education, 2012 - Elsevier
In an age of increasing technology, the possibility that ty** on a keyboard will replace
handwriting raises questions about the future usefulness of handwriting skills. Here we …

Land-use futures in the shared socio-economic pathways

A Popp, K Calvin, S Fujimori, P Havlik… - Global Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the future, the land system will be facing new intersecting challenges. While food demand,
especially for resource-intensive livestock based commodities, is expected to increase, the …

What good are positive emotions?

BL Fredrickson - Review of general psychology, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
This article opens by noting that positive emotions do not fit existing models of emotions.
Consequently, a new model is advanced to describe the form and function of a subset of …

Positive emotions broaden the scope of attention and thought‐action repertoires

BL Fredrickson, C Branigan - Cognition & emotion, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
The broaden‐and‐build theory (,) hypothesises that positive emotions broaden the scope of
attention and thought‐action repertoires. Two experiments with 104 college students tested …

A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception: II. Conceptual and theoretical foundations.

J Wagemans, J Feldman, S Gepshtein… - Psychological …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Our first review article (Wagemans et al., 2012) on the occasion of the centennial
anniversary of Gestalt psychology focused on perceptual grou** and figure–ground …

[BOG][B] Cognitive psychology

RJ Sternberg, K Sternberg - 2006 - academia.edu
Pity the poor textbook writer. I suspect that a common motivation for writing textbooks is the
dissatisfaction with existing textbooks, yet having embarked upon writing one's own then …

[BOG][B] Understanding reading: A psycholinguistic analysis of reading and learning to read

F Smith - 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory when the first edition
appeared in 1971 and continues to be a leader in the field. In the sixth edition of this classic …

Representing multiple objects as an ensemble enhances visual cognition

GA Alvarez - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2011 - cell.com
The visual system can only accurately represent a handful of objects at once. How do we
cope with this severe capacity limitation? One possibility is to use selective attention to …

Building the gist of a scene: The role of global image features in recognition

A Oliva, A Torralba - Progress in brain research, 2006 - Elsevier
Humans can recognize the gist of a novel image in a single glance, independent of its
complexity. How is this remarkable feat accomplished? On the basis of behavioral and …