This paper focuses on the relation between two areas of research which owe a great debt to the work of Giyoo Hatano: the ways in which the use of the abacus mediates arithmetic problem solving and the way in which the use of the kanji writing system mediates the interpretation of unfamiliar words. These examples are related to L. S. Vygotsky's…

The scientific study of child witnesses has influenced both developmental science and jurisprudence concerning children. Focusing on the author's own studies, 4 categories of research are briefly reviewed: (a) children's eyewitness memory and suggestibility; (b) memory for traumatic events in childhood; (c) disclosure of child sexual abuse; and…

Phrenologists believed that specific brain regions corresponded to certain character traits. In addition, the size of each brain region was believed to determine the strength of the respective trait. Phrenology originated in Austria with Franz Josef Gall and was popularized and commercialized in America at the end of the 19th century by Orson…

The proposition that the mechanisms underlying facial recognition are different from those involved in recognizing other classes of pictorial material was assessed following a general review of the literature concerned with recognizing faces. (Author/RK)

The question asked in the present study is whether individuals record their experiences with sentences in a manner that provides information about the number of times the same basic meaning or idea has been expressed. (Author)

In two experiments on whether similarity grouping is based on the retinal or the perceived slopes of lines, observers judged the grouping of diagonal lines when a display of vertical and diagonal lines was presented upright and when it was slanted 75 degrees toward the floor. (Editor/RK)

If an attentional cue affects retroactive interference, perhaps a similar mechanism underlies release from proactive interference. This study tested this hypothesis by inserting an attentional cue before the final trial in Wickens' paradigm. (Author/RK)

Article confined itself to criticism of the previous article in this journal and commented on three points: first, the need for the term autocontingency, second, contingencies and their subtlety, third, that fixed conditioned stimulus may mean that time since CS onset is a predictor of CS offset. (Author/RK)

Two experiments tested whether short-term memory accounts for the recency effect observed with rapid sequential presentation of nonverbal stimuli. (Editor)

Two experiments examined the hypothesis that the average of group members' responses following group discussion will generally be more extreme in the same direction as the average of individual pregroup preferences. (Author/MLF)

The main purpose of the present work was to bring together methods that had generated different patterns of results in order to determine whether those differences would persist if the same subjects were performing the two types of tasks. (Author)

The purpose of the present investigation was to explore the extent to which a subject's ability to conjure up an image of a visual stimulus can substitute for the presence of that stimulus when a comparison with another is required. (Author/RK)

In this experiment an attempt was made to determine whether the perceptual system is capable of discriminating a moving pattern that is presented within the currently non-dominant field in binocular rivalry. (Author/RK)

It has been suggested that subliminal perception phenomena may be in part due to experimenter bias effects. Two studies that obtained positive evidence of subliminal perception were therefore replicated with experimenters tested under blind and not blind conditions. (Editor)

Author collected quotes by people who have wrestled with the issue of inner ambivalence concerning technological civilization. (Author/RK)