The Psychology of Learning and Motivation

Essential, authoritative reference on the psychology of learning and motivation for researchers and academics working in cognitive science

Kara D. Federmeier (Edited by)

9780128245866, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 28 May 2021

326 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.68 kg

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 74, the latest release in this ongoing series, features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and problem-solving.

1. The role of working memory in long-term learning: Implications for childhood development
Alicia Forsberg, Eryn J. Adams, and Nelson Cowan
2. Learning to control tinnitus
Fatima T. Husain
3. The attentional demands of combining comprehension and production in conversation
Suzanne Rosa Jongman
4. More than “just a test?—Task-switching paradigms offer an early warning system for cognitive decline
Frini Karayanidis and Montana McKewen
5. Policy compression: An information bottleneck in action selection
Lucy Lai and Samuel J. Gershman
6. Limited evidence for probability matching as a strategy in probability learning tasks
Jessica L. Montag
7. A review of uncertainty visualization errors: Working memory as an explanatory theory
Lace Padilla, Spencer C. Castro, and Helia Hosseinpour

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR]