The Psychology of Learning and Motivation
- 1st Edition, Volume 74 - May 28, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Kara D. Federmeier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 5 8 6 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 0 7 3 - 5
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Request a sales quoteThe 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.
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Chapter One: The role of working memory in long-term learning: Implications for childhood development
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Brief overview: Long-term learning
- 3: Brief overview: Working memory
- 4: The relationship between working and long-term memory
- 5: The role of working memory and its limits in long-term learning
- 6: How does long-term memory knowledge enhance working memory storage?
- 7: Implications for practice
- 8: Conclusions
- Chapter Two: Learning to control tinnitus
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Learning to habituate to tinnitus
- 3: Treatments to control tinnitus distress and facilitate habituation
- 4: Neural correlates of tinnitus
- 5: Models of tinnitus
- 6: Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Three: The attentional demands of combining comprehension and production in conversation
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Processes involved in turn-taking
- 3: Attention demands of conversation
- 4: Consequences of combining production and comprehension
- 5: Open questions
- 6: Conclusion
- Chapter Four: More than “just a test”—Task-switching paradigms offer an early warning system for cognitive decline
- Abstract
- 1: Cognitive control ability—An early warning system?
- 2: Multidimensional structure of cognitive control processes
- 3: Quantifying distinct components of cognitive control contributing to overt task performance
- 4: Differentiating between proactive and reactive cognitive control processes
- 5: Quantifying distinct components of cognitive control using task-switching paradigms
- 6: EEG-based evidence for multiple proactive and reactive control processes contributing to task-switching performance
- 7: Using task-switching paradigms to assess cognitive control ability across the lifespan
- 8: Using task-switching paradigms to assess cognitive control ability across clinical conditions
- 9: Using task-switching paradigms to assess the effects of lifestyle on cognitive control ability
- 10: What would an omnibus task-switching paradigm look like?
- 11: What are the practicalities of rolling out such a testing protocol at scale?
- 12: Conclusion: Is the task-switching paradigm a potential candidate for the “canary in the coalmine”?
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Five: Policy compression: An information bottleneck in action selection
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Action selection as a communication channel
- 3: Compression as a trade-off between reward and complexity
- 4: Behavioral signatures of policy compression
- 5: Neural signatures of policy compression
- 6: Compression and learning
- 7: Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Chapter Six: Limited evidence for probability matching as a strategy in probability learning tasks
- Abstract
- 1: Non-human animal probability learning
- 2: Human probability learning: Adults
- 3: Human probability learning: Children
- 4: Implications of probability learning for other domains
- 5: Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Seven: A review of uncertainty visualization errors: Working memory as an explanatory theory
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Visualization decision-making framework
- 3: Uncertainty visualization errors
- 4: Conclusions
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 74
- Published: May 28, 2021
- No. of pages (Hardback): 326
- No. of pages (eBook): 326
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128245866
- eBook ISBN: 9780323850735
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Kara D. Federmeier
Kara D. Federmeier received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois and a full-time faculty member at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, where she leads the Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative and heads the Cognition and Brain Lab. She is also a Past President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Her research examines meaning comprehension and memory using human electrophysiological techniques, in combination with behavioral, eyetracking, and other functional imaging and psychophysiological methods. She has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USARead The Psychology of Learning and Motivation on ScienceDirect