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The impact of function words on the processing and acquisition of syntax
A Socratic ASK system: Helping educators provide a Socratic tutor for learners
Children use contrast, multiple familiarization scenes, and multiple object categories to learn verbs
Seeing imagism: A poetics of literary visualization
Gesture in children's and adults' communication and representation of spatial information
Validating dissociations between human memory subtypes: Conceptual priming, familiarity, and recollection
Self-awareness, perspective-taking, and self-face recognition
Linguistic and cognitive mechanisms in foreign vocabulary acquisition
Accounting for some of the flexibility of morally-motivated judgment and decision making
The application of subliminal priming in lie detection
Learning about the structure of scales: Adverbial modification and the acquisition of the semantics of gradable adjectives
Possession and spatial motion in the acquisition of ditransitives
Back of the envelope reasoning for robust quantitative problem solving
Processing fluency for relational structure
Suppression mechanisms in monolingual and bilingual language comprehension: Evidence from eye-tracking, priming, and inhibitory control tasks
Differences in conceptual organization among types of wine experts: The impact of goals on representation
Multiple modes of voluntary visual attention: Analysis of within test reliability, between group differences, and the interrelationships among tests of voluntary visual attention
The influence of culturally varying discourse practices on cognitive orientations toward nature
The behavioral and neural basis for the facilitation of insight problem-solving by a positive mood
Implicit theories of intelligence and processing fluency in perceived comprehension
Explanation and structure-mapping in theory-based categorization
Learning to move for rewards
Contributions of conceptual and stimulus learning to early, rapid improvements on interaural-time-difference discrimination
Expert and typical school principals: A comprehensive look at expertise through problem solving
Developmental differences of neuro-cognitive networks for orthographic and phonological processing in Chinese words
Emergence of expertise in categorization of complex visual stimuli
A game-theoretic model of grounding for referential communication tasks
A cognitive model of recognition-based moral decision making
How simple is same: Perception of relational similarity in young children
The effects of structural context on priming
Semantic knowledge of eminent jazz performers: A study on the impact of community affiliation and expertise
Behavioral and electroencephalographic investigations of memory consolidation in humans
The norm of self-sacrifice
Mechanisms of anomia in Primary Progressive Aphasia
The role of physical factors on moral judgments: Applying a domain general causal approach to studying morality
Object-based auditory visual interactions derive from experiential associations
Emotional influences on the scope of selective visual attention
An Examination of the Relationship Between Speech Perception and Production
Narratives in Mind and Media: A Cognitive Semiotic Account of Novices Interpreting Visual Science Media
Neural correlates of auditory perception and perceptual learning
Tonality in Music Arises from Perceptual Organization
Effects of Lexical Processing Deficits on Sentence Comprehension in Agrammatic Broca's Aphasia
Development, Culture and Naive Biology: Children's Representation of the Place of Human in the Animal Category
Time Course of Grammatical Encoding in Agrammatism
The Use of Causal Coherence Information in Disambiguating Pronouns
Is This Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy?: Realism and Representations in Learning with Technology
Causal Thinking with Physical Mechanisms
Phono-orthographic Interaction and Attentional Control in Children with Reading Disabilities
Texture in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century String-Quartet Expositions
Mood Makes or Breaks Meaning: Mood Effects on Inference Processing during Narrative Comprehension in Adults & Children
The Mechanisms of Intuitive Judgments and Solution Knowledge Representations during Insight Problem Solving
The Computation and Processing of Lexical Aspect in Brief Narratives
Spatial Routines for Sketches: A Framework for Modeling Spatial Problem-Solving
Interparental Conflict and Youth Maladjustment: Exploring Pathways in Childhood and Adolescence
Consolidation of Retrieved Memories: Retrieval Facilitates and Distorts Long-Term Memory
Structural Priming in Agrammatism
Gist Perception of Size, Numerosity, and Orientation
Critical Evaluation of Information Credibility: Contextual Dimensions and Implications for Memory and Learning from Text