Psychology of Learning and Motivation

Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline. Volume 63 includes chapters on such varied topics as memory and imagery, statistical regularities, eyewitness lineups, embodied attention, the teleological choice rule, inductive reasoning, causal reasoning and cognitive and neural components of insight.

Volume 63 of the highly regarded Psychology of Learning and Motivation seriesAn essential reference for researchers and academics in cognitive scienceRelevant to both applied concerns and basic research

1. Conducting an Eyewitness Lineup: How the Research Got it Wrong
Scott D. Gronlund, Laura Mickes, John T. Wixted, & Steven E. Clark
2. The Role of Context in Understanding Similarities and Differences in Remembering and Episodic Future Thinking
Kathleen B. McDermott & Adrian W. Gilmore
3. Human Category Learning: Toward a Broader Explanatory Account
Kenneth J. Kurtz
4. Choice from Among Intentionally Selected Options
Patrick Shafto
5. Embodied Seeing:  The Space Near the Hands
Richard A. Abrams, Blaire J. Weidler & Jihyun Suh
6. The Analysis of Visual Cognition in Birds: Implications for the Evolution and Mechanisms of Visual Processing
Robert G. Cook, Muhammad A. J. Qadri & Ashlynn M. Keller