Psychology of Learning and Motivation

Brian H. Ross is a Professor of Psychology and of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research areas have included problem solving, complex learning, categorization, reasoning, memory, and mathematical modeling. He has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Institute of Education Sciences. Ross has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Memory & Cognition, Chair of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society, and co-author of a textbook, Cognitive Psychology. He has held temporary leadership positions on the University of Illinois campus as Department Head of Psychology, Associate Dean of the Sciences, and Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Ross has degrees from Brown University (B.S., Honors in Psychology), Rutgers University (M.S. in Mathematical Statistics), Yale University (M.S. in Psychology), and Stanford University (PhD.). Ross has been Editor of The Psychology of Learning and Motivation since 2000.

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