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. Beyond Born vs. Made: A New Look at Expertise
David Z. Hambrick, Brooke N. Macnamara, Guillermo Campitelli, Fredrik Ullén, & Miriam A. Mosing
2. Explaining the Basic-Level Concept Advantage in Infants... Or is it the Superordinate-Level Advantage?
Gregory L. Murphy
3. Believing that Humans Swallow Spiders in Their Sleep: False Beliefs as Side Effects of the Processes that Support Accurate Knowledge
Elizabeth J. Marsh Allison D. Cantor & Nadia Brashier
4. The Role of Stimulus Structure in Human Memory
Robert L. Greene
5. The Role of Motor Action in Memory for Objects and Words
René Zeelenberg & Diane Pecher
6. Understanding Central Processes: the Case Against Simple Stimulus-Response Associations and for Complex Task Representation
Eliot Hazeltine & Eric H. Schumacher
7. What Dot-Based Masking Effects can Tell us About Visual Cognition: A Selective Review of Masking Effects at the Whole-Object and Edge-Based Levels
Todd A. Kahan
8. Technology-Based Support for Older Adult Communication in Safety-Critical Domains
Daniel Morrow