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.

The Many Facets of Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity

Nash Unsworth

An Exemplar-Retrieval Model of Short-Term Memory Search: Linking Categorization and Probe Recognition

Robert M. Nosofsky

Hybrid Causal Representations

Michael R. Waldmann and Ralf Mayrhofer

Increased Wisdom from the Ashes of Ignorance and Surprise: Numerically-Driven Inferencing, Global Warming, and Other Exemplar Realms

Michael Andrew Ranney, Edward L. Munnich and Lee Nevo Lamprey

How Retrieval Attempts Affect Learning: A Review and Synthesis

Nate Kornell and Kalif E. Vaughn

Prediction, Information Structure, and Good Enough Language Processing

Fernanda Ferreira and Matthew W. Lowder

Separating the Activation, Integration, and Validation Components of Reading

Edward J. O’Brien and Anne E. Cook

The Politics of Attention: Differences in Visual Cognition between Liberals and Conservatives

Michael D. Dodd, John R. Hibbing and Kevin B. Smith