What is cognitive development? Expert Dr Samantha Durrant answers parents' questions around this tricky subject, and how it ...

Cognition can be defined as the brain's ability to build mental models of the world. Such capacity appears to be a crucial ingredient for the emergence of consciousness.

WILLIAM WINN, Some implications of cognitive theory for instructional design, Instructional Science, Vol. 19, No. 1 (1990), pp. 53-69 ...

Such interpretations run into difficulty in accounting for certain aspects of verbal behavior, but so do cognitive theories. Although nothing, in principle, prohibits either type of theory from ...

As people age, they display a bias in recognizing emotions as positive—to the point of improperly labeling neutral or ...

Doubling-back aversion—defined as the tendency for an individual to forego taking an easier or faster route when it involves ...

Imagine you decide to walk to the park. As you head out the front door, you take a left and walk for about a block. At that point, you realize it would've been a faster journey if you had taken a ...