Books in the Special Issues of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology series

Comprises research on: Verbal interference and facilitation in face and person processing; similarities and differences between effects of verbalisation and processing in the Navon task (Navon, 1977); and, effects of verbalisation in visual imagery and object memory.

The fields of "cognitive science" and "education" have worked hard to discover effective principles of learning with the goal of improving educational achievement. This book provides information concerning the improvement of learning. It helps to understand strategies that would most benefit students by improving learning.

Brings together researchers in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience who approach the question of executive control using a wide range of methods from traditional behavioural studies, quantitative and computational modelling, and functional neuroimaging.

Unlike most research in psychology, much of the work reported here explicitly addresses individual differences, which must be considered carefully in order to provide comprehensive accounts of the results of imagery experiments.

Unlike most research in psychology, much of the work reported here explicitly addresses individual differences, which must be considered carefully in order to provide comprehensive accounts of the results of imagery experiments.

This special issue brings together researchers aiming to bridge laboratory data with real world learning practices, each providing recent and crucial information concerning the improvement of learning.