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Someone pauses before answering a difficult question and reports that a whole sentence was somehow present, although no full sentence seemed to pass…
A graph of second-language test scores slopes downward with age of first exposure. A fitted curve bends near adolescence. It is tempting to place a…
A violin student spends two hours repeating a passage. Another spends forty minutes isolating a difficult transition, records each attempt, and changes…
How to identify the conversational form of some inner speech across reports and tasks.
With eyes closed, a person can tell that a raised ridge lies across a fingertip rather than along it. In another task, the person notices a faint…
How retrieval performance changes with cue overlap, processing demands and context.
Show someone two photographs of a street and ask which they prefer. The answer may depend on the light, camera angle, visible people, and a guess about…
How to assess trust in testimony without confusing self-report with observed selective learning.
Two kittens develop in otherwise similar settings, but patterned input to one eye is interrupted during an early developmental interval. Later…
Two people choose the same dessert. One smiles after the first taste but leaves most of it; the other eats quickly while later describing little…