Cognitive Psychology

This Section publishes original research that advances our understanding of fundamental aspects of human cognition. It focuses on quantitative experimental approaches that are based on established theoretical frameworks, or establish such frameworks on their own. These can include the registration of reaction times and accuracy, but we particularly encourage research that includes more complex behavior, as well as research that addresses the ecological validity of established cognitive paradigms.

Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Characteristics of higher-order perception, attention, spatial orientation and wayfinding, memory, reasoning, problem solving, decision making, and executive control in healthy young participants.
• Trait and state factors that modify the above functions, thus explaining persistent and situational differences in cognitive performance.
• Comparison of the above functions in healthy persons of different ages, genders, or ethnicities.
• Combination of behavioral data with supportive electrophysiological or neuroimaging registrations.
• Embodied cognition.
• Combination of behavioral data with explanatory modeling.