Annual Review of Psychology articles

Recent articles from Annual Review of Psychology

Preface.
January 1, 2004... If you are reading this preface, you are probably holding the book, and not a mouse, in your hand. But you could be holding a mouse. Having accessed the Annual Reviews home page, http://www.AnnualReviews.org, and selected the Psychology series, you would be one step closer to this preface. Of...

Toward an integrative science of the person.
January 1, 2004... Key Words personality, social cognitive theory, personality processes, personality dynamics, role of situation, personality paradox, personality signatures * Abstract To build a science of the person, the most basic question was, and remains, how can one identify and understand the...

On building a bridge between brain and behavior.
January 1, 2004... Key Words linking proposition, linking hypothesis, stop signal, countermanding, response preparation, intention, eye field, reaction time, response time, saccade * Abstract Cognitive neuroscience is motivated by the precept that a discoverable correspondence exists between mental states...

The neurobiology of consolidations, or, how stable is the engram?
January 1, 2004... Key Words memory, consolidation, persistence, retrieval, reconsolidation * Abstract Consolidation is the progressive postacquisition stabilization of long-term memory. The term is commonly used to refer to two types of processes: synaptic consolidation, which is accomplished within the...

Understanding other minds: linking developmental psychology and functional neuroimaging.
January 1, 2004... Key Words theory of mind, mentalizing, social cognition, cognitive neuroscience * Abstract Evidence from developmental psychology suggests that understanding other minds constitutes a special domain of cognition with at least two components: an early-developing system for reasoning about...