Abstract Numerous studies have found that selective attention affects category learning. However, previous research did not distinguish between the contribution of focusing and filtering components of selective attention. This study addresses this issue by examining how components of selective attention affect category representation. Participants first learned a rule-plus-similarity category structure, and then were presented with […]

Social class is a cultural context with potentially far-reaching cognitive and behavioral consequences. Fittipaldi and colleagues [1], however, examine the role of disparities in socioeconomic status (SES) as a key contributor to cognitive functioning. As they note, indicators of SES and class are often only modestly correlated and should not be used interchangeably. With this […]

There is ample evidence of wave-like activity in the brain at multiple scales and levels. This emerging literature supports the broader adoption of a wave perspective of brain activity. Specifically, a brain state can be described as a set of recurring, sequential patterns of propagating brain activity, namely a wave. We examine a collective body […]