The concept of attention held a special place during the historical development psychology (Cohen, Sparkling –Cohen & O’Donell, 1993). Although hundreds articles dealing with are published each year (Whyte, 1992a), due to lack coherence at conceptual, methodological and theoretical level, there continues be disagreement among scientists (Anderson, Craik Naveh-Benjamin, 1998.

background due to the lack of enough researches on the impaired underlying mechanisms in the obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) and also existence of new psychological therapies such as metacognitive therapy and neurofeedback, the application of mentioned mechanisms in the new therapies can be introduced as a possible effective option with more long term effects to treat ocd. objectives the cu...

this paper attempts to introduce the dimensions of bi/multi-lingualism as a cognitive linguis-tic phenomenon, which can be thought over in sociological, biolinguistic, cultural and psy-cholinguistic perspective. the main research question being asked as how bi/multilingualism is a cognitive phenomenon and what are the bilinguality problems and how do they repre-sents in linguistics? linguist...

A recent trend in cognitive modeling is to couple cognitive architectures with computer models or simulations of dynamic environments to study interactive behavior and embedded cognition. Progress in this area is made difficult by the fact that cognitive architectures traditionally have been motivated by data from discrete experimental trials using static, noninteractive tasks. As a result, add...

Allen Newell (1973) once observed that psychology researchers were playing "twenty questions with nature," carving up human cognition into hundreds of individual phenomena but shying away from the difficult task of integrating these phenomena with unifying theories. We argue that research on cognitive control has followed a similar path, and that the best approach toward unifying theories of co...