EDITORIAL article Front. Psychol., 03 July 2023Sec. Cognitive Science Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1242809

Traditional cognitive psychology, the study of the information processing mechanisms underlying human thought and behavior, is problematic from an evolutionary viewpoint: Humans were not directly selected to process information, nor to store it, learn it, attend to it, represent it—nor even, in fact, to think. All of these capacities, the core topics of cognitive psychology, can be seen as epip...

Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is one of the principal branches of “second generation cognitive science”—the alliance of new approaches emerging from what has been called the “second cognitive revolution” of the last decade of the 20 century (Harré and Gillett, 1994). It is also the rightful inheritor of an older tradition, antedating the behaviorist ascendancy in mid-20 century psychology from whi...

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The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies initiated an interorganizational task force to develop guidelines for integrated education and training in cognitive and behavioral psychology at the doctoral level in the United States. Fifteen task force members representing 16 professional associations participated in a year-long series of conferences, and developed a consensus on optima...

Liane Young received her BA in philosophy (2004) and her PhD in psychology (2008) from Harvard University, after which she did postdoctoral work in MIT’s Brain & Cognitive Sciences Department. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Boston College, where she studies the cognitive and neural basis of human moral judgment. Her current research focuses on the role of reaso...

1 State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China; 2 Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 3 Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia; 4 Beijing Key Laboratory of App...

Gábor Stefanics*, Piia Astikainen and István Czigler 1 Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich and ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland 2 Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 3 Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland 4 Research Center for...