Alexithymia is a multifaceted personality construct characterised by difficulties identifying one’s feelings and distinguishing them from bodily sensations, describing to others, an externally oriented cognitive style. Over the past 25 years, burgeoning body of research has examined how alexithymia moderates processing at cognition–emotion interface. We review findings in five domains: attentio...

The "magical" number of 4 has been demonstrated to limit much of human information processing. The relevant evidence is briefly reviewed. It is proposed that the organization of processing structures is based on interconnected bidirectional pairs, with every element paired with every other one. The limit arises because of the large increase in links among elements required beyond structures of ...