Co-speech gestures traditionally have been considered communicative, but they may also
serve other functions. For example, hand-arm movements seem to facilitate both spatial …

The unconscious mind is still viewed by many psychological scientists as the shadow of a “real”
conscious mind, though there now exists substantial evidence that the unconscious is …

Although research on cognitive control has addressed the effects that different forms of
cognitive interference have on behavior and the activities of certain brain regions, until recently, …

What is the primary function of consciousness in the nervous system? The answer to this
question remains enigmatic, not so much because of a lack of relevant data, but because of the …

Discovering the function of phenomenal states remains a formidable scientific challenge.
Research on consciously penetrable conflicts (eg," pain-for-gain" scenarios) and impenetrable …

How word production unfolds remains controversial. Serial models posit that phonological
encoding begins only after lexical node selection, whereas cascade models hold that it can …

Two experiments examined listeners’ ability to make accurate inferences about speakers from
the nonlinguistic content of their speech. In Experiment I, naı̈ve listeners heard male and …

In the early days (by which we mean way back in the 1980s), discoveries of nonconscious
processes were seen as magical, mysterious—if they were believed at all. The conscious-…

W hen neighbors feud, lovers quarrel, or nations war, the predictable remedy prescribed by
the voices of reason is communication. The prevailing view is that, faced with conflict, …

… Ezequiel Morsella would like to dedicate this book to the memory of Ines Morsella, who, with
the gift of two turtles for his eighth birthday, piqued his lifelong love for natural science. Peter …