The n-back task requires participants to decide whether each stimulus in a sequence matches the one that appeared n items ago. Although n-back has become a standard "executive" working memory (WM) measure in cognitive neuroscience, it has been subjected to few behavioral tests of construct validity. A combined experimental-correlational study…

Considerable discussion and debate have been devoted to the extent and nature of structural or functional correspondence between internal representations and their external visual counterparts. An analogue representation or process is one in which the relational structure of external events is preserved in the corresponding internal…

Examines communication effects gaps in the levels of knowledge and adoption of new ideas between more-advantaged and less-advantaged segments of a social system. (MH)

Determination of the nonintellectual characteristics of migrant children that are involved in development of the child's readiness for academic material was the purpose of this study. (Author)

Repeats an earlier study by the authors concerning informants' ability to report their communication accurately and confirms results indicating that people do not know those with whom they communicate. Expands the original experimental design and offers recommendations for future research. (MH)

The focus of this paper is the identification of selected methodological problems in the assessment of personality from the psychoanalytic, behavioral, and cognitive positions. Each of the above methodologies are reviewed and assessed, and specific strategies are proposed for sport personality research. (DS)