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Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes that underlie how people acquire, represent, store, transform, and use information. Its core domains include perception, attention, memory, language, concept formation, reasoning, problem solving, decision making, and executive control. The field treat…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 5 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 54× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2470-5020 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes that underlie how people acquire, represent, store, transform, and use information. Its core domains include perception, attention, memory, language, concept formation, reasoning, problem solving, decision making, and executive control. The field treats the mind as an information-processing system and uses controlled experiments, reaction-time measures, and computational and theoretical models to infer the structure of unobservable cognitive operations. Influential frameworks examine how abstract concepts are represented, including conceptual metaphor accounts in which abstract ideas are grounded in sensory and bodily experience, and how emotional or motivational factors shape processes such as conflict monitoring and cognitive control. Cognitive psychology connects closely with neuroscience, where mental constructs are mapped onto neural mechanisms, and with applied work on learning, self-monitoring, and behavior change. Sub-areas address working memory and attention, semantic and episodic memory, mental imagery, judgment under uncertainty, and the interaction between cognition and emotion. Methodologically, the discipline emphasizes operational definitions, experimental manipulation, and convergence across behavioral and physiological evidence. Findings inform education, clinical assessment and rehabilitation, human factors, and the design of interventions that depend on understanding how attention, memory, and reasoning operate and how they can be supported or disrupted.

Research published in this journal

5 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 5 articles above have been cited 54 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Cognitive Psychology, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Neurological Research and Therapy (ISSN 2470-5020).

Journal editorial board
Ian J Martins · Australia Giuseppe Lanza · Italy Ion Codreanu · United States

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