What: Our vision is to bring together three previously distinct disciplines [education, psychology and neuroscience] – to focus on a specific common problem: how to promote better learning. This will mean building a new scientific community and a new discipline, educational neuroscience. Why: We now understand better how learning organizes and reorganizes the brain, but there is very little res...

1 Laboratory of Biological Psychology, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium 2 Human Brain Research Center, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 3 Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Fédération de Recherche 3C, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France *Correspondence: fel...

Th e study of self-regulation and autonomy has emerged as an important topic at the intersection of several areas in psychology. Developmental psychologists (e.g., Blair & Ursach, 2011 ; Carlson, 2005 ; Posner & Rothbart, 2007 ; Zelazo, Carlson, & Kesek, 2008 ) have identifi ed diff erent aspects of regulatory control and how these change over time. Social psychologists (e.g., Bandura, 1997 ; D...

Incremental validity of WISC–IV factor index scores with a referred Irish sample: Predicting performance on theWIAT–II Gary L. Canivez*, Marley W. Watkins, Trevor James, Rebecca Good and Kate James Department of Psychology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, USA Department of Educational Psychology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA 3 Eirim: The National Assessment Agency, Ltd...

Danilo Garcia, Trevor Archer, Saleh Moradi, Bibinaz Ghiabi Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Forensic Psychiatry, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Institute for Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Email: danilo.gar...

ANNETTE BROSE*, MANUEL C. VOELKLE, MARTIN LÖVDÉN, ULMAN LINDENBERGER and FLORIAN SCHMIEDEK Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden German Institute for International Educational Researc...

From the beginning of this century, following the publication of his dissertation, Thorndike made many significant contributions to psychology, some related to animal and human learning and others to various areas of educational psychology. This paper concentrates on the former and mentions some of the latter, in the context of personal and professional aspects of his life.