Commentary: from the human mind’s powerful unconscious capacities to its digitally extended possibilities by Μπετίνα Ντάβου

“…From the inherent, both conscious and unconscious, capacities of the human mind to its digitally extended possibilities, as well as to the subtle mechanisms of cognitive and metacognitive development, the papers show how much cognitive research has moved on, from approaching the mind as a cognitive system analogous to a computer, which was the dominant perspective in the beginnings of Cognitive Psychology in the 1960s, to approaching the mind as a human function within a dynamic, multifaceted, demanding, and continuously changing sociocultural environment, above and beyond its component processes and the way they interrelate. …”
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The mind online: can digital technologies affect how we think? by Πέτρος Ρούσσος

“…We attempt to explain and discuss phenomena, such as multitasking and task switching, use of the internet to support and extend our memory, the development and use of a variety of heuristic-based strategies to search for information online, and making judgements about the credibility of information, among others. …”
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The power of the cognitive unconscious: the case of implicit learning by Ελένη Ζιώρη

“…The paper ends with conclusions and general principles drawn from research on a phenomenon with extended applications both in the lab and in everyday life and underlines the necessity for further research that will refine our methods of distinguishing conscious and unconscious processes and provide answers to unresolved issues and contradictory findings.  …”
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Metacognitive phenomena during human–Internet interactions by Ελένη Σιδηροπούλου, Παναγιώτα Μεταλλίδου

“… External information systems often serve as an extended cognitive system and are usually conceived as expansions of the capacity of human cognition. …”
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LA METÁFORA EN ARISTÓTELES Y SU CONTRIBUCIÓN A LA COMPRENSIÓN METAPHOR IN ARISTOTLE AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO COMPREHENSION by HARDY NEUMANN S0TO

“…To meet the intended purpose central subject passages in Aristotle's philosophy are discussed, submitted to valuation and extended reflectively.…”
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Does paternal acceptance buffer the effect of maternal rejection on victimization in early adolescents? A short-term longitudinal study by Kyriakos Charalampous, Spyridon Tantaros, Stelios Georgiou, Panayiotis Stavrinides

“…Results indicated that the maternal rejection had a strong effect on victimization six months later, even when taking into account initial victimization levels, and that paternal acceptace moderated this effect to a large extend. The findings are discussed and suggestions for future research are given. …”
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Quantity and quality of book reading to infants and toddlers: their effect on early communication and language development by Αλεξάνδρα Καρούσου, Δήμητρα Οικονομάκου

“…Overall, results confirm and extend previous findings regarding the benefits of shared book reading to children's vocabulary, morphology and syntax, pointing to the significant contribution of its quality rather than its quantity. …”
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What’s in the Middle? by Geoffrey Horrocks

“…The principal observations are that Ancient Greek middles do not represent a regular pattern of usage either from a typological point of view or as employed specifically in Republic 1 (the database is in fact partly extended to other works). Accordingly, the main conclusion is that the Ancient Greek middle is not a grammatical voice sensu stricto, i.e. a regular syntactic alternation applying to all verbs with a given set of properties and expressed by a regular morphological form with a predictable semantic function. …”
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