Children are the future and hope of China. Paying attention to the healthy growth of children is a basic project to improve the national quality and an inevitable requirement to realize the prosperity of socialist modernization. Economic and social development and the in-depth research in the field of psychology makes China pay more attention to children’s psychological development. This book selects 22 high-quality papers from a large number of papers related to psychological research of children’s cognitive and social development and introduce the latest research results, in order to provide readers with in-depth analysis.

Emotion refers to the experience of attitude towards external things that comes with the process of cognition and consciousness. It is the reaction of human brain to the relationship between observing external things and subject needs. It is a kind of psychological activity mediated by individual needs. The research on emotions in psychology started late. In the late 20th century, with the rise of cognitive neuroscience and the development of various technologies and means such as functional magnetic resonance technology, event-related potential technology, multi-channel physiological recording technology, biofeedback technology, eye movement recording technology, cognitive behavioral experiments and even hormone measurement, researchers were able to explore emotions in a more scientific way. This book selects 39 high-quality papers from a large number of papers related to emotion research, and introduces the latest achievements of psychological research in factors that affect emotion, emotion regulation and the emotional influence, in order to provide readers with in-depth analysis.

An event-related potential, or ERP, is the electrophysiological response in the brain to a specific motor or cognitive event (e.g. a stimulus). With the development of science and technology, ERP is more and more widely used in psychological research. This book compiles 35 high-quality papers from a large number of papers related to ERP psychology research, and introduces the latest research results of ERP technology in psychology research from the four directions of emotion, language, social cognition, perception and attention, in order to provide readers with in-depth analysis.

Psychology and brain science are closely related. With the development of science and technology, the interdisciplinary research of psychology and brain science is more and more extensive. This book selects 18 high-quality papers from a large number of papers related to psychology and brain research and introduces the latest research results from four major directions: brain function, brain and cognition, brain and learning, and brain and social behavior, in order to provide readers with in-depth analysis.

Memory is a psychological process in which the human brain accumulates and stores individual experience. There are several different types of memory. This book selects 44 papers by renowned scholars published in Acta Psychologica Sinica. Based on different statistical and experimental methods, the book analyzes the characteristics and influencing mechanism of memory from the perspectives of sensory memory, working memory and implicit memory.

According to the World Health Organization, depression will be ranked as the leading cause of the global burden of disease by 2030. Depression is a common illness worldwide and different from usual mood fluctuations. To help people better understand depression, this book covers 20 papers published in Acta Psychologica Sinica, provides some enlightenment for the research of depression-related factors and emotion regulation in light of genes, and social, psychological and physical factors, and promotes the research on the mechanism of depression.