Carol Evans is an Associate Professor and Head of Teacher Education at the Graduate School of Education in the College of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of Exeter, UK; a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK; and President of the Education, Learning, Styles, Individual differences Network. She has previously been Assistant Director of Learning and Teaching (ITE) at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK, and development and co-ordination of the Masters PGCE programme at Durham University, UK. She has also worked as an Educational Adviser to Medical Consultants and has spent over 22 years in a variety of roles from classroom teacher to senior manager in schools. Her research interests include improving conditions for learning, cognitive and learning styles and assessment and feedback practice.

Maria Kozhevnikov is Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the National University of Singapore, Visiting Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, USA, and also Associate in Neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her PhD from Technion, Israel, jointly with UC Santa Barbara. Since 2001, she has held faculty positions at Rutgers and George Mason Universities in the USA. During 2005-2007, she served as a Program Director for the Science of Learning Centers Program at the US National Science Foundation, where she managed awards for large-scale Centers that study learning across multiple disciplines.