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The Relationship Between Problematic Video Gaming, Problematic Facebook Use, and Self-Control Dimensions Among Female and Male Gamers Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Andrzej Cudo, Tomasz Misiuro, Mark D. Griffiths, Małgorzata Torój
The development of new technology has contributed to changes in everyday functioning. However, one possible negative aspect of new technologies is their problematic, uncontrolled use. Dysfunctional self-control is a critical aspect of problematic behavior. Consequently, the present research investigated the relationship between problematic video gaming (PVG), problematic Facebook use (PFU), and self-control
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How Does Performing Demanding Activities Influence Prospective Memory? A Systematic Review Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Patricia Matos, Diana R. Pereira, Pedro B. Albuquerque, Flávia H. Santos
This paper is the first systematic review on the role of ongoing task load in prospective remembering, which was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA). Forty articles published between 1995 and 2020 were included. They evaluated prospective memory (PM) performance (i.e., the ability to remember to execute a delayed intention) in adult
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The Effect of Painting Beauty on Eye Movements Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Tomasz Jankowski, Piotr Francuz, Piotr Oleś, Elżbieta Chmielnicka-Kuter, Paweł Augustynowicz
The current study aimed to determine relationships between oculomotor behavior and aesthetical evaluation of paintings. We hypothesized that paintings evaluated as beautiful compared to nonbeautiful would be associated with different oculomotor behavior in terms of fixation duration, viewing time, and temporal and spatial distribution of attention. To verify these hypotheses, we examined forty participants
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Higher Self-Control, Less Deception: The Effect of Self-Control on Deception Behaviors Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Wei Fan, Mengmeng Ren, Wenjie Zhang, Pengxiang Xiao, Yiping Zhong
The self-control ability and self-control resources have a different influence on deception, but the cognition mechanism of this different influence has not been described yet. In this study, the event-related potentials (ERPs) technique was utilized to conduct two experiments exploring the effects of self-control ability and self-control resources on deception from two approaches. In Experiment 1
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Better Destination Memory in Females Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Mohamad El Haj, Philippe Allain, Joanna Lucenet, André Ndobo
Destination memory refers to the ability to remember to whom one has sent information. The current study investigated gender differences in destination memory. Female and male participants were asked to tell proverbs to pictures depicting faces of female and male celebrities. Participants were later asked to decide to whom each proverb had been previously told. Results showed better destination memory
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Vigilance, Inhibitory Control and Regional Cerebral Blood Oxygenation in the PFC - Differences in ADHD Types of Presentations Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Sebastian Skalski, Paweł Dobrakowski
It is commonly believed that proven abnormalities in the structure and functioning of the prefrontal lobes affect cognitive deficits in children with ADHD. The purpose of the current study was to assess vigilance, inhibitory control, and regional cerebral blood oxygenation (rCBO2) in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of children with ADHD. The study included 150 children with ADHD and 51 typically developing
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An Investigation on How Inhibition in Cognitive Processing Contributes to Fluid Reasoning Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Tengfei Wang, Chenyu Li, Wei Wei, Karl Schweizer
This article reports an investigation of how inhibition contributes to fluid reasoning when it is decomposed into the reasoning ability, item-position, and speed components to control for possible method effects. Working memory was also taken into consideration. A sample of 223 university students completed a fluid reasoning scale, two tasks tapping prepotent response inhibition, and two working memory
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Competition Shadow: Anchoring to Fear Versus Hope in Estimating Rivals in Competition Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Ehsan Chitsaz, Seyed Mahdi Etemadifard, Somayeh Khoshsoroor, Liang Dapeng
We studied the effect of two inconsistent emotions, fear and hope, in strategic decision‐making during a competition. We sought to examine which emotion will be more related to whether decision-makers accurately and objectively estimate their rival We developed a nuanced perspective on the effects of trait anxiety on rival estimation by integrating it with the competition shadow. Using a competition
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Analysis of Factor Validity of the Support Intensity Scale on Bosnian–Herzegovinian Sample Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Alma Dizdarevic, Zulfo Ahmetovic, Daniel Malec, Amila Mujezinovic, Melika Ahmetovic, Fata Zilic, Senad Mehmedinovic
Since the development of the original Support Intensity Scale—Adult Version (SIS-A) and the Support Intensity Scale—Child Version (SIS-C), the interest in supporting people with intellectual disabilities (ID) has changed. Resource allocation, better quality of resource utilization in the rehabilitation process, the development of support systems, and redefining the roles of organizations that support
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Response Priming with Horizontally and Vertically Moving Primes: A Comparison of German, Malaysian, and Japanese Subjects Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Christina Bermeitinger, Laura Kalbfleisch, Katharina Schäfer, Alfred Lim, Hannah Goymann, Lea Reuter, Steve M. J. Janssen
Response priming refers to the finding that a prime preceding a target influences the response to the target. With German subjects, horizontally moving dots as primes, and static arrows as targets, there are typically faster responses to compatible (i.e., prime and target are associated with the same response) as compared to incompatible targets (i.e., positive compatibility effect, PCE) with short
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Sense of Agency in Multi-Step Actions Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Andrzej Sokołowski, Ernest Tyburski, Anna Sołtys, Ewa Karabanowicz
Verbal fluency tasks have been used as tools to measure various cognitive processes, such as executive functions, memory, and language. Sex differences in verbal fluency performance have been mostly investigated in population studies. Little of this research has focused on young adults. The goal of this study was to assess the impact of sex and task category on word production and verbal strategies
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How Does Knowledge About an Artist’s Disability Change the Aesthetic Experience? Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Magdalena Szubielska, Kamil Imbir, Agnieszka Fudali-Czyż, Paweł Augustynowicz
Based on concepts of cognitive mastering and the rewarding effect of making sense of challenging visual art (taken from a psychological model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments of Leder et al., 2004), we hypothesised that viewers who have knowledge about an artist’s disability will appreciate their ambiguous works more than viewers who do not have such knowledge. Additionally, we aimed
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Feeling Other People's Pain: An Event-Related Potential Study on Facial Attractiveness and Emotional Empathy Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Natalia Kopiś, Piotr Francuz, Emilia Zabielska-Mendyk, Paweł Augustynowicz
Empathy is the ability to understand and react to other people's inner states. Neuroimaging evidence suggests that there are two aspects of empathy which are subserved by distinct brain networks. The emotional aspect of empathy is reflected by bottom-up processes and the cognitive aspect of empathy is influenced by top-down processes. Both aspects can be studied by measuring the reaction of participants
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Cognitive Process Differences Between Moral Beauty Judgments and Moral Goodness Judgments Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Yanhui Xiang, Xue Wen, Jiaxu Zhao, Wenrui Zhang, Yiqi Jiang
Goodness and beauty have always been important topics of debate in the field of philosophy and aesthetics. The present study used behavior and event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate whether moral beauty judgments and moral goodness judgments involve different cognitive processes or the same cognitive process under different language labels for the same human act. Behavioral results showed that
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Sense of Agency in Multi-Step Actions Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Patricia Garrido-Vásquez, Tanja Rock
In our daily lives, we frequently execute actions that require several steps to bring about the outcome. However, investigations on how the sense of agency—the sense of controlling our actions and their outcomes—evolves in multi-step actions are still lacking. The purpose of the present research is to fill this gap. In the present study, the participants executed one-step, two-step, and three-step
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Early Departure, Early Revival: A "Free From Care" Account of Negative Temporal Discounting Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Hai-Long Sun, Ai-Mei Li, Si-Chu Shen, Guan-Xing Xiong, Li-Lin Rao, Rui Zheng, Hong-Yue Sun, Shu Li
According to the positive temporal discounting theory and our relevant observations, when faced with future losses, people should, and do, prefer delayed negative events (e.g., deferring paying taxes, debts, or tickets), which can lead to substantial individual and societal costs. However, a counterexample has been identified and it appears to depart from the prediction of positive temporal discounting
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The Effects of 12-Week Physical Exercise Tapping High-level Cognitive Functions Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Zhiguang Ji, Tian Feng, Hongbiao Wang
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of physical exercise tapping high-level cognitive functions on both cognitive function and fitness in older adults. In total, 96 healthy older adults took part in the study. Participants were randomly assigned to four groups: a cognitive training group (CG), physical exercise group (PG), simultaneous cognitive training and physical exercise group
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Handle-Hand Compatibility Effects for the Right and Left Hand Using Reach-to-Touch Movements Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Gioacchino Garofalo, Davide R. Mussi, Lucia Riggio
In stimulus-response compatibility tasks, performance is better when the handle of an object is oriented on the same side of the response than when the handle is oriented on the opposite side. Two major alternative accounts, the motor affordance and spatial accounts, have been proposed to explain this handle-hand compatibility effect. In two experiments, we tested between these two accounts by administering
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Exploring Cognitive and Perceptual Judgment Processes in Gymnastics Using Essential Kinematics Information Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Melanie Mack
The aim of the current study was to transfer the method of using isolated kinematics information combined with the examination of perceptual-cognitive processes to gymnastics judging and thereby investigating the informational underpinnings of skilled perception and judgment. More specifically, a combination of process-tracing methods that include both the gaze pattern (via eye tracking) and the performance
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Distinctive Effects of Within-Item Emotion Versus Contextual Emotion on Memory Integration Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Anthony Macri, Cynthia Claus, Amélie Pavard, Rémy Versace
This study investigates the links between memory and emotion and, more specifically, how emotions can impact the integration mechanism. The authors' hypotheses were based on a dynamic conception of memory (Versace et al., 2014; Macri et al., 2018), and stated that an emotion coming from the stimulus (within-item emotion) should enhance the integration of the stimulus features, and that an emotion coming
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FN400 and LPC Responses to Different Degrees of Sensory Involvement: A Study of Sentence Comprehension Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Shaghayegh Shayesteh, Reza Pishghadam, Azin Khodaverdi
The current study tested the likely effect of sensory involvement on the FN400 and late positive complex (LPC) responses to semantic and pragmatic comprehension of English sentences. Fifteen English language learners took part in the event-related potential (ERP) experiment and determined the acceptability of 432 sentences under congruent, semantically incongruent, and pragmatically incongruent conditions
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Bullying at Work and Mental Health: The Moderating Role of Demographic and Occupational Variables Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Anna Skuzińska, Mieczysław Plopa, Wojciech Plopa
The aim of this study was to investigate the moderating role of individual (gender, age, education), and occupational (employment duration, workplace position, the duration of negative behaviour, and the number of perpetrators) characteristics of victims and perpetrators of negative workplace behaviours in the relationship between workplace bullying and mental health. On the basis of the study on a
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Recognition of Contextually Threat-Related Scenes is Enhanced by Preceding Emotionally Incongruent Facial Expression Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Wanting He, Huiyan Lin
Previous studies on intentional and incidental face memory have investigated the effects of emotional facial expression on facial recognition itself. However, it is still uncertain whether facial expression influences later recognition of other emotional stimuli, such as emotional scenes. To address this issue, participants during the encoding phase were presented with emotional scenes together with
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Becoming Aware of One's Own Biases in Emerging Adulthood — A Longitudinal Study. Metacognitive Approach Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Paweł Kleka, Hanna Brycz, Agnieszka Fanslau, Aleksandra Pilarska
The current longitudinal developmental study was designed to determine whether awareness of one’s own biases (the metacognitive self, MCS) emerges and develops during the developmental period known as emerging adulthood. To this end, we followed almost 400 undergraduate university students (18–23 years) over the first three years of their studies, capturing data at five time points. We observed a growth
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Disrupters as Well as Monitors: Roles of Others During and After Collaborative Remembering in the DRM Procedure Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Aiqing Nie, Chunchun Ke, Mengsi Li, Bingyan Guo
Influence of others on true and inauthentic memory both during and after collaborative remembering have drawn extensive attention in recent years. Collaborative research has recorded three typical effects: collaborative inhibition and error pruning (i.e., nominal groups recall more true information but also bear higher erroneous intrusions than collaborative groups) during collaboration, as well as
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Development and Validation of a Shortened Language-Specific Version of the UNRAVEL Placekeeping Ability Performance Measuring Tool Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Agata Kopacz, Cezary Biele, Aldona Zdrodowska
The current study aimed to develop a shortened language-specific (Polish) version of the UNRAVEL task (Altmann, Trafton, & Hambrick, 2014) and to verify whether the adaptation yields valid and reliable data about placekeeping ability. Since the original procedure is intended to investigate task performance referring to placekeeping operations under conditions of task interruptions, we used this tool
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Brain Activation During Conceptual Processing of Action and Sound Verbs Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Margot Popp, Natalie M. Trumpp, Eun-Jin Sim, Markus Kiefer
Grounded cognition approaches to conceptual representations postulate a close link between conceptual knowledge and the sensorimotor brain systems. The present fMRI study tested, whether a feature-specific representation of concepts, as previously demonstrated for nouns, can also be found for action- and sound-related verbs. Participants were presented with action- and soundrelated verbs along with
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Singles and Faces: High Recognition for Female Faces in Single Males Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Mohamad El Haj, Ahmed A. Moustafa, Jean-Louis Nandrino
A substantial body of research has assessed the effect of gender on face recognition; however, little is known about the effect of relationship status on face recognition. In this study, we assessed for the first time how relationship status impacts face recognition by asking 62 male and female participants to decide whether they had previously encountered faces of males and females. Participants were
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How Attentional Guidance and Response Selection Boost Contextual Learning: Evidence from Eye Movement Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Chao Wang, Hanna Haponenko, Xingze Liu, Hongjin Sun, Guang Zhao
The contextual cueing effect (CCE) refers to the learned association between predictive configuration and target location, speeding up response times for targets. Previous studies have examined the underlying processes (initial perceptual process, attentional guidance, and response selection) of CCE but have not reached a general consensus on their contributions to CCE. In the present study, we used
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Investigating the Relations Among Different Measures of False Memory Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Francesca Falzarano, Karen L. Siedlecki
Researchers have used the term false memory to describe various memory errors, including the incorporation of erroneous information into a memory, misremembering a word presented as a picture, and the construction of a detailed memory of an event that did not occur. Whether such diverse manifestations of false memory are assessing the same construct has not been evaluated. The purpose of this study
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On the One Hand or on the Other: Trade-Off in Timing Precision in Bimanual Musical Scale Playing Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-09-03 Floris Tijmen van Vugt, Eckart Altenmüller
Music performance requires simultaneously producing challenging movement sequences with the left and right hand. A key question in bimanual motor control research is whether bimanual movements are produced by combining unimanual controllers or through a dedicated bimanual controller. Here, 34 expert pianists performed musical scale playing movements with the left or right hand alone and with both hands
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The Acute Effect of Exercise on Executive Function and Attention: Resistance Versus Aerobic Exercise Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-09-03 Sharon Tsuk, Yael Netz, Ayelet Dunsky, Aviva Zeev, Rafi Carasso, Tzvi Dvolatzky, Riki Salem, Shai Behar, Arie Rotstein
Acute aerobic exercise was shown to enhance such cognitive functions as executive function (EF) and attention. Acute resistance exercise was also shown to enhance cognitive functions, however, only few studies directly compared these two exercise modalities. The aim of this study was to evaluate the acute effect of a typical moderate intensity resistance exercise session as compared to a typical moderate
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The Effects of Binaural and Monoaural Beat Stimulation on Cognitive Functioning in Subjects with Different Levels of Emotionality Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Hessel Engelbregt, Nora Meijburg, Marjolein Schulten, Oliver Pogarell, Jan Berend Deijen
Today, binaural and monaural beats are offered over the Internet or by mental health institutes to improve wellbeing or cognitive functioning. This improvement is explained by the assumption that the brain adapts its brainwave frequency to the frequency of the auditory beat. The present study examined the effects of binaural and monaural beat stimulation on attention and working memory in high and
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The Role of Time Constraints in Athletes' Egocentric Mental Rotation Performance Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Tian Feng, Yawei Li, Zhiguang Ji, Zhongqiu Zhang
A selective effect of motor expertise on mental rotation is revealed by a high correlation between the performance of sports experts and ability on a mental rotation task. Evidence is shown by studies involving a spatial factor, such as image interference or a movement constraint. Alternatively, the time constraint, as another performance factor, is considered critical in the effect of sport expertise
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The Disentangled Sub-Processes Involved in Implied Motion Contributing to Food Freshness: The Neural Evidence from ERPs Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Kaiyun Li, Yan Bi, Yifan Wang, Mingxian Zhang, Yong-Jin Liu, Huijing Yang, Fengxun Lin
Implied motion can enhance the consumer’s judgment of food freshness. However, this enhancing effect has only been investigated for a few products. Furthermore, researchers have not conclusively determined whether the effects of the low-level visual sensory processing and high-level conceptual processing on food evaluation differ. In Experiment 1, using different fruits in static water (fruit_IS),
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Expansion and Contraction Modulate Visual Short-Term Memory Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Junichi Takahashi, Yousuke Kawaichi, Jiro Gyoba
We examined the influence of expansion and contraction on visual short-term memory (VSTM) using a change-detection task. In each trial, several expanding/contracting line segments with various orientations were presented in two successive displays. The orientation of objects in the second display was either identical to, or different from, that of the first display. Observers were asked to judge the
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How Does Allocation of Emotional Stimuli Impact Working Memory Tasks? An Overview Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Fabiana Silva Ribeiro, Flávia Heloisa Santos, Pedro Barbas Albuquerque
In this review, we investigated the influence of happy/pleasurable and sad/unpleasant emotional stimuli on working memory (WM) performance. Twenty-eight out of 356 articles were reviewed. We observed that emotional stimuli were used as mood inductors or as targets comprising the WM task. Results showed that WM modalities were influenced differently when updating, interference resolution, span, and
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Direct and Indirect Relationships Between Life Satisfaction, Values, and Time Perspectives: Research on a Sample of Polish Students Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Józef Maciuszek, Romuald Polczyk, Kinga Tucholska
This study concerned the relationships among personal values (conformity, tradition, benevolence, universality, self-direction, stimulation, hedonism, achievement, power, safety), time perspectives by Zimbardo (past negative, past positive, present hedonistic, present fatalistic, future) and life satisfaction. The main hypothesis stated that value priorities would predict life satisfaction both directly
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The Role of Congruency for Distractor-Response Binding: A Caveat Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Roland Pfister, Christian Frings, Birte Moeller
Responding in the presence of stimuli leads to an integration of stimulus features and response features into event files, which can later be retrieved to assist action control. This integration mechanism is not limited to target stimuli, but can also include distractors (distractor-response binding). A recurring research question is which factors determine whether or not distractors are integrated
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Probability Matching on a Simple Simulated Foraging Task: The Effects of Reward Persistence and Accumulation on Choice Behavior Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Zack Ellerby, Richard J. Tunney
Over a series of decisions between two or more probabilistically rewarded options, humans have a tendency to diversify their choices, even when this will lead to diminished overall reward. In the extreme case of probability matching, this tendency is expressed through allocation of choices in proportion to their likelihood of reward. Research suggests that this behaviour is an instinctive response
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Metacognitive Illusion in Category Learning: Contributions of Processing Fluency and Beliefs Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Jiawei Wang, Qiang Xing
Extant research suggests that the desirability of an outcome influences the way an individual makes a prediction. The current research investigated how an outcome's desirability influences the extent to which an individual evaluates its probability when making a prediction. Two studies were conducted using a single binary prediction based on the urn model. Individuals predicted which color-red or blue-a
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Visual Search for Letters in the Right Versus Left Visual Hemifields Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Elena S. Gorbunova, Maria V. Falikman
The current study investigated the relationships between attention, word processing, and visual field asymmetries. There is a discussion on whether each brain hemisphere possesses its own attentional resources and on how attention allocation depends on hemispheric lateralization of functions. We used stimuli with lateralized processing in an attentional task presented across the two visual hemifields
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The Relationship Between Mindfulness, Cognitive Intrusions, and Recollection: An ERP study Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Tomasz Jankowski, Paweł Stróżak
The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether mindfulness and cognitive intrusions predict recollection. Using electroencephalogram methodology, we investigated 31 participants who performed a recognition task and reported situational mindfulness as well as task-irrelevant (TII) and task-relevant intrusions (TRI). We used behavioral measures (response accuracy) to analyze performance
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Predicting an Outcome Less Probable yet More Desirable than the Other Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Youngjin Kang
Extant research suggests that the desirability of an outcome influences the way an individual makes a prediction. The current research investigated how an outcome’s desirability influences the extent to which an individual evaluates its probability when making a prediction. Two studies were conducted using a single binary prediction based on the urn model. Individuals predicted which color—red or blue—a
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Linguistic Information in Auditory Dynamic Events Contributes to the Detection of Fine, Not Coarse Event Boundaries Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Frank Papenmeier, Annika E. Maurer, Markus Huff
Human observers (comprehenders) segment dynamic information into discrete events. That is, although there is continuous sensory information, comprehenders perceive boundaries between two meaningful units of information. In narrative comprehension, comprehenders use linguistic, non-linguistic , and physical cues for this event boundary perception. Yet, it is an open question – both from a theoretical
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The Impact of Facebook Use and Facebook Intrusion on Cognitive Control: Effect in Proactive and Reactive Control Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Andrzej Cudo, Natalia Kopiś, Piotr Francuz, Agata Błachnio, Aneta Przepiórka, Małgorzata Torój
More and more people are using social networking sites, with Facebook being one of the most popular. So far, most of the research on using Facebook has focused on emotional, social, and personality-related factors and few studies have investigated the phenomenon from a cognitive perspective. The aim of our study was, therefore, to identify relationships between cognitive control and Facebook intrusion
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A Functional Link Between Mental Representation in Long-Term Memory and Cognitive Performance in Working Memory Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Taeho Kim, Hyunsik Park, Thomas Schack
Although there have been various attempts to identify the perceptual-cognitive mechanisms underlying the superior performance of skilled players over novices in sports, few studies have examined the relationship between mental representations and cognitive performance according to the skill levels of players. The purpose of this study was to investigate the functional link between mental representations
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Effects of Physical and Observational Practice on Intermanual Transfer Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Amin Ghamari, Mehdi Sohrabi, Alireza Saberi Kakhki
Some studies have shown that different coordinate systems in the coding of movement sequences develop during observational and physical practice. According to Newell's (Newell, 1986) constraintsled approach, such contradictions could possibly depend on task characteristics. Accordingly, in the present study, two experiments were designed using a five-segment sequence timing task, in which the instructions
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Crowding with Negatively Conditioned Flankers and Targets Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Ferdinand Pittino, Lisa Valentina Eberhardt, Anja Kurz, Anke Huckauf
Crowding refers to the phenomenon of increased difficulty in identifying a peripherally presented stimulus when it is surrounded by adjacent flankers compared to when it is presented in isolation. The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of flanker and target emotion on crowding effects. Therefore, Landolt rings with certain opening directions were conditioned with neutral or negative
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Executive Control in Learning: Evidence for the Dissociation of Rule Learning and Associative Learning Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Tengfei Wang, Karl Schweizer, Xuezhu Ren
The dual-process account and the propositional account of learning hold opposite views regarding the recruitment of higher-level processes in rule learning and associative learning. Taking an individual differences perspective, the current study focused on the relationship between rule learning and associative learning and investigated to what extent executive control accounts for rule learning and
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Dynamic Causal Modeling of Effective Connectivity During Anger Experience in Healthy Young Men: 7T Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Ji-Woo Seok, Chaejoon Cheong
Little is known about how anger-associated brain regions integrate and modulate external input. Therefore, we investigated the neural connectivity architecture of anger processing using a dynamic causal modeling (DCM) approach. Thirteen subjects underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while viewing anger-inducing film clips. Conventional fMRI and DCM analyses were conducted to identify
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What Makes You Think That You Are a Health Expert? The Effect of Objective Knowledge and Cognitive Structuring on Self-Epistemic Authority Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Yoram Bar-Tal, Katarzyna Stasiuk, Renata Maksymiuk
Self-epistemic authority (SEA) refers to the subjective judgement of the level of expertise and knowledge a person has in a given domain. While it is reasonable to assume that people's perception of SEA reflects their level of objective knowledge in the given domain, there is evidence to show that people are not optimal judges of their own knowledge. Thus, the present study examined the interaction
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Which Information Helps Resolve Recall Failures for Familiar People's Names? Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Serge Brédart
Personal names are particularly susceptible to retrieval failures. In the present paper, studies describing people’s spontaneous strategies for resolving failures in recalling personal names as well as laboratory studies of experimentally induced resolution of name recall failures are reviewed. The review indicates that people frequently use spontaneous strategies based on a search for structural,
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Reasoning and Reading in Adults. A New Reasoning Task for Detecting the Visual Impendance Effect Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Elpida Panagiotidou, Francisca Serrano, Sergio Moreno-Rios
The visual impedance hypothesis states that at the time of reasoning, the reading context provokes visual images, which may add irrelevant details to an inference and thus could hamper reasoning. This study aims to create a new visual version of a reasoning task, similar to the traditional propositional task of relational syllogisms, but based on visuospatial components. Using such a task, it would
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Outer and Inner Dimensions of Brain and Consciousness - Refining and Integrating the Phenomenal Layers Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Johannes Wagemann, Friedrich Edelhäuser, Ulrich Weger
In view of the unresolved mind–brain problem, we examine a number of prototypical research attitudes regarding the question, how the mental and the neuronal realms are related to each other, both functionally and ontologically. By discussing neurophilosophical and neuropsychological positions, the mind–brain problem can be recast in terms of a structural relation between methodological and content-related
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Influence of the Spectral Quality of Light on Daytime Alertness Levels in Humans Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Kamila Łaszewska, Agnieszka Goroncy, Piotr Weber, Tadeusz Pracki, Małgorzata Tafil-Klawe
Exposure to light is very important for human health. However, the characteristics of the light stimulus and the appropriate timing of such exposure are essential. Studies that have used monochromatic light exposure have shown no systematic patterns for the effects of blue light compared to longer wavelengths. Previous studies have shown that red light exposure increases objective and subjective measures
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Consistent Shifts of Stimulus Modality Induce Chunking in Sequence Learning Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-09-30 Iris Blotenberg, Denise Stephan, Iring Koch
The ability to learn event sequences is crucial to human behavior because it enables us to interact adaptively with our environment. The sensory environment is essential in guiding the acquisition of these sequences, so the role of the stimulus modality in sequence learning is of high relevance. The present study examined structured stimulus modality shifts in sequence learning using the serial reaction
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Applying Item Response Theory to Develop a Shortened Version of the Need for Cognition Scale Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-09-30 Francesca Chiesi, Kinga Morsanyi, Maria Anna Donati, Caterina Primi
The 18-item Need for Cognition Scale (NFC-18) is the most commonly used tool to measure the need for cognition. The aim of this study was to explore the possibility of developing an abbreviated version of the scale, applying the item response theory (IRTirt). Item response theory analyses suggested the exclusion of eight items that did not perform well in measuring the latent trait. The resulting 10-item
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Common Cognitive Control Processes Underlying Performance in Task-Switching and Dual-Task Contexts Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-09-30 Patricia Hirsch, Sophie Nolden, Mathieu Declerck, Iring Koch
In the present study, participants performed highly comparable task-switching and dual-task paradigms, and the paradigm-specific performance costs were analysed in the context of the commonly postulated core components of cognitive control (i.e., working memory updating, inhibition, and shifting). In the task-switching paradigm, we found switch costs (i.e., switch trials vs. repetition trials) and
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Comparing Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Number Lines: Consistent Effects of Notation Across Output Measures Advances in Cognitive Psychology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2018-09-30 Karl K. Kopiske, Volker H. Franz
The mental number line (MNL) is a popular metaphor for magnitude representation in numerical cognition. Its shape has frequently been reported as being nonlinear, based on nonlinear response functions in magnitude estimation. We investigated whether this shape reflects a phenomenon of the mapping from stimulus to internal magnitude representation or of the mapping from internal representation to response
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