Pub Date : 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102221
Wei Xiao , Lei Li
This study investigated differences in visual working memory between semi-elite and novice basketball players during maintenance and mental rotation tasks, and examined the effects of auditory and visual distractions. Performance was assessed using both task types, with accuracy and reaction time as dependent measures. Although no significant between-group differences were observed in baseline task performance, within-group analyses revealed that both groups performed more accurately on the maintenance task than on the mental rotation task. The introduction of distractions led to declined performance in both groups. Semi-elite players demonstrated greater resilience to these disruptions overall, experiencing a less severe decline in performance compared to novices. However, they were more susceptible to visual than to auditory distraction. This finding underscores the need to mitigate the impact of visual distractions during the training and competition of semi-elite basketball players.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102210
Vera Ruthsatz, Mirko Saunders, Michelle Lennon-Maslin, Claudia M. Quaiser-Pohl
This study investigates sex differences in mental-rotation performance using novel, gender-neutral polyhedral stimuli. In contrast to the widely used cube figures, which are often perceived as male-stereotyped, these stimuli were specifically designed to be structurally analogous but less familiar and therefore less gender stereotypical. We hypothesised that such neutral stimuli might reduce sex differences, and that controlling for childhood play behaviour might improve explanatory precision by accounting for experiential differences between male and female participants. A total of 122 participants (83 females and 39 males; M = 25.95 years, SD = 9.26) completed the mental-rotation test and a self-assessment scale. In addition, they assessed the stereotypical nature of the polyhedra and answered a questionnaire assessing childhood gender-role behaviour. Participants confirmed that the novel polyhedral figures did not evoke gender associations, supporting their suitability for bias-reduced mental-rotation testing. Despite contrary expectations, mental-rotation accuracy differed significantly between sexes, whereas reaction times did not. To better understand the observed difference, regression analyses were conducted. These revealed that the effect of sex on accuracy was mediated by childhood play behaviour. While this effect was present across the full sample, correlation analyses suggested it was primarily driven by female participants. Moreover, feminine gender-role behaviour was associated with faster reaction times and worse accuracy, possibly reflecting differences in task engagement and motivational factors. Overall, the results support the interpretation that sex differences in mental-rotation accuracy reflect experiential rather than inherent cognitive factors. This study contributes to mental-rotation research by introducing an alternative stimulus set and by highlighting the need to consider developmental and motivational influences, which might vary with the choice of stimulus material, when interpreting differences in mental-rotation performance.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102209
Md Sohrab Alam , Faisal Imam , Naif O. Al-Harbi , Emine Guven , Mohamamd Anas Ansari , Md Maaz Ahmad , Shoaeb Mohammad Syed , Meraj Khan , Nadeem Sayyed
Objectives
This research aimed to assess the potential outcome of rosinidin on Scopolamine (SCOP)-induced memory dysfunction in a rat model.
Methods
Adult Wistar rats were grouped (n = 6) as: Groups 1 (normal control) and 2 (SCOP control) received 0.5 percent SCMC (vehicle, 3 mL) orally; Groups 3 and 4 administered rosinidin (10 and 20 mg/k g) orally. Over 14 days of therapeutic intervention, Group 1 received normal saline one h after the above-mentioned oral treatments, and the remaining group of rats were given SCOP (1 mg/kg, i.p.). Rats were tested for spontaneous movement, learning, and memory capacities. The hippocampus of rats were collected and analyzed for oxidative stress markers [reduced glutathione (GSH), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase, and malondialdehyde (MDA)], pro-inflammatory markers [(Interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β), interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α)], acetylcholinesterase (AChE), choline acetyltransferase activity (ChAT), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB), and nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), and D] Toll-like Receptor 4 (TLR4).
Results
Rosinidin significantly improved spatial learning and memory in SCOP-treated rats, as shown by reduced escape latency in the Morris water maze (MWM) test and increased SAP% in the Y-maze test (P < 0.001). Additionally, SCOP caused memory loss in animals, decreased GSH, SOD, and catalase, altered AChE and ChAT activity, increased malondialdehyde (MDA), nitrate, TNF-α, NF-κB, IL-1β, IL-6, and TLR4, as well as decreased IL-6, BDNF, and Nrf2 (P < 0.001). Rosinidin administration at both doses (10 and 20 mg/kg) restored the SCOP-induced behavioral deficits and biochemical markers to normal (P < 0.001). These findings indicate its potential to reverse SCOP-induced cognitive deficits.
Conclusions
The findings suggest that rosinidin effectively ameliorates SCOP-induced memory deficits in rats. This improvement may be linked to restored cholinergic function, modulated oxidative stress, and suppressed neuroinflammation.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102212
Juan Carlos Forigua-Vargas , Paulo S.D. Soares-Filho , Julián Cifuentes , Julian C. Velasquez , María Paula Alfonso Pedraza , Kelly Johana Pulido García , Paola Acuña Reyes , Camilo Hurtado-Parrado
The primary objective of this study is to determine whether there is a difference between the reinforcing effects of stimuli correlated with avoidance and extinction schedules in rats, with the aim of analyzing the role of these aversive contingencies in the acquisition of observing behavior. Five rats were exposed to a multiple-schedule procedure with two components —one of avoidance and another of extinction— each correlated with a discriminative and a delta stimulus, respectively. During avoidance, lever-presses reduced shock-frequency from 0.35 per 2 s to 0.10 per 2 s. During extinction, lever-presses were ineffective at reducing shock-frequency and extended the time of the extinction period. Once multiple-schedule performance was established, rats were exposed to an observing procedure. The same two components operated in a mixed-schedule, and activation of the correlated stimuli was contingent on responses on a separate lever (i.e., observing responses). Observing responses produced (a) both the discriminative and delta stimuli, (b) only the discriminative stimulus, or (c) only the delta stimulus. Subjects showed discrimination across components of the multiple-schedule. Although rats overall displayed low observing responses rates across all experimental conditions, they showed higher response rates when the discriminative stimulus was the only stimulus contingent on observing responses. The delta stimulus had a reinforcing effect on observing responses only in the phase in which it was produced together with the discriminative stimulus. These results were analyzed from the conditioned-reinforcement account and the notion of relative aversiveness.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102217
Rong Jiang, Nobuyuki Sakai
Anxiety and stress are emerging as major psychological problems in modern society, and treatments that strengthen positive memories/emotions offer promising new avenues. We investigated whether the palatability of food influences the formation of reward-associated memories that can alleviate anxiety-related behaviors in mice. Three experiments combined the elevated plus maze (EPM) and runway task. In the first experiment, mice were trained with standard food or given neutral training and later tested to determine whether food reward-induced memories enhance open-arm exploration, approach frequency, locomotor level, and latency of reaching the previously rewarded arm. Mice that had received food training subsequently showed stronger preference for the previously rewarded open arm and exhibited fewer anxiety-related behaviors than those without food rewards. The second experiment compared the motivational properties of highly palatable (reward value) food with standard food using a straight-runway test that captured running speed, pausing and reversing behavior. Mice facing for high reward value (HRV) food displayed more vigorous and direct approach behavior, confirming its greater incentive value. Building on these findings, the third experiment tested whether reward-associated memories formed with HRV food more effectively alleviate anxiety-related behavior than those formed with standard food. When later evaluated in the EPM without food present, mice trained with HRV food showed greater open-arm exploration and activity. These results indicate significant variations in the attractiveness of different food reward values to mice and that the reward-associated memories formed by these variations significantly influence anxiety behavior. This study contributes to understanding the interaction between food reward values and memory, which inform strategies for anxiety management.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102215
Enas Mohammad Alwafi
The study aimed to investigate the impact of AI-assisted peer review on students’ AI feedback literacy, motivation and self-esteem through the integration of experiential learning and self-determination theory. The quasi-experimental design, with control and experimental groups, was employed. The students in the experimental group conducted peer-review activities using AI through the integration of experiential learning and Self-Determination Theory (SDT), while the control group used AI for self-review without any guidelines. The study used a questionnaire that was based on well-established scales to collect quantitative data measuring AI feedback literacy, motivation and self-esteem, while interviews were used to gather qualitative data. The quantitative data showed that students in the experimental group developed AI-feedback literacy, motivation and self-esteem to a greater extent than did the control group. The interview data showed that AI-assisted peer review enhances students’ critical engagement with the feedback, increases awareness of the AI feedback’s quality and bias, develops students’ autonomy, promotes AI feedback competence, increases their sense of relatedness to their learning environment and promotes their belief in their abilities and their sense of self-value. This study provides recommendations for designing online learning activities with AI to enhance AI- feedback literacy and develop psychological capacity.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102214
Ziwen Pan , Yi Zhang
Although artificial intelligence (AI) has become embedded in educational settings, research on L2 writing motivation in this context has largely examined individual influencing factors in isolation. There remains limited understanding of how different resources may shape learners’ motivation in AI-mediated writing environments. To address this gap, this study applies self-determination theory to develop and test a structural model that integrates social (TAS), cognitive (AI literacy), and psychological (self-efficacy) factors in influencing L2 writing motivation in the AI-mediated context. To this end, 627 Chinese university students completed validated questionnaires on the four constructs, the results of which were then analyzed with SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 26.0. The analysis revealed that both TAS and AI literacy positively predicted L2 writing motivation directly and indirectly through writing self-efficacy, although the path coefficients differed between the predictors. Specifically, the results indicated that AI literacy had a stronger indirect effect on motivation via self-efficacy than TAS, confirming the distinct pathways through which cognitive and social resources contribute to L2 writing motivation in AI-mediated contexts. In this way, the study extends the application of self-determination theory to AI-enhanced L2 writing contexts and offers pedagogical implications for fostering motivated writers in the digital age.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102206
Ke Liu
This study investigates how autonomy-supportive peer feedback and contingent praise shape EFL learners’ motivation and writing performance, drawing on Self-Determination Theory (SDT). A quasi-experimental design involving 303 Chinese undergraduates compared three peer feedback conditions: (a) autonomy support feedback with contingent praise, (b) autonomy support alone, and (c) neutral peer feedback without motivational features. Results from ANCOVA and mediation analysis revealed that both experimental groups outperformed the control group in intrinsic motivation and writing performance, with autonomy support exerting stronger effects than praise alone. Intrinsic motivation partially mediated the relationship between feedback perceptions and performance outcomes, accounting for approximately half of the total effect. These findings suggest that peer feedback can function not only as a textual scaffold but also as a motivational affordance that supports learners’ psychological needs. By extending SDT from teacher-led to peer-mediated writing contexts, and integrating principles from Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), this study contributes to a more nuanced understanding of how feedback design fosters internalized motivation. The findings also offer practical implications for enhancing the motivational quality of peer feedback in L2 writing instruction.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102213
Yan Shi , Yiming Sun , Xiang Li , Chenchen Lu , Xuanyi Zhao , Zipeng Chen , Dongbo Liu
This study aimed to explore the implications of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on the action potential patterns and properties of neurons in the basolateral amygdala complex (BLA) and the ventral hippocampus (vHPC) among mice. The intent was to demystify the mechanisms driving the plasticity of neural networks within the BLA and vHPC, as well as the alterations in spatial contextual memory attributable to PTSD. A PTSD animal model was developed using the conventional foot shock (FS) paradigm. The investigation initially scrutinized spatial cognition and memory aptitudes through the Morris Water Maze (MWM) and later shed light on fluctuations in action potential encoding capacities of glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons within the BLA and vHPC, leveraging the patch clamp technique. The results unequivocally demonstrated that PTSD's core features - such as a surge in freezing percentages among mice - were both stable and enduring. PTSD discernibly extended the acquisition latency of mice, curtailed the duration required to locate the platform in the primary quadrant, and prolonged the time to identify the platform in the contralateral quadrant. The overall excitability and function of the BLA diminished, while that of the vHPC augmented. These discoveries propose that PTSD can obstruct the consolidation process of spatial contextual memory and impact the collective excitability of the BLA and vHPC. The properties of neurons within distinct brain sectors, in tandem with the disarray in the coordination mechanism between them, might be contributing to the compromised spatial contextual memory abilities seen with PTSD.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2025.102219
Feifei Guo , Chaohai Lin , Shamim Akhter
AI-mediated collaborative learning offers significant potential for enhancing student engagement in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts through adaptive scaffolding and real-time feedback, but it also presents challenges such as cognitive overload and diminished social presence. This mixed-methods experimental study, grounded in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), investigates the effects of autonomy support (high versus low) and peer familiarity (familiar versus unfamiliar) on university students’ basic psychological needs satisfaction (BPNS), collaborative motivation (CM), and persistence in AI-mediated collaborative tasks. The study employed a 2 × 2 factorial design with 80 Chinese EFL undergraduate students, who worked in dyads on collaborative writing tasks facilitated by AI platforms. Quantitative analysis revealed significant main and interaction effects of autonomy support and peer familiarity on BPNS, CM, and persistence. The condition combining high autonomy and familiar peers produced the highest levels of psychological need satisfaction and motivation, whereas low autonomy paired with unfamiliar peers resulted in the lowest outcomes. Cluster analysis identified distinct motivational profiles, demonstrating that shared perceptions of autonomy and social rapport interdependently influenced outcomes. Qualitative insights from dyadic interviews and reflective journals further elucidated co-regulated motivation and interpersonal dynamics, reinforcing the concept of motivational interdependence. These findings suggest that educators should prioritize pairing students with familiar peers and designing AI scaffolds that promote autonomy to optimize motivation and engagement in digital collaborative tasks, providing actionable strategies for enhancing AI-mediated learning environments. The results highlight the critical interplay of autonomy and relatedness in fostering effective collaborative processes in EFL education.
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