Pub Date : 2010-02-17DOI: 10.1080/09541440903162456
S. Darling, Douglas Martin, C. Macrae
Recent research has demonstrated that proactive interference (PI) between the names of familiar individuals in a memory task is category specific, and that subsequent release from proactive interference (RPI) is a useful tool for investigating the underlying categorisation of memory for people. These RPI effects are in line with the influential Interactive Activation and Competition (IAC) model of person recognition, which predicts the existence of such categorical effects. Here we report an experiment precisely replicating the categorical PI and RPI effects found previously for occupational categories, but using faces instead of names as stimuli. The results underscore the use of PI as a tool to investigate semantic categorisation, are compatible with models proposing a single point of access to semantic information about people and provide further evidence for the categorical organisation of person knowledge.
{"title":"Categorical proactive interference effects occur for faces","authors":"S. Darling, Douglas Martin, C. Macrae","doi":"10.1080/09541440903162456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440903162456","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research has demonstrated that proactive interference (PI) between the names of familiar individuals in a memory task is category specific, and that subsequent release from proactive interference (RPI) is a useful tool for investigating the underlying categorisation of memory for people. These RPI effects are in line with the influential Interactive Activation and Competition (IAC) model of person recognition, which predicts the existence of such categorical effects. Here we report an experiment precisely replicating the categorical PI and RPI effects found previously for occupational categories, but using faces instead of names as stimuli. The results underscore the use of PI as a tool to investigate semantic categorisation, are compatible with models proposing a single point of access to semantic information about people and provide further evidence for the categorical organisation of person knowledge.","PeriodicalId":88321,"journal":{"name":"The European journal of cognitive psychology","volume":"11 1","pages":"1001 - 1009"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85817450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-17DOI: 10.1080/09541440903150196
I. Imbo, A. Vandierendonck
What happens when people are asked to respond as quickly or as accurately as possible? This study tested the effects of speed/accuracy instructions and working-memory load on people's strategy efficiency and strategy selection. Adult participants solved simple addition problems (Experiment 1) and simple multiplication problems (Experiment 2) under load and no-load conditions and provided trial-by-trial strategy reports. High-skill participants were more efficient than low-skill participants, but the underlying causes of these skill-related effects differed across experiments. In the addition experiment, high-skill participants responded adaptively to the changing situations by changing their strategy choices, which resulted in smaller effects on their actual performance. Low-skill participants in contrast, did not change their strategy choices as adaptively, which resulted in less efficient performance—and especially so under load conditions. In the multiplication experiment, high-skill and low-skill participants differed in strategy efficiencies rather than in strategy choices. In the discussion, the results are further interpreted and future adaptations for the adaptive strategy choice model (ASCM; Siegler & Jenkins, 1989) are suggested.
{"title":"Instruction and load effects on high-skill and low-skill individuals: A study in the domain of mental arithmetic","authors":"I. Imbo, A. Vandierendonck","doi":"10.1080/09541440903150196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440903150196","url":null,"abstract":"What happens when people are asked to respond as quickly or as accurately as possible? This study tested the effects of speed/accuracy instructions and working-memory load on people's strategy efficiency and strategy selection. Adult participants solved simple addition problems (Experiment 1) and simple multiplication problems (Experiment 2) under load and no-load conditions and provided trial-by-trial strategy reports. High-skill participants were more efficient than low-skill participants, but the underlying causes of these skill-related effects differed across experiments. In the addition experiment, high-skill participants responded adaptively to the changing situations by changing their strategy choices, which resulted in smaller effects on their actual performance. Low-skill participants in contrast, did not change their strategy choices as adaptively, which resulted in less efficient performance—and especially so under load conditions. In the multiplication experiment, high-skill and low-skill participants differed in strategy efficiencies rather than in strategy choices. In the discussion, the results are further interpreted and future adaptations for the adaptive strategy choice model (ASCM; Siegler & Jenkins, 1989) are suggested.","PeriodicalId":88321,"journal":{"name":"The European journal of cognitive psychology","volume":"22 1","pages":"964 - 989"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82755370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-17DOI: 10.1080/09541440902995922
R. Phaf, Hark H. Horsman, Bas van der Moolen, Yvo B. W. E. M. Roos, B. Schmand
The interference in colour naming may extend beyond critical Stroop trials. This “slow” effect was first discovered in emotional Stroop tasks, but is extended here to classical Stroop. In two experiments, meaningless coloured letter strings followed a colour word or neutral word. Student participants (Experiment 1), and 18 stroke patients and 18 matched controls (Experiment 2) showed substantial interference by incongruent colour words, both in the word trial (fast component) and in the subsequent string trial (slow component). Different patient subgroups emerged from the comparison of Stroop performance with the controls. An association of fast and slow components was only found in one subgroup. Exploratory analyses revealed no clear differences in damage location between subgroups. Fast interference caused by colour-meaning conflict may be specific for classical Stroop, but the broader occurrence of slow effects suggests a more generalised process of disengagement from attention-demanding stimuli.
{"title":"A slow component of classic Stroop interference","authors":"R. Phaf, Hark H. Horsman, Bas van der Moolen, Yvo B. W. E. M. Roos, B. Schmand","doi":"10.1080/09541440902995922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440902995922","url":null,"abstract":"The interference in colour naming may extend beyond critical Stroop trials. This “slow” effect was first discovered in emotional Stroop tasks, but is extended here to classical Stroop. In two experiments, meaningless coloured letter strings followed a colour word or neutral word. Student participants (Experiment 1), and 18 stroke patients and 18 matched controls (Experiment 2) showed substantial interference by incongruent colour words, both in the word trial (fast component) and in the subsequent string trial (slow component). Different patient subgroups emerged from the comparison of Stroop performance with the controls. An association of fast and slow components was only found in one subgroup. Exploratory analyses revealed no clear differences in damage location between subgroups. Fast interference caused by colour-meaning conflict may be specific for classical Stroop, but the broader occurrence of slow effects suggests a more generalised process of disengagement from attention-demanding stimuli.","PeriodicalId":88321,"journal":{"name":"The European journal of cognitive psychology","volume":"42 1","pages":"306 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75722936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-17DOI: 10.1080/09541440902843866
Rachele Fanari, C. Cacciari, P. Tabossi
Two cross-modal lexical decision experiments investigated the role of the length of the idiom string (Experiment 1) and of prior sentential context (Experiment 2) in spoken idiom recognition. The idiomatic meaning was activated at the offset of long idioms but not of short idioms when the idiom was preceded by a neutral context. The idiomatic meaning of short idioms was instead activated at the string offset when the idiom was preceded by an idiomatic context. The results support the Configuration Hypothesis (Cacciari & Tabossi, 1988).
{"title":"The role of idiom length and context in spoken idiom comprehension","authors":"Rachele Fanari, C. Cacciari, P. Tabossi","doi":"10.1080/09541440902843866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440902843866","url":null,"abstract":"Two cross-modal lexical decision experiments investigated the role of the length of the idiom string (Experiment 1) and of prior sentential context (Experiment 2) in spoken idiom recognition. The idiomatic meaning was activated at the offset of long idioms but not of short idioms when the idiom was preceded by a neutral context. The idiomatic meaning of short idioms was instead activated at the string offset when the idiom was preceded by an idiomatic context. The results support the Configuration Hypothesis (Cacciari & Tabossi, 1988).","PeriodicalId":88321,"journal":{"name":"The European journal of cognitive psychology","volume":"40 1","pages":"321 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78093135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-17DOI: 10.1080/09541440902743348
M. Vitkovitch, Elisa Cooper-Pye, Lubei Ali
Previous work has shown that naming word primes can subsequently interfere with naming related picture targets in a paradigm that mixes words and pictures together. An experiment is reported in which all the prime words were presented before all the related and unrelated pictures, and picture naming times were measured. The time interval between stimuli was manipulated (either 1 or 4s intervals before next fixation) with the intention of reducing the likelihood of anticipatory strategies or prime elaboration. Analysis of naming times indicated a significant main effect of relatedness, which did not interact with time interval; naming prime words at least 4 trials and potentially up to 33 trials earlier slowed related picture naming times. The interference effect is discussed in relation to competitive accounts of picture name retrieval and a recent postlexical account of semantic interference effects.
{"title":"The long and the short of it! Naming a set of prime words before a set of related picture targets at two different intertrial intervals","authors":"M. Vitkovitch, Elisa Cooper-Pye, Lubei Ali","doi":"10.1080/09541440902743348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440902743348","url":null,"abstract":"Previous work has shown that naming word primes can subsequently interfere with naming related picture targets in a paradigm that mixes words and pictures together. An experiment is reported in which all the prime words were presented before all the related and unrelated pictures, and picture naming times were measured. The time interval between stimuli was manipulated (either 1 or 4s intervals before next fixation) with the intention of reducing the likelihood of anticipatory strategies or prime elaboration. Analysis of naming times indicated a significant main effect of relatedness, which did not interact with time interval; naming prime words at least 4 trials and potentially up to 33 trials earlier slowed related picture naming times. The interference effect is discussed in relation to competitive accounts of picture name retrieval and a recent postlexical account of semantic interference effects.","PeriodicalId":88321,"journal":{"name":"The European journal of cognitive psychology","volume":"27 1","pages":"161 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82198915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-17DOI: 10.1080/09541440903211113
A. Krajcsi, János Igács
Numerals are processed by a phylogenetically old analogue magnitude system. Can culturally new negative numerals be processed using this same representation? To find out whether magnitude representation could be used, we contrasted three possible processing mechanisms: an extended magnitude system for both positive and negative numbers, a mirroring mechanism that could transform negative values to the positive range to be processed on the positive magnitude system, and a sign shortcut strategy that can process the signs of numbers independently of the absolute values of numerals. To test these three hypotheses, a comparison task was used and the reaction time pattern, numerical distance, and Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect was analysed. The results revealed a mirroring process along with a sign shortcut mechanism. The SNARC effect was observed only when positive numbers were compared.
{"title":"Processing negative numbers by transforming negatives to positive range and by sign shortcut","authors":"A. Krajcsi, János Igács","doi":"10.1080/09541440903211113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440903211113","url":null,"abstract":"Numerals are processed by a phylogenetically old analogue magnitude system. Can culturally new negative numerals be processed using this same representation? To find out whether magnitude representation could be used, we contrasted three possible processing mechanisms: an extended magnitude system for both positive and negative numbers, a mirroring mechanism that could transform negative values to the positive range to be processed on the positive magnitude system, and a sign shortcut strategy that can process the signs of numbers independently of the absolute values of numerals. To test these three hypotheses, a comparison task was used and the reaction time pattern, numerical distance, and Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect was analysed. The results revealed a mirroring process along with a sign shortcut mechanism. The SNARC effect was observed only when positive numbers were compared.","PeriodicalId":88321,"journal":{"name":"The European journal of cognitive psychology","volume":"35 1","pages":"1021 - 1038"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77867696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-17DOI: 10.1080/09541440903184617
C. Belacchi, B. Carretti, C. Cornoldi
A large body of evidence indicates that working memory correlates with performance on fluid intelligence tasks such as Raven's tests. However, light still needs to be shed on which particular aspects of working memory might be most critically related to fluid intelligence, and whether working memory updating—which appears crucial to intellectual functioning—has a prominent role. To address these issues more closely, our study presented participants (aged 5–11 years) with the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices, an updating task, and a battery of working memory tasks. Our findings confirm that working memory indeed plays an important part in explaining fluid intelligence, in particular that updating information in working memory is critical to fluid intelligence in the context of development.
{"title":"The role of working memory and updating in Coloured Raven Matrices performance in typically developing children","authors":"C. Belacchi, B. Carretti, C. Cornoldi","doi":"10.1080/09541440903184617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440903184617","url":null,"abstract":"A large body of evidence indicates that working memory correlates with performance on fluid intelligence tasks such as Raven's tests. However, light still needs to be shed on which particular aspects of working memory might be most critically related to fluid intelligence, and whether working memory updating—which appears crucial to intellectual functioning—has a prominent role. To address these issues more closely, our study presented participants (aged 5–11 years) with the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices, an updating task, and a battery of working memory tasks. Our findings confirm that working memory indeed plays an important part in explaining fluid intelligence, in particular that updating information in working memory is critical to fluid intelligence in the context of development.","PeriodicalId":88321,"journal":{"name":"The European journal of cognitive psychology","volume":"6 1","pages":"1010 - 1020"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90199106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-05DOI: 10.1080/09541440903031230
S. Dufau, Bernard Lété, C. Touzet, H. Glotin, J. Ziegler, J. Grainger
This study investigated the developmental trajectory of two marker effects of visual word recognition, word frequency, and orthographic neighbourhood effects, in French primary school children from Grades 1 to 5. Frequency and neighbourhood size were estimated using a realistic developmental database, which also allowed us to control for the effects of age-of-acquisition. A lexical decision task was used because the focus of this study was orthographic development. The results showed that frequency had clear effects that diminished with development, whereas orthographic neighbourhood had no significant influence at either grade. A self-organising neural network was trained on the realistic developmental corpus. The model successfully simulated the overall pattern found with children, including the absence of neighbourhood size effects. The self-organising neural network outperformed the classic interactive activation model in which frequency effects are simulated in a static way. These results highlight the potentially important role of unsupervised learning for the development of orthographic word forms.
{"title":"A developmental perspective on visual word recognition: New evidence and a self-organising model","authors":"S. Dufau, Bernard Lété, C. Touzet, H. Glotin, J. Ziegler, J. Grainger","doi":"10.1080/09541440903031230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440903031230","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the developmental trajectory of two marker effects of visual word recognition, word frequency, and orthographic neighbourhood effects, in French primary school children from Grades 1 to 5. Frequency and neighbourhood size were estimated using a realistic developmental database, which also allowed us to control for the effects of age-of-acquisition. A lexical decision task was used because the focus of this study was orthographic development. The results showed that frequency had clear effects that diminished with development, whereas orthographic neighbourhood had no significant influence at either grade. A self-organising neural network was trained on the realistic developmental corpus. The model successfully simulated the overall pattern found with children, including the absence of neighbourhood size effects. The self-organising neural network outperformed the classic interactive activation model in which frequency effects are simulated in a static way. These results highlight the potentially important role of unsupervised learning for the development of orthographic word forms.","PeriodicalId":88321,"journal":{"name":"The European journal of cognitive psychology","volume":"66 1","pages":"669 - 694"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87579755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-04DOI: 10.1080/09541440903007792
A. Dominguez, M. Alija, Javier Rodríguez‐Ferreiro, F. Cuetos
Three series of priming experiments were conducted to probe the morphological and phonological contributions to visual word recognition in Spanish. Prefixed, e.g., INCAPAZ (incapable), and pseudoprefixed, e.g., INDUSTRIA (industry) target words were presented for recognition following a prefixed, e.g., infeliz (unhappy), or pseudoprefixed, e.g., insulto (insult), prime starting with the same syllable as the target, at masked short or long stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs). At long SOAs the recognition of prefixed targets was facilitated by prefixed primes and inhibited by pseudoprefixed ones, whereas both prefixed and pseudoprefixed primes facilitated the recognition at short SOAs. In contrast, the recognition of pseudoprefixed targets was unaffected by the kind of prime presented, even when we used pairs of words overlapping in syllables that cannot be prefixes in Spanish. These results support a special status for morphological elements in access to meaning in reading.
{"title":"The contribution of prefixes to morphological processing of Spanish words","authors":"A. Dominguez, M. Alija, Javier Rodríguez‐Ferreiro, F. Cuetos","doi":"10.1080/09541440903007792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440903007792","url":null,"abstract":"Three series of priming experiments were conducted to probe the morphological and phonological contributions to visual word recognition in Spanish. Prefixed, e.g., INCAPAZ (incapable), and pseudoprefixed, e.g., INDUSTRIA (industry) target words were presented for recognition following a prefixed, e.g., infeliz (unhappy), or pseudoprefixed, e.g., insulto (insult), prime starting with the same syllable as the target, at masked short or long stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs). At long SOAs the recognition of prefixed targets was facilitated by prefixed primes and inhibited by pseudoprefixed ones, whereas both prefixed and pseudoprefixed primes facilitated the recognition at short SOAs. In contrast, the recognition of pseudoprefixed targets was unaffected by the kind of prime presented, even when we used pairs of words overlapping in syllables that cannot be prefixes in Spanish. These results support a special status for morphological elements in access to meaning in reading.","PeriodicalId":88321,"journal":{"name":"The European journal of cognitive psychology","volume":"45 1","pages":"569 - 595"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77267951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-02-01DOI: 10.1080/09541440903130743
Catherine Thevenot, P. Barrouillet
The aim of this paper was to test the hypothesis of a context dependence of number processing in children. Fifth-graders were given two numbers presented successively on screen through a self-presentation procedure after being asked either to add or subtract or compare them. We considered the self-presentation time of the first number as reflecting the complexity of the encoding for a given planned processing. In line with Dehaene's triple-code model, self-presentation times were longer for additions and subtractions than for comparisons with two-digit numbers. Alternative interpretations of these results in terms of more cognitive effort or more mental preparation in the case of addition and subtraction than comparison are discussed and ruled out.
{"title":"Children's number processing is context dependent","authors":"Catherine Thevenot, P. Barrouillet","doi":"10.1080/09541440903130743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440903130743","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper was to test the hypothesis of a context dependence of number processing in children. Fifth-graders were given two numbers presented successively on screen through a self-presentation procedure after being asked either to add or subtract or compare them. We considered the self-presentation time of the first number as reflecting the complexity of the encoding for a given planned processing. In line with Dehaene's triple-code model, self-presentation times were longer for additions and subtractions than for comparisons with two-digit numbers. Alternative interpretations of these results in terms of more cognitive effort or more mental preparation in the case of addition and subtraction than comparison are discussed and ruled out.","PeriodicalId":88321,"journal":{"name":"The European journal of cognitive psychology","volume":"22 1","pages":"348 - 359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81542147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}