Showing papers in "Acta Psychologica in 2008"

TL;DR: The results suggest that at least some differences between video game experts and non-gamers in basic cognitive performance result either from far more extensive video game experience or from pre-existing group differences in abilities that result in a self-selection effect.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the generally larger effect of inversion for processing configural than featural cues is a mere consequence of the disruption of holistic face perception.

TL;DR: Data from functional neuroimaging studies focusing on grammatical and lexico-semantic processing in bilinguals support the notion that language control is a crucial aspect specific to the bilingual language system.

TL;DR: The evidence for cross-language activity during single word production is reviewed and the two major alternative models of how the intended language is eventually selected are considered.

TL;DR: The results revealed that monolinguals name pictures faster than bilinguals, both when bilinguals perform picture naming in their first and dominant language and when they do so in their weaker second language.

TL;DR: The experimental literature on fear/anxiety learning and the psychopathology literature on clinical anxiety are integrated, areas of inconsistency are identified, and directions for future research are recommended.

TL;DR: Results show intrusions can be induced in the laboratory and their frequency amplified/attenuated in line with predictions, and it is hoped that further use of this paradigm may lead to prophylactic training for at risk groups and an improved understanding of intrusions across psychopathologies.

TL;DR: It is concluded that people select strategies adaptively depending on characteristics of the situation, whereas under low time pressure a weighted linear model that integrates all available information predicted the inferences best.

TL;DR: Overall performance efficiency and the rate of the vigilance decrement were influenced by the salience level of the signal being observed, and post-task self-reports of Energetic Arousal were significantly related to both overall performance and theigilance decrement.

TL;DR: Results suggest that inhibition is not as crucial a contributor of age-related changes in the functional capacity of working memory across the adult life-span as previously thought.

TL;DR: How emotional memory is modulated through stress hormones is described and the relevance of these findings for emotional memory disturbances in psychiatric disorders is exemplified by discussions on neuroendocrine alterations in depression, post traumatic stress disorder and phobias.

TL;DR: It is proposed that individual differences in the regulation of intrusive memories in the aftermath of trauma may be mediated by pre-existing differences in executive control ability, suggesting that executive control may be an important means of down-regulating intrusive memories over time.

TL;DR: It is suggested that semantically rich sentences modulate cross-language interaction during word recognition and word translation and that low constraint sentences did not influence cognate and concreteness effects.

TL;DR: The immediate and short-term after effects of a bout of aerobic exercise on young adults' information processing were investigated and results support a selective influence of acute aerobic Exercise on motor adjustment stage.

TL;DR: This study investigated the hypothesis that perseverance and urgency map onto the two distinct inhibitory functions distinguished by Friedman and Miyake, and found TUTs were positively correlated with lack of perseverance, and multiple regressions revealed that urgency was specifically related to errors in prepotent response inhibition.

TL;DR: A review of the evidence from bilingual sentence production studies shows that Hartsuiker et al.'s predictions are supported, but argues against the other two models about the degree of integration.

TL;DR: The pros and cons of a therapeutic application of betablockers in the (secondary) prevention of PTSD will be discussed and the role of noradrenaline in other brain areas, such as hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, is shortly summarized.

TL;DR: Findings provide further support for the fractionation of the central executive into several functions and also stress the need to approach executive functioning in terms of both dissociations within general functions and specific interactions between some of these functions.

TL;DR: Both multisensory facilitation and inhibition can be demonstrated in reaction to the same bimodal event, indicating that both of the fundamentally different ways in which humans can perceive concurrent auditory and visual stimuli are reflected.

TL;DR: This study investigated whether the 'unity assumption' would also affect the binding of non-speech stimuli (video clips of object action or musical notes) and found no significant difference in the accuracy of temporal discrimination performance for the matched versus mismatched video clips.

TL;DR: It is suggested that team reasoning predicts strategy choices more powerfully than orthodox game theory in some games, although individually rational players should choose equilibrium strategies.

TL;DR: A special role for the visuospatial component of working memory in the processing of spatial representation of numbers and an interesting dissociation between SNARC and distance effects are shown.

TL;DR: Three experiments were conducted, examining the sequential FP effect comparably for short and long FP-sets, assessing the influence of catch trials and the case of a very dense FP-range on sequential FP effects, providing strong evidence for sequential effects within a short FP context and thus support the trace conditioning account of temporal preparation.

TL;DR: Results are in line with the previous animal research showing that when arousal is high, cortisol increase can impair memory retrieval.

TL;DR: Results indicate that all co-witness dyads produced less accurate recall accounts than participants who did not interact with another witness, but witnesses who were previously acquainted with their co-Witness (either in a friendship or romantic relationship) were significantly more likely to report information obtained from their co,witness that they had not seen themselves.

TL;DR: The results indicate that L2 speakers keep track of the relative frequencies of verb-subcategorization alternatives and use this information when building structure in the L2.

TL;DR: Individual differences in acquisition of coordination and control of joint motion even under similar task constraints are highlighted, showing how degeneracy in movement systems facilitates learning.

TL;DR: According to the results, the horizontal view of translation includes code-to-code links between the SL and TL involving at least the lexical and syntactic level of processing.

TL;DR: Results showed that reduced specificity of memories on the AMT was associated with an increased frequency of trauma- related flashbacks but with reduced use of effortful avoidance to deal with trauma-related intrusions in the day-to-day.

TL;DR: The data suggest that participants based metacomprehension judgments more on the gist of texts when they generated summaries after a delay; whereas, they based judgmentsmore on details when they generate summaries immediately after reading.