Showing papers in "Acta Psychologica in 2010"

TL;DR: It is concluded that top-down knowledge regarding non-spatial features of the objects cannot alter the initial selection priority, and only by adjusting the size of the attentional window, the initial sweep of information through the brain may be altered in a top- down way.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 117 experiments evaluated the effects of cognitive load on duration judgments and found models emphasizing attentional resources, especially executive control, support and alternative theories do not fit with the meta-analytic findings.

TL;DR: The results show that although women were more accurate than men in recognizing subtle facial displays of emotion, there was no difference between male and female participants when recognizing highly expressive stimuli.

TL;DR: Overall, this review provides evidence for a parallel processing framework suggesting that both multisensory integration and attentional processes take place and can interact at multiple stages in the brain.

TL;DR: Additivity indicates that TOT-induced mental fatigue generally reduces cognitive efficiency but leaves temporal preparation under time uncertainty unaffected, and is considered more consistent with the trace-conditioning account of temporal preparation.

TL;DR: A full-body movement using a bat elicited greater anticipation than an equivalent movement with no bat, which highlights the important role that the requirement and/or opportunity to make bat-ball interception may play in eliciting skill differences for anticipation.

TL;DR: The results from these studies show that the classic biphasic pattern of facilitation and inhibition, which is characteristic of conscious exogenous cueing can also be obtained with subliminal spatial cues, and it is hypothesized that unconscious attentional orienting is mediated by the subcortical retinotectal pathway.

TL;DR: It is suggested that VGPs have no generalized benefit in task switching-related cognitive control processes compared to nVGPs, with switch cost reductions due instead to a specific benefit in controlling selective attention.

TL;DR: As appreciation of curvature changes dynamically over time, any study aiming to find static and general principles of liking regarding curvature is confounded with Zeitgeist effects.

TL;DR: It was found that the common variance from the three memory factors could be accounted for by a higher-order memory factor which was strongly related to gF, but less so with gC.

TL;DR: It is suggested that older adults preferentially use external memory strategies to cope with everyday memory impairment due to aging, and the view that the age-related decrease in the implementation of internal memory strategies can be explained by the executive hypothesis of cognitive aging is supported.

TL;DR: Examination of the reliability and validity of frequently employed variants of the numerical comparison task finds evidence that the NDE that arises using symbolic stimuli is uncorrelated with theNDE that is elicited by using nonsymbolic stimuli.

TL;DR: Age differences in reports of the subjective speed of time were very small, except for the question about how fast the last 10 years had passed, which support a theory based on the experience of time pressure.

TL;DR: The data suggest that the type of specialized musical instrument affects synchronization abilities and synchronization accuracy is related to perceptual discrimination abilities as well as to the movement's trajectory.

TL;DR: Results indicate that musical rhythm both synchronizes and facilitates concurrent stimulus processing in a listener's visual attention.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the cumulative semantic cost arises prior to lexical selection and that the effect arises due to incremental changes to the connection weights between semantic and lexical representations.

TL;DR: It is argued that too-much-choice effects are associated with choice complexity, which is influenced not only by the number of alternatives, but also by other features of the choice set, such as the numberof attributes that alternatives are differentiated upon.

TL;DR: Analysis of the production results indicated significant influences for the sex of the participant while age did not appear to affect estimates of these short durations, but temporal attitudes, as reflected in responses to time questionnaire inquiries, did however exhibit significant differences across age.

TL;DR: These findings extend and refine theoretical assumptions on different action control modes in goal-directed behavior and the specific contribution of ideomotor processes to intention-based action control.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that VPT would result in broader transfer of training received limited support, and transfer was most evident in tasks that were most similar to the Space Fortress game itself.

TL;DR: The dominant hypothesis that palm board accuracy is related to the need for motor action to be accurately guided is tested and it is concluded instead that the perceptual experience of palm-board orientation is biased and variable due to poorly calibrated proprioception of wrist flexion.

TL;DR: The results indicated that lexical processing depended on the experience of participants in professional translation and the demands imposed by the understanding task (reading and repeating or only reading).

TL;DR: The results showed that, compared to sine wave control music, music presented in a major (happy) or a minor (sad) key shifted the bisection function toward the right, thus increasing the bisected point value (point of subjective equality).

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that elderly did improve with practice but this improvement was largely sequence-unspecific, and elderly did show sequence-specific learning with a 6-key sequence that can be explained by an associative learning mechanism.

TL;DR: The results of the experiments showed that the induced goal led to the orientation of attention to goal-relevant words in the spatial cueing task, but this effect was not found for words semantically related to the goal- relevant words.

TL;DR: The representation of the fraction magnitude is hybrid, rather than purely holistic, in a magnitude-comparison task on fractions without common components, suggesting that the relative magnitude of the components was also processed.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the inner voice helps us to exert self-control by enhancing the authors' ability to restrain their impulses.

TL;DR: This work measured AA as a construct derived from the literature through attractiveness, arousal, interestingness, valence, boredom and innovativeness, and investigated how the priming of AA-relevant semantic concepts impacts the dynamics of AA of unfamiliar product designs (car interiors) that are known to be susceptible to triggering such effects.

TL;DR: This work proposes feature-topic models, where each document is represented by a mixture of learned topics as well as predefined topics that are derived from feature norms, and shows that the learned topics play an important role in the generalization performance.

TL;DR: The data indicated that learning the sequence structure, as revealed by response time per element, occurred similarly irrespective of the initial practice condition and observing the model's action and sequential stimuli allows participants to transfer the perceived aspects of the movement sequence into efficient coordination patterns when additional physical practice is permitted.