Showing papers in "Acta Psychologica in 2011"

TL;DR: The paradigm provides information about the way language users integrate linguistic information with information derived from the visual environment and is well suited to study one of the key issues of current cognitive psychology, namely the interplay between linguistic and visual information processing.

TL;DR: The major characteristics of the Simon effect and the Simon task that laid the ground for this success are discussed and the major lines of research, theoretical developments, and ongoing controversies on and around the Simon Effect and the cognitive processes it reflects are reviewed.

TL;DR: A novel experience sampling method was designed which permitted to isolate SITUTs from other kinds of distractions to support the view that an important function of mind-wandering relates to the anticipation and planning of the future.

TL;DR: In two experiments, contingency biases were removed from the task and stimulus repetitions were deleted to control for stimulus bindings, supporting a non-conflict explanation of the Gratton effect and tentative support was found for a congruency switch cost hypothesis.

TL;DR: The QE trained group maintained more effective visual attentional control and performed significantly better in the pressure test compared to the Control group, providing support for the efficacy of attentional training for visuo-motor skills.

TL;DR: The results obtained in the temporal verbal estimation and production tasks suggest that this temporal overestimation of the angry faces was associated with relatively more accurate estimates, and the involvement of both arousal and attention mechanisms in the effect of emotional facial expressions on time perception is discussed.

TL;DR: The results of the meta-analysis strongly support the contention that color plays a role in object recognition and suggest that the role of color should be taken into account in models of visual object recognition.

TL;DR: A model is arrived at in which working memory serves as the nexus in which long-term visual as well as linguistic representations are bound to specific locations (i.e. types) and the interaction between language and visual attention is subject to a number of conditions.

TL;DR: VGPs were able to detect the changes while requiring less exposure to the change than NVGPs, and this improved change detection performance may result from altered strategy use; VGPs employed broader search patterns when scanning scenes for potential changes.

TL;DR: These findings demonstrate that the influence of working memory representations on attention is driven by both automatic and strategic interactions.

TL;DR: The results demonstrated that reduced frequency Lissjous feedback results in very effective bimanual coordination performance on tests with Lissajous feedback available and when feedback is withdrawn.

TL;DR: Testing Ariely's (2001) proposal that the visual system represents the overall statistical properties of sets of objects against alternative accounts of rapid averaging involving sub-sampling strategies suggests that mean representation is accomplished without explicitly encoding individual items.

TL;DR: Two previously published studies are reanalysed, whose designs enable us to answer the question: How long does it take, as the language unfolds, for the oculomotor system to demonstrate to the distinction between “signal” and “noise” (eye movements due to the unfolding language)?

TL;DR: The impact of the Simon task on cognitive electrophysiological research as well as the insights gained from event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in the attempt to uncover the hidden mechanisms underlying the Simon effect are explored.

TL;DR: This study sought to determine how inhibitory control mechanisms relate to broadly defined domains of impulsive behavior in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and comparison adults and suggested that oculomotor inhibitors are related to specific domains of self-reported impulsivity.

TL;DR: The current study shows that spatial visual attention is used to retrieve information from visual working memory, and further elaborate the role of visual attention in working memory.

TL;DR: The main results showed that older adults used a smaller strategy repertoire than young adults and selected the best strategy on each problem less frequently, and inhibition and shifting capacities mediated age-related differences in strategy repertoire and strategy selection.

TL;DR: It is argued that the results and their likely interpretation may profoundly affect the "linking hypothesis" between language processing and the location and timing of fixations in task-based visual world studies.

TL;DR: Female observers were also more accurate in these three conditions on mismatch encounters, but this reflects a more general effect that is present for male and female faces.

TL;DR: Differences in movement kinematics due to the viewing environment were likely due to a lack of prior experience with the virtual environment, an uncertainty of object location and the restricted field-of-view when wearing the head-mounted display.

TL;DR: The results indicate that action is a necessary condition for temporal binding; a fixed interval between the two events is not sufficient to cause the effect; and only in the presence of voluntary action do temporal predictability and contiguity play a significant role in modulating the effect.

TL;DR: Gender differences on short-term memory tasks are examined to suggest that women are more likely than men to recruit native-language phonological knowledge during novel word-learning.

TL;DR: Comparing the performance of adults on basic number tasks using non-symbolic stimuli suggests important differences between distance effects obtained under automatic and intentional task instructions regarding the use of them as indices of mathematical ability.

TL;DR: Subjects' susceptibility to misinformation depended on their own credibility relative to their partner's, supporting the idea that susceptibility to misconceptions depends on relative differences in credibility.

TL;DR: It is found that musical experience was more strongly associated with discrimination performance rather than identification performance, and musicians may enjoy an advantage in the perception of acoustical features that are important in both language and music, such as pitch and timing.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the elimination of on-target trials introduces bias in the direction of ABEs, due to the statistical phenomenon of regression toward the mean.

TL;DR: It is found that both vision and touch are highly correlated predictors of visuo-tactile perception of naturalness, suggesting that this construct is represented on a metathetic (categorical) continuum.

TL;DR: A much diminished gap is found in both experiments suggesting that the divergence in choices based on description and sequentially acquired (non-consequential) samples is largely the result of non-equivalent information at the point of choice.

TL;DR: Surprisingly, even objects mentioned in the most demanding conditions still show an effect of language-driven eye-movements, and shows that the behavior of matching visual and linguistic information is likely to generalize to language situations of high information load.

TL;DR: The results demonstrated that participants allowed the confederate to adopt a comfortable beginning state comfort on 100% of the trials for all the tools and the participants did not sacrifice end-state comfort, demonstrating that the participants were able to plan ahead to both maximize their own end- state comfort and the beginning statecomfort of the confederationate.