Showing papers in "Acta Psychologica in 2019"

TL;DR: Personal space turned out to be rather circular with a radius of about 1 m, and it did not matter whether the subject was engaged in active approach, was approached, or merely adjusted the distance between two avatars.

TL;DR: A novel hierarchical Bayesian model of response inhibition is implemented that estimates stop-signal reaction time (SSRT) as a distribution and also accounts for failures to react to the stop-Signal, which suggests that the former may index a higher order inhibition process, whereas SSRT mayindex a more automatic inhibition process.

TL;DR: This study used a cued language switching task to examine language switching and mixing in two groups of highly proficient bilinguals with different linguistic backgrounds to understand how the ability to control languages is shaped by linguistic experience.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that the opportunity to signal a good reputation to other people is a key modulator of prosocial decisions and eye gaze in live communicative contexts and indicates that gaze should be considered as an interactive and dynamic signal.

TL;DR: The results show that while proactive processing is influenced by reward, reactive processing seems independent of such factor, suggesting that proactive and reactive cognitive control modes depend on separate information-processing and neural mechanisms.

TL;DR: It is found that, in general, participants prefer real objects and abstract designs with curved contours, and that people who are insensitive to curvature in one kind of stimulus are also insensitive to the other.

TL;DR: It is found that both context-free and contextualized meaning explained significantly more of the overall variance in the spatial distribution of attention than image salience, contrary to predictions of the 'saliency first' hypothesis.

TL;DR: Findings show that pupillometry constitutes an easy tool to assess individual differences in color brightness perception, and reflects an ecologically-based expectation of the visual system from the experience of sky's light and color.

TL;DR: The relation between liking and visual attention is not limited to biological objects but that its effects are domain general, which means that this link seems to be a rather basic phenomenon that applies across domains.

TL;DR: It is found that subjective time accelerates from initial dilation within present experience to subsequent acceleration within working memory when depressed, and a potential link between time experience and judgement within the same explanatory model is provided.

TL;DR: The kinematics of the observed movements, during motor interactions, might be the key factor for visuo-motor interference to take place independently from the morphological appearance of the partner, particularly relevant in a technological society that constantly asks humans to interact with artificial agents.

TL;DR: Findings support the vision that visuo-tactile interactions can be dynamically modulated by the valence of looming visual stimuli when these are located at longer distances from the body.

TL;DR: The present findings show that the mental engagement of verifying the order of numbers is a crucial factor for explaining the link between numerical order processing and arithmetic performance.

TL;DR: The results show that foraging improves dramatically between the preschool and middle school years, with the older children showing similar foraging abilities as adults due to greater ease of switching between target types, and a connection between foraging ability and both working memory and attentional flexibility, but not inhibition is found.

TL;DR: An online and easy-to-use version of the VAAST, which produces effects that are of similar magnitude to those of the lab version of this task and could be of great interest for all researchers interested in measuring approach/avoidance tendencies.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that with age, and irrespective of cognitive ability, there is increasing reliance on temporal information conveyed by the probability of target appearance as a function of elapsing time ("hazard function") than that conveying by the statistical likelihood of previously experienced temporal associations.

TL;DR: Two experiments reveal how the spatial abilities and strategies used to solve the Morris maze task vary with environmental design and offer insight into how spatial experience gained through videogame playing can affect aspects of spatial cognition.

TL;DR: The present results indicate that both compatibility-based and no-go BCEs not only differ fundamentally in their underlying processes, but also in the way cognitive control is adjusted.

TL;DR: Examination of interactions between the Big Five personality traits and the need for cognition in university students in China revealed that extraversion was a positive predictor of active procrastination, and that agreeableness and emotional instability were negative predictors of activeprocrastination.

TL;DR: It is concluded that different feature dimensions can be encoded and stored independently but the advantage of the independent storages are mediated at the object-based level, consistent with the idea of hierarchically organized VWM.

TL;DR: The influence of the implied mass on participants' responses might be the manifestation of two processes, namely an explicit 'heavy-fast, light-slow' heuristic, and/or an implicit, automatic association between mass and falling speed.

TL;DR: It is argued that the central tendency effect was larger in young children due to their noisier internal representation of durations: A noisy system led participants to base their estimation on experienced duration rather than on the evaluation of their judgment.

TL;DR: The lens model is suggested as a potentially promising tool in metacognition research for the first time to analyze four published and one new JOL data sets, pointing to substantial item-person-interactions that are interpreted as idiosyncratic encoding strategies.

TL;DR: It is concluded that appreciation of art by Experts involves 'cognitive mastery' (Leder, Belke, Oeberst, & Augustin, 2004), i.e. more complex, cues-based visual schemata which equip them with more sophisticated strategies for analysing collative properties and semantics of an artwork while parsing 'visual rightness' to unfold its visual meaning.

TL;DR: Results indicated moderately positive correlations between affective, consciousness, and performance based aspects of flow, thus reinforcing the original conceptualization of their relationship for the generation and maintenance of the flow state.

TL;DR: Assessment of the moderating role of the implicit gender spatial stereotyping confirmed that men performed better than women in mental rotation, but also showed that in the stereotype-nullifying condition, the higher the automatic associations between space and men the lower men's performance.

TL;DR: Guided visual working memory (VWM) representations can simultaneously become active templates to guide attention as mentioned in this paper, which is controversial, as only one VWM representation can be active at a time, whereas the multiple item template hypothesis argues that multiple VWM templates can simultaneously guide attention.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 19 experiments using a paradigm for measuring implicit perceptual maps of the hand replicated the sex differences reported by Coelho and Gonzalez, suggesting that they may, at least in part, be due to women having smaller hands on average than men.

TL;DR: Results showed that participants tended to choose stimuli with intermediate complexity over those of high or low complexity, confirming the century-old idea that stimulus complexity has an inverted-U relationship to aesthetic preference.

TL;DR: There are considerable individual differences in task switching and that smaller individual switch costs are mainly related to efficient task preparation, which is speculated to be linked to better executive control and general intelligence.