Showing papers in "Cognitive Psychology in 2000"

TL;DR: The results suggest that it is important to recognize both the unity and diversity ofExecutive functions and that latent variable analysis is a useful approach to studying the organization and roles of executive functions.

TL;DR: Stability and variation in the norms for the Raven's Progressive Matrices Test for different cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups on a worldwide and within-country basis are summarized and a possible explanation for the variation in norms over time is offered.

TL;DR: Participants switched between two randomly ordered, two-choice reaction-time (RT) tasks, where an instructional cue preceded the target stimulus and indicated which task to execute and switching cost was sharply reduced.

TL;DR: The results suggest that colored blobs at a coarse spatial scale concur with luminance cues to form the relevant spatial layout that mediates express scene recognition.

TL;DR: Six experiments tested the predictions concerning optional word mention of two general approaches to language production and suggest that speakers choose syntactic structures to permit early mention of available material and not to circumvent disruptive temporary ambiguities.

TL;DR: Time judgments were strongly influenced by the rate of an induction sequence with best performance occurring when the standard time interval ended as expected, given context rate.

TL;DR: This work proposes a causal status hypothesis which states that a cause feature is judged to be more central than its effect feature in categorization, and shows that effect features can be useful in retrieving information about unknown causes.

TL;DR: Biased memory is a consequence of the reorganizing schema guiding the retelling perspective, in addition to the effects of rehearsing specific information in retelling.

TL;DR: The results indicate that language and visual-spatial processing are supported by partially separable networks of cortical regions and suggests one basis for strategy selection: the minimization of cognitive workload.

TL;DR: This work argues that the interpretation of functional dissociations between implicit and explicit memory tests in terms of the memory processes or systems involved in performance is problematic, and shows that implicit memory tests need not necessarily be less reliable measurement instruments than explicitMemory tests.

TL;DR: The analysis suggests that all theorists accept the idea that cognitive processing involves internal information-carrying states that mediate cognitive processing, and five properties that can be added to mediating states are discussed and examined in various cognitive models.

TL;DR: In this article, a dynamic oscillator-based model of the sequencing of phonemes in speech production (OSCAR) is described, which provides an alternative to frame-based accounts, serial buffer accounts, and associative chaining theories of serial order processing in speech.

TL;DR: A new integration of two opposing views to explain how people distinguish genuine causes from spurious ones is proposed, with a focus on whether covariation that implies causality has been acquired at a more abstract level.

TL;DR: Several brain regions associated with analogical mapping were identified using O-positron emission tomography with normal, high intelligence adults and it is hypothesize that analogICAL mapping is mediated by the left prefrontal and inferior parietal cortices.

TL;DR: It is argued that, in its current form, the dual-route account of inflectional morphology is incapable of generating experimental data provided by Marcus et al. (1995), and single-route performance superior on these tests is found.

TL;DR: This study investigated how well extrapolations with varying frequencies are predicted by the information loads, stemming from three models, and found that the preferred extrapolation is determined by the simplest representation of a series.