Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Timing a week later: The role of long-term memory in temporal preparation

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1900-1905 Abstract “Temporal preparation has been investigated extensively by manipulating the foreperiod, the interval between a warning stimulus and target stimulus requiring a speeded response. Although such research has revealed many effects of both the duration and distribution of foreperiods on reaction times, the […]

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Reconstructing the recent visual past: Hierarchical knowledge-based effects in visual working memory

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1889-1899 Abstract “This paper presents two experiments that examine the influence of multiple levels of knowledge on visual working memory (VWM). Experiment 1 focused on memory for faces. Faces were selected from continua that were constructed by morphing two face photographs in 100 steps; half of

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The effect of character contextual diversity on eye movements in Chinese sentence reading

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1971-1979 Abstract “Chen, Huang, et al. (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2017) found that when reading two-character Chinese words embedded in sentence contexts, contextual diversity (CD), a measure of the proportion of texts in which a word appears, affected fixation times to words. When CD is

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The time course of morphological processing during spoken word recognition in Chinese

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1957-1963 Abstract “We investigated the time course of morphological processing during spoken word recognition using the printed-word paradigm. Chinese participants were asked to listen to a spoken disyllabic compound word while simultaneously viewing a printed-word display. Each visual display consisted of three printed words:

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Revisiting the role of language in spatial cognition: Categorical perception of spatial relations in English and Korean speakers

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 2031-2036 Abstract “The spatial relation of support has been regarded as universally privileged in nonlinguistic cognition and immune to the influence of language. English, but not Korean, obligatorily distinguishes support from nonsupport via basic spatial terms. Despite this linguistic difference, previous research suggests that

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The puzzle of study time allocation for the most challenging items

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 2003-2011 Abstract “Learners often allocate more study time to challenging items than to easier ones. Nevertheless, both predicted and actual memory performance are typically worse for difficult than for easier items. The resulting inverse relations between people’s predictions of their memory performance (judgments of

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Maintenance of memory for melodies: Articulation or attentional refreshing?

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1964-1970 Abstract “Past research on the effects of articulatory suppression on working memory for nonverbal sounds has been characterized by discrepant findings, which suggests that multiple mechanisms may be involved in the rehearsal of nonverbal sounds. In two experiments we examined the potential roles

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Meeting the challenge of the Psychonomic Society’s 2012 Guidelines on Statistical Issues: Some success and some room for improvement

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 2037-2043 Abstract “The Psychonomic Society (PS) adopted New Statistical Guidelines for Journals of the Psychonomic Society in November 2012. To evaluate changes in statistical reporting within and outside PS journals, we examined all empirical papers published in PS journals and in the Experimental Psychology Society journal, The

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Aging enhances cognitive biases to friends but not the self

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 2021-2030 Abstract “We measured changes in self and friend biases in perceptual matching in young and older participants. Participants learned associations between neutral geometric shapes and three personal labels (You, Friend, or Stranger), representing themselves, their named best friend, and a stranger not corresponding to anyone

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