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Organized simultaneous displays facilitate learning of complex natural science categories

Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1987-1994 Abstract “Subjects learned to classify images of rocks into the categories igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary. In accord with the real-world structure of these categories, the to-be-classified rocks in the experiments had a dispersed similarity structure. Our central hypothesis was that learning of these […]

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Dunning–Kruger effects in reasoning: Theoretical implications of the failure to recognize incompetence

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1774-1784 Abstract “The Dunning–Kruger effect refers to the observation that the incompetent are often ill-suited to recognize their incompetence. Here we investigated potential Dunning–Kruger effects in high-level reasoning and, in particular, focused on the relative effectiveness of metacognitive monitoring among particularly biased reasoners. Participants who made

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Print exposure modulates the effects of repetition priming during sentence reading

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1935-1942 Abstract “Individual readers vary greatly in the quality of their lexical representations, and consequently in how quickly and efficiently they can access orthographic and lexical knowledge. This variability may be explained, at least in part, by individual differences in exposure to printed language,

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Not all choices are created equal: Task-relevant choices enhance motor learning compared to task-irrelevant choices

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1879-1888 Abstract “Lewthwaite et al. (2015) reported that the learning benefits of exercising choice (i.e., their self-controlled condition) are not restricted to task-relevant features (e.g., feedback). They found that choosing one’s golf ball color (Exp. 1) or choosing which of two tasks to perform

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Computational cognitive modeling of the temporal dynamics of fatigue from sleep loss

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1785-1807 Abstract “Computational models have become common tools in psychology. They provide quantitative instantiations of theories that seek to explain the functioning of the human mind. In this paper, we focus on identifying deep theoretical similarities between two very different models. Both models are

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Musical competence and phoneme perception in a foreign language

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1929-1934 Abstract “We investigated whether musical competence was associated with the perception of foreign-language phonemes. The sample comprised adult native-speakers of English who varied in music training. The measures included tests of general cognitive abilities, melody and rhythm perception, and the perception of consonantal

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Algebraic reasoning and bat-and-ball problem variants: Solving isomorphic algebra first facilitates problem solving later

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1922-1928 Abstract “The classic bat-and-ball problem is used widely to measure biased and correct reasoning in decision-making. University students overwhelmingly tend to provide the biased answer to this problem. To what extent might reasoners be led to modify their judgement, and, more specifically, is

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The revelation effect: A meta-analytic test of hypotheses

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1718-1741 Abstract “Judgments can depend on the activity directly preceding them. An example is the revelation effect whereby participants are more likely to claim that a stimulus is familiar after a preceding task, such as solving an anagram, than without a preceding task. We

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Seeing the conflict: an attentional account of reasoning errors

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1980-1986 Abstract “In judgment and reasoning, intuition and deliberation can agree on the same responses, or they can be in conflict and suggest different responses. Incorrect responses to conflict problems have traditionally been interpreted as a sign of faulty problem-solving—an inability to solve the

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Is place-value processing in four-digit numbers fully automatic? Yes, but not always

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Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1906-1914 Abstract “Knowing the place-value of digits in multi-digit numbers allows us to identify, understand and distinguish between numbers with the same digits (e.g., 1492 vs. 1942). Research using the size congruency task has shown that the place-value in a string of three zeros

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