The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Number comparison and number ordering as predictors of arithmetic performance in adults: Exploring the link between the two skills, and investigating the question of domain-specificity

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2497-2517 Abstract “Recent evidence has highlighted the important role that number-ordering skills play in arithmetic abilities, both in children and adults. In the current study, we demonstrated that number comparison and ordering skills were both significantly related to arithmetic performance in adults, and the […]

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Evidence for a confidence–accuracy relationship in memory for same- and cross-race faces

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Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2518-2534 Abstract “Discrimination accuracy is usually higher for same- than for cross-race faces, a phenomenon known as the cross-race effect (CRE). According to prior research, the CRE occurs because memories for same- and cross-race faces rely on qualitatively different processes. However, according to a

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Transforming valences through transitive inference: How are faces emotionally dissonant?

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Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2478-2496 Abstract “Information that is emotionally incongruous with self-concepts can produce feelings of unease. This implies that embedding incongruous information in newly formed relational structures would have little effect on their previous emotive properties. Alternatively, Relational Frame Theory highlights the importance of contextualized stimulus-stimulus

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Listeners learn phonotactic patterns conditioned on suprasegmental cues

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Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2560-2576 Abstract “Language learners are sensitive to phonotactic patterns from an early age, and can acquire both simple and 2nd-order positional restrictions contingent on segment identity (e.g., /f/ is an onset with /æ/but a coda with /ɪ/). The present study explored the learning of

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Concurrent deployment of visual attention and response selection bottleneck in a dual-task: Electrophysiological and behavioural evidence

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2460-2477 Abstract “Visual attention and response selection are limited in capacity. Here, we investigated whether visual attention requires the same bottleneck mechanism as response selection in a dual-task of the psychological refractory period (PRP) paradigm. The dual-task consisted of an auditory two-choice discrimination Task

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Self-bias modulates saccadic control

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2577-2585 Abstract “We present novel data on the role of attention in eliciting enhanced processing of stimuli associated with self. Participants were required to make pro- or anti-saccades according to whether learned shape–label pairings matched or mismatched. When stimuli matched participants were required to

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Two distinct parsing stages in nonword reading aloud: Evidence from Russian

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2548-2559 Abstract “Word reading partly depends on the activation of sublexical letter clusters. Previous research has studied which types of letter clusters have psychological saliency, but less is known about cognitive mechanisms of letter string parsing. Here, we take advantage of the high degree

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Global-local processing impacts academic risk taking

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Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2434-2444 Abstract “Research has shown that academic risk taking—the selection of school tasks with varying difficulty levels—affords important implications for educational outcomes. In two experiments, we explored the role of cognitive processes—specifically, global versus local processing styles—in students’ academic risk-taking tendencies. Participants first read

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Differences in holistic processing do not explain cultural differences in the recognition of facial expression

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2445-2459 Abstract “The aim of this study was to investigate the causes of the own-race advantage in facial expression perception. In Experiment 1, we investigated Western Caucasian and Chinese participants’ perception and categorization of facial expressions of six basic emotions that included two pairs

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