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Event-related potential evidence for separable automatic and controlled retrieval processes in proactive interference (2012)
Journal Article
Li, M. K., Bergström, Z. M., O'Connor, R. J., Li, M. K., & Simons, J. S. (2012). Event-related potential evidence for separable automatic and controlled retrieval processes in proactive interference. Brain research, 1455, 90-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2012.03.043

Interference between competing memories is a major source of retrieval failure, yet, surprisingly little is known about how competitive memory activation arises in the brain. One possibility is that interference during episodic retrieval might be pro... Read More about Event-related potential evidence for separable automatic and controlled retrieval processes in proactive interference.

Contextual modulation of attention in human category learning (2012)
Journal Article
George, D. N., & Kruschke, J. K. (2012). Contextual modulation of attention in human category learning. Learning and Behavior, 40(4), 530-541. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-012-0072-8

In a category-learning experiment, we assessed whether participants were able to selectively attend to different components of a compound stimulus in two distinct contexts. The participants were presented with stimulus compounds for which they had to... Read More about Contextual modulation of attention in human category learning.

How do alternative ways of responding influence 3- and 4-year-olds' performance on tests of executive function and theory of mind? (2012)
Journal Article
Carroll, D. J., Riggs, K. J., Apperly, I. A., Graham, K., & Geoghegan, C. (2012). How do alternative ways of responding influence 3- and 4-year-olds' performance on tests of executive function and theory of mind?. Journal of experimental child psychology, 112(3), 312-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.03.001

A total of 69 preschool children were tested on measures of false belief understanding (the Unexpected Transfer task), inhibitory control (the Grass/Snow task), and strategic reasoning (the Windows task). For each task, children indicated their respo... Read More about How do alternative ways of responding influence 3- and 4-year-olds' performance on tests of executive function and theory of mind?.

Dissociating positive and negative influences of verbal processing on the recognition of pictures of faces and objects (2012)
Journal Article
Nakabayashi, K., Burton, A. M., Brandimonte, M. A., & Lloyd-Jones, T. J. (2012). Dissociating positive and negative influences of verbal processing on the recognition of pictures of faces and objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(2), 376-390. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025782

Four experiments investigated the role of verbal processing in the recognition of pictures of faces and objects. We used (a) a stimulus-encoding task where participants learned sequentially presented pictures in control, articulatory suppression, and... Read More about Dissociating positive and negative influences of verbal processing on the recognition of pictures of faces and objects.

Impact of high mathematics education on the number sense. (2012)
Journal Article
Castronovo, J., & Göbel, S. M. (2012). Impact of high mathematics education on the number sense. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e33832. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033832

In adult number processing two mechanisms are commonly used: approximate estimation of quantity and exact calculation. While the former relies on the approximate number sense (ANS) which we share with animals and preverbal infants, the latter has bee... Read More about Impact of high mathematics education on the number sense..

Implicit social learning in relation to autistic-like traits (2012)
Journal Article
Hudson, M., Nijboer, T. C. W., & Jellema, T. (2012). Implicit social learning in relation to autistic-like traits. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(12), 2534-2545. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1510-3

We investigated if variation in autistic traits inthe typically-developed population (using the AutismspectrumQuotient, AQ) influenced implicit learning ofsocial information. In the learning phase, participantsrepeatedly observed two identities whose... Read More about Implicit social learning in relation to autistic-like traits.

Body fat fluctuations among female adolescents with restrained eating behaviours (2012)
Journal Article
Lai, Z., Why, Y. P., Koh, D. S. Q., Ng, V. A. C., & Lim, C. L. (2012). Body fat fluctuations among female adolescents with restrained eating behaviours. Appetite, 59(1), 17-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2012.03.017

Body fat fluctuation during varying competing academic demand was examined among female adolescents with high (n=24) or low (n=24) restrained eating behaviours. Body fat, perceived stress, energy intake, and exercise behaviour were measured three tim... Read More about Body fat fluctuations among female adolescents with restrained eating behaviours.

The role of novelty in early word learning (2012)
Journal Article
Mather, E., & Plunkett, K. (2012). The role of novelty in early word learning. Cognitive science, 36(7), 1157-1177. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01239.x

What mechanism implements the mutual exclusivity bias to map novel labels to objects without names? Prominent theoretical accounts of mutual exclusivity (e.g., Markman, 1989, 1990) propose that infants are guided by their knowledge of object names. H... Read More about The role of novelty in early word learning.

Gesture facilitates the syntactic analysis of speech (2012)
Journal Article
Holle, H., Obermeier, C., Schmidt-Kassow, M., Friederici, A. D., Ward, J., & Gunter, T. C. (2012). Gesture facilitates the syntactic analysis of speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(MAR), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00074

Recent research suggests that the brain routinely binds together information from gesture and speech. However, most of this research focused on the integration of representational gestures with the semantic content of speech. Much less is known about... Read More about Gesture facilitates the syntactic analysis of speech.

Electrophysiological responses to violations of expectation from eye gaze and arrow cues (2012)
Journal Article
Tipples, J., Johnston, P., & Mayes, A. (2013). Electrophysiological responses to violations of expectation from eye gaze and arrow cues. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(5), 509-514. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nss024

Isolating processes within the brain that are specific to human behavior is a key goal for social neuroscience. The current research was an attempt to test whether recent findings of enhanced negative ERPs in response to unexpected human gaze are uni... Read More about Electrophysiological responses to violations of expectation from eye gaze and arrow cues.

Recalling unpresented hostile words: false memories predictors of traditional and cyberbullying (2012)
Journal Article
Vannucci, M., Nocentini, A., Mazzoni, G., & Menesini, E. (2012). Recalling unpresented hostile words: false memories predictors of traditional and cyberbullying. European journal of developmental psychology, 9(2), 182-194. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2011.646459

This study investigated the relationship between hostile false memories (violent and verbal/aggressive) and engagement in traditional and cyberbullying, controlling for their co-occurrence. Two hundred eleven adolescents completed measures of traditi... Read More about Recalling unpresented hostile words: false memories predictors of traditional and cyberbullying.

Task- and response related dissociations between neglect in near and far space: A morphometric case study (2012)
Journal Article
Aimola, L., Schindler, I., & Venneri, A. (2012). Task- and response related dissociations between neglect in near and far space: A morphometric case study. Behavioural neurology, 27(3), 245-257. https://doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2012-110243

Introduction: Patients with unilateral neglect may show line bisection errors selectively in either near (within hand reaching) or far (beyond hand reaching) space which suggests that these two spatial areas are coded differently by the brain. This e... Read More about Task- and response related dissociations between neglect in near and far space: A morphometric case study.

Suggested visual hallucination without hypnosis enhances activity in visual areas of the brain (2012)
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McGeown, W. J., Venneri, A., Kirsch, I., Nocetti, L., Roberts, K., Foan, L., & Mazzoni, G. (2012). Suggested visual hallucination without hypnosis enhances activity in visual areas of the brain. Consciousness and cognition, 21(1), 100-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.10.015

This functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) study investigated high and low suggestible people responding to two visual hallucination suggestions with and without a hypnotic induction. Participants in the study were asked to see color while loo... Read More about Suggested visual hallucination without hypnosis enhances activity in visual areas of the brain.

Shared cognitive processes underlying past and future thinking: The impact of imagery and concurrent task demands on event specificity. (2012)
Journal Article
Anderson, R., Dewhurst, S., & Nash, R. (2012). Shared cognitive processes underlying past and future thinking: The impact of imagery and concurrent task demands on event specificity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(2), 356-365. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025451

Recent literature has argued that whereas remembering the past and imagining the future make use of shared cognitive substrates, simulating future events places heavier demands on executive resources. These propositions were explored in 3 experiments... Read More about Shared cognitive processes underlying past and future thinking: The impact of imagery and concurrent task demands on event specificity..

Beauty hinders attention switch in change detection : the role of facial attractiveness and distinctiveness (2012)
Journal Article
Chen, W., Liu, C. H., & Nakabayashi, K. (2012). Beauty hinders attention switch in change detection : the role of facial attractiveness and distinctiveness. PLoS ONE, 7(2), e32897. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032897

Background: Recent research has shown that the presence of a task-irrelevant attractive face can induce a transient diversion of attention from a perceptual task that requires covert deployment of attention to one of the two locations. However, it is... Read More about Beauty hinders attention switch in change detection : the role of facial attractiveness and distinctiveness.

Reading instruction affects the cognitive skills supporting early reading development (2012)
Journal Article
Johnston, R. S., McGeown, S. P., & Medford, E. (2012). Reading instruction affects the cognitive skills supporting early reading development. Learning and Individual Differences, 22(3), 360-364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2012.01.012

This study examined the cognitive skills associated with early reading development when children were taught by different types of instruction. Seventy-nine children (mean age at pre-test 4;10 (22 S.D.) and post-test 5;03 (21 S.D.)) were taught to re... Read More about Reading instruction affects the cognitive skills supporting early reading development.

Near and far space neglect: task sensitivity and anatomical substrates (2012)
Journal Article
Aimola, L., Schindler, I., Simone, A. M., & Venneri, A. (2012). Near and far space neglect: task sensitivity and anatomical substrates. Neuropsychologia, 50(6), 1115-1123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.022

Most group studies which have investigated neglect for near and far space have found an increased severity of symptoms in far space compared to near space. However, the majority of these studies used relatively small samples and based their findings... Read More about Near and far space neglect: task sensitivity and anatomical substrates.

Balance principles in attitude formation and change: The desire to maintain consistent cognitions about people (2012)
Book Chapter
Walther, E., & Weil, R. (2012). Balance principles in attitude formation and change: The desire to maintain consistent cognitions about people. In B. Gawronski, & F. Strack (Eds.), Cognitive consistency: A fundamental principle in social cognition (351-368). New York: Guilford Press

Why do we like some people and dislike others? Why is it that our social sentiments are not always stable, and what motivates these changes? Answers to these questions can be derived from balance theory. Our aim in this chapter is to provide a short... Read More about Balance principles in attitude formation and change: The desire to maintain consistent cognitions about people.

Differential effects of a dual orexin receptor antagonist (SB-649868) and zolpidem on sleep initiation and consolidation, SWS, REM sleep and EEG power spectra in a model of situational insomnia (2012)
Journal Article
Bettica, P., Squassante, L., Groeger, J. A., Gennery, B., Winsky-Sommerer, R., & Dijk, D. (2012). Differential effects of a dual orexin receptor antagonist (SB-649868) and zolpidem on sleep initiation and consolidation, SWS, REM sleep and EEG power spectra in a model of situational insomnia. Neuropsychopharmacology, 37(5), 1224-1233. https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2011.310

Orexins have a role in sleep regulation, and orexin receptor antagonists are under development for the treatment of insomnia. We conducted a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, four-period crossover study to investigate the effect of single... Read More about Differential effects of a dual orexin receptor antagonist (SB-649868) and zolpidem on sleep initiation and consolidation, SWS, REM sleep and EEG power spectra in a model of situational insomnia.

What factors underlie associative and categorical memory illusions? The roles of backward associative strength and inter-item connectivity (2012)
Journal Article
Knott, L. M., Dewhurst, S. A., & Howe, M. L. (2012). What factors underlie associative and categorical memory illusions? The roles of backward associative strength and inter-item connectivity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(1), 229-239. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025201

Factors that affect categorical and associative false memory illusions were investigated in 2 experiments. In Experiment 1, backward associative strength (BAS) from the list word to the critical lure and interitem connectivity were manipulated in Dee... Read More about What factors underlie associative and categorical memory illusions? The roles of backward associative strength and inter-item connectivity.