Is better beautiful or is beautiful better? Exploring the relationship between beauty and category structurePsychonomic Bulletin & Review - Tập 20 - Trang 566-573 - 2012
Megan Sanders, Tyler Davis, Bradley C. Love
We evaluate two competing accounts of the relationship between beauty and
category structure. According to the similarity-based view, beauty arises from
category structure such that central items are favored due to their increased
fluency. In contrast, the theory-based view holds that people’s theories of
beauty shape their perceptions of categories. In the present study, subjects
learned to categ... hiện toàn bộ
Hearing hooves, thinking zebras: A review of the inverse base-rate effectPsychonomic Bulletin & Review - - 2021
Hilary J. Don, Darrell A. Worthy, Evan J. Livesey
People often fail to use base-rate information appropriately in decision-making.
This is evident in the inverse base-rate effect, a phenomenon in which people
tend to predict a rare outcome for a new and ambiguous combination of cues.
While the effect was first reported in 1988, it has recently seen a renewed
interest from researchers concerned with learning, attention and
decision-making. However... hiện toàn bộ
Nonword repetition in specific language impairment: More than a phonological short-term memory deficitPsychonomic Bulletin & Review - Tập 14 - Trang 919-924 - 2007
Lisa M. D. Archibald, Susan E. Gathercole
The possible role of phonological short-term memory in the nonword repetition
deficit of children with specific language impairment (SLI) was investigated in
a study comparing serial recall and nonword repetition of sequences of
auditorily presented CV syllables. The SLI group showed impairments in both
serial recall and nonword repetition relative to typically developing children
of the same age,... hiện toàn bộ
Of cricket chirps and car horns: The effect of nature sounds on cognitive performancePsychonomic Bulletin & Review - Tập 26 - Trang 522-530 - 2018
Stephen C. Van Hedger, Howard C. Nusbaum, Luke Clohisy, Susanne M. Jaeggi, Martin Buschkuehl, Marc G. Berman
Attention restoration theory (ART) posits that stimuli found in nature may
restore directed attention functioning by reducing demands on the endogenous
attention system. In the present experiment, we assessed whether nature-related
cognitive benefits extended to auditory presentations of nature, a topic that
has been understudied. To assess directed attention, we created a composite
measure consis... hiện toàn bộ
25 years of research on the use of geometry in spatial reorientation: a current theoretical perspectivePsychonomic Bulletin & Review - Tập 20 - Trang 1033-1054 - 2013
Ken Cheng, Janellen Huttenlocher, Nora S. Newcombe
The purpose of this article is to review and evaluate the range of theories
proposed to explain findings on the use of geometry in reorientation. We
consider five key approaches and models associated with them and, in the course
of reviewing each approach, five key issues. First, we take up modularity theory
itself, as recently revised by Lee and Spelke (Cognitive Psychology, 61,
152–176, 2010a; E... hiện toàn bộ
An event-based account of coordination stabilityPsychonomic Bulletin & Review - Tập 13 - Trang 702-710 - 2006
Rebecca M. C. Spencer, Andras Semjen, Stephanie Yang, Richard B. Ivry
Constraints underlying bimanual coordination have traditionally been explained
by dynamic interactions between the effectors. However, the present experiments
demonstrate that a fundamental constraint on bimanual performance is the manner
in which task goals are represented. In Experiment 1, participants vocalized
during in-phase and anti-phase bimanual movements. As expected, most
participants sp... hiện toàn bộ
People over forty feel 20% younger than their age: Subjective age across the lifespanPsychonomic Bulletin & Review - Tập 13 - Trang 776-780 - 2006
David C. Rubin, Dorthe Berntsen
Subjective age—the age people think of themselves as being—is measured in a
representative Danish sample of 1,470 adults between 20 and 97 years of age
through personal, in-home interviews. On the average, adults younger than 25
have older subjective ages, and those older than 25 have younger subjective
ages, favoring a lifespan-developmental view over an age-denial view of
subjective age. When th... hiện toàn bộ
Contextual control over lexical and sublexical routines when reading English aloudPsychonomic Bulletin & Review - Tập 12 - Trang 113-118 - 2012
Michael Reynolds, Derek Besner
Are the processes responsible for reading aloud single well-formed letter
strings under contextual control? Despite the widespread contention that the
answer to this question is “yes,” it has been remarkably difficult to provide a
compelling demonstration to that effect. In a speeded naming experiment, skilled
readers read aloud exception words (such asPint) that are atypical in terms of
their spe... hiện toàn bộ