Tsamadi, Dimitra Falbén, Johanna K Persson, Linn M Golubickis, Marius Caughey, Siobhan Sahin, Betül Macrae, C Neil
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Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
An extensive literature has demonstrated stereotype-based priming effects. What this work has only recently considered, however, is the extent to which priming is moderated by the adoption of different sequential-priming tasks and the attendant implications for theoretical treatments of person perception. In addition, the processes through which pr...
Johnson, Justine McGettigan, Carolyn Lavan, Nadine
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Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
Identity sorting tasks, in which participants sort multiple naturally varying stimuli of usually two identities into perceived identities, have recently gained popularity in voice and face processing research. In both modalities, participants who are unfamiliar with the identities tend to perceive multiple stimuli of the same identity as different ...
Forsberg, Alicia Fellman, Daniel Laine, Matti Johnson, Wendy Logie, Robert H
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Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
Working memory (WM) training with the N-Back task has been argued to improve cognitive capacity and general cognitive abilities (the Capacity Hypothesis of training), although several studies have shown little or no evidence for such improvements beyond tasks that are very similar to the trained task. Laine et al. demonstrated that instructing youn...
O’Grady, Cathleen Scott-Phillips, Thom Lavelle, Suilin Smith, Kenny
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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)
Data from a range of different experimental paradigms—in particular (but not only) the dot perspective task—have been interpreted as evidence that humans automatically track the perspective of other individuals. Results from other studies, however, have cast doubt on this interpretation, and some researchers have suggested that phenomena that seem ...
Austen, Joseph M Sanderson, David J
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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)
The duration of a conditioned stimulus (CS) is a key determinant of Pavlovian conditioning. Rate estimation theory (RET) proposes that reinforcement rate is calculated over cumulative exposure to a cue and the reinforcement rate of a cue, relative to the background reinforcement rate, determines the speed of acquisition of conditioned responding. C...
Loveday, Catherine Woy, Amy Conway, Martin A
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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)
This study is the first to demonstrate that a self-defining period (SP) for personally relevant music emerges spontaneously in a public naturalistic setting. While previous research has demonstrated that people tend to have better memory and preference for songs from their teenage years, the theoretical relevance of these studies has been limited b...
Harrison, Róisín Elaine Giesel, Martin Hesse, Constanze
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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)
Motor priming studies have suggested that human movements are mentally represented in the order in which they usually occur (i.e., chronologically). In this study, we investigated whether we could find evidence for these chronological representations using a paradigm which has frequently been employed to reveal biases in the perceived temporal orde...
Hoeben Mannaert, Lara N Dijkstra, Katinka Zwaan, Rolf A
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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)
Studies on the presence of mental simulations during language comprehension have typically focused only on single object properties. This study investigates whether two objects are combined in mental simulations, and whether this is influenced by task instructions. In both experiments, participants read sentences describing animals using a tool in ...
Pailhès, Alice Kuhn, Gustav
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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)
We often fall victim of an illusory sense of control and agency over our thoughts and actions. Magicians are masters at exploiting these illusions, and forcing techniques provide a powerful way to study apparent action causation—the illusion that our action caused the outcome we get. In this article, we used the Criss-Cross force to study whether p...
Lorimer, Sara McCormack, Teresa Blakey, Emma Lagnado, David A Hoerl, Christoph Tecwyn, Emma C Buehner, Marc J
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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)
Temporal binding refers to a phenomenon whereby the time interval between a cause and its effect is perceived as shorter than the same interval separating two unrelated events. We examined the developmental profile of this phenomenon by comparing the performance of groups of children (aged 6–7, 7–8, and 9–10 years) and adults on a novel interval es...
