Alcalá, José A. Prados, José Urcelay, Gonzalo P.
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Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Learning and Cognition
In situations in which multiple predictors anticipate the presence or absence of an outcome, cues compete to anticipate the outcome, resulting in a loss of associative strength compared to control conditions without additional cues. Critically, there are multiple factors modulating the magnitude and direction of such competition, although in some s...
Murphy, Sandra Dalton, Polly
Published in
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
This study demonstrates that people can miss a sequence of six touches moving across their skin when they are paying attention to something else. This is an important finding given the increasing prevalence of tactile warnings in everyday information delivery systems (e.g., for lane departure warnings in cars), because it suggests that these warnin...
Follett, Daisy Hitchcock, Caitlin Dalgleish, Tim Stretton, Jason
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Journal of psychopathology and clinical science
Evolutionary models of depression posit that depressed mood represents an adaptive response to unacceptably low social status, motivating the inhibition of social risk-taking in favor of submissive behaviors which reduce the likelihood of social exclusion. We tested the hypothesis of reduced social risk taking using a novel adaptation of the Balloo...
Jones, Samuel David Westermann, Gert
Published in
Psychological review
Dominant theoretical accounts of developmental language disorder (DLD) commonly invoke working memory capacity limitations. In the current report, we present an alternative view: That working memory in DLD is not under-resourced but overloaded due to operating on speech representations with low discriminability. This account is developed through co...
Mills, Freya Bhogal, Jaskiran Kaur Dennis, Amelia Spoiala, Cristina Milward, Joanna Saeed, Sidra Jones, Leah Ffion Weston, Dale Carter, Holly
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Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
We examined whether varying information about long COVID would affect expectations about the illness. In October 2021, we conducted a 2 (Illness Description: long COVID vs. ongoing COVID-19 recovery) × 2 (Symptom Uncertainty: uncertainty emphasized vs. not emphasized) × 2 (Efficacy of Support: enhanced vs. basic support) between-subjects randomized...
Warda, Shamini Simola, Jaana Terhune, Devin B.
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Behavioral Neuroscience
Recent primate studies suggest a potential link between pupil size and subjectively elapsed duration. Here, we sought to investigate the relationship between pupil size and perceived duration in human participants performing two temporal bisection tasks in the subsecond and suprasecond interval ranges. In the subsecond task, pupil diameter was grea...
Sadibolova, Renata Terhune, Devin B
Published in
Behavioral neuroscience
Sensory perception, motor control, and cognition necessitate reliable timing in the range of milliseconds to seconds, which implies the existence of a highly accurate timing system. Yet, partly owing to the fact that temporal processing is modulated by contextual factors, perceived time is not isomorphic to physical time. Temporal estimates exhibit...
Austen, Joseph M. Sprengel, Rolf Sanderson, David J.
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Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Learning and Cognition
Conditioned responding is sensitive to reinforcement rate. This rate-sensitivity is impaired in genetically modified mice that lack the GluA1 subunit of the AMPA receptor. A time-dependent application of the Rescorla–Wagner learning rule can be used to derive an account of rate-sensitivity by reflecting the balance of excitatory and inhibitory asso...
Paine, Amy L Hashmi, Salim Howe, Nina Johnson, Nisha Scott, Matthew Hay, Dale F
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Developmental psychology
Humor is a central feature of close and intimate relationships in childhood. However, fundamental questions regarding the relationship between humor production, pretend play, and social understanding have been overlooked. In a selected subsample from a prospective longitudinal study of first-born children (N = 110, M age = 6.91 years, 46.4% female,...
Hedge, Craig Powell, Georgina Bompas, Aline Sumner, Petroc
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Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
Response control or inhibition is one of the cornerstones of modern cognitive psychology, featuring prominently in theories of executive functioning and impulsive behavior. However, repeated failures to observe correlations between commonly applied tasks have led some theorists to question whether common response conflict processes even exist. A ch...
