Recently added articles from Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Asymmetric Switch Cost and Backward Inhibition: Carryover Activation and Inhibition in Switching Between Tasks of Unequal Difficulty
Jun 01, 2008; ... Asymmetric switch cost, observed when switching between tasks varying in difficulty, shows that the difference between repeat and switch trials is greater when switching to the easier task. Early explanations of this effect attributed this pattern to both positive priming of the difficult task ...
Attention During Adaptation Weakens Negative Afterimages of Perceptually Colour-Spread Surfaces
Jun 01, 2008; ... The visual system can complete coloured surfaces from stimulus fragments, inducing the subjective perception of a colour-spread figure. Negative afterimages of these induced colours were first reported by S. Shimojo, Y. Kamitani, and S. Nishida (2001). Two experiments were conducted to examine ...
Stimulus-Response Compatibilities During Top-Bottom Discriminations
Jun 01, 2008; ... Participants indicated whether a small dot was located near the top or bottom pole of a rotated object. Response times increased as a function of object orientation more for top trials than for bottom trials. The interaction between orientation and response was shown to be due to a relationship ...
Word-Learning Performance in Beginning Readers
Jun 01, 2008; ... This investigation examined word-learning performance in beginning readers. The children learned to read words with regular spelling-sound mappings (e.g., snake) more easily than words with irregular spelling-sound mappings (e.g., sword). In addition, there was an effect of semantics: Children ...
Masked Repetition Priming and Proportion Effects Under Cognitive Load
Jun 01, 2008; ... The authors used a cognitive load manipulation (rehearsing a string of digits during the trial) to test the automaticity of (a) masked repetition priming and (b) the masked repetition proportion (RP) effect (i.e., greater priming when the proportion of repetition-prime trials is higher) in the ...