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 ...
Implications des processus d'imagerie mentale dans le déficit du codage imagé des informations verbales au cours du vieillissement normal
Jun 01, 2008; ... Cette étude spécifie les contributions des processus de génération et de maintien d'image mentale intervenant lors du codage imagé de l'information verbale en mémoire au cours du vieillissement normal. Les capacités mnésiques de 19 adultes jeunes (moyenne d'âge 24 ans) et de 19 adultes âgés ...
Motor Maps, Seizures, and Behaviour
Jun 01, 2008; ... Atypically organised motor maps have been described in some people with epilepsy and we have modelled this in rats. Our goal is to more fully understand the mechanisms responsible for seizure-induced functional brain reorganisation and to reverse their effects. Here we present an overview of the ...
Stable Individual Differences Across Images in Human Saccadic Eye Movements
Mar 01, 2008; ... Individual differences in eye movements during picture viewing were examined across image format, content, and foveal quality in 3 experiments. Experiment 1 demonstrated that an individual's fixation durations were strongly related across 3 types of scene formats and that saccade amplitudes ...
Does a Rhythmic Context Have an Effect on Perceptual Weights in Auditory Intensity Processing?
Mar 01, 2008; ... The effects of a rhythmic context on auditory intensity processing were studied. Experiment 1 tested the hypothesis that the involuntary temporal direction of attention by a rhythmic context sequence influences the temporal weighting of loudness. Perceptual weight analysis was used to measure ...
Les effets de la contingence lors d'une tâche d'habituation visuelle chez les nourrissons de 3 et 6 mois
Mar 01, 2008; ... Trente-six enfants de 3 mois et trente-six enfants de 6 mois sont soumis à trois procédures d'habituation visuelle se distinguant quant au degré de contingence comportementale impliquée. Les résultats démontrent des différences significatives entre les conditions uniquement pour les enfants de 6 ...
Phonological Priming in Auditory Word Recognition: When Both Controlled and Automatic Processes Are Responsible for the Effects
Mar 01, 2008; ... The phonological priming paradigm provides an interesting methodological tool for studying various components of the speech recognition process. However, concerns about response biases distorting the effects have been repeatedly voiced. This article reviews the main studies on priming and aims ...
Examining the Proactive and Retroactive Placement of Augmented Information for Learning a Novel Computer Alphabet
Mar 01, 2008; ... The timing of augmented information, either prior to or following a memory retrieval attempt has profound, and opposing, influences on immediate performance and retention. This effect was investigated in 2 experiments in which participants learned typographical symbols used to enter information ...
Dissociating Cue-Related and Task-Related Processes in Task Inhibition: Evidence From Using a 2:1 Cue-To-Task Mapping
Mar 01, 2008; ... Performance of task sequences is assumed to rely on activation and inhibition of tasks. An empirical marker of task inhibition is the so-called n - 2 repetition cost, which is assessed by comparing performance in trial n - 2 task repetitions (i.e., ABA) with that in n - 2 task switches (i.e., ...
Spoken Numbers Versus Arabic Numerals: Differential Effects on Adults' Multiplication and Addition
Mar 01, 2008; ... J.-A. LeFevre, Q. Lei, B. L. Smith-Chant, and D. B. Mullins (2001) examined effects of auditory versus Arabic visual presentation formats on performance of simple multiplication. They observed a smaller problem-size effect (response time [RT] increases with numerical size) with auditory stimuli ...
The Hippocampus As a "Stupid," Domain-Specific Module: Implications for Theories of Recent and Remote Memory, and of Imagination
Mar 01, 2008; ... The hippocampus and surrounding regions of the medial temporal lobe play a central role in all neuropsychological theories of memory. It is still a matter of debate, however, how best to characterise the functions of these regions, the hippocampus in particular. In this article, I examine the ...
Judgments of Synchrony Between Auditory and Moving or Still Visual Stimuli
Dec 01, 2007; ... Abstract The flash-lag effect is a visual illusion wherein intermittently flashed, stationary stimuli seem to trail after a moving visual stimulus despite being flashed synchronously. We tested hypotheses that the flash-lag effect is due to spatial extrapolation, shortened perceptual ...
On the Uniqueness of Attentional Capture by Uninformative Gaze Cues: Facilitation Interacts With the Simon Effect and is Rarely Followed by IOR
Dec 01, 2007; ... Abstract Orienting to an uninformative peripheral cue is characterized by a brief facilitation followed by a long-lasting inhibition once attention is removed from the cued location. Although central gaze cues cause reflexive orienting, the inhibitory effect that is relatively ubiquitous ...
Familiarization Effects for Bilingual Letter Detection Involving Translation or Exact Text Repetition
Dec 01, 2007; ... Abstract In two experiments, English-Spanish bilinguals read passages, performing letter detection on some passages by circling target letters as they read. Detection passages were sometimes familiarized (primed) by prior reading of the same passage or a translation of it. Participants ...
L'influence de la taille typique des objets dans une tâche de catégorisation
Dec 01, 2007; ... Résumé Cet article porte sur l'influence de la taille typique dans une tâche de catégorisation. L'originalité de notre travail repose sur l'homogénéité de la taille graphique des stimuli. Nous avons commencé par construire une norme de taille typique des stimuli, celle-ci porte sur la taille ...
Homophone Effects in Visual Word Recognition Depend on Homophone Type and Task Demands
Dec 01, 2007; ... Abstract This experiment examined how the characteristics of homophones and their mates influence homophone effects, as a function of task demands. Two types of homophones were presented: 1) low-frequency homophones with higher-frequency mates that are not animal names (e.g., maid - ...