Recently added articles from Psychonomic Bulletin & Review:
Stroop and picture-word interference are two sides of the same coin
Dec 01, 2009; ... This article presents a cognitive model that reconciles a surprising observation in the picture-word interference (PWI) paradigm with the general notion that PWI is a form of Stroop interference. Dell'Acqua, Job, Peressotti, and Pascali (2007) assessed PWI using a psychological refractory period ...
The overconstraint of response time models: Rethinking the scaling problem
Dec 01, 2009; ... Theories of choice response time (RT) provide insight into the psychological underpinnings of simple decisions. Evidence accumulation (or sequential sampling) models are the most successful theories of choice RT. These models all have the same "scaling" property-that a subset of their parameters ...
Priming the holiday spirit: Persistent activation due to extraexperimental experiences
Dec 01, 2009; ... The concept of activation is a critical component of many models of cognition. A key characteristic of activation is that recent experience with a concept or stimulus increases the accessibility of the corresponding representation. The extent to which increases in accessibility occur as a result ...
Influence of mapping complexity on negative priming for incompatible spatial mappings
Dec 01, 2009; ... For tasks with an incompatible stimulus-response mapping, whether the compatible response must be inhibited is an ongoing issue. Read and Proctor (2004) tested this inhibition hypothesis, using a negative priming paradigm for four-choice tasks with three different incompatible spatial mappings ....
Effects of state anxiety on performance using a task-switching paradigm: An investigation of attentional control theory
Dec 01, 2009; ... Low- and high-anxious participants performed arithmetical tasks under task-switching or nontask-switching conditions. These tasks were low or high in complexity. The task on each trial was either explicitly cued or not cued. We assumed that demands on attentional control would be greater in the ...