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Investigating the impact of narrativity on the congeniality bias
Oftentimes, people preferably select information confirming their prior beliefs—they show the congeniality bias. Here, we investigate two...
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A lack of robust cross-domain structural priming effects
Structural priming effects within language (e.g., Bock,
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The impact of preference for interior space design on incidental recognition memory
The extent to which preference shapes memory formation remains debated. Across three experiments, we tested whether preference for images of interior...
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Cognitive and metacognitive markers of memory retrieval performance in speech prosody
Prosodic cues in speech – such as F0, intensity, and articulation rate – have been shown to be related to cognitive processes, including memory...
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Memory’s double take: Dissociating two forms of recollection in visual working memory
Visual working memory (VWM) supports both change detection and repetition detection, yet it remains unclear whether these operations can be...
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The primed Stroop is not a Stroop task: Evidence from delta plots
The Stroop interference effect – slower color naming on incongruent trials (e.g., GREEN printed in red) compared to neutral trials (e.g., PRESS...
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Effects of the semantic context on the processing of careful and casual speech
Listeners need contextual information to recognize the highly reduced word pronunciation variants that frequently occur in casual speech. Especially,...
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Strategy effects and value directed recall of sub- and supra-span word lists
Value cues can promote selective processing of words in lists of 12 or more items leading to better recall of memoranda associated with higher value....
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Limited cue integration in metacognitive control decisions
Metacognitive judgments and decisions involve uncertainty and rely on probabilistic cues. Prior research shows that people integrate multiple cues...
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Role of sparse episodic information in the progressive construction of event time about unknown narratives
Narrative time is essential for understanding and remembering stories. Reconstructive memory theory posits that retrieving past events is not a mere...
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Active dependency formation and ambiguity resolution in real-time sentence processing
In late-closure garden-path sentences such as “Whenever the boys hug Tom smiles happily”, the locally ambiguous noun phrase (“Tom”) is initially...
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Testing before learning: Exploring the robustness of the pretesting effect
Retrieval practice, or taking tests after studying, is a highly effective strategy to enhance learning. Furthermore, pretesting, which involves...
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Prioritizing feature bindings across space and modality in working memory
A growing body of evidence shows that selective attention can be strategically directed to prioritize items of higher “value” in working memory. This...
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Colors, characters, locations, and shapes: The capacity of working memory for multiple, dissimilar sets of items
Working memory (WM) often includes heterogenous items, as when one uses it while assembling a desk from sets of boards, knobs, bolts, and washers....
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When repeated presentation of visual feature bindings does and does not result in learning: Visual short-term and long-term memory are distinct but work in tandem
Two experiments explored a previous finding that 120 repetitions of the same six-item array for change detection resulted in no or very slow...
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Deep distortions in faces and places
Deep distortions occur when a person remembers multiple incompatible reality states as true, producing logical impossibilities. Those impossibilities...
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The effect of spatial structures on analogical problem solving
A critical step in analogical problem solving is recognizing structural similarities between the source (a known problem and its solution) and the...
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The role of revelation in the revelation effect in episodic recognition
Solving a task right before a memory decision tends to elicit a “yes” response in recognition tests, and the underlying mechanism of this so-called...
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Counterfactual relief
Some theoretical accounts of relief distinguish between temporal relief, experienced due to the ending of an aversive episode, and counterfactual...
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The effect of ostensive communication on immediate and delayed memory of novel and familiar action patterns
Actions are often learnt incidentally by observing other individuals. How aspects inherent to the social context in which an action is seen affect...