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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Sicheng Xiong, Yi Xu, Bin Zhang, Yun Chen
Summary: Early adolescent smartphone dependence is a significant social and public health issue. This study found a longitudinal association between cumulative ecological risk and early adolescent smartphone dependence, with social anxiety and self-compassion serving as parallel mediators. Gender differences were also found in this mediation model.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2024)
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Psychology, Experimental
Lei Yuan, Miriam Novack, David Uttal, Steven Franconeri
Summary: Research shows that relational language can enhance relational representation by guiding learners' attention, and this facilitative effect persists over time even in the absence of language.
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Behavioral Sciences
Andrea Gajardo-Vidal, Maxime Montembeault, Diego L. Lorca-Puls, Abigail E. Licata, Rian Bogley, Sabrina Erlhoff, Buddhika Ratnasiri, Zoe Ezzes, Giovanni Battistella, Elena Tsoy, Christa Watson Pereira, Jessica Deleon, Boon Lead Tee, Maya L. Henry, Zachary A. Miller, Katherine P. Rankin, Maria Luisa Mandelli, Katherine L. Possin, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini
Summary: This study investigates the potential differences in processing speed and neural correlates among the three variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). The findings reveal that non-verbal cognitive abilities, such as processing speed, are significantly impacted in nfvPPA and lvPPA patients compared to healthy controls and svPPA patients. Neuroimaging results confirm the importance of fronto-parietal regions associated with processing speed and executive control.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Veronica Beatini, David Cohen, Stefano Di Tore, Hugues Pellerin, Paola Aiello, Maurizio Sibilio, Alain Berthoz
Summary: Perspective taking ability improves in children, with a significant acceleration in improvement around the age of 8.5 years, as shown through a video game called "Virtual Class".
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2024)
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Psychology, Developmental
Hui Wang, Michael J. Orosco, Anqi Peng, Haiying Long, Deborah K. Reed, H. Lee Swanson
Summary: The current study aimed to examine the effects of cognitive and reading skills on second language writing performance among Spanish-speaking children learning English. The findings revealed that the relationship between English writing performance and English cognitive and reading skills became stronger as the grades increased. However, the relationships between English writing and Spanish cognitive and reading determinants were mixed, indicating a statistically significant relationship with Spanish WM and reading skills for Grade 2 and 3 students but not with OLD across all grades.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
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Linguistics
Dagmar Divjak, Hui Sun, Petar Milin
Summary: This study explores the feasibility of using Heart Rate Variability (HRV) as an indicator to assess implicit language knowledge, and finds that cardiovascular response can reflect the degree of grammatical errors. The results reveal the intricate relationship between physiology and cognition, and provide new possibilities for assessing language knowledge in natural and authentic settings.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
Article
Linguistics
Xi Chen, Diana Sidtis
Summary: This study investigates the ability of Mandarin-speaking individuals with PD to convey contrastive stress in production and perceive these contrasts in listening. Results show that individuals with PD have difficulty in producing contrastive stress, but their ability to perceive these contrasts is relatively preserved.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
Article
Linguistics
Xiangyang Zhang, Wenqi Cai, Min Dang, Rui Zhang, Xiaojuan Wang, Jianfeng Yang
Summary: This study investigates the brain mechanisms of sub-lexical semantic processing and its interaction with lexical-semantic processing in visual word reading. The results reveal the neural bases involved in these processes and provide insights for understanding semantic processing in reading.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
Article
Linguistics
Tala Noufi, Maor Zeev-Wolf
Summary: This study aimed to test the effect of left-hand muscle contractions on metaphor comprehension in adolescents, and compare the processing of conventional and novel metaphors between adolescents and adults. The results showed that left-hand muscle contractions enhanced metaphor comprehension, but over-activation of the right hemisphere decreased the ability to process unrelated expressions. Additionally, adolescents were more accurate in processing novel metaphors, possibly due to their reliance on coarse semantic coding.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Linlin Huang, Long Ma
Summary: This study redefines the buyer-seller relationship in live streaming commerce as parasocial guanxi, consisting of emotional attachment, trust, and reciprocal value. The effects of parasocial guanxi on consumer dissatisfaction and complaint intention in service failure situations were investigated. The findings suggest that parasocial guanxi acts as a buffer, mitigating dissatisfaction and complaint intention, but it may also increase the likelihood of consumer complaints. Furthermore, the buffering effect weakens as consumers make more frequent purchases.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Brahim Zarouali, Tom Dobber, Jurrian Schreuder
Summary: Based on recent technological advances, campaigners and political actors can use psychographic-based political marketing. However, there is limited empirical evidence regarding its effectiveness. A pre-registered experiment investigated the persuasion effects of personality-congruent political microtargeting on citizens' attitude toward political party and voting intentions, and found significant congruence effects when using self-report measure of personality.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2024)
Article
Linguistics
Matthew Walenski, Thomas Sostarics, M. Marsel Mesulam, Cynthia K. Thompson
Summary: This study investigated adjective production in patients with different types of aphasia and healthy controls. The findings showed that agrammatic aphasia patients produced significantly fewer attributive adjectives compared to the control group, while other patient groups were similar to the control group. Furthermore, there was a significant correlation between the rate of producing attributive adjectives and impaired production of complex syntactic structure sentences in agrammatic aphasia patients. Analysis of the lexical characteristics of the produced adjectives revealed consistent patterns with the language profile of each group.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Nora Geiser, Brigitte Charlotte Kaufmann, Samuel Elia Johannes Knobel, Dario Cazzoli, Tobias Nef, Thomas Nyffeler
Summary: This study compared the effects of auditory and visual motion stimulation on spatial neglect and found that both interventions were equally effective in improving neglect. Multimodal motion stimulation also improved neglect, but did not show greater improvement than unimodal auditory or visual motion stimulation alone.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yi Yang, Ru-De Liu, Yi Ding, Jingmin Lin, Zien Ding, Xiantong Yang
Summary: This study investigates the effects of short-form video use on time distortion through two empirical studies. The results show that the frequency of short-form video use is positively correlated with overestimation of video use time and time spent on unrelated tasks. In addition, comparing the TikTok group with the reading group, the TikTok group overestimated the duration of both the priming activity and subsequent academic task, while the reading group demonstrated accurate duration estimation without time distortion.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Crystal T. Lee, Yung-Cheng Shen, Zimo Li, Hong-Hao Xie
Summary: This study explores the perceptions of creators and buyers regarding the functions of NFT platforms. The results show that platform affordances facilitate the formation of psychological contracts and improve customer loyalty. The relationships identified differ between creators and buyers. The study highlights the value of a user-centric human-computer interaction perspective in studying emerging blockchain-based systems.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2024)
Article
Linguistics
Vanessa Harwood, Adrian Garcia-Sierra, Raphael Dias, Emily Jelfs, Alisa Baron
Summary: This study investigates the phonological sensitivity to native and nonnative speech syllables and its relationship with English word reading abilities in 6-8 year-old monolingual English-speaking children. The results suggest that speech perception of native contrasts recorded in left temporal electrode sites is linked to English word reading abilities.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Zhenzhen Huo, Zhiyi Chen, Rong Zhang, Junye Xu, Tingyong Feng
Summary: Procrastination has adverse effects on personal growth and social development. Reward sensitivity is positively correlated with procrastination. This study used VBM and RSFC analyses to investigate the neural substrates underlying the association between reward sensitivity and procrastination. The results showed that the functional connectivity of the right parahippocampal gyrus-precuneus mediated the relationship between reward sensitivity and procrastination.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Miikka Kuutila, Carita Kiili, Reijo Kupiainen, Eetu Huusko, Junhao Li, Simo Hosio, Mika Mantyla, Julie Coiro, Kristian Kiili
Summary: The internet has become a primary source of health information for laypersons, but it also spreads misinformation that challenges adults' ability to evaluate health messages. This study examines the role of source characteristics, evidence quality, crowdsourcing platform, and prior beliefs in adults' credibility evaluations of short health-related social media posts. The findings suggest that source expertise and prior belief consistency have the greatest impact on perceived credibility, while evidence quality has relatively less influence. The data collection platform also plays a significant role in credibility evaluations, as inaccurate claims are more likely to be rated higher on one platform compared to another.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Nadia Chernyak
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the emergence of numerically sensitive fairness in children aged 4 to 8 years. The results showed that children of all ages demonstrated numerically sensitive fairness, but older children were more likely to accept inequality in a merit context.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Peiqi Dong, Wei Li, Qiong Hu, Tianqi Wu, Yiheng Jiang, Huan Jin, Cihua Xu, Martin Buschkuehl, Susanne M. Jaeggi, Qiong Zhang
Summary: The malleability of executive function (EF) has been widely studied in recent years. This study investigates how effortful control, a temperamental trait, affects EF training outcomes in children. The results show a positive correlation between effortful control and training gain, with children with higher effortful control benefiting more from training.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
