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Psychology, Developmental
Monica Gori, Alessandra Sciutti, Diego Torazza, Claudio Campus, Alice Bollini
Summary: This study examines how cross-sectioning ability emerges in young children and the influence of multisensory visuo-haptic experience in geometrical learning. The findings demonstrate that practicing novel multisensory strategies improves children's understanding of complex geometrical concepts.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
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Linguistics
Adina Camelia Bleotu, Brian Dillon
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of distributional properties on agreement attraction in Romanian, specifically examining the effects of bare nouns and full determiner phrases. The results show that overt determiner phrases cause significantly more attraction than bare nouns, suggesting the presence of a cue-based retrieval mechanism for forming agreement dependencies. These findings highlight the sensitivity of agreement attraction to morphophonological cues in Romanian.
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
(2024)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Mingli Liu, Aixia Zhuang, Jill M. Norvilitis, Tian Xiao
Summary: This study examined the usage patterns of short videos and social media among adolescents and their impact on psychological health. The findings suggest that different patterns of usage have different effects on mental health, highlighting the importance of appropriate use of these platforms in preventing mental health problems in adolescents.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2024)
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Psychology, Developmental
Laura Lakusta, Julia Wefferling, Karima Elgamal, Barbara Landau
Summary: This study examines the cognitive differences in infants and children regarding different types of support in spatial language. The results show that children aged 2 to 3.5 years are able to map lexical verbs to mechanical support configurations.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
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Linguistics
Mohan W. Gupta, Steven C. Pan, Timothy C. Rickard
Summary: This study reveals the existence of a confounding forward testing effect (FTE) in the test-first design but not in the mixed training design, through two experiments and analyses of different training phase task orderings. The predictions of the dual-memory model of test-enhanced learning are supported, and no evidence for proactive interference and reset of encoding hypotheses is found. However, the results are consistent with the strategy change and increasing effort hypotheses. Additionally, a novel and powerful individual differences effect of the FTE is identified through distribution analyses.
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
(2024)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jun-Jie Hew, Voon-Hsien Lee, Lai-Ying Leong
Summary: This study proposes a holistic framework named MOCART to explain the resistance behaviors of mobile users towards m-commerce applications. The framework extends the Innovation Resistance Theory and considers information privacy concerns and mobile technostress as factors influencing active innovation resistance. The empirical results support the validity of MOCART.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2024)
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Behavioral Sciences
Anna E. Hughes, Anna Nowakowska, Alasdair D. F. Clarke
Summary: This study examines the relationship between search slopes and search efficiency in visual search tasks, introduces the Target Contrast Signal (TCS) Theory, and extends it to a Bayesian multi-level framework. The findings demonstrate that TCS can predict data well, but distinguishing between contrast combination models proves to be difficult.
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Neurosciences
John J. Buchanan, Alberto Cordova
Summary: Research has shown that spontaneous visual coupling supports frequency entrainment, phase attraction, and intermittent interpersonal coordination during the switch from a novision (NV) to vision (V) context among co-actors. The experiments demonstrate that similar self-paced frequencies result from same amplitude movements, while different amplitudes lead to disparate frequencies. In experiment 1, co-actors were instructed to maintain amplitude without explicit instructions for coordination, which limited frequency and phase entrainment in the V context. In experiment 2, co-actors were instructed to maintain amplitude and intentionally coordinate together, resulting in significant frequency modulations and the production of various stable relative phase patterns.
HUMAN MOVEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Tsz Hang Chu, Li Crystal Jiang
Summary: This study examines the factors influencing social media distress disclosure and the relationship between distressing life events, social media distress disclosure, and psychological well-being. The results show that the frequency of distress disclosure on social media is influenced by both situational and non-situational factors. The study also reveals that the association between distressing life events and perceived stress is mediated by social media distress disclosure frequency, and this mediation is moderated by risk-benefit calculus and satisfaction with social media distress disclosure.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2024)
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Behavioral Sciences
Darren J. Yeo, Courtney Pollack, Benjamin N. Conrad, Gavin R. Price
Summary: The processing of numerals as visual objects is supported by an Inferior Temporal Numeral Area (ITNA) in the bilateral inferior temporal gyri (ITG). Extant findings suggest some degree of hemispheric asymmetry in how the bilateral ITNAs process numerals. The study found that digit sensitivity did not differ between ITNAs, and digit sensitivity in both left and right ITNAs was associated with calculation skills. The study also revealed a right lateralization in engagement in alphanumeric categorization, and that the right ITNA showed greater discriminability between digits and letters.
Correction
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Valentina Piccoli, Andrea Carnaghi, Michele Grassi, Marta Straga, Mauro Bianchi
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2024)
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Linguistics
Mohamad El Haj, Dimitrios Kapogiannis, Claire Boutoleau-Bretonniere
Summary: This study assessed linguistic processing in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) using pupillometry. The results showed that patients with bvFTD had smaller pupil size during verbal fluency tasks and counting compared to control participants. However, larger pupil size was observed during verbal fluency tasks compared to counting in both groups. Moreover, patients with bvFTD performed poorer in verbal fluency tasks compared to control participants.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
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Psychology, Developmental
Stephanie Wermelinger, Lea Moersdorf, Moritz M. Daum
Summary: The study found that automatic imitation in school-aged children can be measured using the imitation-inhibition task, similar to adults. Observing actions incongruent with one's own actions interferes with responses, leading to increased reaction times and error rates.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
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Psychology, Developmental
Matthew Gingo, Shiva Carter
Summary: This research examines how children assess the legitimacy of different rules and their reasoning behind covertly defying and lying to parents to resist those rules. The study found that as children grow older, their acceptance of rules decreases while acceptance of defiance and deception increases. Children also respond differently to rules in different domains, with older children justifying defiance and deception as a matter of personal autonomy and as a moral obligation to resist immoral norms.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
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Linguistics
Vasilisa Pugacheva, Fritz Guenther
Summary: This study investigates the cognitive-semantic question of the words speakers use and produce to convey meaning. The results show that responses are semantically close to the targets, with existing words being closer than novel words and even novel compounds often closer than the targets' free associates. Additionally, other participants are more likely to guess the correct original word for responses closer to the original targets and for novel compound responses compared to existing word responses. This demonstrates that both existing and novel words can be accurately captured in a unified computational framework of the semantic mechanisms driving word choice.
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
(2024)
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Psychology, Experimental
Gabor P. Haden, Fleur L. Bouwer, Henkjan Honing, Istvan Winkler
Summary: Newborn infants are capable of extracting temporal regularities from sound sequences. By manipulating the isochrony of sound sequences, researchers found that beat perception and statistical learning can be distinguished in newborns. Despite newborns' ability for statistical learning, this alone cannot fully explain their beat processing.
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Behavioral Sciences
Holger Wiese, Tsvetomila Popova, Maya Schipper, Deni Zakriev, Mike Burton, Andrew W. Young
Summary: Previous experiments have shown that brief exposure to unfamiliar individuals leads to the formation of new facial representations, which undergo changes and consolidation within the first day after learning.
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Behavioral Sciences
Stefano Lasaponara, Gabriele Scozia, Silvana Lozito, Mario Pinto, David Conversi, Marco Costanzi, Tim Vriens, Massimo Silvetti, Fabrizio Doricchi
Summary: Cholinergic (Ach), Noradrenergic (NE), and Dopaminergic (DA) pathways are crucial in regulating spatial attention and determining inter-individual differences in temperamental traits. This study found that temperamental traits predict individual differences in the ability to orient spatial attention based on the probabilistic association between cues and targets. These findings highlight the importance of considering temperamental and personality traits in social and professional environments where attention control is essential.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Katie Maras, Abe Sweiry, Aase Villadsen, Emla Fitzsimons
Summary: This study examines predictors of self-reported engagement in cyber crime in middle adolescence. The findings indicate that young cyber offenders are often males and those who have experienced a range of risk factors that are connected to poorer wellbeing and engaging in multiple risky/offending behaviours.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2024)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Haoran Fu, Chundong Wang, Jiaqi Sun, Yumeng Zhao, Hao Lin, Junqing Sun, Baixue Zhang
Summary: Although natural language processing has shown strong performance, it is vulnerable to adversarial examples. Current methods for English are not suitable for Chinese due to the differences in language structure. This paper proposes a new algorithm called WordIllusion for generating Chinese adversarial texts and verifies its effectiveness.
COGNITIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH
(2024)
