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An event-related potential investigation of the influence of bilingualism on disambiguating homonyms in older adults
Can J Exp Psychol. 2024 Apr 18. doi: 10.1037/cep0000331. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAmbiguity is ubiquitous in language; lexical ambiguity refers to instances where a single word has multiple meanings. The current investigation examined homonyms, words that have the same orthography and pronunciation in English but multiple meanings (e.g., BANK, meaning "financial institution" or "river's edge"). The processing of homonyms requires the engagement of executive control processes, for example, to select the appropriate meaning of the homonym while reducing interference from other meanings. Executive function processes are ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - April 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Shanna Kousaie Vanessa Taler Source Type: research

On the association between intention and visual word identification
Can J Exp Psychol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/cep0000326. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOne of the most fundamental distinctions in cognitive psychology is between processing that is "controlled" and processing that is "automatic." The widely held automatic processing account of visual word identification asserts that, among other characteristics, the presentation of a well-formed letter string triggers sublexical, lexical, and semantic activation in the absence of any intention to do so. Instead, the role of intention is seen as independent of stimulus identification and as restricted to selection for action using the prod...
Source: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Derek Besner Colin M MacLeod Source Type: research

Proactive and reactive cognitive control in the absence of learning and memory confounds: Evidence from a cross-modal trial-unique Stroop task
Can J Exp Psychol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/cep0000325. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTGoal-directed behaviour is typically conceptualized as striking a balance between two antagonistic cognitive control states such as proactive and reactive control, as demonstrated by conflict phenomena such as the list-wide proportion congruency and congruency sequence effects. However, control-based explanations for these phenomena have come under criticism due to low-level associative regularities that are frequently confounded with conflict manipulations within these experimental designs. In the present study, a novel Stroop paradigm ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nicholaus P Brosowsky Source Type: research

Arousal and valence have dissociable effects on responses to schematic emotional faces
Can J Exp Psychol. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/cep0000328. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStudies examining behavioural responses to emotional stimuli usually report one of two patterns of responses to negative stimuli. Some studies find faster responses to negative material. Other studies find slower responses to negative stimuli. While the attentional mechanisms proposed to explain these findings (attentional capture in the former case, delayed disengagement in the latter) are not at odds with one another, the behavioural findings do need to be reconciled. We posit that arousal, being the primary differentiator of threateni...
Source: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Regard M Booy Nadja Jankovic Thomas M Spalek Source Type: research

It is a "small world": Relations between performance on five spatial tasks and five mathematical tasks in undergraduate students
In this study, we explore unique relations between performance on five spatial tasks and five mathematical tasks. An exploratory factor analysis conducted on Data Set 1 (N = 391) yielded a two-factor model, one spatial factor and one mathematical factor with significant cross-domain factor loadings. The general two-factor model structure was replicated in a confirmatory factor analysis conducted in a separate data set (N = 364) but the strength of the factor loadings differed by task. Multidimensional scaling and network-based analyses conducted on the combined data sets reveal one spatial cluster, with a central node and ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: V éronic Delage Richard J Daker Genevi ève Trudel Ian M Lyons Erin A Maloney Source Type: research