People underestimate the influence of repetition on truth judgments (and more so for themselves than for others)
Cognition. 2023 Oct 21;242:105651. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105651. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeople judge repeated statements as more truthful than new statements: a truth effect. In three pre-registered experiments (N = 463), we examined whether people expect repetition to influence truth judgments more for others than for themselves: a bias blind spot in the truth effect. In Experiments 1 and 2, using moderately plausible and implausible statements, respectively, the test for the bias blind spot did not pass the significance threshold set for a two-step sequential analysis. Experiment 3 considered moderately pl...
Source: Cognition - October 23, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Simone Mattavelli J érémy Béna Olivier Corneille Christian Unkelbach Source Type: research
Of words and whistles: Statistical learning operates similarly for identical sounds perceived as speech and non-speech
Cognition. 2023 Oct 21;242:105649. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105649. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStatistical learning is an ability that allows individuals to effortlessly extract patterns from the environment, such as sound patterns in speech. Some prior evidence suggests that statistical learning operates more robustly for speech compared to non-speech stimuli, supporting the idea that humans are predisposed to learn language. However, any apparent statistical learning advantage for speech could be driven by signal acoustics, rather than the subjective perception per se of sounds as speech. To resolve this issue, t...
Source: Cognition - October 23, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Sierra J Sweet Stephen C Van Hedger Laura J Batterink Source Type: research
People underestimate the influence of repetition on truth judgments (and more so for themselves than for others)
Cognition. 2023 Oct 21;242:105651. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105651. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeople judge repeated statements as more truthful than new statements: a truth effect. In three pre-registered experiments (N = 463), we examined whether people expect repetition to influence truth judgments more for others than for themselves: a bias blind spot in the truth effect. In Experiments 1 and 2, using moderately plausible and implausible statements, respectively, the test for the bias blind spot did not pass the significance threshold set for a two-step sequential analysis. Experiment 3 considered moderately pl...
Source: Cognition - October 23, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Simone Mattavelli J érémy Béna Olivier Corneille Christian Unkelbach Source Type: research
Of words and whistles: Statistical learning operates similarly for identical sounds perceived as speech and non-speech
Cognition. 2023 Oct 21;242:105649. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105649. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStatistical learning is an ability that allows individuals to effortlessly extract patterns from the environment, such as sound patterns in speech. Some prior evidence suggests that statistical learning operates more robustly for speech compared to non-speech stimuli, supporting the idea that humans are predisposed to learn language. However, any apparent statistical learning advantage for speech could be driven by signal acoustics, rather than the subjective perception per se of sounds as speech. To resolve this issue, t...
Source: Cognition - October 23, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Sierra J Sweet Stephen C Van Hedger Laura J Batterink Source Type: research
People underestimate the influence of repetition on truth judgments (and more so for themselves than for others)
Cognition. 2023 Oct 21;242:105651. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105651. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeople judge repeated statements as more truthful than new statements: a truth effect. In three pre-registered experiments (N = 463), we examined whether people expect repetition to influence truth judgments more for others than for themselves: a bias blind spot in the truth effect. In Experiments 1 and 2, using moderately plausible and implausible statements, respectively, the test for the bias blind spot did not pass the significance threshold set for a two-step sequential analysis. Experiment 3 considered moderately pl...
Source: Cognition - October 23, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Simone Mattavelli J érémy Béna Olivier Corneille Christian Unkelbach Source Type: research
Actions are characterized by 'canonical moments' in a sequence of movements
Cognition. 2023 Oct 20;242:105652. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105652. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTUnderstanding what others are doing is an essential aspect of social cognition that depends on our ability to quickly recognize and categorize their actions. To effectively study action recognition we need to understand how actions are bounded, where they start and where they end. Here we borrow a conceptual approach - the notion of 'canonicality' - introduced by Palmer and colleagues in their study of object recognition and apply it to the study of action recognition. Using a set of 50 video clips sourced from stock phot...
Source: Cognition - October 22, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Nuala Brady Patricia Gough Sophie Leonard Paul Allan Caoimhe McManus Tomas Foley Aoife O'Leary David P McGovern Source Type: research
Actions are characterized by 'canonical moments' in a sequence of movements
Cognition. 2023 Oct 20;242:105652. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105652. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTUnderstanding what others are doing is an essential aspect of social cognition that depends on our ability to quickly recognize and categorize their actions. To effectively study action recognition we need to understand how actions are bounded, where they start and where they end. Here we borrow a conceptual approach - the notion of 'canonicality' - introduced by Palmer and colleagues in their study of object recognition and apply it to the study of action recognition. Using a set of 50 video clips sourced from stock phot...
Source: Cognition - October 22, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Nuala Brady Patricia Gough Sophie Leonard Paul Allan Caoimhe McManus Tomas Foley Aoife O'Leary David P McGovern Source Type: research
Discourse coherence modulates use of predictive processing during sentence comprehension
Cognition. 2023 Oct 17;242:105637. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105637. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTContext has been shown to be vitally important for comprehension. Lexical processing is facilitated when words are highly predictable given their local sentence context, suggesting that people pre-activate likely upcoming words to aid comprehension. However, this facilitation is affected by knowledge about the global context in which comprehension takes place: people predict less when in an environment where expectations are frequently violated. The current study investigated whether discourse coherence is an additional c...
Source: Cognition - October 19, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Georgia-Ann Carter Paul Hoffman Source Type: research
Does bilingual experience influence statistical language learning?
Cognition. 2023 Oct 17;242:105639. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105639. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStatistical language learning (SL) tasks measure different aspects of foreign language learning. Studies have used SL tasks to investigate whether bilingual experience confers advantages in acquiring additional languages through implicit processes. However, the results have been inconsistent, which may be related to bilingualism-related features (e.g., degree of dissimilarity between the specific language pair) and other variables such as specific processes that are targeted by the SL task. In the present study, we compar...
Source: Cognition - October 19, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Jose A Aguasvivas Jes ús Cespón Manuel Carreiras Source Type: research
Universality in eye movements and reading: A replication with increased power
Cognition. 2023 Oct 17;242:105636. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105636. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTLiversedge, Drieghe, Li, Yan, Bai and Hyönä (2016) reported an eye movement study that investigated reading in Chinese, Finnish and English (languages with markedly different orthographic characteristics). Analyses of the eye movement records showed robust differences in fine grained characteristics of eye movements between languages, however, overall sentence reading times did not differ. Liversedge et al. interpreted the entire set of results across languages as reflecting universal aspects of processing in reading. H...
Source: Cognition - October 19, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Simon P Liversedge Henri Olkoniemi Chuanli Zang Xin Li Guoli Yan Xuejun Bai Jukka Hy önä Source Type: research
Retrieval of temporal structure at recall can occur automatically
Cognition. 2023 Oct 17;242:105647. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105647. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTemporal-structure, namely, the order in which events unfold over time, is one of the fundamental principles of episodic memory organization. A seminal empirical demonstration of the prominence of temporal structure in memory organization is the Temporal Contiguity Effect (TCE), whereby the proximity between two items at encoding predicts the likelihood of those two items being retrieved consecutively during recall. Recent studies have found that TCE occurs under a wide variety of conditions in which strategic control pro...
Source: Cognition - October 19, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Talya Sadeh Morris Moscovitch Source Type: research
Some scales require cognitive effort: A systematic review on the role of working memory in scalar implicature derivation
Cognition. 2023 Oct 17;242:105623. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105623. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIf some inferences require cognitive effort, could that mean, that all of them do? The scalar term "some" has long fascinated academics from various backgrounds, as it can be interpreted either purely semantically, as "some and possibly all", or pragmatically, as "some and not all". The pragmatic reading implies the generation of what is called a scalar implicature. While scientific investigation of such implicatures has given rise to many potential explanations of the "pragmatic enrichment" phenomenon behind them, the de...
Source: Cognition - October 19, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Bojan Luc Nys Wai Wong Walter Schaeken Source Type: research
Discourse coherence modulates use of predictive processing during sentence comprehension
Cognition. 2023 Oct 17;242:105637. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105637. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTContext has been shown to be vitally important for comprehension. Lexical processing is facilitated when words are highly predictable given their local sentence context, suggesting that people pre-activate likely upcoming words to aid comprehension. However, this facilitation is affected by knowledge about the global context in which comprehension takes place: people predict less when in an environment where expectations are frequently violated. The current study investigated whether discourse coherence is an additional c...
Source: Cognition - October 19, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Georgia-Ann Carter Paul Hoffman Source Type: research
Does bilingual experience influence statistical language learning?
Cognition. 2023 Oct 17;242:105639. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105639. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStatistical language learning (SL) tasks measure different aspects of foreign language learning. Studies have used SL tasks to investigate whether bilingual experience confers advantages in acquiring additional languages through implicit processes. However, the results have been inconsistent, which may be related to bilingualism-related features (e.g., degree of dissimilarity between the specific language pair) and other variables such as specific processes that are targeted by the SL task. In the present study, we compar...
Source: Cognition - October 19, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Jose A Aguasvivas Jes ús Cespón Manuel Carreiras Source Type: research
Universality in eye movements and reading: A replication with increased power
Cognition. 2023 Oct 17;242:105636. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105636. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTLiversedge, Drieghe, Li, Yan, Bai and Hyönä (2016) reported an eye movement study that investigated reading in Chinese, Finnish and English (languages with markedly different orthographic characteristics). Analyses of the eye movement records showed robust differences in fine grained characteristics of eye movements between languages, however, overall sentence reading times did not differ. Liversedge et al. interpreted the entire set of results across languages as reflecting universal aspects of processing in reading. H...
Source: Cognition - October 19, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Simon P Liversedge Henri Olkoniemi Chuanli Zang Xin Li Guoli Yan Xuejun Bai Jukka Hy önä Source Type: research
