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
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
The dynamics of attentional guidance by working memory contents
Cognition. 2023 Oct 13;242:105638. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105638. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWorking memory (WM) contents can guide attention toward matching sensory information in the environment, but there are mixed findings regarding whether only a single prioritized item or multiple items held in WM can guide attention. The present study examines the limit of WM-guided attention with a novel task procedure and mouse trajectory analysis. Specifically, we introduced a perceptual-matching task utilizing the continuous estimation procedure within the maintenance interval of a WM task for one or two colors. We fou...
Source: Cognition - October 15, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Hyung-Bum Park Weiwei Zhang Source Type: research
The dynamics of attentional guidance by working memory contents
Cognition. 2023 Oct 13;242:105638. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105638. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWorking memory (WM) contents can guide attention toward matching sensory information in the environment, but there are mixed findings regarding whether only a single prioritized item or multiple items held in WM can guide attention. The present study examines the limit of WM-guided attention with a novel task procedure and mouse trajectory analysis. Specifically, we introduced a perceptual-matching task utilizing the continuous estimation procedure within the maintenance interval of a WM task for one or two colors. We fou...
Source: Cognition - October 15, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Hyung-Bum Park Weiwei Zhang Source Type: research
The dynamics of attentional guidance by working memory contents
Cognition. 2023 Oct 13;242:105638. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105638. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWorking memory (WM) contents can guide attention toward matching sensory information in the environment, but there are mixed findings regarding whether only a single prioritized item or multiple items held in WM can guide attention. The present study examines the limit of WM-guided attention with a novel task procedure and mouse trajectory analysis. Specifically, we introduced a perceptual-matching task utilizing the continuous estimation procedure within the maintenance interval of a WM task for one or two colors. We fou...
Source: Cognition - October 15, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Hyung-Bum Park Weiwei Zhang Source Type: research
The dynamics of attentional guidance by working memory contents
Cognition. 2023 Oct 13;242:105638. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105638. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWorking memory (WM) contents can guide attention toward matching sensory information in the environment, but there are mixed findings regarding whether only a single prioritized item or multiple items held in WM can guide attention. The present study examines the limit of WM-guided attention with a novel task procedure and mouse trajectory analysis. Specifically, we introduced a perceptual-matching task utilizing the continuous estimation procedure within the maintenance interval of a WM task for one or two colors. We fou...
Source: Cognition - October 15, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Hyung-Bum Park Weiwei Zhang Source Type: research
The influence of natural image statistics on upright orientation judgements
Cognition. 2023 Oct 9;242:105631. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105631. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHumans have well-documented priors for many features present in nature that guide visual perception. Despite being putatively grounded in the statistical regularities of the environment, scene priors are frequently violated due to the inherent variability of visual features from one scene to the next. However, these repeated violations do not appreciably challenge visuo-cognitive function, necessitating the broad use of priors in conjunction with context-specific information. We investigated the trade-off between participa...
Source: Cognition - October 11, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Emily J A-Izzeddin Jason B Mattingley William J Harrison Source Type: research
The development of rhythmic categories as revealed through an iterative production task
Cognition. 2023 Oct 9;242:105634. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105634. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBoth humans and non-humans (e.g. birds and primates) preferentially produce and perceive auditory rhythms with simple integer ratios. In addition, these preferences (biases) tend to reflect specific integer-ratio rhythms that are common to one's cultural listening experience. To better understand the developmental trajectory of these biases, we estimated children's rhythm biases across the entire rhythm production space of simple (e.g., ratios of 1, 2, and 3) three-interval rhythms. North American children aged 6-11 years ...
Source: Cognition - October 11, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Karli Nave Chantal Carrillo Nori Jacoby Laurel Trainor Erin Hannon Source Type: research
The influence of natural image statistics on upright orientation judgements
Cognition. 2023 Oct 9;242:105631. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105631. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHumans have well-documented priors for many features present in nature that guide visual perception. Despite being putatively grounded in the statistical regularities of the environment, scene priors are frequently violated due to the inherent variability of visual features from one scene to the next. However, these repeated violations do not appreciably challenge visuo-cognitive function, necessitating the broad use of priors in conjunction with context-specific information. We investigated the trade-off between participa...
Source: Cognition - October 11, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Emily J A-Izzeddin Jason B Mattingley William J Harrison Source Type: research
The development of rhythmic categories as revealed through an iterative production task
Cognition. 2023 Oct 9;242:105634. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105634. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBoth humans and non-humans (e.g. birds and primates) preferentially produce and perceive auditory rhythms with simple integer ratios. In addition, these preferences (biases) tend to reflect specific integer-ratio rhythms that are common to one's cultural listening experience. To better understand the developmental trajectory of these biases, we estimated children's rhythm biases across the entire rhythm production space of simple (e.g., ratios of 1, 2, and 3) three-interval rhythms. North American children aged 6-11 years ...
Source: Cognition - October 11, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Karli Nave Chantal Carrillo Nori Jacoby Laurel Trainor Erin Hannon Source Type: research
