A bias-free test of human temporal bisection: Evidence against bisection at the arithmetic mean
Cognition. 2024 Mar 23;247:105770. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105770. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe temporal bisection procedure has been used to assess theories of time perception. A problem with the procedure for measuring the perceived midpoint of two durations is that the spacing of probe durations affects the length of the bisection point. Linear spacing results in longer bisection points closer to the arithmetic mean of the durations than logarithmic spacing. In three experiments, the influence of probe duration distribution was avoided by presenting a single probe duration of either the arithmetic or geometri...
Source: Cognition - March 24, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: David J Sanderson Source Type: research
Irreducibility of sensory experiences: Dual representations lead to dual context biases
Cognition. 2024 Mar 22;247:105761. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105761. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere are three views of cognitive representation: the amodal, strong-embodiment, and weak-embodiment views of cognition. The present research provides support for the weak-embodiment view by demonstrating that two representational systems, one conceptual and one perceptual, underlie the cognitive processing of sensory experiences. We find that an initial sensory experience can exert two independent influences on judgments about a subsequent sensory experience. Specifically, we show that the conceptual representation of a...
Source: Cognition - March 23, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Yanmei Zheng Alan D J Cooke Chris Janiszewski Source Type: research
Relative cue precision and prior knowledge contribute to the preference of proximal and distal landmarks in human orientation
Cognition. 2024 Mar 22;247:105772. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105772. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA prevailing argument posits that distal landmarks dominate over proximal landmarks as orientation cues. However, no studies have tested this argument or examined the underlying mechanisms. This project aimed to close this gap by examining the roles of relative cue precision and prior knowledge in cue preference. Participants learned object locations with proximal and distal landmarks in an immersive virtual environment. After walking a path without seeing objects or landmarks, participants disoriented themselves by spinn...
Source: Cognition - March 23, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Yafei Qi Weimin Mou Source Type: research
Acquiring a language vs. inducing a grammar
Cognition. 2024 Mar 19;247:105771. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105771. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStandard computational models of language acquisition treat acquiring a language as a process of inducing a set of string-generating rules from a collection of linguistic data assumed to be generated by these very rules. In this paper I give theoretical and empirical arguments that such a model is radically unlike what a human language learner must do to acquire their native language. Most centrally, I argue that such models presuppose that linguistic data is directly a product of a grammar, ignoring the myriad non-gramma...
Source: Cognition - March 20, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Gabe Dupre Source Type: research
Acquiring a language vs. inducing a grammar
Cognition. 2024 Mar 19;247:105771. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105771. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStandard computational models of language acquisition treat acquiring a language as a process of inducing a set of string-generating rules from a collection of linguistic data assumed to be generated by these very rules. In this paper I give theoretical and empirical arguments that such a model is radically unlike what a human language learner must do to acquire their native language. Most centrally, I argue that such models presuppose that linguistic data is directly a product of a grammar, ignoring the myriad non-gramma...
Source: Cognition - March 20, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Gabe Dupre Source Type: research
Acquiring a language vs. inducing a grammar
Cognition. 2024 Mar 19;247:105771. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105771. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStandard computational models of language acquisition treat acquiring a language as a process of inducing a set of string-generating rules from a collection of linguistic data assumed to be generated by these very rules. In this paper I give theoretical and empirical arguments that such a model is radically unlike what a human language learner must do to acquire their native language. Most centrally, I argue that such models presuppose that linguistic data is directly a product of a grammar, ignoring the myriad non-gramma...
Source: Cognition - March 20, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Gabe Dupre Source Type: research
Adults' learning of complex explanations violates their intuitions about optimal explanatory order
Cognition. 2024 Mar 13;246:105767. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105767. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTShould you first teach about the purpose of a microwave or about how it heats food? Adults strongly prefer explanations to present function before mechanism and information about a whole to precede information about its component parts. Here we replicate those preferences (Study 1). Using the same stimuli, we then ask whether those pedagogical preferences reflect ease of learning of labels, function, or mechanism. Surprisingly, explanations that accord with function-before-mechanism and whole-before-part structure show no...
Source: Cognition - March 14, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Amanda M McCarthy Nicole Betz Frank C Keil Source Type: research
Adults' learning of complex explanations violates their intuitions about optimal explanatory order
Cognition. 2024 Mar 13;246:105767. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105767. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTShould you first teach about the purpose of a microwave or about how it heats food? Adults strongly prefer explanations to present function before mechanism and information about a whole to precede information about its component parts. Here we replicate those preferences (Study 1). Using the same stimuli, we then ask whether those pedagogical preferences reflect ease of learning of labels, function, or mechanism. Surprisingly, explanations that accord with function-before-mechanism and whole-before-part structure show no...
Source: Cognition - March 14, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Amanda M McCarthy Nicole Betz Frank C Keil Source Type: research
Adults' learning of complex explanations violates their intuitions about optimal explanatory order
Cognition. 2024 Mar 13;246:105767. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105767. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTShould you first teach about the purpose of a microwave or about how it heats food? Adults strongly prefer explanations to present function before mechanism and information about a whole to precede information about its component parts. Here we replicate those preferences (Study 1). Using the same stimuli, we then ask whether those pedagogical preferences reflect ease of learning of labels, function, or mechanism. Surprisingly, explanations that accord with function-before-mechanism and whole-before-part structure show no...
Source: Cognition - March 14, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Amanda M McCarthy Nicole Betz Frank C Keil Source Type: research
Adults' learning of complex explanations violates their intuitions about optimal explanatory order
Cognition. 2024 Mar 13;246:105767. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105767. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTShould you first teach about the purpose of a microwave or about how it heats food? Adults strongly prefer explanations to present function before mechanism and information about a whole to precede information about its component parts. Here we replicate those preferences (Study 1). Using the same stimuli, we then ask whether those pedagogical preferences reflect ease of learning of labels, function, or mechanism. Surprisingly, explanations that accord with function-before-mechanism and whole-before-part structure show no...
Source: Cognition - March 14, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Amanda M McCarthy Nicole Betz Frank C Keil Source Type: research
Adults' learning of complex explanations violates their intuitions about optimal explanatory order
Cognition. 2024 Mar 13;246:105767. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105767. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTShould you first teach about the purpose of a microwave or about how it heats food? Adults strongly prefer explanations to present function before mechanism and information about a whole to precede information about its component parts. Here we replicate those preferences (Study 1). Using the same stimuli, we then ask whether those pedagogical preferences reflect ease of learning of labels, function, or mechanism. Surprisingly, explanations that accord with function-before-mechanism and whole-before-part structure show no...
Source: Cognition - March 14, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Amanda M McCarthy Nicole Betz Frank C Keil Source Type: research
Adults' learning of complex explanations violates their intuitions about optimal explanatory order
Cognition. 2024 Mar 13;246:105767. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105767. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTShould you first teach about the purpose of a microwave or about how it heats food? Adults strongly prefer explanations to present function before mechanism and information about a whole to precede information about its component parts. Here we replicate those preferences (Study 1). Using the same stimuli, we then ask whether those pedagogical preferences reflect ease of learning of labels, function, or mechanism. Surprisingly, explanations that accord with function-before-mechanism and whole-before-part structure show no...
Source: Cognition - March 14, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Amanda M McCarthy Nicole Betz Frank C Keil Source Type: research
Conflicts between short- and long-term experiences affect visual perception through modulating sensory or motor response systems: Evidence from Bayesian inference models
Cognition. 2024 Mar 12;246:105768. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105768. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe independent effects of short- and long-term experiences on visual perception have been discussed for decades. However, no study has investigated whether and how these experiences simultaneously affect our visual perception. To address this question, we asked participants to estimate their self-motion directions (i.e., headings) simulated from optic flow, in which a long-term experience learned in everyday life (i.e., straight-forward motion being more common than lateral motion) plays an important role. The headings w...
Source: Cognition - March 13, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Qi Sun Jing-Yi Wang Xiu-Mei Gong Source Type: research
Prime saliency in semantic priming with 18-month-olds
This study investigated semantic priming in 18-month-old infants using the inter-modal priming technique, focusing on the effects of prime repetition on saliency. Our findings showed that prime repetition led to longer looking times at target referents for related primes compared to unrelated primes, supporting the existence of a structured semantic system in infants as young as 18 months. The results are consistent with both Spreading Activation and Distributed models of semantic priming. Additionally, our findings highlighted the impact of prime-target stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) on priming effects, revealing posi...
Source: Cognition - March 8, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Nicola Gillen Armando Quetzalc óatl Angulo-Chavira Kim Plunkett Source Type: research
Prime saliency in semantic priming with 18-month-olds
This study investigated semantic priming in 18-month-old infants using the inter-modal priming technique, focusing on the effects of prime repetition on saliency. Our findings showed that prime repetition led to longer looking times at target referents for related primes compared to unrelated primes, supporting the existence of a structured semantic system in infants as young as 18 months. The results are consistent with both Spreading Activation and Distributed models of semantic priming. Additionally, our findings highlighted the impact of prime-target stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) on priming effects, revealing posi...
Source: Cognition - March 8, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Nicola Gillen Armando Quetzalc óatl Angulo-Chavira Kim Plunkett Source Type: research
