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The SNARC effect: an instance of the Simon effect?

Our aim was to investigate the relations between the Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect and the Simon effect. In Experiment 1 participants were required to make a parity judgment to numbers from 1 to 9 (without 5), by pressing ...
Daniela Mapelli, Elena Rusconi, Carlo Umiltà (Cognition, 200307)
snarc-effect-instance-simon-effect.asp

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Infant lightness perception: do 4-month-old infants follow Wallachs ratio rule?

When adults view a test disk embedded in a higher-luminance surround, the perceived lightness of the disk is largely determined by the surround-to-disk (S/D) luminance ratio (Wallachs ratio rule). Performance of 4-month-old infants tested with a ...
Sarina Hui-Lin Chien, John Palmer, Davida Y Teller (Psychol Sci, 200307)
infant-lightness-perception-month-old-infants-follow-wallach-s-ratio.asp

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Directional bias in the mental representation of spatial events: nature or culture?

Previous research has shown a tendency for people to imagine simple sentences as evolving from left to right, with the sentence subject being located to the left of the object. In two cross-cultural studies comparing Italian and Arab participants, we ...
Anne Maass, Aurore Russo (Psychol Sci, 200307)
directional-bias-mental-representation-spatial-events-nature-or.asp

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Sit-and-wait strategies in dynamic visual search.

The role of memory in visual search has lately become a controversial issue. Horowitz and Wolfe (1998) observed that performance in a visual search task was little affected by whether the stimuli were static or randomly relocated every 111 ms. Because a ...
Adrian von Mühlenen, Hermann J Müller, Dagmar Müller (Psychol Sci, 200307)
sit-wait-strategies-dynamic-visual-search.asp

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Overactive action monitoring in obsessive-compulsive disorder: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging.

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been found to be hyperactive at rest, during symptom provocation, and after commission of errors in cognitive tasks. This hyperactivity might reflect an ...
Stefan Ursu, V Andrew Stenger, M Katherine Shear, Mark R Jones, Cameron S Carter (Psychol Sci, 200307)
overactive-action-monitoring-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-evidence.asp

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Brain aging in normal Egyptians: cognition, education, personality, genetic and immunological study.

Studying the cognitive and immunological changes that occur in old age as well as genetic function have been considered an important subject to differentiate between normal brain aging and early dementia especially Alzheimers disease. The aim of this ...
Osamah Elwan, Obsis Madkour, Fadia Elwan, Mervat Mostafa, Azza Abbas Helmy, Maged Abdel-Naseer, Sanaa Abdel Shafy, Nervana El Faiuomy (J Neurol Sci, 200307)
brain-aging-normal-egyptians-cognition-education-personality-genetic.asp

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Context effects in word recognition: evidence for early interactive processing.

This study investigated whether a prior context influenced lexical access as indexed by participants electrophysiological response in the N1 from 132 to 192 ms poststimulus. Ambiguous, high-frequency (HF), and low-frequency (LF) words were presented in ...
Sara C Sereno, Cameron C Brewer, Patrick J ODonnell (Psychol Sci, 200307)
context-effects-word-recognition-evidence-early-interactive-processing.asp

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Dissociation between top-down attentional control and the time course of visual attention as measured by attentional dwell time in patients with mild cognitive impairment.

Studies of the time course of visual attention have identified a temporary functional blindness to the second of sequentially presented stimuli in that the attentional cost of attending to one visual stimulus may lead to impairments in identifying a ...
Richard J Perry, John R Hodges (Eur J Neurosci, 200307)
dissociation-top-down-attentional-control-time-course-visual.asp

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Driven by information: a tectonic theory of Stroop effects.

The goal of avoiding distraction (e.g., ignoring words when naming their print colors in a Stroop task) is opposed intrinsically by the penchant to process conspicuous and correlated characteristics of the environment (e.g., noticing trial-to-trial ...
Robert D Melara, Daniel Algom (Psychol Rev, 200307)
driven-information-tectonic-theory-stroop-effects.asp

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The effects of age and domain knowledge on text processing.

The author investigated age differences in the effects of knowledge during encoding by comparing time allocated to naturalistic domain-related (cooking) and general texts among young and older adults with varying levels of (cooking) knowledge. ...
Lisa M Soederberg Miller (J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 200307)
effects-age-domain-knowledge-text-processing.asp