{"title":"High variability orthographic training: Learning words in a logographic script through training with multiple typefaces.","authors":"Eric Pelzl","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02646-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02646-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We tested whether naturally occurring visual variability-specifically, typefaces-would help people generalize word learning to typefaces they had never seen before. In Chinese, thousands of unique written characters must be learned item by item, and differentiated from similar-looking characters. Participants (n = 190) with no previous Chinese experience learned 24 Chinese characters in one of two training groups: the Single-Typeface group trained using only one of three Chinese typefaces; the Variable-Typeface group trained using all three. Everyone completed two training and testing phases. During Definition Training, they saw each character six times and learned to associate it with an English definition (-water). After training, participants were tested on their accuracy in providing definitions for the characters. During Form Training, participants chose the characters they had previously learned from a display that included a trained character and a visually similar distractor ( vs ). After training, they were tested on their speed/accuracy in choosing the learned characters. At testing in both phases, half of the words were presented in a familiar typeface; half in a novel typeface. Results showed significant interactions between training and testing conditions in both phases, with a significant effect of training in the Form Testing phase: Single-Typeface training resulted in faster responses for familiar typefaces, but much slower responses for novel typefaces; in comparison, Variable-Typeface training resulted in better generalization to novel typefaces. These results suggest that typeface variability can influence how effectively people generalize knowledge during the initial stages of learning a logographic script.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143650315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linman Weng, Jing Yu, Zhangwei Lv, Shiyan Yang, Simon Theodor Jülich, Xu Lei
{"title":"Effects of wakeful rest on memory consolidation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Linman Weng, Jing Yu, Zhangwei Lv, Shiyan Yang, Simon Theodor Jülich, Xu Lei","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02665-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02665-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Individuals spend roughly two-thirds of their day awake, with about half of that time in an offline state. This period may appear unproductive, potentially leading to perceived inefficiency. However, this period appears to be an essential component of our daily lives. Studies have increasingly found that quiet and wakeful rest after learning facilitates the consolidation of newly acquired memories, and enhances memory performance. Few studies quantitatively assessed the overall effect size of wakeful rest on memory consolidation, or examined the potential moderating factors. Therefore, we conducted this meta-analysis, compiled from 37 studies, including a total of 63 experiments that contributed 82 comparisons to this meta-analysis. We used a multilevel random-effects model to reveal a significant effect of wakeful rest on memory consolidation (Hedges's g = 0.448, 95% CI [0.339, 0.557], Z = 8.044, p < .001), and this effect persists even after 7 days (Hedges's g = 0.270, 95% CI [0.024, 0.516], Z = 2.153, p = .031). The effect of wakeful rest was influenced by age, with older adults deriving greater benefits compared with younger adults. Across different outcome measurements, the effect was better reflected by recall than by recognition. Additionally, the duration of wakeful rest, whether the eyes are open or closed, the luminance level, and the body posture do not seem to influence the wakeful rest effect. This meta-analysis offers a deep understanding of the effects of wakeful rest on memory consolidation and provides guidance for the experimental designs of future research in this area.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143634404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniele Gatti, Marco Petilli, Michela Marchetti, Tomaso Vecchi, Giuliana Mazzoni, Luca Rinaldi, Marco Marelli
{"title":"False memories from nowhere: Humans falsely recognize words that are not attested in their vocabulary.","authors":"Daniele Gatti, Marco Petilli, Michela Marchetti, Tomaso Vecchi, Giuliana Mazzoni, Luca Rinaldi, Marco Marelli","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02677-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02677-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Semantic knowledge plays an active role in many well-known false memory phenomena, including those emerging from the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) task. Indeed, in this experimental paradigm, humans tend to falsely recognize newly presented words via activation of other previously shown stimuli. In the present study we aimed to test what happens in cases in which no apparent prior semantic knowledge is available, like in the case of entirely novel lexical stimuli. To do so, we evaluated semantic similarity effects in a DRM task with lists entirely composed by pseudowords (or \"novel words,\" i.e., letter strings resembling real words but lacking assigned meanings). Semantic similarity between pseudowords were established through a distributional semantic model able to represent in a vector space, not only attested words but also unmapped strings as bags of character n-grams. Participants were instructed to memorize those lists and then to perform a recognition task. Results showed that participants false and veridical recognition increased with increasing semantic similarity between each stimulus and the stimuli comprising its list, as estimated by the distributional model. These findings extend previous evidence indicating that humans are sensitive to the semantic (distributional) patterns elicited by novel words by showing that this sensitivity can even induce humans to falsely recognize stimuli that they have never encountered in their entire lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143634406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abigail R Bradshaw, Emma D Wheeler, Carolyn McGettigan, Daniel R Lametti
{"title":"Correction: Sensorimotor learning during synchronous speech is modulated by the acoustics of the other voice.","authors":"Abigail R Bradshaw, Emma D Wheeler, Carolyn McGettigan, Daniel R Lametti","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02651-3","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02651-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143625718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fast reasoning and metacognition.","authors":"Valerie A Thompson, Henry Markovits","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02662-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02662-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research has demonstrated that reasoners' Feeling of Rightness (FOR) for a quick, intuitive responses predicts the amount of analytic thinking they give to slower, more considered responses operationalized in terms of the length of thinking time and the probability of answer changes (Thompson et al., Cognitive Psychology, 63 (3), 107-140, 2011). In this experiment, we tested the novel hypothesis that FORs can also signal the direction in which answers will change when participants reason about a sequence of similar inferences. 289 participants responded to two blocks of belief-logic conflict syllogisms, with the first under an initial time constraint and the second in a no-constraint condition. Of particular interest were those participants who gave a mixed pattern of validity- and belief-based responses under time constraints, because they had the opportunity to shift their responses towards either belief-based or validity-based responses in the unconstrained condition. Consistent with our hypothesis, reasoners giving low FORs to their belief-based responses shifted their responses towards validity-based ones in the unconstrained condition, whereas those giving high FORs shifted towards belief-based responses. Thus, intuitive FORs generated during a sequence of inferential problems predicted both the probability and direction of answer change.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143597807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saman Kamari Songhorabadi, Simone Sulpizio, Michele Scaltritti
{"title":"Dissociating premotor and motor components of response times: Evidence of independent decisional effects during motor-response execution.","authors":"Saman Kamari Songhorabadi, Simone Sulpizio, Michele Scaltritti","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02663-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02663-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Traditional measures of response times (RTs) capture the summed duration of multiple latent and overt processes, including motor-response execution. The present research assessed the functional independence of the decisional components unfolding before vs after the onset of the muscular activation in the context of a lexical decision task requiring manual button-press responses. Specifically, the lexicality effect (slower latencies for nonwords compared to words) was separately tracked across premotor and motor components of RTs under different regimes of decision bias. Whereas at the premotor level the lexicality effect was modulated by the proportion of word vs nonword trials in the block, with a reversal of the lexicality phenomenon when nonwords occurred in 75% of the trials, motor times (i.e., a chronometric measure of response duration) consistently displayed longer durations for nonword responses, irrespective of bias manipulation. The results point to a partial functional independence between the decisional components involved at the premotor vs motor level, suggesting that the onset of motor behavior may represent the onset of specific decisional processes, rather than the termination or the continuation of computations unfolding in the premotor interval.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143586761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No evidence that selection is resource-demanding in conflict and bilingual language production tasks: Implications for theories of adaptive control and language-control associations.","authors":"Giacomo Spinelli, Simone Sulpizio","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02672-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02672-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Theories of adaptive (and cognitive) control assume that selecting target information in the context of highly salient distractors depends on limited-capacity resources. Building on this assumption, theories of language-control associations propose that the opportunities afforded by bilingualism to engage such effortful selection, such as when speaking in a nondominant language, might improve domain-general adaptive control. The assumption that domain-general or language-specific selection is resource-demanding, however, has surprisingly little empirical support. Here, we tested that assumption by having unbalanced Italian-English bilinguals perform both an L1 Stroop task and an L2 picture-naming task simultaneously with an n-back task. Both tasks showed costs due to the load produced by the n-back task and distractor interference, with slower responses to incongruent (the word GREEN in the color red) and congruent stimuli (RED in red) than neutral ones (XXX in red) in the L1 Stroop task and to noncognate than cognate pictures (pictures with different/similar L1 and L2 names) in the L2 picture-naming task. However, neither task showed larger distractor interference with greater load, with Bayesian analyses favoring the absence of such interactions. These results suggest that domain-general and language-specific selection may occur reactively, i.e., only when the need arises, with no strong reliance on limited-capacity resources. Further, they invite a rethinking of both adaptive-control theories assuming resource-demanding selection and theories of language-control associations assuming that regularly engaging such selection would be conducive to domain-general benefits.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143586484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Helen Schmidt, Sophia Tran, John D Medaglia, Virginia Ulichney, William J Mitchell, Chelsea Helion
{"title":"Conversational linguistic features inform social-relational inference.","authors":"Helen Schmidt, Sophia Tran, John D Medaglia, Virginia Ulichney, William J Mitchell, Chelsea Helion","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02654-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02654-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Whether it is the first day of school or a new job, individuals often find themselves in situations where they must learn the structure of existing social relationships. However, the mechanisms through which individuals evaluate the strength and nature of these existing relationships - social-relational inference - remain unclear. We posit that linguistic features of conversations may help individuals evaluate social relationships and may be associated with social-relational inference. Leveraging a naturalistic behavioral experiment (57 adults; 34,735 observations), participants watched a mid-season episode of a reality television show and evaluated the observed dyadic relationships between contestants. We employed novel person- and stimulus-focused approaches to: (1) investigate social-relational inference similarity between participants, (2) examine the association between distinct linguistic features and social-relational inference, and (3) explore the relationship between early season conversation similarity and later perceived relationship formation. We found high pairwise participant response similarity across two relational subtypes (friendship, rivalry), distinct associations between relational judgments and linguistic features, including semantic similarity, sentiment, and clout, and no evidence of an association between early conversation similarity and later friendship inference. These findings suggest that naturalistic conversational content is both a potential mechanism of social-relational inference and a promising avenue for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143573698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compositional processing in the recognition of Chinese compounds: Behavioural and computational studies.","authors":"Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Marco Marelli, Kathleen Rastle","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02668-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02668-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent research has shown that the compositional meaning of a compound is routinely constructed by combining meanings of constituents. However, this body of research has focused primarily on Germanic languages. It remains unclear whether this same computational process is also observed in Chinese, a writing system characterised by less systematicity of the meanings and functions of constituents across compounds. We quantified the ease of integrating the meanings of Chinese constituent characters into a compositional compound meaning using a computational model based on distributional semantics. We then showed that this metric predicted sensibility judgements on novel compounds (Study 1), lexical decision latencies for rejecting novel compounds (Study 2), and lexical decision latencies for recognising existing compounds (Study 3). These results suggest that a compositional process is involved in Chinese compound processing, even in tasks that do not explicitly require meaning combination. Our results also suggest that a generic statistical learning framework is able to capture the meaningful functions of Chinese compound constituents. We conclude by discussing the advantages of routine meaning construction during compound processing in Chinese reading.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143573697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zachariah I Hamzagic, Eric Y Mah, Daniel G Derksen, Daniel M Bernstein
{"title":"Sunk-cost judgments across the child to adult lifespan.","authors":"Zachariah I Hamzagic, Eric Y Mah, Daniel G Derksen, Daniel M Bernstein","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02656-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02656-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The sunk-cost effect (SCE) refers to the continuation of an activity after investing resources in the activity. Current developmental research on the SCE in childhood is mixed, but some researchers suggest that sunk-cost judgments decline with age after childhood. To better understand age differences in sunk-cost judgments across the lifespan, we conducted two experiments with the widest age range used in the literature thus far to examine the SCE across the lifespan, while using the same measures for all ages. Samples ranged from 2 to 97 years of age (Experiment 1: lab-based, N = 682; Experiment 2: community sample, N = 378). We found a similar pattern across both experiments: Adults and adolescents consistently made sunk-cost judgments, but children did not. We also observed differences in age patterns between different sunk-cost measures, suggesting that researchers should consider how individuals of different ages might respond to different decision-making vignettes. Our findings suggest that children do not consistently make sunk-cost judgments like older children and adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143543184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}