{"title":"Memory recall errors reflect interacting sensory and mnemonic representations.","authors":"Holly Kular, John T Serences","doi":"10.3758/s13423-026-02979-4","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-026-02979-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual working memory (WM) enables the maintenance of information that is no longer present in the environment. Some accounts propose that WM is supported by abstract representations so that new sensory inputs do not interfere with existing memories. Others posit that early sensory representations are sometimes recruited to maintain memory precision, potentially at the cost of interference caused by new inputs. Here we tested these accounts using an orientation recall task to determine whether memory errors reflect interacting representations of sensory and mnemonic information. We found that adding noise to the memoranda and presenting feature-neutral distractors independently increased mean recall errors. However, distractors that shared a feature with remembered stimuli led to systematic attractive biases such that memory errors were pulled toward the orientation of the distractor. The magnitude of this bias was modulated by both stimulus noise and whether the distractor was behaviorally relevant. Our results demonstrate that WM is susceptible to feature-specific interference, suggesting partial overlap between representations of processed and remembered stimuli.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":"33 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13457412/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148702206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spiky figures correspond to Japanese names written in square characters.","authors":"Yoshiki Oe, Mizuki Yoshio, Maika Hayashi, Chise Kasai, Toshimune Kambara","doi":"10.3758/s13423-026-02969-6","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-026-02969-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Several studies have characterized the bouba-kiki effect as a cross-modal correspondence between spoken sounds and shapes. Although the effect is consistent across languages, some studies have indicated that it may be influenced by the visual resemblance between alphabetic letters and figures. Since the bouba-kiki effect is a cross-linguistic phenomenon, the orthographical bouba-kiki effect should be investigated in nonalphabetic letters. Here, the term \"orthographical\" refers to the visual shapes of characters and letters. However, no study on the orthographical bouba-kiki effect has focused on the difference between the two Japanese phonograms with the same sound but different orthographical appearances: hiragana and katakana. Hiragana is orthographically rounded, while katakana is square. Therefore, this study investigated whether hiragana and katakana are associated with rounded and spiky figures, respectively. In the experiment, native Japanese participants rated the appropriateness of nonsense words as the names of abstract figures on a scale from 0 to 100. The results showed that katakana and spiky figures were likely to be associated. Our findings suggest that orthographical similarity between specific character types (i.e., square characters) and spiky figures strengthens the word-shape association, revealing an asymmetrical orthographical effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":"33 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13457275/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148707571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breaking numbers apart: The role of digit separators in magnitude perception.","authors":"Nadav Neumann, Mariya Lozin, Michal Pinhas","doi":"10.3758/s13423-026-02988-3","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-026-02988-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Digit separators are widely used in Hindu-Arabic numbers to group digits into readable triads, yet their influence on multi-digit number processing has been rarely studied. We examined whether digit separators affect how large numbers (millions or greater) are processed, beyond the effect of number length. In two experiments, participants compared pairs of large multi-digit numbers presented with or without digit separators between groups. The numbers differed in their leftmost digit, numeric scale (i.e., number length), or both, yielding four left-digit-scale compatibility conditions: compatible (e.g., 5,000,000,000 vs. 2,000,000), incompatible (e.g., 2,000,000,000 vs. 5,000,000), same left-digit (e.g., 2,000,000,000 vs. 2,000,000), and same scale (e.g., 5,000,000 vs. 2,000,000). In Experiment 1, participants selected the numerically larger number; in Experiment 2, they judged which number was longer, or whether both were equal in length. In Experiment 1, the presence of digit separators slowed responses, contrary to the expectation that it would facilitate processing. In both experiments, participants showed sensitivity to leftmost digit values: when the leftmost digit and numeric scale pointed to different responses (incompatible condition), responses were slower than when they agreed (compatible condition), producing a left-digit-scale compatibility effect. In Experiment 2, where digit values were task-irrelevant, the left-digit-scale compatibility effect emerged only in the presence of digit separators. These findings demonstrate that digit separators activate semantic processing of digit values, even when visual appearance alone could guide the task, revealing that syntactic formatting actively shapes numerical magnitude perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":"33 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148702176","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}
Ali Pournaghdali, Gloria L Cheng, Stephanie Cosentino, Teal S Eich
{"title":"Metacognition and metacognitive monitoring in aging.","authors":"Ali Pournaghdali, Gloria L Cheng, Stephanie Cosentino, Teal S Eich","doi":"10.3758/s13423-026-02968-7","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-026-02968-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Metacognitive monitoring, or the capacity to assess and regulate one's cognitive activities, is essential for maintaining optimal mental functioning. Metacognitive monitoring may be particularly important for individuals as they age, fostering self-awareness of cognitive strengths and limitations, guiding strategy selection to enhance performance, compensating for age-related changes to cognitive abilities, and identifying the earliest cognitive symptoms of disease. By evaluating one's own understanding, individuals can align their confidence with actual ability, promoting better decision making and behavioral control. This review synthesizes the current literature on age-related differences in the accuracy of metacognitive monitoring across different types of metacognitive judgments, including judgments of learning, feelings of knowing, and post-decision confidence. We begin by discussing two key components of metacognitive monitoring: metacognitive sensitivity and metacognitive calibration. Then, we examine existing studies to address two main questions: whether age-related differences in one component (e.g., metacognitive calibration) can be explained by variations in the other (e.g., metacognitive sensitivity), and whether these differences can be attributed to age-related changes in underlying cognitive or perceptual processes. We find that the current literature does not provide definitive evidence for or against the decline of metacognitive monitoring in older adults. Rather, findings suggest that aging may differentially affect metacognitive accuracy depending on the type of judgment and task demands, with some domains showing preserved or even enhanced performance. These mixed findings underscore the conceptual and methodological complexity of studying metacognition in aging. We conclude by outlining key theoretical and empirical directions to clarify mechanisms and advance the field.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":"33 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13437673/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148670721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When visibility and priming have an inverse relationship: A successful replication of Vorberg et al., 2003.","authors":"Shanglin Yang, Jeffrey N Rouder","doi":"10.3758/s13423-026-02960-1","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-026-02960-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study, we replicate a striking dissociation of consciousness from action. The dissociation comes from Vorberg et al. (2003) who explored whether metacontrast-masked stimuli still prime subsequent actions. In metacontrast masking, stimuli are rendered less visible by increasing the time between it and a subsequent mask (ISI). Vorberg et al. demonstrated that as stimuli were less visible with longer ISI, they nonetheless exerted a greater priming effect on motor responses to subsequent targets. This stunning dissociation is highly persuasive, as it obviates the usual critiques of subliminal priming effects. To our knowledge, it remains unreplicated. Here we report a successful replication: in metacontrast masking, prime visibility decreases initially with ISI while motor priming increases. Our replication study has almost 5x as many individuals and provides confirming evidence for the dissociation. We provide an interpretation within Mishkin et al. (1983) ventral-and-dorsal stream processing model, and we show that individual differences in the effect are qualitative in that different individuals exhibit qualitatively different patterns.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":"33 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13433410/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148669635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeremy Gardette, Ágnes Szőllősi, Dorottya Bencze, Mihály Racsmány, Christine Bastin
{"title":"Context reinstatement reveals preserved context memory specificity in typical ageing.","authors":"Jeremy Gardette, Ágnes Szőllősi, Dorottya Bencze, Mihály Racsmány, Christine Bastin","doi":"10.3758/s13423-026-02971-y","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-026-02971-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Episodic memory specificity declines with healthy ageing, as reflected in older adults' impaired ability to discriminate between similar focal stimuli. Yet, little is known about how ageing alters specificity of contextual memory features. Context reinstatement studies showed that young adults incidentally encode task-irrelevant contextual features with a high degree of specificity: focal objects are more frequently judged old when shown with studied backgrounds than with slightly altered lure backgrounds. In this registered report, we investigated the effect of context reinstatement with same, different, and visually similar lure background scenes on mnemonic discrimination for objects in younger and older adults. We found a gradual increase in old responses to both target and lure objects between different, lure, and same context conditions. Contrary to our hypothesis, this effect was present in both age groups, although older adults had a general bias towards old responses. These findings suggest that like younger adults, older adults integrate highly detailed contextual features into episodic memory traces, and that these features can influence mnemonic discrimination responses. Overall, this study highlights the value of indirect tests of context memory to study episodic memory in typical ageing.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":"33 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148670635","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}
Alice Mason, Geoff Ward, Gordon D A Brown, Simon Farrell
{"title":"Trade-offs between remembering and online evaluation in retrospective evaluation.","authors":"Alice Mason, Geoff Ward, Gordon D A Brown, Simon Farrell","doi":"10.3758/s13423-026-02970-z","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-026-02970-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines the trade-off between remembering and online evaluation in retrospective judgments. In two experiments, we compared conditions where participants performed only one task (evaluation or recall) versus both tasks, with task expectancy manipulated through pre-cueing or post-cueing. Participants (N=139 and N=262) viewed sequences of numbers representing monetary values and were asked to either recall the numbers or evaluate the sequence through willingness-to-pay judgments. Results showed that when both tasks were potential (Experiment 1) or actual (Experiment 2) candidates to be cued, one or the other task showed a decrement in performance, indicative of some dual-task cost. Strikingly, simulations revealed that participants would have performed better had they focused solely on memory encoding during presentation rather than attempting dual-task processing. These findings suggest that people do not optimally allocate cognitive resources between competing processes during retrospective evaluation, and may attempt to deploy multiple specialized strategies even where a memory-based strategy would be effective overall.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":"33 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13427993/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148649289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interactions of working and long-term memory: Evidence from Brown-Peterson and proactive interference effects.","authors":"Lea M Bartsch, Eda Mizrak, Klaus Oberauer","doi":"10.3758/s13423-026-02962-z","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-026-02962-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How do working memory (WM) and episodic long-term memory (eLTM) interact to support immediate memory performance? Their contributions are often intertwined, reflecting a functional overlap that challenges clear-cut distinctions between the two systems. The present study investigates this interaction by assessing the combined effects of two diagnostic manipulations-proactive interference (PI) and secondary task effects (via Brown-Peterson-style filled retention intervals)-on binding tasks across varying set sizes. In Experiment 1, participants encoded word-object pairs and completed a four-alternative forced-choice test. Experiment 2 extended this paradigm to the visual domain, using object-color pairings tested via a continuous color reproduction task. In both experiments, PI selectively impaired performance at larger set sizes, consistent with increasing reliance on eLTM under higher memory load. Secondary task effects were strongest at smaller set sizes, reflecting a strong contribution of WM to performance. Secondary task effects impaired performance more strongly under high PI, especially at larger set sizes. This pattern suggests that when interference limits access to eLTM, participants shift reliance to WM-which, in turn, is vulnerable to disruption. These findings support a dynamic view in which WM and eLTM jointly contribute to immediate memory, with their relative involvement modulated by memory load and interference.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":"33 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13421267/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148620991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeremy D Yeaton, Grant M Walker, Danielle Fahey, William Matchin, Julius Fridriksson, Gregory Hickok
{"title":"From structure to sequence: A multinomial processing tree model of syntactic encoding.","authors":"Jeremy D Yeaton, Grant M Walker, Danielle Fahey, William Matchin, Julius Fridriksson, Gregory Hickok","doi":"10.3758/s13423-026-02958-9","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-026-02958-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two-stage models of grammatical encoding posit that sentence production unfolds in two sequential steps: the construction of a hierarchical syntactic structure, followed by its linearization into a sequence suitable for articulation. While widely accepted in psycho- and neurolinguistics, such models lack formal computational implementations. Here, we introduce a novel multinomial processing tree (MPT) model that operationalizes this two-stage framework to explain syntactic error patterns in individuals with aphasia. Drawing on discourse samples annotated for distinct error types, we fit an MPT model to estimate individual abilities at each processing stage. These ability estimates correlated with observed error rates and localized to distinct neural substrates: hierarchical encoding ability was linked to the posterior superior temporal sulcus and parietal cortex, linearization to posterior inferior frontal regions, and omission-related processes to more dorsal frontal regions and the underlying white matter. Our findings support a neurocomputational dissociation between hierarchical and linear stages of grammatical encoding, aligning with prior lesion-symptom mapping and theoretical accounts of expressive agrammatism and paragrammatism. This work represents the first computational instantiation of a two-stage model of syntactic production, bridging formal modeling and lesion analysis to advance our understanding of the architecture and breakdown of grammatical encoding.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":"33 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13421263/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148620960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection of mismatching visual kinematics during visuomotor incongruence: A comparison of spatially matched delays versus offsets along identical trajectories.","authors":"Fanni Peters, Peng Wang, Jakub Limanowski","doi":"10.3758/s13423-026-02967-8","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-026-02967-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Introducing delays to visual movement feedback or displacing it in space is a common experimental manipulation to study the neurocomputational basis of self-other distinction. While both manipulations imply spatial (positional) mismatches, there are crucial differences between them, such as the asynchrony of higher-level visual versus motor kinematics (velocity, acceleration, etc.) resulting from added time delays. In this preregistered experiment, we used a continuous elliptical drawing task while presenting visual movement feedback that was congruent or incongruent (i.e., with an added constant time delay or offset). The task allowed the presentation of delayed and offset feedback along identical trajectories, while controlling for the presence of a spatial discrepancy by matching delay and offset levels. Detection and discrimination of delays and offsets was remarkably similar during execution, suggesting comparable perceptual thresholds for visuomotor mismatches resulting from asynchronous versus nonbiological visual kinematics. During mere passive observation of the same feedback, offsets could also be detected above chance level, in line with the known visual sensitivity to violations of kinematic invariants. However, the detection of offsets at medium levels was better during execution, suggesting a benefit of action for identifying nonbiological kinematics in visual movement feedback.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":"33 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13421240/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148620917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}