{"title":"A megastudy of lexico-semantic effects in single-word shadowing.","authors":"Zongyu Qian, Winston D Goh","doi":"10.1177/17470218251320371","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251320371","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lexico-semantic effects in lexical decision and semantic categorisation tasks have been investigated using the megastudy approach, but not with other traditional spoken word recognition tasks. To address this gap, this megastudy examined the single-word shadowing task, where 96 native English speakers repeated aloud each word they heard as quickly and as accurately as possible. Item-level hierarchical regression and linear mixed-effects analyses produced identical results: Words with longer token duration were associated with slower response times while high-frequency and phonologically distinctive words were repeated faster. These findings were consistent with previous studies and other tasks, which suggests that lexical effects are task-general in spoken word recognition. However, after controlling for lexical variables, six semantic variables did not account for any additional unique variance in response times. These results suggest that the single-word shadowing task is heavily dependent on lexical processing and can be completed without activating semantics. Cross-task comparisons with another megastudy's data on auditory lexical decision and semantic categorisation tasks further suggest that lexical effects are task-general, while semantic richness effects are task-specific in spoken word recognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251320371"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143066685","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":"Does collaborative remembering serve a directive function? Examining the influence of collaborative remembering on subsequent decision making.","authors":"Magdalena Abel","doi":"10.1177/17470218251325246","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251325246","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Remembering together with others can facilitate memory for previously encountered contents, but can also prompt social contagion with information not previously encountered. This study examined whether these effects of collaborative remembering might serve a directive function and guide subsequent individual decisions. Participants were tested in groups of three and completed an adapted version of a prisoner's dilemma. They initially encountered faces of different players on a screen, who cooperated with them or acted as cheaters. Some of these players were encountered by all three participants, others by single participants only. An interpolated memory test on all players was completed individually or collaboratively. During a final decision game, participants were asked to decide whether to cooperate with each player or not. Three experiments were conducted, which additionally varied encoding, the retention interval before the interpolated memory test, and format and instructions for the interpolated memory test. The results consistently showed adaptive decision making. Participants were more likely to cooperate with players who had previously cooperated with them, relative to both new players and cheaters. Interpolated collaborative remembering had no benefit, however-neither for decisions toward directly encountered players nor for decisions toward players encountered by other participants. Effects of collaborative remembering may thus not serve a directive function and guide future behavior, or at least they may not do so in this adapted version of a prisoner's dilemma.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251325246"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143515775","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}
Artyom Zinchenko, Markus Conci, Hermann J Müller, Thomas Geyer
{"title":"Eye on context: Individual differences reveal the mechanisms of statistical learning.","authors":"Artyom Zinchenko, Markus Conci, Hermann J Müller, Thomas Geyer","doi":"10.1177/17470218251320540","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251320540","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>If a searched-for target object is consistently encountered within repeating spatial distractor arrangements, target detection becomes more efficient relative to nonrepeated, that is, random arrangements (contextual cueing [CC] effect). However, target location changes within otherwise unchanged distractor arrays substantially weaken the cueing effect. Previous studies reported substantial variations in individual participants' abilities to learn and relearn invariant contexts. Therefore, the current study examined how individual differences in attentional control and focus, as indexed by the well-established Stroop and Navon tasks, respectively, relate to CC in a learning phase/relocation phase design. During the visual search, we recorded behavioural reaction times (RTs) and fixation locations, the latter permitting us to decompose search RTs into search- and motor-related substages. We could thus evaluate the processes responsible for CC and the lack thereof after target relocation while also testing whether search and motor components of CC are different for individuals depending on their Stroop/Navon scores. Repeated contexts yielded faster RTs (and reduced fixation numbers), though there was a substantial decrease in cueing from learning to adaptation, consistent with previous studies. Critically, contextual learning, but not relearning, varied across individuals: participants with high-Stroop interference displayed overall larger CC during early target search, while a more local Navon task bias was associated with increased CC during later processes of target response decisions. Our results demonstrate that analysing individual differences can help validate the processes responsible for CC in search tasks, particularly distinguishing between early search and later response-related mechanisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251320540"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143075244","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":"Hysteresis in reach planning and spatial demonstrative choice.","authors":"Michael Long, Michael P Kaschak","doi":"10.1177/17470218251318225","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251318225","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent studies have demonstrated hysteresis in studies of syntactic choice in language production. These studies further show that the hysteresis effects observed in syntactic choice are similar to the effects observed in motor choice tasks. Here, we examine whether hysteresis can be observed for a different kind of linguistic choice, namely the choice between the spatial demonstratives <i>this</i> and <i>that</i>. We further examine whether these hysteresis effects parallel the hysteresis effects found in a similar motor task. Our results demonstrate hysteresis in both spatial demonstrative choice and motor choice. Nevertheless, there were some effects that appeared in the motor task that did not appear in the language task (e.g., a response time advantage for repeated choices).</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251318225"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143029374","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":"Race and ethnicity categories cue cognitive control as evidenced by transfer.","authors":"Abhishek Dey, Rachel E Brough, Julie M Bugg","doi":"10.1177/17470218251325249","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251325249","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Learning-guided reactive control is the flexible biasing of attention that is triggered by external cues, such that more focused control settings are retrieved and executed in response to cues predicting higher attentional demands. We investigated whether race/ethnicity is harnessed as a cue to guide control using a social Stroop task in which participants named the race/ethnicity of a face (e.g., Asian) while ignoring a superimposed word that was congruent (e.g., Asian) or incongruent (e.g., White). In the first four experiments, we manipulated item-specific proportion congruence. Faces of some races/ethnicities (e.g., Asian, Black) were mostly congruent, and faces of others (e.g., White, Latina) were mostly incongruent. We observed the item-specific proportion congruence effect showing a smaller Stroop effect for mostly incongruent faces. Critically, we found transfer of the effect to faces of each race/ethnicity that were 50% congruent, indicating control at the more abstract, category level (i.e., more focused control setting retrieved and executed for racial/ethnic categories associated with higher attentional demands). Individuating faces did not disrupt category-level control but recategorisation of the faces into racially/ethnically diverse teams did, as indicated by the lack of transfer. In a final experiment, we associated proportion congruence (attentional demands) with the conjunction of two social categories (race/ethnicity and gender) and found novel evidence of conjunctive learning-guided control. The findings demonstrate that race/ethnicity (and conjunctions with gender) cues control adjustments, people transfer learned control settings to other members of race/ethnicity categories, and recategorisation creates an important boundary condition for transfer.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251325249"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143469072","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":"Global measures of syntactic and lexical complexity are not strong predictors of eye-movement patterns in sentence and passage reading.","authors":"Victor Kuperman, Dalmo Buzato, Rui Rothe-Neves","doi":"10.1177/17470218251317372","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251317372","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The link between the cognitive effort of word processing and the eye-movement patterns elicited by that word is well established in psycholinguistic research using eye-tracking. Yet less evidence or consensus exists regarding whether the same link exists between linguistic complexity measures of a sentence or passage and eye movements registered at the sentence or passage level. This article focuses on \"global\" measures of syntactic and lexical complexity, i.e., the measures that characterise the structure of the sentence or passage rather than aggregate lexical properties of individual words. We selected several commonly used global complexity measures and tested their predictive power against sentence- and passage-level eye movements in samples of text reading from 13 languages represented in the Multilingual Eye Movement Corpus (MECO). While some syntactic or lexical complexity measures elicited statistically significant effects, they were negligibly small and not of practical relevance for predicting the processing effort either in individual languages or across languages. These findings suggest that the \"eye-mind\" link known to be valid at the word level may not scale up to larger linguistic units.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251317372"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143024581","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":"Large sounds and loud numbers? Investigating the bidirectionality and automaticity of cross-modal loudness-number interactions.","authors":"Sarah Koch, Torsten Schubert, Sven Blankenberger","doi":"10.1177/17470218251325417","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251325417","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Magnitude dimensions influence the processing of each other resulting in shorter reaction times in classification tasks when the magnitude information in both dimensions matches. These effects are often explained by a shared magnitude representation as proposed by A Theory of Magnitude (ATOM). Interactions between numbers and loudness indicate that loudness may also be represented as a magnitude. Three experiments were conducted to investigate loudness-number interactions with regard to cross-modality, automaticity, bidirectionality, and the influence of processing speed. In Experiment 1, participants classified the numerical value of visually presented numbers relative to a preceding standard number. Tones at different loudness levels were presented simultaneously with the target number. In Experiment 2, participants switched between a numerical classification task and a loudness classification task randomly between trials. Experiment 3 was similar to Experiment 1 but with reduced salience of the auditory dimension. Across all experiments, there was an interaction between loudness and number magnitude, with shorter reaction times for large (small) numbers when they were accompanied by loud (soft) tones compared to soft (loud) tones. In addition, Experiment 2 showed a bidirectional influence as the interaction occurred also in the loudness classification task. The effect of distance on the cross-modal loudness-number interaction only partially occurred, as only the loudness distance had an effect on the interaction, and this effect was mediated by task-relevance. This may reflect an asymmetry in the influence between numbers and loudness. Overall, the findings support the hypothesis that loudness is represented as a magnitude according to ATOM.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251325417"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143469069","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":"Engaging effort improves efficiency during spoken word recognition in cochlear implant users.","authors":"Sarah E Colby, Bob McMurray","doi":"10.1177/17470218251325145","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251325145","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Word recognition is generally thought to be supported by an automatic process of lexical competition, at least in normal hearing young adults. When listening becomes challenging, either due to properties of the environment (noise) or the individual (hearing loss), the dynamics of lexical competition change and word recognition can feel effortful and fatiguing. In cochlear implant users, several dimensions of lexical competition have been identified that capture the timing of the onset of lexical competition (<i>Wait-and-See</i>), the degree to which competition is fully resolved (<i>Sustained Activation</i>), and how quickly lexical candidates are activated (<i>Activation Rate</i>). It is unclear, however, how these dimensions relate to listening effort. To address this question, a group of cochlear implant users (<i>N</i> = 79) completed a pupillometry task to index effort and a Visual World Paradigm task to index the dynamics of lexical competition as part of a larger battery of clinical and experimental tasks. Listeners who engaged more effort, as indexed by peak pupil size difference score, fell lower along the <i>Wait-and-See</i> dimension, suggesting that these listeners are engaging effort to be less <i>Wait-and-See</i> (or to begin the process of lexical competition earlier). Listeners who engaged effort earlier had better word and sentence recognition outcomes. The timing of effort was predicted by age and spectral fidelity, but no audiological or demographic factors predicted peak pupil size difference. The dissociation between the magnitude of engaged effort and the timing of effort suggests they perform different goals for spoken word recognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251325145"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143469066","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}
Emily Frost, Paresh Malhotra, Talya Porat, Katarina Poole, Aarya Menon, Lorenzo Picinali
{"title":"HEaring and LIstening eXperience (HELIX): Evaluation of a co-designed serious game for auditory-cognitive training.","authors":"Emily Frost, Paresh Malhotra, Talya Porat, Katarina Poole, Aarya Menon, Lorenzo Picinali","doi":"10.1177/17470218251324168","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251324168","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the dementia field, a number of applications are being developed aimed at boosting functional abilities. There is an interesting gap as to how utilising serious games can further the knowledge on the potential relationship between hearing and cognitive health in mid-life. The aim of this study was to evaluate the auditory-cognitive training application HELIX, against outcome measures for speech-in-noise, cognitive tasks, communication confidence, quality of life, and usability. A randomised-controlled trial was completed for 43 participants with subjective hearing loss and/or cognitive impairment, over a play period of 4 weeks and a follow-up period of another 4 weeks. Outcome measures included a new online implementation of the Digit-Triplet-Test, a battery of online cognitive tests, and quality of life questionnaires. Paired semi-structured interviews and usability measures were completed to assess HELIX's impact on quality of life and usability. An improvement in the performance of the Digit-Triplet-Test, measured 4 and 8 weeks after the baseline, was found within the training group; however, this improvement was not significant between the training and control groups. No significant improvements were found in any other outcome measures. Thematic analysis suggested HELIX prompted the realisation of difficulties and actions required, improved listening, and positive behaviour change. Employing a participatory design approach has ensured HELIX is relevant and useful for participants who may be at risk of developing age-related hearing loss and cognitive decline. Although an improvement in the Digit-Triplet-Test was seen, it is not possible to conclude whether this was as a result of playing HELIX.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251324168"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143459343","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}
Joris Perra, Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat, Thierry Baccino, Patrick Bard, Philippe Pfister, Philippe Lalitte, Melissa Zerbib, Véronique Drai-Zerbib
{"title":"Saccadic and visuo-motor flexibility towards local parafoveal complexity as a hallmark of expert knowledge-driven processing during sight-reading of music.","authors":"Joris Perra, Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat, Thierry Baccino, Patrick Bard, Philippe Pfister, Philippe Lalitte, Melissa Zerbib, Véronique Drai-Zerbib","doi":"10.1177/17470218251325245","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251325245","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Expertise is associated with a knowledge-driven information-processing approach. Experts benefit from long-term knowledge structures-chunks and retrieval structures/templates-leading them to formulate expectations about local stimulus characteristics and to extract information projected onto distant areas from the fixation location. In an attempt to shed light on the way knowledge-driven processing impacts eye movements during music reading, this study aimed to determine how expert musicians deal with local complexity in a sight-reading task. Thirty musicians from two expertise levels had to sight read 4 bar score excerpts. Local analyses were conducted to investigate how the gaze behaves prior to and during the sight reading of different score characteristics, such as alteration, location of the notes on the staff, note count, and heterogeneity of notes. The more experts (1) were less affected by the foveal load induced by local complexity, showing a lower increase in fixation durations between noncomplex features and local complexity compared to the less experts; (2) presented a saccadic flexibility towards the local complexity projected onto the parafoveal area, being the only group to exhibit shorter progressive incoming saccade sizes on accidentals and larger progressive incoming saccade sizes on new notes compared to noncomplex features; and (3) presented a visuo-motor flexibility depending on the played complexity, being the only group to exhibit a shorter eye-hand span when playing accidentals or distant notes compared to noncomplex features. Overall, this study highlights the usefulness of local analyses as a relevant tool to investigate foveal and parafoveal processing skills during music reading.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251325245"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143459346","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}