Elena Poznyak, Lucien Rochat, Deborah Badoud, Ben Meuleman, Martin Debbané
{"title":"EXPRESS: Unpacking mentalizing: the roles of age and executive functioning in self-other appraisal and perspective taking.","authors":"Elena Poznyak, Lucien Rochat, Deborah Badoud, Ben Meuleman, Martin Debbané","doi":"10.1177/17470218241311415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241311415","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mentalizing involves a number of psychological processes designed to appraise self and others from different points of view. Factors affecting the flexibility in the ability to switch between self-other appraisals and perspectives remain yet unclear. In this study, we sought to (1) assess individual variability in processing and switching between self and other-oriented mental representations and perspectives in a sample of typically developing youths; (2) examine how age and executive functioning may affect this switching process. 88 adolescents and 163 young adults completed the Self Other Switching Task, a new computerized personality trait attribution paradigm. Measures of sustained attention, working memory and inhibition were used to assess executive functioning. Linear mixed models showed that participants were faster to make attributions from the self-perspective and referring to the self. They were also slower to disengage/switch from the self-perspective and the self-representation. Whereas there were no age differences in self-other switching efficiency per se, adolescents were slower than adults on trials involving appraisals of the other from the self-perspective. Importantly, higher verbal working memory scores were associated with better performance on incongruent trials and with switching scores. This study demonstrates the utility of a new experimental task permitting to tease apart the effects of self-other appraisal and perspective switching within a single paradigm. Our behavioral results highlight a self-cost observed in switching between representations and perspectives and emphasize the roles of age and working memory in simultaneous processing of self- and other-oriented information.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218241311415"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142872818","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":"EXPRESS: Atypical Implicit and Explicit Sense of Agency in Autism: a complete characterization using the Cue integration approach.","authors":"Alexis Lafleur, Vicky Caron, Baudouin Forgeot d'Arc, Isabelle Soulieres","doi":"10.1177/17470218241311582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241311582","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There exist indications that sense of agency (SoA), the experience of being the cause of one's own actions and actions' outcomes, is altered in autism. However, no studies in autism have simultaneously investigated the integration mechanisms underpinning both implicit and explicit SoA, the two levels of agency proposed by the innovative Cue integration approach. Our study establishes a first complete characterization of SoA functioning in autism, by comparing age- and IQ-matched samples of autistic versus neurotypical adults. Intentional binding and judgments of agency were used to assess implicit and explicit SoA over pinching movements with visual outcomes. Sensorimotor and contextual cues were manipulated using feedback alteration and induced belief about the cause of actions' outcome. Implicit SoA was altered in autism, as showed by an overall abolished intentional binding effect and greater inter-individual heterogeneity. At the explicit level, we observed an under-reliance on retrospective sensorimotor cues. The implicit-explicit dynamic was also altered in comparison to neurotypical individuals. Our results show that both implicit and explicit levels of SoA, as well as the dynamic between the two levels, present atypicalities in autism.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218241311582"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865354","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":"EXPRESS: The Enduring Importance of the 'Fine Cuts' Approach to Psychology - EPS Mid-Career Award Lecture 2024.","authors":"Geoff Bird","doi":"10.1177/17470218241311291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241311291","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper I take a selective review of work undertaken by my colleagues and me in an attempt to show the enduring importance of the 'fine cuts' approach to psychology. This approach highlights the importance of causal, specific, and falsifiable psychological models, and the rigorous experimental designs needed to test them. I hope the review shows that it is still necessary to consider cognition, despite the exciting advances in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and computational modelling characterising our field.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218241311291"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142872817","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}
Shaylyn Kress, Scott Caron, Josh Neudorf, Braedyn Borowsky, Ron Borowsky
{"title":"EXPRESS: Effects of central vs peripheral attentional-oculomotor exercise on lexical processing.","authors":"Shaylyn Kress, Scott Caron, Josh Neudorf, Braedyn Borowsky, Ron Borowsky","doi":"10.1177/17470218241310440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241310440","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Past research from our lab has suggested visual demands in video games serve to exercise attentional-oculomotor processing in a manner beneficial to reading. However, testing the effect of video games on reading typically requires long timeframes (e.g., multi-week training or years of accumulated video game experience). The current study manipulated within-experiment peripheral and central demands to evaluate the effects of attentional-oculomotor (A-O) exercise on task performance. Our study included two tasks: an orthographic lexical decision task (OLDT), designed to optimize orthographic lexical processing, and a novel graphic-based health bar decision task (HBDT). In Experiment 1, the stimuli were presented centrally in one block and peripherally in another block to manipulate A-O exercise. We observed greater improvements in the peripheral-first than the central-first group, particularly for the OLDT. In Experiments 2 and 3, we focused on the OLDT, with the HBDT serving as the A-O exercise task and observed improvements in both centrally and peripherally trained participants. We additionally observed, through analyses of word and bigram frequency, a double-dissociation whereby increased target word frequency was associated with faster target reaction times and improved error rates, while increased foil bigram frequency was associated with slower foil reaction times and worse error rates. Taken together, the experiments demonstrate a mechanism beyond simple task learning that drives reading improvements, and A-O exercise, even if movements are small, appears to play a role in the improvements observed. We suggest future research should further develop this paradigm, and examine its utility for reading remediation in dyslexia.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218241310440"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142847417","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}
Rhea Luana Arini, Juliana Bocarejo Aljure, Nereida Bueno-Guerra, Clara Bayón González, Estrella Fernández Alba, Natalia Suárez Fernández, Gordon Patrick Dunstan Ingram, Luci Wiggs, Ben Kenward
{"title":"EXPRESS: COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE PROCESSES IN CHILDREN'S THIRD-PARTY PUNISHMENT.","authors":"Rhea Luana Arini, Juliana Bocarejo Aljure, Nereida Bueno-Guerra, Clara Bayón González, Estrella Fernández Alba, Natalia Suárez Fernández, Gordon Patrick Dunstan Ingram, Luci Wiggs, Ben Kenward","doi":"10.1177/17470218241310829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241310829","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated how children's punishment affective states change over time, as well as when children begin to prioritise intentions over outcomes in their punishment decisions. Whereas most prior research sampled children from Anglo-America or Northwestern Europe, we tested 5- to 11-year-old children from Colombia and Spain (N = 123). We focused on punishment behaviour in response to ostensibly real moral transgressions, rather than punishment recommendations for hypothetical moral transgressions. We employed moral scenarios involving disloyalty (group-focused moral domain) and unfairness (individual-focused moral domain). Regarding punishment affective states, on average children did not derive much enjoyment from administering punishment, nor did they anticipate that punishment would feel good. Thus, children did not make the same emotional forecasting error adults commonly commit. Regarding the cognitive integration of outcomes and intentions, children began to punish failed intentional transgressions more harshly than accidental transgression, in both disloyalty and unfairness scenarios, much earlier than in previous behavioural studies: around 7 years of age rather than in late adolescence. This could be due to the lower processing demands and higher intention salience of our paradigm. Exploratory analyses revealed that children showed higher concern for disloyalty than unfairness. Punishment of disloyalty remained relatively stable in severity with increasing age, while punishment of unfairness decreased in severity. This suggests that the relative importance of moral concerns for the individual vs. the group may shift because of culture-directed learning processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218241310829"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142847416","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}
Alexandre Coutté, Benjamin Moutardier, Carole Ferrel, Sylvie Vernazza-Martin, Laure Coudrat, Vincent Dru
{"title":"EXPRESS: A new experimental paradigm to investigate how imagery-based suggestions are embodied.","authors":"Alexandre Coutté, Benjamin Moutardier, Carole Ferrel, Sylvie Vernazza-Martin, Laure Coudrat, Vincent Dru","doi":"10.1177/17470218241310227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241310227","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated how imagery-based-suggestions were embodied in perception and behaviour. In experiment 1, Participants listened to several suggestion scripts while stretching the left arm (they were required not to move). During 30s, the script invited participants to imagine the experimenter facing them. During the following 30s, they imagined him placing either a heavy dictionary or a light paper sheet on their hand (implicit suggestions). During the last 30s, suggestions explicitly described how the object pushed its support down. In two other conditions, participants really performed these actions with real objects. Results showed that after implicit and explicit suggestions, the arm lowered more in the dictionary condition than in the paper sheet one. Similar patterns were observed in conditions with real objects. In experiment 2, we used the same imagery-based-suggestions but added a condition where participants imagined the dictionary placed on a table. Moreover, we measured the participants' centre of pressure (CP). Results showed that after implicit and explicit suggestions, the participants' arm lowered more in the dictionary on the arm condition than in other conditions. After implicit suggestions, CP moved more rightward in the dictionary on the arm condition than the paper sheet one. Finally, perceived difficulty was lower in the paper sheet condition than in other conditions. Regarding embodied cognition theories, results suggest that participants behaved as if the sensorimotor processes activated by mental images became integrated to the processes related to the actual situation. Further studies are needed to test whether other processes might be complementary involved.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218241310227"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142838679","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":"EXPRESS: Pattern of omission bias across various measures of moral judgment: Insights from the use of Young et al.'s (2007) vignettes.","authors":"Valentino Marcel Tahamata, Philip Tseng","doi":"10.1177/17470218241310439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241310439","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People are more forgiving towards harmful inaction (omission) over harmful action (commission), even when the eventual outcome is identical-known as omission bias. This phenomenon is observed in a set of moral vignettes by Young et al., (2007), that was originally designed to investigate moral judgment based on the presence of harmful intent and outcome. However, studies that used this set of vignettes have never reported the action/omission distinction effect, thus overlooking or conflating the impact of omission bias and potentially complicating the understanding of the targeted moral construct. In this report, we demonstrate how this omission bias may have inadvertently been incorporated into Young et al., (2007) vignettes. We analyzed data from two published studies (i.e., Kurdi et al., 2020, and Tahamata & Tseng, 2024a) by separating the values of each moral measure into action and omission, and included them as an additional 2-level factor into the model used in each included study. Overall, our results revealed statistically significant effect of omission bias. Interestingly, this effect was observed only in explicit but not implicit measures (i.e., IAT), though both measures were able to capture their intended effect of intent-outcome-based moral reasoning. Furthermore, this report offers preliminary insights into how the action-omission asymmetry relates to intent-outcome-based moral reasoning across various categories of moral judgment, suggesting avenues for future exploration.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218241310439"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142838588","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}
Julia Föcker, Leyu Huang, Alliza L Caling, Marieke Fischer, Andreas Ihle, Timothy Hodgson, Florian Kattner
{"title":"Enhanced auditory serial recall of recently presented auditory digits following auditory distractor presentation in blind individuals.","authors":"Julia Föcker, Leyu Huang, Alliza L Caling, Marieke Fischer, Andreas Ihle, Timothy Hodgson, Florian Kattner","doi":"10.1177/17470218241300115","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241300115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ability to focus on task-relevant information while ignoring distractors is essential in many everyday life situations. The question of how profound and moderate visual deprivation impacts the engagement with a demanding memory task (top-down control) while ignoring task-irrelevant perceptual information (bottom-up) is not thoroughly understood. In this experiment, 17 blind individuals, 17 visually impaired individuals and 17 sighted controls were asked to recall the sequence of eight auditorily presented digits. Following digit presentation, two auditory distractor streams including a repetitive presentation of the same syllables (steady-state sounds) or different syllables (changing-state sounds) occurred spoken in different emotional prosodies (happy, fearful, angry, and neutral). Blind individuals not only showed overall superior serial recall performance but also displayed sustained memory retention for items presented more recently in the sequence (specifically at the fifth to the eighth digit positions) compared with sighted and visually impaired individuals. Furthermore, blind individuals showed a weaker serial position effect compared with visually impaired and sighted individuals. Emotional prosody also impacted serial recall differently in blind, visually impaired and sighted controls: Sighted and visually impaired participants exhibited improved serial recall when steady-state sounds carried a fearful or angry prosody. By contrast, in the steady-state condition, emotional prosody had no effect on serial recall performance in blind individuals. These findings may be linked to the enhanced ability of blind individuals to flexibly apply a combination of strategies, such as association and grouping.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218241300115"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584084","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":"Do motor representations influence declarative memory for graspable objects? A test with action priming and short-term hand nonuse.","authors":"Jérémy Villatte, Laurence Taconnat, Solène Kalénine, Yannick Wamain, Lucette Toussaint","doi":"10.1177/17470218241301748","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241301748","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study addressed the role of motor representations in declarative memory (i.e., semantic and episodic). Based on embodied and grounded theories of cognition, it is often suggested that motor representations contribute to declarative memory. According to the action priming effect, graspable objects are categorised faster when primed by pictures of a congruent hand grip, as motor representations (how to grasp it) and semantic information (what it is) are closely related. Moreover, motor representations may contribute to episodic memory functioning. We immobilised participants' dominant hand for 24 hr to impair their processing of hand-related motor representations. This method is known to elicit rapid updating of cortical hand representations, and a slowdown in cognitive tasks linked to hand-related motor cognition. We expected to observe a decreased action priming effect following short-term hand nonuse. We further predicted that in a subsequent recognition task, objects that had been encoded following congruent action priming would be recognised faster by controls, but not by previously immobilised participants. Results did not show any effect of hand nonuse on action priming, suggesting that motor representations are not a decisive factor for this effect. Nonetheless, prime congruence influenced subsequent recognition. Immobilised participants were slower to recognise objects previously seen with an unrelated hand grip prime compared with a congruent one. This result suggests a contribution of motor representation to declarative memory, in particular when the sensorimotor system has previously been impaired.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218241301748"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142627084","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}
Ryan M O'Leary, Nicole Hope Capach, Thomas A Hansen, Alex J Kinney, Taylor A Payne, Arthur Wingfield, Mario A Svirsky
{"title":"Individual control of input rate improves recall of spoken discourse by adult users of cochlear implants: An exploratory study.","authors":"Ryan M O'Leary, Nicole Hope Capach, Thomas A Hansen, Alex J Kinney, Taylor A Payne, Arthur Wingfield, Mario A Svirsky","doi":"10.1177/17470218241301415","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241301415","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although cochlear implants (CI) successfully replace the sense of hearing, they do not restore natural hearing. Still, CI users adapt to this novel signal, reaching meaningful levels of speech recognition in clinical tests that focus on repetition of words and short sentences. However, many patients who score above average in clinical speech perception tests complain that everyday speech interactions are both difficult and cognitively draining. In part, this difficulty may be due to the naturally rapid pace of everyday discourse. We report a study in which 12 CI users aged 23 to 77, recalled multi-sentence discourse presented without interruption, or in the condition of interest, when passages were paused at major linguistic boundaries, with participants given control of when to initiate the next segment. Comprehension of the discourse structure was based on a formalised representational system that organises discourse elements hierarchically to index the relative importance of different elements to the overall understanding of the discourse. Results showed (a) better recall when CI users were allowed to control the discourse pace; (b) an overall effect of aging, with older CI users recalling discourse less accurately; (c) better recall for passages with higher average inter-word predictability; (d) a \"semantic hierarchy effect\" reflected by better recall of main ideas versus minor details; (e) an attenuation of the semantic hierarchy effect for low predictability passages. Results underscore the benefits of extra processing time in addressing CI listening challenges and highlight the limited ecological validity of single-word or single-sentence speech recognition tests.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218241301415"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142627085","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}