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From Memory to Strategy: Exploring Strategy Use During Working Memory Training in Brazilian Children. 从记忆到策略：探索巴西儿童工作记忆训练中的策略使用。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-03 DOI: 10.1177/17470218261477569

Drielle Barbosa-Pereira, Pedro S R Martins, Marcela Mansur-Alves

{"title":"From Memory to Strategy: Exploring Strategy Use During Working Memory Training in Brazilian Children.","authors":"Drielle Barbosa-Pereira, Pedro S R Martins, Marcela Mansur-Alves","doi":"10.1177/17470218261477569","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218261477569","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how children spontaneously use cognitive strategies during working memory (WM) training is essential for optimizing training outcomes. This study investigated spontaneous strategy use among children participating in a computerized WM training program and examined whether strategy use influenced training performance. Forty children aged 6 to 10 years from public schools were assigned to either an experimental group that completed 8 weeks of computerized WM training or an active control group. Performance data were collected throughout training, and after the intervention, children completed a structured interview assessing spontaneous strategy use during training tasks. Results showed that 60% of children reported using at least 1 cognitive strategy, such as rehearsal, categorization, or mental imagery. A binary logistic multilevel model indicated that children in the experimental group were significantly more likely to perceive the strategies as helpful compared to the control group (Odds ratio = 5.04, 95% Confidence interval [1.54, 16.47], z = 2.67, p = .008). These findings suggest that spontaneous strategy use may partially explain individual differences in WM training outcomes and highlight the importance of fostering metacognitive awareness during cognitive interventions. Future studies should explore how strategy use can be supported and enhanced during training to maximize cognitive benefits.","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218261477569"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148664382","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}

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Prediction and Prioritisation: How Reward Learning Shapes Attentional Capture. 预测和优先级：奖励学习如何塑造注意力捕获。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/17470218261449808

Mike E Le Pelley

{"title":"Prediction and Prioritisation: How Reward Learning Shapes Attentional Capture.","authors":"Mike E Le Pelley","doi":"10.1177/17470218261449808","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218261449808","url":null,"abstract":"A traditional view of selective attention distinguishes between goal-directed and stimulus-driven mechanisms of attentional control. More recently, a large (and growing) body of research has identified a third class of control system-termed selection history-wherein attentional prioritisation is shaped by our prior experience with stimuli, independently of our goals and the physical salience of those stimuli. This article reviews work within this selection history literature demonstrating that prioritisation is rapidly and automatically modulated by learning about the rewards associated with stimuli, and argues for a framework that distinguishes between history-driven processes implementing attentional exploitation (the drive to leverage reliable information) and attentional exploration (the drive to resolve uncertainty, with the aim of validating potential new sources of information). Findings such as these highlight a fundamental and intricate interaction between learning and attention, wherein our prior experience shapes the way in which we extract information from our environment-with potential consequences for understanding the subsequent decisions that we make and choices that we take.","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1929-1944"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13400823/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147820185","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}

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The Mathematics Anxiety-Complexity Effect in Word Problems. 题目中的数学焦虑-复杂性效应。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-17 DOI: 10.1177/17470218261425251

Gabriella Daroczy, Felix Cramer, Christina Artemenko, Thomas E Hunt, Hans-Christoph Nuerk

{"title":"The Mathematics Anxiety-Complexity Effect in Word Problems.","authors":"Gabriella Daroczy, Felix Cramer, Christina Artemenko, Thomas E Hunt, Hans-Christoph Nuerk","doi":"10.1177/17470218261425251","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218261425251","url":null,"abstract":"Word problems are notoriously difficult for students to solve and require both mathematical and linguistic processes. Moreover, word problem-solving performance might also be negatively affected by mathematics (math) anxiety, particularly when task complexity increases. Therefore, the study investigated whether math anxiety impacts word problem performance, particularly when mathematical difficulty (i.e., arithmetic carry/borrow operations) or linguistic difficulty (i.e., lexical consistency) increases. In an online experiment with N = 129 adults, we observed that higher math anxiety levels were related to lower performance in word problem-solving. Moreover, math anxiety particularly affected performance in linguistically - but not arithmetically - difficult word problems. This suggests that math-anxious individuals particularly struggle during word problem-solving when the text was more difficult to translate into an arithmetic problem. Therefore, the anxiety-complexity effect in word problems holds for math anxiety affecting the resolution of linguistic complexity rather than arithmetic complexity.","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"2184-2198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13400789/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146214106","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}

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Interference Effects Between Hand Posture and Manipulation Dimensions During Action Tool Knowledge Retrieval. 研究了动作工具知识检索中手姿态与操作维度的干扰效应。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-24 DOI: 10.1177/17470218251404028

Mathieu Lesourd, François Osiurak

{"title":"Interference Effects Between Hand Posture and Manipulation Dimensions During Action Tool Knowledge Retrieval.","authors":"Mathieu Lesourd, François Osiurak","doi":"10.1177/17470218251404028","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251404028","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how components of action tool knowledge are organized and interact is crucial for elucidating the cognitive and neural basis of tool use. In this study, we examined the relationship between two key dimensions: hand posture and manipulation. Forty-eight participants made similarity judgments based on these dimensions across pairs of familiar tools. Results revealed an asymmetrical interference pattern: judgments about manipulation were significantly influenced by hand posture, whereas the reverse effect was weaker. This asymmetry was modulated by perceptual similarity, particularly when participants attended to hand posture, suggesting a dynamic interaction between perceptual and conceptual features. Notably, perceptual similarity judgments were not solely explained by low-level visual features but were also influenced by stored action tool representations. This indicates that participants spontaneously activated integrated tool knowledge even during perceptual tasks. These findings support a model of action tool knowledge, with hand posture emerging as a primary dimension that influences and potentially precedes manipulation. Together, these results provide new insights into the cognitive architecture of tool knowledge and offer a foundation for future studies exploring the interaction between perceptual, motoric, and conceptual dimensions in action tool knowledge.","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"2073-2089"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145597190","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}

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The Contributions of Word-Form and Semantic Information to Grammatical Gender Activation and Retrieval: Evidence from L2 French Visual Words. 词汇形式和语义信息对语法性别激活和检索的贡献：来自二语法语视觉词的证据。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-29 DOI: 10.1177/17470218261441291

Yan Lu, Ying Chen, Jie Dong, Hao Yan

{"title":"The Contributions of Word-Form and Semantic Information to Grammatical Gender Activation and Retrieval: Evidence from L2 French Visual Words.","authors":"Yan Lu, Ying Chen, Jie Dong, Hao Yan","doi":"10.1177/17470218261441291","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218261441291","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research has highlighted the role of word form in gender processing by integrating a dual-route mechanism for grammatical gender activation into the AUSTRAL (Activation Using Structurally Tiered Representations and Lemmas) model of lexical access previous models. However, prior research on this mechanism has mainly used explicit tasks with monolingual participants. Moreover, the contributions of semantic features to gender activation and retrieval in comprehension remain underexplored. This study investigated grammatical gender activation in French visual word recognition among Chinese-French bilinguals through two incremental masked priming experiments. Experiment 1 examined the sublexical route using phonologically transparent unfamiliar nouns, while Experiment 2 investigated lexical route and semantic influences, comparing gender-opaque simple nouns with semantic gender features to those with abstract gender features. Results revealed robust gender congruency effects for both gender-transparent and gender-opaque nouns at stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) from 80 ms onward, supporting sublexical and lexical routes in gender activation. Additionally, a semantic feedback mechanism was observed at longer SOAs, particularly for nouns with semantic gender features. These findings extend previous models by incorporating a semantic feedback mechanism for gender activation, offering a more comprehensive framework for understanding grammatical gender processing in language comprehension.","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"2227-2241"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147575231","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}

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Favourite and Least Favourite Colours Tell Different Stories: Testing the Ecological Valence Theory. 最喜欢和最不喜欢的颜色讲述不同的故事：测试生态价理论。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-23 DOI: 10.1177/17470218261421580

Déborah Epicoco, Christine Mohr, Domicele Jonauskaite

{"title":"Favourite and Least Favourite Colours Tell Different Stories: Testing the Ecological Valence Theory.","authors":"Déborah Epicoco, Christine Mohr, Domicele Jonauskaite","doi":"10.1177/17470218261421580","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218261421580","url":null,"abstract":"Colour preferences are not random - many people like blue but dislike brownish yellows. The Ecological Valence Theory (EVT) posits that colour preferences arise from affective experiences with similarly coloured objects, such as liking blue because of clear skies or disliking brown due to rotten foods. While the EVT should apply broadly, empirical tests have used very similar approaches and the same pre-selected colours. We tested the central prediction of the EVT using an alternative approach. Participants (N = 135) selected their favourite and least favourite colours from an unrestricted range using a computerised colour picker. They also provided reasons for these preferences and listed free associations with the chosen colours. Results supported the central prediction of the EVT but also revealed important asymmetries. Support was strong for favourite colours. We found more consistent, object-based, and almost exclusively positive associations (90%). For least favourite colours, responses were more diverse and yielded a surprising amount of positive, thus incongruent, associations (38%). These findings demonstrate that colour preferences arise from broad influences, including abstract concepts and personal meanings, while revealing fundamental asymmetries between favourite and least favourite colours.","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"2130-2145"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146041508","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}

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Eye Movements During Silent Reading of Poetry Reflect Hierarchical Metric Structure. 表达：默读诗歌时的眼球运动反映了等级制结构。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-24 DOI: 10.1177/17470218251404937

Katerina Drakoulaki, Yang Di, Mara Breen

{"title":"Eye Movements During Silent Reading of Poetry Reflect Hierarchical Metric Structure.","authors":"Katerina Drakoulaki, Yang Di, Mara Breen","doi":"10.1177/17470218251404937","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251404937","url":null,"abstract":"The current study investigates the influence of hierarchical metric structure on silent reading behavior during naturalistic reading, thus extending the scope of implicit prosody research beyond violation paradigms. By applying Fabb and Halle's prosodic framework to Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat, we examined how a five-level metric hierarchy affects eye-tracking measures, independent of known factors such as word frequency, length, text emphasis, and syntactic structure. Thirty-two native English-speaking adults silently read the text presented without images, while their eye movements were recorded. Metric hierarchy explained overall variance above and beyond other linguistic factors in both early and late reading measures, consistent with patterns observed during oral reading of the same text. Moreover, the metric effect interacted with linguistic factors at lower levels of the hierarchy: closed-class words aligned with lower levels were read faster than open-class words. Exploratory analyses disentangling layout and end-of-page effects showed that while the addition of metric structure explains overall variance in all reading measures above and beyond other linguistic factors, only early reading measures are affected by lower levels of the metric hierarchy when analyzing the first stanza of two-stanza trials. These results demonstrate that the influence of metric structure during silent reading of naturalistic poetic text is qualitatively similar to its influence on spoken durations, providing further support for the role of implicit prosody in on-line sentence processing. These findings pave the way for further research into the role of prosody in reading comprehension, particularly in less metrically-regular texts and across developmental stages.","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"2090-2102"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145597114","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}

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Influences of animacy and association on likeability of moving plant-like artefacts. 表达：动画和联想对移动的植物样人工制品喜爱度的影响。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-07 DOI: 10.1177/17470218251397970

Fengsheng Cai

{"title":"Influences of animacy and association on likeability of moving plant-like artefacts.","authors":"Fengsheng Cai","doi":"10.1177/17470218251397970","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251397970","url":null,"abstract":"Many studies have shown that it is possible to recognise an artefact type and subsequently form an impression by observing only its shape. However, it is unclear whether the likeability of an artefact is due to its creatureliness, association with the object it imitates, or the likeability of the imitated object. Additional research is required to clarify whether the likeability of an object originates from its association with motion, perception of animacy, or the motion factor itself. Therefore, this study video-recorded the movement of plant-like artefacts to examine and determine the factors that significantly influence their likeability. This study considered the degree of animacy of the artefacts, their degree of association with the imitated plants, and the degree of likeability of the imitated plants as factors. Fifty-five participants with different sexual orientations completed an online questionnaire regarding their impressions of the artefacts in the recordings they watched. The responses were subjected to multiple regression analysis. The results showed that the degree of animacy and association with the imitated plants had the greatest influence on the likeability of the artefacts.","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"2041-2057"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145459551","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}

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The Processing of Color Words in Sentence Comprehension. EXPRESS：句子理解中颜色词的加工。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-20 DOI: 10.1177/17470218261428130

Emily L Buchner, Tobias Richter, Wolfgang Lenhard

{"title":"The Processing of Color Words in Sentence Comprehension.","authors":"Emily L Buchner, Tobias Richter, Wolfgang Lenhard","doi":"10.1177/17470218261428130","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218261428130","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated how color is represented in language comprehension. Some theories suggest that perceptual simulations-activations of sensory features such as shape, size, or color-routinely support understanding during reading. One line of evidence is the \"mismatch effect\" in sentence-picture verification tasks: responses are slower when pictures mismatch perceptual details described in the sentence. Across three preregistered experiments (N = 222), we tested whether this mismatch effect occurs with explicit color words (Experiment 1) and whether background colors presented concurrently interfere with the mental simulation of color to test the functionality of mental simulations in language comprehension (Experiments 2 and 3). As expected, participants responded faster when pictures matched the sentence's color across the three experiments. When conflicting background colors were introduced during sentence presentation, the mismatch effect remained unaffected. This pattern of findings suggests that colors are routinely activated through color words during comprehension, but the functional role of perceptual simulations of color for comprehension remains unclear.","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"2242-2258"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13400818/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146259043","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}

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Prior Knowledge and the Recall of Single Events and Instances of Repeated Events: A Registered Report. 先验知识与单一事件和重复事件的回忆：一份注册报告。

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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-23 DOI: 10.1177/17470218261420154

Eva Rubínová, Heather L Price, Sonja P Brubacher

{"title":"Prior Knowledge and the Recall of Single Events and Instances of Repeated Events: A Registered Report.","authors":"Eva Rubínová, Heather L Price, Sonja P Brubacher","doi":"10.1177/17470218261420154","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218261420154","url":null,"abstract":"High prior knowledge facilitates learning of new related material by providing structures enhancing comprehension and facilitating recall. Previous studies examining the effects of prior knowledge used single-event stimuli while neglecting the repetitive nature of everyday experience and the potential of repetition to generate knowledge structures. In the current study, we used the repeated event paradigm to investigate the interaction between the effects of prior knowledge and repetition on event memory. In Experiment 1, we validated three sets of stimuli in which we manipulated prior knowledge. Participants viewed and later recalled four instances of a repeated event (e.g., four variations of a story). As predicted, participants recalled more correct details and rated their level of understanding higher for instances where prior knowledge was high than low. In Experiment 2, we extended the examination by comparing the effect of prior knowledge on recall of a single event and instances of a repeated event. We replicated findings from previous research (typically using high prior knowledge stimuli): participants recalled more correct details of a single event compared to the final instance of a repeated event, and contrary to our expectations, this pattern was consistent across prior knowledge conditions. Exploratory comparison of recall between the single event and the first instance of a repeated event showed a small and nonsignificant difference. Findings of this study inform us about the underlying processes that impact recall of instances of repeated events for different levels of prior knowledge.","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1963-1984"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13400797/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146041516","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}

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