{"title":"How is calendar calculation in autism possible? A language model.","authors":"Jade Desrosiers,David Gagnon,Alexia Ostrolenk,Alice Boutros,Valérie Courchesne,Laurent Mottron","doi":"10.1037/rev0000590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000590","url":null,"abstract":"Detailed case studies of individuals with brain injuries have long provided valuable insights into how cognitive functions are organized. Similarly, the study of individuals with highly idiosyncratic cognitive abilities can shed light on the outer limits of human cognition. One such phenomenon is calendar calculation (CC), the ability to identify the day of the week that corresponds to a given date or the dates that match a particular calendar configuration. CC is the most commonly reported \"special ability\" in autism and is unique in its accuracy and speed, often surpassing experienced mathematicians. Recent findings suggest that a significant proportion of autistic children with oral language delays first acquire and prefer the written code, which may help pave the way for oral language acquisition. This atypical pathway for language acquisition invites a rethinking of the mechanisms underlying CC. In this article, we propose an integrative model in which the development and mastery of CC in autism are driven by the orientation of the innate linguistic cognitive resources toward an equivalent complex symbolic system. This model offers a novel perspective on the language trajectories observed in autism, their role in facilitating expertise in nonsocial complex material, and the broader flexibility of human language-based abilities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145078144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infant attachment as intentional action: An ideomotor and event-coding approach on the ontogenetic emergence of attachment.","authors":"Markus Paulus","doi":"10.1037/rev0000582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000582","url":null,"abstract":"Attachment plays an important role in human development. It relates to various aspects of psychosocial functioning. Yet, the psychological basis of the ontogenetic emergence of attachment is unclear. Following attachment theoretical considerations, I propose that the emergence of attachment needs to be understood in terms of the development of intentional action. Specifically, I propose that ideomotor learning provides a plausible cognitive basis for the emergent goal-directed nature of attachment behavior. This framework explains how attachment emerges in the first instance and how different patterns of attachment are grounded in the dynamics of perception and action in the social world. The article discusses how ideomotor learning provides the basis for infants' learning about the predictability of caregiver responses and how it results in individual differences in the sense of agency. Relying on recent advancements of ideomotor theorizing, I discuss that the early experiences result in event files-integrated patterns of feature codes that bind distributed stimulus and action features-that form the basis of attachment representations. Overall, this account provides a novel framework that helps to understand how attachment emerges as a form of intentional action. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145078145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for How Beliefs Persist Amid Controversy: The Paths to Persistence Model","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/rev0000583.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000583.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145072446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for Perceptual-Moment Theories","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/rev0000586.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000586.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145072445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children are not the main agents of language change.","authors":"Limor Raviv,Damián Blasi,Vera Kempe","doi":"10.1037/rev0000580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000580","url":null,"abstract":"The long-standing claim that young children are the main agents of language change is often presented as an established fact, and has tacitly guided research in developmental science and evolutionary linguistics. It rests on the assumption that language change arises from language acquisition errors predominantly committed by children. Here, we review whether arguments in support of this idea stand up to logical and empirical scrutiny. We conclude that while children's imperfect learning indeed leads them to produce input-divergent linguistic variants, there is no convincing evidence that it is these child-generated innovations that eventually spread through the language community, nor that language change is mainly driven by constraints and biases operating uniquely in children. By exposing the conceptual and empirical shortcomings of overemphasizing children as the agents of language change, we hope to rebalance the field toward a more nuanced understanding of how individual- and population-level processes shape language change. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145018273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breaking the chains: Toward a neural-level account of episodic memory.","authors":"Andrej Bicanski","doi":"10.1037/rev0000571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000571","url":null,"abstract":"It has been suggested that episodic memory relies on the well-studied machinery of spatial memory. This influential notion faces hurdles that become evident with dynamically changing spatial scenes and an immobile agent. Here I propose a model of episodic memory that can accommodate such episodes via temporal indexing. Indices in the model have flexible duration, capable of exhibiting both fixed duration and broadening time fields akin to classical time cells. The latter cannot index episodes beyond short durations and are reminiscent of timing codes in scalar expectancy theory. Contrary to timing repetitive events, the present model focuses on the one-shot indexing of within-episode structure. Hippocampal indices are recruited by a combination of contextual inputs, lateral inhibition, and drive from temporal analogues of grid cells, functioning as an on-demand sequence generator and memory store. Indices learn connections to cortical representations, modulated by an amygdala signal. This architecture relies on biologically plausible, common network motifs, which can replay dynamically changing and spatially structured events, while an agent is immobile, suggests a mechanism for modulating the speed of recall, and can replay disjoint collections (i.e., broken chains) of indices with preserved temporal order. The model is embedded in an extensive review/perspective along two conceptual axes: first, how the model fits in with other accounts of time coding, serial order memory, and flexible temporal cognition and, second, how we can simultaneously reconcile the model framework with classical accounts of episodic memory à la Tulving, as well as with modern reinforcement learning and generative model accounts of hippocampal function. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145018275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steven Miletić, Niek Stevenson, Ami Eidels, Dora Matzke, Birte U Forstmann, Andrew Heathcote
{"title":"Explaining multiscale choice dynamics.","authors":"Steven Miletić, Niek Stevenson, Ami Eidels, Dora Matzke, Birte U Forstmann, Andrew Heathcote","doi":"10.1037/rev0000581","DOIUrl":"10.1037/rev0000581","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sequences of choice response times exhibit ubiquitous and strong multiscale dynamics (i.e., sequential dependencies across a broad range of temporal scales). Despite their pervasive nature, multiscale dynamics are poorly understood. We show that dynamics in the seconds to minutes range can be explained by the superposition of several distinct learning and control mechanisms. Each mechanism learns a representation of the structure of the choice environment and/or an aspect of the decision-maker's ability. These representations are updated after each choice and used to control the next decision by modulating the parameters of an evidence accumulation process with subsecond range dynamics that determine individual choices. We link these mechanisms to three major foci in the experimental study of sequential dependencies: stimulus history, error-related, and hard-easy effects. This account provides a detailed explanation of both multiscale dynamics of choice sequences, and the three effects, at the group and individual levels. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144822433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joanna Kolak, Virve Vihman, Felix Engelmann, Sonia Granlund, Anna Theakston, Elena V. M. Lieven, Julian M. Pine, Judit Fazekas, Ben Ambridge
{"title":"Why learners privilege word-order over case-marking: A cross-linguistic meta-analysis, new data from Estonian, Finnish and Polish, and a discriminative learning model.","authors":"Joanna Kolak, Virve Vihman, Felix Engelmann, Sonia Granlund, Anna Theakston, Elena V. M. Lieven, Julian M. Pine, Judit Fazekas, Ben Ambridge","doi":"10.1037/rev0000560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000560","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144792694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for Explaining Multiscale Choice Dynamics","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/rev0000581.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000581.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144792594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}