{"title":"Supplemental Material for Chunk-Based Incremental Processing and Learning: An Integrated Theory of Word Discovery, Implicit Statistical Learning, and Speed of Lexical Processing","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/rev0000564.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000564.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144229450","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}
Paul A Soden,Anjali Bhat,Adam K Anderson,Karl Friston
{"title":"The meltdown pathway: A multidisciplinary account of autistic meltdowns.","authors":"Paul A Soden,Anjali Bhat,Adam K Anderson,Karl Friston","doi":"10.1037/rev0000543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000543","url":null,"abstract":"Autistic meltdowns are fits of intense frustration and often physical violence elicited by sensory and cognitive stressors. Despite the high prevalence of meltdowns among autistic individuals, the neural mechanisms that underlie this response are not yet well understood. This has thus far hampered progress toward a dedicated therapeutic intervention-beyond traditional medications-that limits their frequency and severity. Here, we aim to initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue on the etiology of sensory meltdowns. In doing so, we frame meltdowns as a consequence of underlying chronic hypervigilance and acute hyperreactivity to objectively benign stressors driven by differences in the insular cortex-a multimodal integration hub that adapts autonomic state and behavior to meet environmental demands. We first discuss meltdowns through the lens of neurophysiology and argue that intrainsular hypoconnectivity engenders vagal withdrawal and sympathetic hyperarousal in autism, driving chronic hypervigilance and reducing the threshold of stressors those with autism can tolerate before experiencing a meltdown. Next, we turn to neuropsychology and present evidence that meltdowns reflect a difference in how contextual evidence, particularly social cues, is integrated when acutely assessing ambiguous signs of danger in the environment-a process termed neuroception. Finally, we build on contemporary predictive coding accounts of autism to argue that meltdowns may be ultimately driven by differences in sensory attenuation and coherent deep inference within the interoceptive hierarchy, possibly linked to oxytocin deficiency during infancy. Throughout, we synthesize each perspective to construct a multidisciplinary, insula-based model of meltdowns. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143914825","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}
Thomas E Joiner,Morgan Robison,Nikhila S Udupa,Lee Robertson,Mary E Duffy,Amy Lieberman,Min Eun Jeon
{"title":"The descent of agamemnon and the disquietude of job: The death of agency as the spur of suicide.","authors":"Thomas E Joiner,Morgan Robison,Nikhila S Udupa,Lee Robertson,Mary E Duffy,Amy Lieberman,Min Eun Jeon","doi":"10.1037/rev0000559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000559","url":null,"abstract":"We propose that a state of psychological predeath precedes death by suicide, and that this phenomenon results from the undermining of subjectively experienced contingency and thus of agency (i.e., the death of agency). A consequence of the death of agency is not the dulling of awareness overall, but rather, specifically of one's subjective sense of existence (i.e., the feeling of subjective existence), highly consistent with the phenomenology of Côtard delusion (the fixed belief that one is already dead), and of neighboring clinical entities. The suspension of one's specific sense of existence but not of experience more generally is a haunting juxtaposition, one reason that the death of agency is psychologically painful, uncannily and indescribably so. A sense of deadness inheres in the death of agency; because aggression is in general psychologically more feasible against lifeless than against living things, feeling dead facilitates suicidal capacity, the remnant aspect of an otherwise obliterated sense of agency, enabling the delimited agency to kill. The foregoing together produce suicidal intent, because they stimulate all of the inputs to planned action, namely, opportunity, urgency, ability, planning, and probability. The death of agency, howling and incomprehensible psychological pain, suicidal capability, and suicidal intent combine, with death by suicide as a possible result. Implications, limitations, and future directions for research are presented. We also note several clinical implications of our work, including with regard to a collection of clinically serious suicidal presentations (e.g., Côtard delusion) that cluster at the severe end of an underlying spectrum of suicide-related psychopathology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"136 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143897312","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":"Semantic representations in working memory: A computational model.","authors":"Benjamin Kowialiewski,Klaus Oberauer","doi":"10.1037/rev0000562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000562","url":null,"abstract":"Verbal working memory is supported by semantic knowledge. One manifestation of this is the rich pattern of semantic similarity effects found in immediate serial recall tasks. These effects differ from the effects of similarity on other dimensions (e.g., phonological similarity), which renders them difficult to explain. We propose a comprehensive mechanistic explanation of semantic similarity effects by extending standard connectionist architecture for modeling immediate serial recall to incorporate semantic representations. Central to our proposal is the selective encoding of categorical features shared among multiple list items. The selective encoding of shared semantic features is made possible via a tagging mechanism that enables the model to encode shared feature retrospectively. Through this mechanism, our model accounts for the majority of semantic similarity effects. Our results imply that working memory represents semantic information in a more restricted way than phonological information. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143872094","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":"Causation, meaning, and communication.","authors":"Ari Beller, Tobias Gerstenberg","doi":"10.1037/rev0000548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000548","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The words we use to describe what happened shape what comes to a listener's mind. How do speakers choose what causal expressions to use? How does that choice impact what listeners imagine? In this article, we develop a computational model of how people use the causal expressions \"caused,\" \"enabled,\" \"affected,\" and \"made no difference.\" The model first builds a causal representation of what happened. By running counterfactual simulations, the model computes several causal aspects that capture the different ways in which a candidate cause made a difference to the outcome. Logical combinations of these aspects define a semantics for the causal expressions. The model then uses pragmatic inference to decide what word to use in context. We test our model in a series of experiments and compare it to prior psychological accounts. In a set of psycholinguistic studies, we verify the model's semantics and pragmatics. We show that the causal expressions exist on a hierarchy of specificity, and that participants draw informative pragmatic inferences in line with this scale. In the next two studies, we demonstrate that our model quantitatively fits participant behavior in a speaker task and a listener task involving dynamic physical scenarios. We compare our model to two lesioned alternatives, one which removes pragmatic inference, and another which removes semantics and pragmatics. Our full model better accounts for participants' behavior than both alternatives. Taken together, these results suggest a new way forward for modeling the relationship between language and thought in the study of causality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144014519","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":"A theory of cultural continuity: Heritage culture retention as an important psychological motivation.","authors":"Cory L Cobb,Seth J Schwartz,Charles R Martinez","doi":"10.1037/rev0000561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000561","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we advance the thesis, called the cultural continuity hypothesis, which states that heritage culture retention represents an important psychological motivation that underlies a wide array of human behaviors and that is important for positive psychosocial functioning. Cultural continuity entails the purposeful preservation of salient features of one's heritage culture across time and is both functional and adaptive. By integrating diverse bodies of literature across disciplines, we provide robust evidence for consistent and universal value attached to the goals that serve to satisfy the need for cultural continuity and that these goals are present from an early age. We also provide robust evidence that the successful attainment of goals related to satisfying the need for cultural continuity is important for psychosocial health and well-being. We conclude by providing explicit criteria that would subject the cultural continuity hypothesis to rigorous empirical tests, followed by future directions for heritage culture retention research. Cultural continuity appears to be an important psychological motivation that transcends populations and contexts and that is important for positive human functioning. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143862023","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":"Cognitive network enrichment, not degradation, explains the aging mental lexicon and links fluid and crystallized intelligence.","authors":"Thomas T Hills","doi":"10.1037/rev0000557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000557","url":null,"abstract":"Cognition is a complex system of interacting components. Late-life cognitive decline is often explained as a degradation of the interconnectivity among these components. Evidence from the aging mental lexicon corroborates this interpretation, as older adults produce higher entropy responses in free association tasks, appear to have sparser free association networks, and judge objects to be less similar to one another than younger adults. Here, I demonstrate that all of these effects are produced by a model of cognitive network enrichment, which treats aging as an extension of lifelong learning. By increasing interconnectivity, learning increases competition for activation among potential targets, increasing entropy and reducing targeted activation. The impact of network enrichment is demonstrated using a general prediction error model (Rescorla-Wagner), which learns and enriches a cognitive network representation following lifelong experience with a network of associations in the environment. Sampling from the learned representation to produce behavior reproduces the above effects. A qualitative model comparison shows that various models of degradation fail to capture the above results for entropy and similarity. Both enriched and degraded representations can produce sparsening-free association networks, depending on the specific methodological details of data collection. This underscores the general problem of inferring representation from behavior without considering process. Further, extending cognitive network enrichment more broadly provides a lifelong developmental pathway for overattention to irrelevant stimuli and cognitive slowing-increasing interference, taxing resource limitations, and reducing targeted activation-offering a common cause for rising crystallized intelligence and declining fluid intelligence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143836591","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}
Lisa Fourgassie,Baptiste Subra,Rasyid Bo Sanitioso
{"title":"Revisiting the concept of stereotype threat(s): Is it all about the situation?","authors":"Lisa Fourgassie,Baptiste Subra,Rasyid Bo Sanitioso","doi":"10.1037/rev0000555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000555","url":null,"abstract":"Nearly 30 years ago, Steele and Aronson (1995) proposed the concept of stereotype threat. Despite the rich literature on the topic, the robustness and significance of stereotype threat effects face scrutiny due to unsuccessful replications and meta-analyses. This article moves beyond methodological issues to address potential conceptual challenges that may underlie these difficulties in assessing stereotype threat. One major challenge is the difficulty in clearly defining and measuring stereotype threat, as it is often conflated with its outcomes, particularly performance effects. Another challenge relates to its situational nature, which has been interpreted too narrowly, assuming uniform experiences of stereotype threat across all groups. This article advocates for a return to a broader understanding of stereotype threat, one that recognizes the interaction between situational and individual factors within a larger societal context. Such an approach is essential for effectively testing stereotype threat theory across diverse groups and outcomes, reinforcing its situational foundation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143836603","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":"Learning to control through culture: Explaining variation in the development of self-regulation.","authors":"Emily J E Messer,Hannah E Roome,Cristine H Legare","doi":"10.1037/rev0000554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000554","url":null,"abstract":"Self-regulation is a goal-directed behavior involving adaptive decision making. It consists of multiple cognitive and motor skills, is shaped by complex sociocultural environments, and has short- and long-term consequences for child outcomes. However, most of what we know about the development of self-regulation comes from research conducted among communities that are unrepresentative of most of the global population. To fully understand the complexities of the development of self-regulation requires globally representative data on the diverse and complex cultural environments in which children learn. Our objective is to highlight discoveries about how complex cultural influences shape the development of self-regulation. We discuss the impact of child-rearing environments, educational influences, and environmental stressors on the development of self-regulation based on research conducted with populations worldwide. We provide empirically based recommendations for measuring self-regulation in context. Our conclusion includes suggestions for future research to promote efforts to build a globally representative science of self-regulation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143836589","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":"Dynamical systems model of embodied memory in early human infancy.","authors":"Ryo Fujihira, Gentaro Taga","doi":"10.1037/rev0000544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000544","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Memory is formed through repeated action and perception. The primitive manifestation of this type of memory in infants has been observed through a procedure called mobile paradigm. Three-month-old infants can retain behavioral changes during interaction with a mobile for a week without reminders, and this retention can be prolonged for 2-4 weeks with reminders. However, precisely what infants can remember and how memory retention and reactivation work at this young age remains unclear. In this article, we introduce dynamical systems models that replicate this form of memory by incorporating two dynamic properties. The first dynamic process is responsible for creating and retaining a memory of the experience of controlling movement generation to interact with the environment. While this memory can be used in retention tests of learned behaviors, it undergoes a gradual decay. The second property involves asymmetric bifurcation, through which a memory of the circular causality between self-movement and environmental events is formed. This memory, related to agency, persists and enables reactivation of the decayed memory of learned behaviors. Our simulation suggests that memory emerges as an embodiment of internal dynamics through the repetition of action and perception. The form of retained memory in the mobile paradigm is comparable to that in the A-not-B error and habituation-dishabituation tasks. The theory of dynamical systems unifies experimental results regarding memory in early life as an embodied process, with the maturation of the memory system originating from the embodied process between the brain, body, and environment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":21016,"journal":{"name":"Psychological review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804181","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}