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Cognitive strategy in verbal fluency: sex differences, menstrual cycle, and menopause effects.

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Cognitive Processing Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-025-01265-w

Patricia E Cowell, Meghana Wadnerkar Kamble, Ramya Maitreyee, Rosemary A Varley

{"title":"Cognitive strategy in verbal fluency: sex differences, menstrual cycle, and menopause effects.","authors":"Patricia E Cowell, Meghana Wadnerkar Kamble, Ramya Maitreyee, Rosemary A Varley","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01265-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01265-w","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive sex differences are shaped by hormone effects on brain development, organisation, structure, function, and ageing. In human speech and language, sex differences and hormone effects are typically studied in the form of performance-based differences (via measures of central tendency) with little attention given to underlying cognitive strategy. This study presents data from 126 healthy adults, aged 20-79 years, from three studies of letter based verbal fluency. Comparisons were conducted based on sex, menstrual cycle phase, and menopause stage to examine total words produced, plus switching and clustering strategy use. The investigation probed differences in performance, underlying cognitive strategies, and correlations between performance and strategy. For performance, there were no statistically significant sex or menopause group differences in total words, number of switches and cluster size. Menstrual cycle differences were significant for switches and cluster size, but not total words. However, there were large effect sizes for correlations between total word performance and strategy measures in some groups; these correlations formed patterns which differed as a function of sex, menstrual cycle phase, and menopausal stage. Words produced were highly correlated with switching in younger women at higher hormone menstrual cycle phases. Correlations between total words and both strategies were moderate and equivalent in older premenopausal and perimenopausal women. Postmenopausal women showed a pattern of higher correlation between total words and cluster size which was observed in younger women at the lower hormone cycle phase, and men. This study illustrates the impact of hormones and sex differences on strategy use in verbal fluency-underscoring the value of comparisons in strategy use between women at different reproductive life stages.","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143789226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Mental rotation, perspective taking, and performance profiling.

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Cognitive Processing Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-025-01269-6

James Negen

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The attentional boost effect: current landscape and future directions.

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Cognitive Processing Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-025-01266-9

Ricky K C Au, Alvin K M Tang

{"title":"The attentional boost effect: current landscape and future directions.","authors":"Ricky K C Au, Alvin K M Tang","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01266-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01266-9","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive functions such as attention and memory significantly impact performance in daily life and in various professions, including driving vehicles and providing healthcare services. Driven by the importance of understanding attention, early studies have explored the attentional theories and discovered the attentional boost effect (ABE). In experiments studying the ABE, participants are required to engage in two concurrent tasks: (1) memorising a sequence of briefly displayed stimuli (e.g. images or words) for a later memory test and (2) concurrently detecting a simultaneously presented target signal (e.g. pressing a button when seeing a target white square and taking no action for a distractor black square). Surprisingly, attending to a target boosts memory encoding for the concurrently presented information, contrary to the typical expectation of lowered performance owing to dual-task interference. This effect has been documented not only in behavioural experiments across different materials and modalities but also in neuroimaging investigations. This review paper is divided into several main sections, covering the behavioural evidence supporting the ABE, interpretations of the effect from neuroimaging studies, individual differences, consensus and controversies in ABE research as well as prospective future research in this area. The discussion in this review might also offer helpful insights to researchers for translating this phenomenon into real-world practical applications.","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143630940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Examining team identity level and its impact on the happiness and involvement of football spectators. 研究球队认同水平及其对足球观众幸福感和参与度的影响。

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Cognitive Processing Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-025-01263-y

Behzad Izadi, Shamseddin Rezaei, Mohammad Naroie

{"title":"Examining team identity level and its impact on the happiness and involvement of football spectators.","authors":"Behzad Izadi, Shamseddin Rezaei, Mohammad Naroie","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01263-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01263-y","url":null,"abstract":"Football spectators are in close and emotional interaction with teams and athletes. The sport team and the spectator are necessary to each other, and any play that has fewer spectators is less revenue. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interactive effect of team identity and play scenarios on football spectator's happiness and involvement. The research conducted by quasi-experimental method in which 120 football spectators responded to the 17-item questionnaire on a five-point Likert scale. To measure the interactive effect of play scenarios, four plays with scenarios (good play, good outcome), (bad play, good outcome), (good play, bad outcome), (bad play, bad outcome) were used. Multivariate analysis of variance used to test the data. Findings showed that the two levels of team identity (high identity, low identity) were different in spectator happiness (f(1,120) = 8.916, P = 0.003) and involvement (f(1,120) = 41.407, P = 0.001). Spectators with high team identity are happier and more engaged than spectators with low team identification when their favorite team wins or plays well. Levels of team identity and outcome of the play can be effective in the level of happiness and involvement of the sport spectators. Creating sport team identity in the spectators can play an essential role in their supportive behaviors of the team.","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143617224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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A feasibility pilot study comparing tablets and smartphones for an app-based speed training program in older people: an open-label, randomized controlled PROBE trial.

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Cognitive Processing Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-025-01264-x

Yuki Takakura, Mika Otsuki, Ryo Takagi, Kiyohiro Houkin

{"title":"A feasibility pilot study comparing tablets and smartphones for an app-based speed training program in older people: an open-label, randomized controlled PROBE trial.","authors":"Yuki Takakura, Mika Otsuki, Ryo Takagi, Kiyohiro Houkin","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01264-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01264-x","url":null,"abstract":"This feasibility pilot study examined whether the device type (tablet or smartphone) influences the effectiveness of a brain training program for older adults. Forty-four community-dwelling participants were randomly assigned to the tablet or smartphone group using a stratified block randomisation protocol based on age and sex. Each participant completed 12 supervised training sessions, each lasting approximately 40 min, over 3 to 4 months. Cognitive assessments included general intelligence, attention, memory, and executive function. Two-way repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the effects of the device type and time (pre- vs. post-intervention). Of the 44 participants, 36 completed the program. No main or interaction effects were observed for device type. However, significant improvements over time were found in the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices, Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, Frontal Assessment Battery, time required to complete Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices, visual cancellation, and Trail-Making Test Part A. These results suggest comparable near-transfer benefits in attention and executive functions across tablets and smartphones. However, neither device produced far-transfer gains in memory measures. These findings underscore the feasibility and potential cost-effectiveness of smartphone-based training interventions for supporting cognitive health in later life.Trial Registration: Registered in the University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry on October 15, 2020 (UMIN000042123).","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Spontaneous perceptual alternations and higher-order cognitive processes: an exploratory study.

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Cognitive Processing Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-025-01260-1

Chiara Saracini, Francia Arriagada-Mödinger, Boris Lucero

{"title":"Spontaneous perceptual alternations and higher-order cognitive processes: an exploratory study.","authors":"Chiara Saracini, Francia Arriagada-Mödinger, Boris Lucero","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01260-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01260-1","url":null,"abstract":"The occurrence of spontaneous switches between different interpretations of unchanging, ambiguous stimuli reflects the dynamic nature of unconscious perceptual processing. These perceptual alternations are explained by reciprocal inhibition, where one perception is suppressed while another emerges. The temporal patterns of these shifts vary between people but remain consistent within individuals, potentially reflecting underlying neural and psychological factors. Cognitive flexibility, the ability to switch tasks by inhibiting irrelevant information, may be related to perceptual flexibility. The present study (n = 48) explored the relationship between perceptual dynamics in the Necker Cube and higher-order cognitive processes. Switching rates and perspective durations were correlated with performance on computerized tasks (Stroop Test, Simon Task, and Task Switching Tests) and self-reported scales (Cognitive Flexibility Test, Barratt's Impulsiveness Scale, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale, and Big Five Personality Traits Questionnaire). Results revealed correlations between perceptual dynamics, reaction times, and Cognitive Impulsiveness, suggesting links between perceptual alternation, cognitive processes, and personality traits. Future research should investigate the common mechanisms underlying these processes and investigate causality and temporal dynamics.","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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 cognitive science of language diversity: achievements and challenges.

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Cognitive Processing Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-025-01262-z

Antonio Benítez-Burraco

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Foraging with your eyes: a novel task to study cognitive strategies involved in (visual) foraging behaviour.

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Cognitive Processing Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-025-01261-0

Matthew Green, Vladislava Segen, Amanda Korstjens, Andrew Isaac Meso, Tessa Thomas, Jan M Wiener

{"title":"Foraging with your eyes: a novel task to study cognitive strategies involved in (visual) foraging behaviour.","authors":"Matthew Green, Vladislava Segen, Amanda Korstjens, Andrew Isaac Meso, Tessa Thomas, Jan M Wiener","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01261-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01261-0","url":null,"abstract":"In this study we introduce a new gaze-contingent visual foraging task in which participants searched through an environment by looking at trees displayed on a computer screen. If the looked-at tree contained a fruit item, the item became visible and was collected. In each trial, the participant's task was to forage for a defined number of fruit items. In two experiments, fruit items were either randomly distributed about the trees (dispersed condition) or organised in one large patch (patchy condition). In the second experiment, we addressed the role of memory for foraging by including a condition that did not require memorising which trees had already been visited by changing their appearance (tree fading). Foraging performance was superior in the patchy as compared to the dispersed condition and benefited from tree-fading. In addition, with further analyses on search behaviour, these results suggest (1) that participants were sensitive to the distribution of resources, (2) that they adapted their search/foraging strategy accordingly, and (3) that foraging behaviour is in line with predictions derived from foraging theories, specifically area-restricted search, developed for large scale spatial foraging. We therefore argue that the visual search task presented shares characteristics and cognitive mechanisms involved in successful large-scale search and foraging behaviour and can therefore be successfully employed to study these mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143469584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Correction: The baby duck syndrome as cognitive bias in user-interface interaction.

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Cognitive Processing Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-025-01259-8

Nadezhda Glebko, Alyona Kharitonova, Ekaterina Kosova, Elena Gorbunova

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Cognitive augmentation: AI-enhanced tools for supporting individuals with cognitive disabilities.

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Cognitive Processing Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-025-01258-9

Mrim M Alnfiai, Nouf Abdullah Alsudairy, Asma Ibrahim Alharbi, Nouf Nawar Alotaibi, Salma Mohsen M Alnefaie

{"title":"Cognitive augmentation: AI-enhanced tools for supporting individuals with cognitive disabilities.","authors":"Mrim M Alnfiai, Nouf Abdullah Alsudairy, Asma Ibrahim Alharbi, Nouf Nawar Alotaibi, Salma Mohsen M Alnefaie","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01258-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01258-9","url":null,"abstract":"Cognitive disabilities significantly impact individuals' ability to navigate daily life, creating challenges in communication, memory, and task performance. This research proposes an AI-enhanced framework integrating neural network technologies and advanced natural language processing algorithms to support individuals with cognitive disabilities. The framework aims to enhance language understanding, memory retention, and overall task efficiency. Its validity is demonstrated through experiments and performance analysis using real-world datasets, showing marked improvements in language comprehension, memory recall, and task execution. Key factors influencing the model's effectiveness include the severity of cognitive impairments, individual cognitive profiles, and the adaptability of AI algorithms. The transformative potential of AI-driven interventions is highlighted, offering personalized, scalable solutions to meet diverse needs. This study contributes to ongoing discussions on leveraging technology to promote independence, inclusion, and quality of life for individuals with cognitive disabilities, laying the groundwork for future advancements in cognitive augmentation and assistive technologies.","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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