{"title":"Psychophysical dissection of temporal error monitoring.","authors":"Tutku Öztel, Fuat Balcı","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01302-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01302-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The recent line of research robustly demonstrated that humans and rodents can keep track of the magnitude and direction of timing errors, composing a temporal error monitoring ability (TEM). However, the degree of dissociation between these two measures of TEM has not been investigated at the level of the underlying mental magnitude metrics. Specifically, we do not know whether the two behavioral manifestations of TEM differentially rely on subjective vs. objective time, whether the discriminability of time intervals relies on ratio and absolute differences, respectively. To this end, we first tested whether behavioral manifestations of TEM depend on relative (cognitive timing) or absolute timing errors (sensorimotor timing). In light of our earlier findings showing differential metacognitive processing of timing errors as a function of different levels of agency, we also tested whether the potential information processing differences in TEM measures differ across different levels of agency of timing errors? In two different datasets, we found that magnitude and direction monitoring of timing errors relied on the absolute (i.e., arithmetic/linear) and relative (i.e., ratio) distances, respectively. These effects were more pronounced for owned versus unowned errors for timing error magnitude monitoring and timing error direction monitoring, respectively. Together, this study demonstrated that the timing error direction monitoring relies more on cognitive timing, whereas error magnitude monitoring relies more on sensorimotor timing.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145201661","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}
{"title":"Visual complexity and frequency of graphemes in amharic: implications for dyslexics and dysgraphics.","authors":"Abebayehu Messele Mekonnen, R Malatesha Joshi","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01295-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01295-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145201679","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}
{"title":"The impact of vividness of visual imagery on the construction of multi-dimensional situation models by second language learners.","authors":"Ran Tang, Qichao Song, Norio Matsumi","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01304-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01304-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates how Chinese native speakers learning Japanese as a second language construct situation models across five dimensions, i.e., protagonist, time, space, causality, and intentionality, while reading Japanese narratives, and how visual imagery vividness affects this process. Employing a generalized linear mixed-effects model, we conducted an analysis of verb-clustering data. The results showed that (1) the protagonist, time, and space dimensions played significant roles in constructing situation models in Chinese learners of Japanese, while the causality and intentionality dimensions did not have significant impacts; (2) the construction of situation models in L2 learners' reading was influenced by visual imagery vividness. Learners with higher visual imagery vividness were better able to construct accurate situation models when the protagonist and space dimensions were discontinuous. The findings provide new insights into understanding the cognitive processing mechanisms of second-language learners and suggest that visual imagery vividness plays a crucial role in the construction of situation models. This research offers empirical support for optimizing teaching strategies of second-language reading.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145151244","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}
{"title":"Sleep patterns and short-term memory performance among Saudi university students: a structural equation modelling approach.","authors":"Reshaa F Alruwaili, Abdullah Abdulrahman Alasmari","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01293-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01293-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145066113","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}
Tommaso Lamarra, Caterina Villani, Marianna M Bolognesi
{"title":"Specificity effect in concrete/abstract semantic categorization task.","authors":"Tommaso Lamarra, Caterina Villani, Marianna M Bolognesi","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01286-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01286-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Concrete concepts (banana) are processed faster and more accurately than abstract ones (belief). This phenomenon, supported by empirical studies, is known as the concreteness effect. However, recent research indicates that controlling certain psycholinguistic variables can mitigate or reverse this effect. We introduce a previously neglected variable, namely categorical specificity, and investigate its role in lexical and semantic access, through: ratings, a lexical decision task and a semantic decision task. Our findings confirm the processing advantage of concrete over abstract concepts (concreteness effect) and reveal a similar advantage for specific over general concepts (specificity effect). We also report a non-significant interaction between the two variables. We discuss the results within the general framework of conceptual abstraction.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974120","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}
Annalisa Risoli, Alessandro Antonietti, Laura Colautti, Sara Magenes, Giulia Purpura, Leonardo Fogassi
{"title":"Sense and Mind method: an innovative methodological approach to embodied rehabilitation.","authors":"Annalisa Risoli, Alessandro Antonietti, Laura Colautti, Sara Magenes, Giulia Purpura, Leonardo Fogassi","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01299-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01299-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As neurorehabilitation research expands, it is crucial to ensure that scientific findings are integrated into neurorehabilitation clinical practice. Building on evidence about embodied cognition, this paper proposes an innovative method called Sense and Mind (SaM), designed for individuals with neurodevelopmental and acquired neurocognitive and neuromotor impairments. It aims to rehabilitate spatial cognition and executive functions from the patient's bodily experience. A description of the theoretical bases of the SaM method is provided. Theory construct involves neuroscientific evidence relative to embodied cognition, movement and action, spatial representation, mental imagery, and executive functions.Furthermore, a description of the methodological structure is outlined, allowing for interventions with the patient at different levels of complexity and with various goals through a restitutive approach, ranging from programming voluntary movement to constructing and using mental images. Through different goal-directed activities based on multimodal sensory experiences, the SaM method focuses on recovering executive functions, which are crucial for daily life. The SaM method, through an individualised approach based on each patient's psychomotor profile, can be helpful for neuromotor and neuropsychological rehabilitation of several types of disabilities. Further studies are necessary to investigate its efficacy on larger samples of patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974445","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}
{"title":"Unmasking mental distress: exploring the spectrum of cognitive distortions associated with symptoms of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation.","authors":"Yaqian Shi, Yingxian Zhang, Lei Lei","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01301-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01301-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous studies found that individuals with mental illness may have cognitive distortions. However, their findings are far from conclusive since most research focused on depression while less attention was paid to other mental illnesses such as anxiety and suicidal ideation. In addition, differences in cognitive distortions across individuals with different mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation remain underexplored. To address these issues, this study investigated 12 types of cognitive distortions in individuals with symptoms of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation based on an analysis of their language use patterns on social media. The analysis yielded several findings of interest. First, individuals with symptoms of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation showed significantly higher cognitive distortions than those without mental illness. More specifically, they were characterised by significantly higher cognitive distortions of dichotomous reasoning, labelling and mislabelling, overgeneralizing, and personalizing. Second, individuals with symptoms of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation differ from one another in cognitive distortions. Individuals with more severe symptoms of mental illness have higher cognitive distortions such as dichotomous reasoning. These findings have significant clinical implications for the diagnosis of and prevention of mental illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974145","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}
{"title":"Effects of audiovisual temporal synchronization on visual experience of the non-dominant eye.","authors":"Hikari Takebayashi, Yuji Wada","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01296-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01296-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Audiovisual integration occurs automatically and affects visual processing. This study aims to investigate whether temporally synchronized auditory signals enhance monocular signals during binocular observation. In Experiment 1, 16 participants performed a visual target localization task. A mirror stereoscope was used to present a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) stream of distractors to both eyes, with a visual target inserted in either both eyes, the dominant eye, or the non-dominant eye. Continuous low tones synchronized with distractors were paired with the target as either the same low tone (non-salience) or a high tone (salience). Detection facilitation rates by tone type were analyzed through multiple comparisons. Results showed a significant detection enhancement only when the target appeared in the non-dominant eye. In Experiment 2, involving 16 participants, a similar RSVP was presented, but with an orientation discrimination task for parafoveally presented texture stimuli comprising 17 vertical Gabor patches. The angle and proportion of tilted patches were manipulated simultaneously, and logistic regression was used to estimate orientation discrimination thresholds. Contrary to predictions, salient tones did not reduce the thresholds. These findings suggest that temporally synchronized auditory signals can selectively enhance the monocular processing of weaker visual signals (i.e., non-dominant eye signals) before binocular fusion, particularly for spatial localization. However, these effects did not extend to the identification of visual content (i.e., orientation) or stable visual signals (i.e., dominant or binocular). The results highlight the role of audiovisual integration in supporting unstable monocular signals and suggest potential applications in low vision training.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974441","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}
Nicola Matteucci Armandi Avogli Trotti, Micaela Maria Zucchelli, Andrea Pavan, Laura Piccardi, Raffaella Nori
{"title":"How does reasoning influence intentionality attribution in the case of side effects?","authors":"Nicola Matteucci Armandi Avogli Trotti, Micaela Maria Zucchelli, Andrea Pavan, Laura Piccardi, Raffaella Nori","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01300-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01300-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To evaluate others' actions objectively, one must integrate the actor's mental states with the potential consequences of his actions. However, consequences can distort the perception of intentionality. The Knobe effect, or \"side-effect effect,\" demonstrates that individuals attribute greater intentionality to negative than positive foreseen yet unintended side effects. This study explores how reasoning styles and abilities influence these judgments. A sample of 172 college students completed validated reasoning style questionnaires, including the Rational-Experiential Inventory (REI) and the Actively Open-Minded Thinking scale (AOT), a syllogistic reasoning task, and scenario-based tasks in a randomized, between-subjects design (negative vs. positive side effect). Our findings reveal that a more deliberative reasoning style and longer response times both reduce bias in attributing intentionality to negative side effects, highlighting two distinct pathways through which response times mediate the influence of reasoning style on reducing biased judgments. We explore how reasoning affects our attributions of intentionality leading to a more balanced consideration of an actor's mental state and the consequences in moral judgment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974379","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}
Chen Zhang, Ming Tang, Rajasirpi Subramaniyan, Yuewei Jiang, Yehua Sheng
{"title":"Bidimensional regression and order relations: evaluating sketch maps with various spatial knowledge and distortions.","authors":"Chen Zhang, Ming Tang, Rajasirpi Subramaniyan, Yuewei Jiang, Yehua Sheng","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01298-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01298-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sketch maps are the external representations of people's cognition of the geographical environment. Previous research on extracting invariant information from sketch maps has proposed various spatial relation methods, encompassing both qualitative and quantitative relations. However, sketch maps can encode varieties of spatial knowledge and distortions. This paper summarizes the frequently occurring distortions in urban sketch maps, such as shape, scale, and position distortions. Building on our previous work, we analyzed the differences caused by various distortions on bidimensional regression and order relations (Point Algebra and coarse Interval Algebra), and summarized the characteristics of these methods. We evaluated the methods on a total of 30 sketch maps derived from landmark knowledge, route knowledge, and survey knowledge, and provided recommendations on the use of methods for different types of sketch maps. Furthermore, the experiment demonstrated that combining bidimensional regression and order relations allows for a better assessment of the sketch map accuracy. We believe that an in-depth analysis of various types of sketch maps and distortions can provide new insights for sketch map alignment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144875997","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}