Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-05-16DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01192-2
Mónica Gutiérrez-Ortega, Aitor Álvarez-Bardón, Esperanza Vergara-Moragues, Javier Tubío, Alejandro González-Andrade
{"title":"Reading abilities in preterm children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Mónica Gutiérrez-Ortega, Aitor Álvarez-Bardón, Esperanza Vergara-Moragues, Javier Tubío, Alejandro González-Andrade","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01192-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01192-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is well recognized that children born preterm have specific learning difficulties. The objective of this study is to carry out a systematic review and meta-analysis on preterm children's reading ability performance. Of the 486 studies identified, 53 met the inclusion criteria, resulting in 143 effect sizes. 33,500 children between 5 and 18 years were included of whom 13,765 were preterm infants and 19,735 were full-term infants. Among preterm-born children without neurodevelopmental disorders significant differences and larger effect sizes were found in the reading subcategories, letter-word knowledge, reading comprehension, and spelling, whereas no significant differences were found in phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming. Extremely preterm children showed larger effect size. The present meta-analysis, which includes a much larger number of studies, shows that preterm children have lower performance than full-term children in reading and spelling. This fact underlines the need to design, develop and implement neuroeducational programs that take into account the characteristics of preterm born students.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"545-565"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140946216","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}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-05-10DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01196-y
Lauren A Morris, Doris G Bazzini, Christopher J Holden, Savannah J Lee
{"title":"The influence of face mask color on perceptions of African American and white men.","authors":"Lauren A Morris, Doris G Bazzini, Christopher J Holden, Savannah J Lee","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01196-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01196-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite their widespread use during the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks hinder abilities to interpret facial expressions. Yet, they can also reduce the appearance of characteristics that are used to categorize individuals into racial groups, such as Afrocentric features. The color of a face mask might also promote associations with certain types of behavior and professional occupations (e.g., blue surgical mask connoting physician stereotypes; black masks potentially being associated with criminality). This study assessed whether the presence and color of a face mask impacted perceptions of a target male of varying race. White participants (N = 250) were presented with an African American or White male adult face from the Chicago Face Database (of equal age and attractiveness) wearing a blue or black surgical mask, or no mask (Photoshopped onto the face) and rated the man on emotions (happy, sad, angry) as well as how trustworthy, threatening, and attractive the target appeared. Targets wearing a blue surgical mask were judged as more trustworthy and attractive than those wearing no mask (perhaps due to association with medical professions), but these judgements were not qualified by race, despite the African American target's selection based on Afrocentric features. The color black on a face mask did not exacerbate negative perceptions of targets, perhaps suggesting a decline effect in previously demonstrated associations between this color and criminal actions. Unlike previous research performed at the beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic on cloth masks shown to potentially exacerbate racial biases, surgical masks (pleated and made of polymeric materials), appear to lessen potential stereotyping of Black relative to White men.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"635-645"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11541368/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140897324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-06-19DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01202-3
Pedro Montejo Carrasco, Mercedes Montenegro-Peña, David Prada Crespo, Inmaculada Rodríguez Rojo, Ana Barabash Bustelo, Borja Montejo Rubio, Alberto Marcos Dolado, Fernando Maestú Unturbe, María Luisa Delgado Losada
{"title":"APOE genotype, hippocampal volume, and cognitive reserve predict improvement by cognitive training in older adults without dementia: a randomized controlled trial.","authors":"Pedro Montejo Carrasco, Mercedes Montenegro-Peña, David Prada Crespo, Inmaculada Rodríguez Rojo, Ana Barabash Bustelo, Borja Montejo Rubio, Alberto Marcos Dolado, Fernando Maestú Unturbe, María Luisa Delgado Losada","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01202-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01202-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive training (CT) programs aim to improve cognitive performance and impede its decline. Thus, defining the characteristics of individuals who can benefit from these interventions is essential. Our objectives were to assess if the cognitive reserve (CR), APOE genotype (e4 carriers/non-carriers) and/or hippocampal volume might predict the effectiveness of a CT program. Participants were older adults without dementia (n = 226), randomized into parallel experimental and control groups. The assessment consisted of a neuropsychological protocol and additional data regarding total intracranial, gray matter, left/right hippocampus volume; APOE genotype; and Cognitive Reserve (CR). The intervention involved multifactorial CT (30 sessions, 90 min each), with an evaluation pre- and post-training (at six months); the control group simply following the center's routine activities. The primary outcome measures were the change in cognitive performance and the predictors of change. The results show that APOE-e4 non-carriers (79.1%) with a larger left hippocampal volume achieved better gains in semantic verbal fluency (R<sup>2</sup> = .19). Subjects with a larger CR and a greater gray matter volume better improved their processing speed (R<sup>2</sup> = .18). Age was correlated with the improvement in executive functions, such that older age predicts less improvement (R<sup>2</sup> = .07). Subjects with a larger left hippocampal volume achieved more significant gains in general cognitive performance (R<sup>2</sup> = .087). In conclusion, besides the program itself, the effectiveness of CT depends on age, biological factors like genotype and brain volume, and CR. Thus, to achieve better results through a CT, it is essential to consider the different characteristics of the participants, including genetic factors.Trial registration: Trial retrospectively registered on January 29th, 2020-(ClinicalTrials.gov -NCT04245579).</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"673-689"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141421405","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}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01207-y
Sara Shahabifar, Aryan Yazdanpanah, Abdol-Hossein Vahabie
{"title":"The effect of an embodied intervention on responsibility: put a load on one's shoulder.","authors":"Sara Shahabifar, Aryan Yazdanpanah, Abdol-Hossein Vahabie","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01207-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01207-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Responsibility is an essential part of our social life. Although responsibility is an abstract concept, it can be represented with concrete ideas through conceptual metaphor. Expressions like \"carry a lot of responsibility,\" \"shoulder the responsibility\" shows that responsibility can be understood as a load on shoulder that one has to carry. Accordingly, this study tests the question that does putting a burden on one's shoulder makes him/her more responsible or not. In order to investigate this, on each trial, we asked participants to decide between risky situations that vary in magnitude, probability of win/lose, and the ambiguity level in two conditions: \"self\" and 'group.\" Each subject wears a vest with a load on each shoulder in half of the trials. As expected, Most of participants choose to defer on the group trials more than on the self-trials. This difference between numbers of deferring in group and self conditions is called responsibility aversion. Results indicate that responsibility aversion scores are lower (responsibility-taking was greater) in the state of wearing the vest than in the form of not wearing the vest significantly. We provided evidence that the abstract concept of responsibility is linked to bodily experiences of feeling load on the shoulder consistent with an embodied cognition theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"613-620"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890466","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}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-05-13DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01198-w
Ezgi Palaz, Hakan Çetinkaya, Zeynep Tuncali, Bengi Kamar, Seda Dural
{"title":"Practice-induced SNARC: evidence from a null-SNARC sample.","authors":"Ezgi Palaz, Hakan Çetinkaya, Zeynep Tuncali, Bengi Kamar, Seda Dural","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01198-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01198-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The mental representation of numbers inherently involves a spatial organization, often positioning smaller numbers to the left and larger numbers to the right. The SNARC effect, characterized by faster responses to small numbers using the left hand and vice versa for large numbers, is typically attributed to this left-to-right oriented mental number line (MNL). However, the direction of the SNARC effect seems to rely on reading direction, with most research exploring these mechanisms conducted within left-to-right reading cultures where the SNARC effect is prevalent. This study takes advantage of a sample from a left-to-right reading culture that does not exhibit the SNARC effect, allowing us to isolate and elucidate the stand-alone effects of recent experiences on SNARC. Therefore, the current study aims to investigate how MNL-compatible and MNL-incompatible practices induce an effect within a sample lacking the SNARC effect. To accomplish this, we reinvited the individuals from the sample which had previously shown no SNARC, and retested those who agreed to take part in the current study after an MNL-compatible or MNL-incompatible practice manipulation. The findings revealed an absence of the SNARC effect with MNL-compatible practices. Conversely, MNL-incompatible practices yielded a reverse SNARC effect. These results prompt a discussion on SNARC mechanisms within the framework of practice effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"601-612"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140910894","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}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01200-5
Xinchi Yu, Ernst Pöppel, Weidong Zhan, Yan Bao
{"title":"Cognitive entailments among \"the true, the good, the beautiful\": a mainland Chinese sample.","authors":"Xinchi Yu, Ernst Pöppel, Weidong Zhan, Yan Bao","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01200-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01200-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Philosophers and cognitive scientists have long debated about the entailments among \"the true, the good, the beautiful\" (TGB hereafter). In the current article, we directly probed mainland Chinese subjects' cognitive entailment among TGB. Using 1-7 (Experiment 1) and 1-6 (Experiment 2) Likert scales, we convergently observed that mainland Chinese subjects tend to think that the beautiful is not the true, and that the good is the beautiful. Additionally, Experiment 1 also revealed that mainland Chinese subjects tend to think that the true is not the beautiful. Some of these results may reflect anthropological universals, and some others may reflect cultural specifics. Experiment 3 revealed that the most popular translation of TGB in Chinese into English is rather \"the true, the kind, the beautiful\", suggesting that the three concepts mapped to TGB in Chinese is not one-to-one mapped to the three concepts mapped to TGB in English. Therefore, caution should be exercised when making cross-linguistic or cross-cultural comparisons about TGB in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"647-654"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141176655","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}
Marcos Felipe Rodrigues de Lima, Luciano Grüdtner Buratto
{"title":"Testing the dual-memory framework: individual differences in the magnitude of the retrieval practice effect and fluid intelligence","authors":"Marcos Felipe Rodrigues de Lima, Luciano Grüdtner Buratto","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01228-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-024-01228-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Retrieving information from memory enhances long-term retention. In this manuscript, we describe the dual-memory framework, which makes interval-scale predictions of the magnitude of this <i>retrieval practice effect</i>. After outlining the framework, we use data from our laboratory—both at the group level and at the distribution level—to fit the equations from the dual-memory framework. Overall, we successfully fitted the model predictions to the observed average data. In addition, we compared the predicted and the observed distributions of performance in the retrieval practice condition. More importantly, we introduce a useful approach to simulate empirical scenarios and test the relationship between individual-difference variables and the retrieval practice effect. We illustrate the application of this approach using data from a study that measured fluid intelligence. Future studies may benefit from contrasting different strength-based frameworks.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142252649","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 effect of cognitive intervention program on intelligence scores in preschool","authors":"Hatice Kübra Koçak","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01224-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-024-01224-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Dynamic assessment is an approach that aims to improve student performance through interventions. One of the important application areas of dynamic assessment is the assessment of intelligence. Within the scope of the study, after a Cognitive intervention program (CIP) was developed, its effects on intelligence scores were examined with a quasi-experimental research method. The CIP was prepared by adopting a dynamic assessment approach to improve the performance of students with expert support. This improvement would be provided by the clues and feedback given during the intervention within the scope of the CIP. The sample of the study included 173 students in the 5–6 age group (83 experimental group, 90 control group). The CIP developed by the researcher consisted of 54 worksheets and was applied to the experimental group for 9 weeks. The implementation of the worksheets was supervised by classroom teachers. The digital application of the Anadolu-Sak Intelligence Scale (d-ASIS) and Raven’s colored progressive matrices (RCPM) were applied to both the experimental and control groups as pretests and posttests. The increases in the intelligence scores of the experimental and control groups were analyzed by MANOVA. The analysis showed that the intelligence levels of the experimental group increased significantly more than the control group in terms of both d-ASIS and RCPM total gain scores (posttest to pretest). This result indicated that the CIP, which was developed by adopting a dynamic assessment approach, supported cognitive development.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142178728","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":"Abstracts and authors of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Segmentation and Binding in Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2024).","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01218-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01218-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"3-47"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142005537","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}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01214-z
Christoph von der Malsburg
{"title":"How are segmentation and binding computed and represented in the brain?","authors":"Christoph von der Malsburg","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01214-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01214-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A programmatically described solution to the segmentation problem is taken as opportunity to dicuss the neural architecture problem of vision. At the center of this problem is the formation of holistic entities (the Gestalt phenomenon) out of masses of neurons (the binding problem). As formulated in the Dynamic Net Architecture (DNA), neurons can become part of a (short-term) stable state only if supported inside a coherent network ('net'). Integration into nets is the basis for global treatment of structures, such as recognition as rigid body or projection to an invariant model.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"67-72"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141914204","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}