Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2024-11-13DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01242-9
Marie Hindorf, Denise Bäckström, Carl-Oscar Jonson, Anders Jonsson, Peter Berggren
{"title":"Decision-making during training of a Swedish navy command and control team: a quantitative study of workload effects.","authors":"Marie Hindorf, Denise Bäckström, Carl-Oscar Jonson, Anders Jonsson, Peter Berggren","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01242-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01242-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study compared two simulation environments for training of Swedish naval Command and Control teams by using indirect measures, including workload, combat readiness, and situation awareness. The literature explains simulation-based training as providing a safe avenue to practice relevant scenarios. Fidelity, the degree of realism in the simulation, and workload, the equilibrium between demands and assigned tasks, are crucial factors examined in this study of low- and high-fidelity naval simulations. This study was conducted to better understand the effects of various training methods. An experimental design with repeated measures was used with three consecutive escalating parts. The subjective, multidimensional assessment tool, NASA-Task Load Index was used to rate perceived workload. Combat readiness of the ship and mental demand yielded significant results. For combat readiness of the ship, there was a difference between the low and the high-fidelity setting, for the initial part of the scenario p = 0.037 and for the second part p = 0.028. Mental demand was experienced as higher in the low-fidelity setting, p = 0.036. Notably, the simulated internal battle training for onboard command teams in a low-fidelity setting was found to induce a level of stress comparable with that experienced in a high-fidelity setting. The results indicate that low-fidelity training results in a workload not distinguishable from high-fidelity training and has practical implications for increased use of low-fidelity training as part of (naval) command team training programmes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"303-318"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12055869/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630304","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01255-4
Dagmar Linnhoff, René Kaiser, Klaus Mattes, Cornelia Frank
{"title":"Cognitive representation of gait: differences in memory structures between individuals after total knee arthroplasty and total hip arthroplasty.","authors":"Dagmar Linnhoff, René Kaiser, Klaus Mattes, Cornelia Frank","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01255-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01255-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objective was to examine differences in the gait-specific cognitive representation structures between individuals after total knee- (TKA) and after total hip-joint arthroplasty (THA). The cognitive representation structure was compared between three groups: 1. three months after TKA (n = 12), 2. three months after THA (n = 12), and 3. healthy control group (CG) (n = 12) using the structural dimensional analysis of mental representation (SDA-M). Additionally, perceived joint function was rated by either the KOOS, JR. or HOOS, JR. Mean distribution of perceived joint function was not significantly different between the TKA (60.35 ± 11.2) and THA group (68.01 ± 13.8) (t = - 1.425; p = .173). In the cognitive representation structure, the THA group exhibited functional differences from the TKA group and control group, both of which showed a functional structure. Three months after hip joint replacement the gait-specific cognitive representation structure seems to reflect joint function-specific deviations. Therefore, focussing on functional recovery of cognitive gait representation may facilitate gait rehabilitation in individuals after hip replacement.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"423-433"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12055890/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143048201","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2024-12-23DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01253-6
Nadezhda Glebko, Alyona Kharitonova, Ekaterina Kosova, Elena Gorbunova
{"title":"The baby duck syndrome as cognitive bias in user-interface interaction.","authors":"Nadezhda Glebko, Alyona Kharitonova, Ekaterina Kosova, Elena Gorbunova","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01253-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01253-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As technological interfaces are relatively new cultural tools, regular interaction can lead to new psychological phenomena, like the baby duck syndrome, where users favor old interfaces over updates. This syndrome is seen as a cognitive bias in human-computer interaction. Two studies were conducted: Study 1 on an Airbnb app (old vs. new versions), and Study 2 on a self-developed website (blue vs. purple design). Subjects completed sequential five usability tasks in two blocks with the resting between. Experimental groups engaged with different interface versions, while control groups used the same one. After completing tasks, subjects filled questionnaires about interface interaction. Study 1 showed significantly higher preference for the old Airbnb version, though scores varied by group. Study 2 revealed a trend of reduced scores in experimental groups on second assessment, not seen in controls. Version-based rating differences were insignificant. Overall, Studies 1 and 2 indicated baby duck syndrome is challenging to study in labs, suggesting it emerges when users are genuinely engaged with the interface. This article has both theoretical and experimental significance for studying the emergence of psychological phenomena in human-digital interaction. As a practical application, the obtained results can be useful for correct development updates for interfaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"457-470"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142877892","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2024-11-05DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01243-8
Panpan Zheng, Zhenyong Lyu
{"title":"The impact of fear of pain on the temporal processing of emotional faces: modulation of attentional resources.","authors":"Panpan Zheng, Zhenyong Lyu","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01243-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01243-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent research has focused on the spatial attention bias toward pain-related cues in individuals with fear of pain (FOP), but our understanding of its temporal attention features, particularly regarding emotional faces, is limited. To address this gap, 39 individuals with high fear of pain (H-FOP) and 37 with low fear of pain (L-FOP) completed a rapid serial visual presentation dual task. Participants viewed a series of rapidly presented pictures, first identified neutral building images as the first target (T1) and then emotional faces (painful, neutral, and happy) as the second target (T2). T1 and T2 presented at time intervals of 232 ms (lag 2) and 696 ms (lag 6), respectively. Results indicate that H-FOP group members were less accurate in recognizing faces at lag 2 shortly after correctly identifying T1 compared to those L-FOP group members. Notably, all participants were more accurate in recognizing painful faces at lag 2 than in identifying neutral and happy faces, suggesting a negative bias toward pain stimuli when attentional resources were limited. In contrast, at lag 6, when attentional resources were more abundant, participants showed greater accuracy in recognizing neutral faces than emotional faces. These findings underscore the influence of fear of pain and available cognitive resources on the attentional processing of emotional faces over time, providing insights into how fear of pain affects the temporal dynamics of emotional face recognition and the role of attentional resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"237-245"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584678","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":"Cross-cultural adaptation of the questionnaire on self-reported olfactory functioning and olfaction-related quality of life (ASOF) into Farsi.","authors":"Behnaz Jafari, Hamideh Hosseini, Johann Lehrner, Jamshid Jamali, Seyed Reza Mazlom, Raheleh Babazadeh","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01267-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01267-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research aimed to translate and assess the psychometric characteristics of the abbreviated Self-Reported Olfactory Functioning and Olfaction-Related Quality of Life (ASOF) among Iranian Farsi-speaking individuals. This tool development study, initiated after receiving authorization from the original questionnaire's corresponding author, involved the translation of the ASOF questionnaire using the forward-backward method, in line with the World Health Organization's standards. The research was conducted quantitatively, incorporating minor modifications in the Farsi version of the questionnaire items to ensure cultural relevance. The validity of the questionnaire, including face, content, and structural aspects, was evaluated. The internal consistency was measured using Cronbach's alpha. Acceptable levels were observed in the item impact score, content validity index, and content validity ratio across all questionnaire items based on data from 30 healthy participants. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients for self-reported olfactory function and olfactory quality of life assessment were 0.906 and 0.943, respectively, falling within a permissible range. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the three-factor structure of the ASOF questionnaire, as evidenced by standard factor loadings and goodness of fit indices, using a sample of 120 patients. The study concludes that the Farsi version of the ASOF questionnaire is a reliable and valid tool. It can effectively be used to assess a broad spectrum of olfactory disorders and olfaction-related quality of life in Farsi-speaking populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144045044","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}
Elsa Hammerdahl, Nicole Vazquez, Brittany R Alperin
{"title":"Clinically relevant aspects of thought across psychological disorders.","authors":"Elsa Hammerdahl, Nicole Vazquez, Brittany R Alperin","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01271-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01271-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thought-related features are prevalent within psychopathologies, with around 50% of psychiatric disorders including aspects of thought in their diagnostic criteria. Even among higher levels of transdiagnostic work and a stronger focus on thought-related phenomenon, a gap remains between cognitive and clinical fields. Here, we aimed to bridge the gap between these two fields by providing a high-level organization of the most prevalently studied mental health-related aspects of thought. In this review, we surveyed the thought literature with a focus on clinical disorders with thought-related phenomena in their diagnostic criteria. From our review we identified three high level dimensions of thoughts: the content of thought, the dynamics of thought, and the relationship to thought. Within each of these levels, we then expanded on the specific aspects of thought highlighted in the cognitive and clinical literature. Identification of these categorical themes will help to isolate the specific aspects of thought driving the persistence of mental health disorders. Knowledge of the underlying cognitive mechanisms that drive disorder-related impairment can then be used to create more effective and targeted interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144057596","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":"Inhibitory control and memory guided planning during early childhood.","authors":"Tashauna L Blankenship, Que Anh Pham","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01270-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01270-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Flexibly using memories to guide planning behavior is critical for typical functioning, yet little is known of how this ability emerges and the mechanisms supporting performance. The current study examined children's ability to generalize during memory-guided planning in a sample of 76 preschoolers (24 2-year-olds, M = 32.21 months, SD = 2.21, 12 girls; 27 3-year-olds, M = 41.37 months, SD = 3.50, 17 girls; and 25 4-year-olds, M = 54.64 months, SD = 3.29, 6 girls). Results suggested that 3 and 4-year-olds can flexibly apply a memory from one context to another, while 2-year-olds struggle to generalize. Further, individual differences in inhibitory control predicted performance during memory-guided planning, providing a potential mechanism supporting its early development.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144006434","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}
Elena Artemenko, Anastasiia Zhitkova, Maksim Terpilowsky
{"title":"In the blink of an eye: behavioural correlates of the confirmation bias effect.","authors":"Elena Artemenko, Anastasiia Zhitkova, Maksim Terpilowsky","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01268-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01268-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The confirmation bias effect-a well-documented cognitive bias in decision-making-is widely discussed in the literature. It refers to the tendency for information to be perceived as more credible when it aligns with personal beliefs, and less credible when it does not. Several studies have demonstrated that confirmation bias is associated with an increase in cognitive load, primarily due to the discomfort caused by cognitive dissonance. Since previous research has established a relationship between cognitive load and oculomotor behaviours, such as eye blink rate, one approach to detect confirmation bias is through the analysis of these oculomotor correlates. The present study aimed to explore the relationship between confirmation bias effect, cognitive load and participants' eye movement activity. To investigate potential behavioural correlates, the laboratory eye-tracking experiment was conducted. Participants (N = 52, 1705 observations) read short social media text messages with different valence (approving and disapproving), which either matched or conflicted with their pre-existing attitudes toward the topic. All stimuli were counterbalanced. Eye blink rate was measured as the dependent variable. The results indicated that the confirmation bias effect was indeed associated with changes in oculomotor activity. Specifically, there was a significant increase in eye blink rate for stimuli that were incongruent with participants' beliefs, and a decrease in blink frequency for congruent stimuli.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143796631","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}
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":"<p><p>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.</p>","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}