Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2024-11-15DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01249-2
Amsela Hodzic, Abigail R Flynn, Jean M Lamont, Min Khin, Alexandria Grubbs
{"title":"Be kind, don't rewind: trait rumination may hinder the effects of self-compassion on health behavioral intentions after a body image threat.","authors":"Amsela Hodzic, Abigail R Flynn, Jean M Lamont, Min Khin, Alexandria Grubbs","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01249-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01249-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many individuals encounter situations that may elicit body-related concerns and impact how they think and feel about their weight, daily habits, and physical attractiveness. Research shows body image threats can predict poor health behaviors, but approaching those difficult moments with self-compassion-being kind, forgiving, and nonjudgmental-may reduce the impact of that threat and promote engagement in positive health behaviors. However, trait rumination, or tending to perseverate on negative events, may both dampen the benefits of a self-compassionate state and predict poor health behaviors. The present study examined whether a brief self-compassion writing exercise, after recalling a negative body-related event, predicted intent to perform health-promoting behaviors, and whether trait rumination attenuated this relationship. Participants (N = 217) completed a measure of trait rumination, underwent a body image threat, and were randomly assigned to cope with self-compassion or a distraction. Subsequently, participants completed a measure of health behavioral intentions. Analyses revealed participants in the self-compassion condition reported greater health-promoting behavioral intentions compared to control, with no significant main effect of trait rumination. However, a condition-by-rumination interaction emerged, suggesting the self-compassion condition was associated with higher health behavioral intentions, but only for participants with low trait rumination levels. These effects washed out when controlling for participants' self-rated health. The findings suggest that a self-compassion practice can help mitigate the adverse effects of a body image threat and facilitate health-promoting behavioral intentions, although its efficacy may depend on individual levels of trait rumination and perceived health.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"345-357"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142638895","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/s10339-024-01241-w
Jiaqi Wang, Yan Chen, Yue'e Zhang, Shizhong Cai, Aijun Wang, Ming Zhang
{"title":"Impaired emotional multimodal integration in inhibition of return in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.","authors":"Jiaqi Wang, Yan Chen, Yue'e Zhang, Shizhong Cai, Aijun Wang, Ming Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01241-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01241-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder in children. Previous studies have shown that children with ADHD have impaired processing of emotional stimuli, but it is unclear whether their ability to integrate multimodal emotional stimuli is impaired and at which processing pathway this impairment exists. The present study investigated the ability of children with ADHD to integrate emotional audiovisual stimuli under different emotional conditions, and the effect of audiovisual integration on IOR to reveal the impaired processing pathway of their emotional audiovisual integration. Fifty-eight school-age children (29 with ADHD and 29 matched typically developing (TD) children) performed an emotional valence discrimination task with a cue-target paradigm. The results showed that children with ADHD did not exhibit audiovisual integration of emotional stimuli in all experimental conditions. In addition, the IOR effect was significantly smaller for audiovisual targets than for visual targets under the negative but not the neutral emotion condition in children with ADHD, whereas this effect was present in all emotion conditions in TD children. These results indicate that the ability to integrate emotional audiovisual information is impaired in children with ADHD and this impairment exists in both bottom-up and top-down pathways. Additionally, although presenting emotional auditory stimuli at the same time as emotional faces reduced IOR both in children with ADHD and TD, the manner of reduction differed. These findings provide new evidence of emotional processing deficits and multimodal integration deficits in children with ADHD, and help provide support for children in educational settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"389-399"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584675","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: 2024-12-09DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01251-8
Yujie Lu, Jianing Lyu, Xinlin Zhou
{"title":"The effect of a 2-month abacus training on students with developmental dyscalculia.","authors":"Yujie Lu, Jianing Lyu, Xinlin Zhou","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01251-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01251-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Developmental dyscalculia (DD) is a specific mathematics learning disorder, characterized by the atypical development of number sense, arithmetic calculation, and atypical development of brain structures and brain activations in core brain regions for number processing. The current study examined the intervention effect of a 2-month abacus training on DD students. Results showed that compared with the non-trained control group, the DD students with abacus training showed higher scores in number sense, calculation, and sustained attention abilities. Additionally, a larger percentage of students in the abacus group showed improvements in the DD screening tasks compared to the control group. The current finding indicated that abacus training or abacus courses can be used as a tool for further DD intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"401-414"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142802307","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":"Navigating space: how fine and gross motor expertise influence spatial abilities at different scales.","authors":"Narges Shakerian, Saeideh Monjezi, Mostafa Abdollahi Sarvi, Saeed Hesam, Mohammad Mehravar","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01237-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01237-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spatial ability, essential for navigating and interacting with the environment, comprises small-scale (e.g., mental rotation) and large-scale (e.g., spatial navigation) skills. Previous research underscores the influence of motor expertise on these abilities, yet comparative studies among different types of movement experts are limited, especially regarding the impact of gross motor skills on large-scale spatial abilities. This case-control study compared small-scale and large-scale spatial abilities among fine movement experts, gross movement experts, and non-movement experts. Ninety participants (30 per group) were assessed through computer-based spatial ability tests, including the Revised Purdue Spatial Visualization Test (PSVT: R), Mental Rotation Test, a navigation task developed in Unity 3D, and Triangle Completion Test (TCT). Fine movement experts excelled in small-scale spatial tasks compared to non-movement experts. Gross movement experts demonstrated superior large-scale spatial abilities, evidenced by lower errors in TCT and higher navigation scores, distinguishing their performance in spatial navigation and orientation from both fine movement experts and non-movement experts. The study highlights the distinct impacts of fine and gross motor expertise on spatial abilities, with gross motor skills particularly benefiting large-scale spatial navigation. These findings suggest potential clinical applications of gross motor training for improving spatial abilities in neurological populations, advocating for further research in immersive virtual environments and exploring lateral dominance effects on spatial performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"319-329"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630318","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: 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01239-4
Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Marianna Marcella Bolognesi, Tommaso Caselli
{"title":"Specificity ratings for English data.","authors":"Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Marianna Marcella Bolognesi, Tommaso Caselli","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01239-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01239-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A dataset of specificity ratings for English words is hereby presented, analyzed and discussed in relation with other collections of speaker-generated ratings, including concreteness. Both, specificity and concreteness are analyzed in their ability to explain decision latencies in lexical and semantic tasks, showing important individual contributions. Specificity ratings are collected through best-worst scaling method on the words included in the ANEW dataset (Bradley and Lang in Affective norms for English words (ANEW): instruction manual and affective ratings (Tech. Rep.). Technical report C-1, the center for research in psychophysiology, 1999), chosen for its compatibility with many other collections of rating resources, and for its comparability with Italian specificity data (Bolognesi and Caselli in Behav Res Methods 55(7):3531-3548, 2023), allowing for cross-linguistic comparisons. Results suggest that specificity plays an important role in word processing and the importance of taking specificity into consideration when investigating concreteness effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"283-302"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12055903/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142606731","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: 2024-11-13DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01248-3
Yoko Shikata, Tatsunori Matsui
{"title":"Analysis of the impact of different background colors in VR environments on risk preferences.","authors":"Yoko Shikata, Tatsunori Matsui","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01248-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01248-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Metaverse virtual reality (VR) technology offers an environment that provides a sense of presence that cannot be achieved through traditional online interactions. Although this technology is used in education and industry, challenges remain to be overcome for further penetration into society. In this study, we conducted an experiment using a risk preference task in blue and red spaces to verify color impressions and their effects in VR environments. Consistent with previous studies, high calmness was observed in the blue space. However, contrary to expectations, the risk preference task results showed risk-averse behavior in red space but not in blue space. Therefore, conventional color psychology may not be applicable to constructing the same space in a virtual environment. Previous studies have shown consistent experimental results regarding emotional responses to color stimuli; however, no consistent outcomes have been reported regarding cognitive performance. This is because the effect of color impressions is thought to depend not only on the color itself but also on what is recalled. The results of this study suggest that red in a VR environment may be interpreted as a warning color, preventing people from losing focus.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"447-456"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630071","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/s10339-024-01246-5
Yuan Pang, Barry Tse, Wen Liu, Qian Yang
{"title":"The relationship between mindfulness and cognitive reappraisal: the mediating role of emotional and interoceptive awareness.","authors":"Yuan Pang, Barry Tse, Wen Liu, Qian Yang","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01246-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01246-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mindfulness and cognitive reappraisal have been recognized as two useful ways to regulate emotions. The former tends to cultivate an attitude of being open and accepting of emotional events; whereas the latter involves a top-down process of re-interpreting emotional events. However, it is unclear how mindfulness influences cognitive reappraisal. Hence, the current study mainly addressed this research issue by exploring the mediating role of emotional and interoceptive awareness. 372 participants were asked to report dispositional mindfulness, cognitive reappraisal, emotional awareness, and interoceptive awareness by means of corresponding questionnaires. First, we performed the Pearson Correlations among the four factors, then assessed the mediating role of emotional awareness and interoceptive awareness in the link between mindfulness and cognitive reappraisal in separated models. Last, we used structural equation modeling (SEM) to investigate the link when both emotional and interoceptive awareness acted as the mediating variables. Results showed that mindfulness was negatively correlated with cognitive reappraisal, emotional awareness, and interoceptive awareness; whereas emotional awareness, interoceptive awareness, and cognitive reappraisal were positively correlated with each other. Moreover, increased mindfulness had a significantly negative effect on cognitive reappraisal, by reducing emotional and interoceptive awareness separately or successively. Except for the No-worrying factor, the remaining seven factors of interoceptive awareness were significantly loaded onto the latent variable. The result reveals the negative relationship between mindfulness and cognitive reappraisal. This link is mediated by one's emotional awareness and interoceptive awareness independently or successively, which may reflect the intensity of externally-emotional reactivity that signify the need to regulate emotions by means of cognitive reappraisal.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"247-256"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142577104","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: 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01254-5
Gabriele Gianfreda, Elena Giovanelli, Elena Gessa, Chiara Valzolgher, Luca Lamano, Tommaso Lucioli, Elena Tomasuolo, Livio Finos, Francesco Pavani, Pasquale Rinaldi
{"title":"The impact of face masks on metacognition in sign language is mediated by proficiency.","authors":"Gabriele Gianfreda, Elena Giovanelli, Elena Gessa, Chiara Valzolgher, Luca Lamano, Tommaso Lucioli, Elena Tomasuolo, Livio Finos, Francesco Pavani, Pasquale Rinaldi","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01254-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01254-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Face masks can impact processing a narrative in sign language, affecting several metacognitive dimensions of understanding (i.e., perceived effort, confidence and feeling of understanding). However, to what extent this is modulated by sign language proficiency remains an open question. Thirty deaf adults were administered a narrative in Italian Sign Language (LIS), signed in three different visual conditions: no mask, transparent mask, opaque mask. In addition, they completed a Sentence Reproduction Task in LIS (LIS-SRT) to measure their sign language proficiency. Results showed that some of the error types in the LIS-SRT have significant correlations with performance in the comprehension task, revealing external validity for this sentence repetition test. Crucially, while sign language proficiency did not modulate the impact of face-masks on narrative comprehension, the metacognitive outcomes were clearly influenced by the interaction between LIS proficiency and visual conditions. Skilled signers experienced less effort and higher levels of confidence and feeling of understanding, whereas these subjective experiences were greatly impacted by visual conditions in less proficient signers. We discuss these findings in reference to cognitive load, thus also extending the construct of \"listening effort\" to sign languages. In addition, we relate differences in cognitive load in skilled vs. less proficient signers to the ability to extract and process at the same time multiple types of linguistic elements from the flow of signs (multilinear processing of sign language).</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"435-446"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143053959","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: 2024-12-07DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01250-9
Leandros Stefanopoulos, Byoung-Woo Kim, John Sheppard, Emanuel A Azcona, Nicole L Vike, Sumra Bari, Shamal Lalvani, Sean Woodward, Nicos Maglaveras, Martin Block, Aggelos K Katsaggelos, Hans C Breiter
{"title":"Discrete, recurrent, and scalable patterns in non-operant judgement underlie affective picture ratings.","authors":"Leandros Stefanopoulos, Byoung-Woo Kim, John Sheppard, Emanuel A Azcona, Nicole L Vike, Sumra Bari, Shamal Lalvani, Sean Woodward, Nicos Maglaveras, Martin Block, Aggelos K Katsaggelos, Hans C Breiter","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01250-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01250-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Operant keypress tasks in a reinforcement-reward framework where behavior is shaped by its consequence, show lawful relationships in human preference behavior (i.e., approach/avoidance) and have been analogized to \"wanting\". However, they take 20-40 min as opposed to short non-operant rating tasks, which can be as short as 3 min and unsupervised, thus more readily applied to internet research. It is unknown if non-operant rating tasks where each action does not have a consequence, analogous to \"liking\", show similar lawful relationships. We studied non-operant, picture-rating data from three independent population cohorts (N = 501, 506, and 4019 participants) using the same 7-point Likert scale for negative to positive preferences, and the same categories of images from the International Affective Picture System. Non-operant picture ratings were used to compute location, dispersion, and pattern (entropy) variables, that in turn produced similar value, limit, and trade-off functions to those reported for operant keypress tasks, all with individual R<sup>2</sup> > 0.80. For all three datasets, the individual functions were discrete in mathematical formulation. They were also recurrent or consistent across the cohorts and scaled between individual and group curves. Behavioral features such as risk aversion and other interpretable features of the graphs were also consistent across cohorts. Together, these observations argue for lawfulness in the modeling of the ratings. This picture rating task demonstrates a simple, quick, and low-cost framework for quantitatively assessing human preference without forced choice decisions, games of chance, or operant keypressing. This framework can be easily deployed on any digital device worldwide.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"257-281"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12055920/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142792512","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: 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01252-7
Xiaogen Liao, Xueni Li, Chuanbin Ni
{"title":"Does lexical category matter in effects of emotionality on L2 word processing in late proficient Chinese-English bilinguals? An ERP study.","authors":"Xiaogen Liao, Xueni Li, Chuanbin Ni","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01252-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01252-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the effects of emotionality on word processing might be modulated by lexical category, a body of extant literature has tended to obviate the need of considering this factor. In this study, we attempted to address how lexical category modulates the effects of emotionality on L2 word processing. To this end, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from a group of late proficient Chinese-English bilinguals while they performed a lexical decision task with a set of tightly matched negative, positive, and neutral words across three lexical categories (nouns, verbs, adjectives). The results revealed a P2 effect, an N400 effect, as well as an LPC effect for word emotionality. Moreover, an interaction between word emotionality and lexical category occurred within the N400 and LPC time windows over fronto-central electrodes, reflecting that the N400 displayed a smaller amplitude for positive nouns and verbs than for their neutral counterparts, as well as for negative as opposed to neutral adjectives, and that the LPC showed a larger amplitude for positive relative to neutral nouns, as well as for positive and negative adjectives than for their neutral counterparts. These results provide initial electrophysiological evidence for the modulation of lexical category to the emotionality effects on L2 word processing at the different stages and highlight the importance of lexical category in research on L2 emotional word processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"371-387"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142830513","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}