{"title":"Five-year-old children with autism spectrum disorders struggle with disengaging attention.","authors":"Wei Wang, Chun Cheng, Zhiyu Xu, Licheng Xue, Wanlu Fu, Jing Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s10339-025-01256-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-025-01256-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is known that individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) exhibit impairments in shifting attention. However, previous studies have primarily focused on school-aged children and adults with ASD. It remains unclear whether attentional shifting impairments emerge at an early age. Additionally, it is uncertain which specific process-engagement or disengagement-is affected in individuals with ASD. This study investigated the time course of attentional shifting in preschool-aged children with ASD using a Posner cue-target paradigm. The cue-target onset asynchrony was systematically manipulated to reveal both the early facilitation effect of attentional capture (i.e., engagement) and the later inhibitory aftereffect, commonly referred to as inhibition of return (IOR). Results showed an early facilitation effect in both ASD and typically developing (TD) children, indicating that ASD children engaged attention to salient spatial locations. In contrast to TD children, no reliable IOR effect was observed in ASD children, suggesting difficulties in disengaging attention. These findings indicate a selective impairment in attentional disengagement among preschool-aged children with ASD and support the need for early intervention programs focusing on attentional shifting.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"415-422"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143068841","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/s10339-024-01240-x
Phillip N Goernert, Hannah T Corenblum, Barry S Corenblum
{"title":"Recalling more each time: context change effects in hypermnesia.","authors":"Phillip N Goernert, Hannah T Corenblum, Barry S Corenblum","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01240-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01240-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hypermnesia, the increase in recall over trials without relearning or re-exposure to the studied items, has intrigued researchers since Ballard first reported the effect in 1913. In the typical hypermnesia study, additional retrieval trials are unexpected, and when announced, may induce context changes that re-focuses attention and effort on retrieving unrecalled items. The present studies examined the effects of context change on retrieval by telling some participants prior to study (trials-known condition) that three trials will be given to recall line drawings (Experiment 1) or words (Experiment 2) whereas others were not so informed (hypermnesia condition). Results of Experiment 1 revealed hypermnesia but no between-group differences on the sub-processes of item gains, losses, or intrusions. In Experiment 2, hypermnesia and between-group differences were found for item gains and intrusions, results that were marginally significant when data were aggregated across both experiments. Results are discussed in terms of the change in cue set hypothesis (Raaijmakers & Shiffrin, 1980) and the effects of internal and external context changes on hypermnesia. Suggestions for future studies are also presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"359-370"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142606593","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: 2024-11-13DOI: 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}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01230-z
Erdi Sümer, Hande Kaynak
{"title":"Age-related decline in source and associative memory.","authors":"Erdi Sümer, Hande Kaynak","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01230-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01230-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This review explores the multifaceted nature of age-related decline in source memory and associative memory. The review highlights the potential effects of age-related decline in these types of memory. By integrating insights from behavioral, cognitive, and neuroscientific research, it examines how encoding, retrieval, and neural mechanisms influence this decline. Understanding these processes is critical to alleviate memory decline in older adults. Directing attention to source information during encoding, employing unitization techniques to strengthen memory associations, and utilizing metacognitive strategies to focus on relevant details show promise in enhancing memory retrieval for older adults. However, the review acknowledges limitations in processing resources and executive function, necessitating a nuanced approach to the complexities of age-related decline. In conclusion, this review underscores the importance of understanding the complexities of age-related source and associative memory decline and the potential benefits of specific cognitive strategies. It emphasizes the need for continued research on age-related memory function to improve the quality of life for aging populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142336954","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 : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-08-30DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01225-w
Huilan Yang, Neng Yang
{"title":"Immorality backward, morality forward? Metaphorical morality in Chinese-English bilinguals.","authors":"Huilan Yang, Neng Yang","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01225-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01225-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explored whether instructing participants to make forward or backward joystick movements in response to morality words is consistent with the conceptual metaphor MORAL IS MOVING FORWARD/IMMORAL IS MOVING BACKWARD in Chinese-English bilinguals' first and second languages. Chinese-English bilinguals were instructed to categorize words as moral or immoral while moving a joystick in a compatible block (moral-forward, immoral-backward) and an incompatible block (moral-backward, immoral-forward). The results revealed three main conclusions: First, participants showed faster categorization of immoral words when their responses involved backward joystick movements compared to forward joystick movements. Second, participants also demonstrated a slightly faster categorization of moral words when their responses involved backward joystick movements compared to forward joystick movements. Third, Chinese morality words were categorized faster overall than English morality words. However, despite a slightly larger effect size observed in L1, the action compatibility effects for morality words exhibited a similar pattern across both languages. In sum, bilinguals showed shared access to the IMMORAL IS MOVING BACKWARD conceptual metaphor across both L1 and L2, but they did not access the MORAL IS MOVING FORWARD conceptual metaphor in either L1 or L2. This study provides new evidence supporting the conceptual metaphor theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"37-50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113440","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 : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-08-30DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01222-z
Catherine Audrin, Géraldine Coppin
{"title":"Food for thought: the enhanced recall of metaphorical food sentences independent of hunger.","authors":"Catherine Audrin, Géraldine Coppin","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01222-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01222-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Metaphorical sentences are assumed to be related to more costly processes than their literal counterparts. However, given their frequent use in our daily lives, metaphorical sentences \"must come with a benefit\" (Noveck et al. Metaphor Symb 16:109-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2001.9678889 , 2001). In this paper, we investigated whether metaphorical sentences were better remembered than their literal counterparts. In addition, we were interested in assessing whether the relevance of the metaphors impacted this recall. Anchoring this hypothesis in the appraisal theory, we hypothesized that food-related metaphorical sentences may be particularly relevant when one is hungry, and consequently, be better remembered in that particular physiological state. Participants were presented with randomized metaphorical sentences and their literal counterparts and were later asked to remember the missing word in both metaphorical and literal sentences. General mixed model analyses revealed that metaphorical sentences were better remembered. However, there was no significant effect of hunger. We discuss these results in relation to (1) the metaphor literature and (2) the appraisal theory of emotion.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"51-57"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11897079/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113439","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}