{"title":"Acute psychological stress facilitates the forgetting of neutral but not negative information.","authors":"Xiangyu Liu, Heming Gao, Mingming Qi","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02163-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02163-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated whether psychological stress influences the directed forgetting (DF) effect for neutral and negative information. The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) was adopted to induce acute stress. Subsequently, both the stress and control groups performed a modified directed forgetting (DF) task. Results showed that, (1) For both neutral and negative items, the recognition rate was higher for the to-be-remembered (TBR) items than for the to-be-forgotten (TBF) items, a typical DF effect in both groups. (2) A reduced DF effect was found for the negative items than for the neutral items in the stress group, but not in the control group. (3) Compared to the control group, a lower recognition performance of TBF items, as well as an enhanced DF effect, was found in the stress group for neutral items but not for negative items. These results demonstrated that acute psychological stress could facilitate the memory control process of neutral, but not negative information.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144838273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The cost of simplicity: comparing sounds in the lab vs. everyday environment.","authors":"Andrés E Elizondo López, Michael Schutz","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02130-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02130-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How do the sounds encountered in lab-based experiments compare with those heard in everyday listening? A detailed survey of non-speech auditory perception stimuli from 1000+ experiments in prominent journals showed approximately 90% are simplistic tones with minimal temporal variation (Schutz & Gillard Scientific Reports, 10(1) 9520, 2020). To contextualize that finding, here we apply a similar framework for classifying a corpus of everyday sounds drawn from two sources: (a) recordings intentionally selected to represent common sound events organized by Norman-Haignere et al. Neuron, 88(6) 1281-1296, (2015), and (b) recordings from two million + YouTube videos by Gemmeke et al. (2017). We found that 87% of non-speech sounds in this sample exhibit complex, time-varying characteristics-which are found in less than 11% of non-speech auditory perception stimuli. As these results provide clear documentation of a profound disconnect between what the auditory system encounters in everyday listening and how it is studied in laboratories, we conclude by reviewing an emerging body of research exploring ways in which sounds lacking temporal complexity fail to fully reveal the auditory system's limits and capabilities. This demonstrates the risks inherent in attempting to draw generalized conclusions about the auditory system from a body of research focused overwhelmingly on a single type of stimulus.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"131"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144817952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qian Xu, Zhaoqi Hu, Nan Wu, Moqian Tian, Juan Xu, Shixiang Liu, Shu Mou
{"title":"Extrafoveal processing of happy face relies on visual awareness in hearing-impaired adults.","authors":"Qian Xu, Zhaoqi Hu, Nan Wu, Moqian Tian, Juan Xu, Shixiang Liu, Shu Mou","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02164-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02164-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit. Deaf adults outperform hearing adults in terms of the visual processing of extrafoveal moving stimuli and fearful facial expressions, probably due to compensatory mechanisms. However, it remains unresolved whether these enhanced visual abilities also apply to happy facial expressions, which are the most universally recognized and prioritized prosocial signals among all the facial expressions. To address this question, we aimed to investigate hearing-impaired adults' processing of happy faces at unconscious (Experiment 1) and conscious (Experiment 2) levels. In Experiment 1, we paired backward-masked faces with supraliminal faces in both visual fields and asked participants to perform a go/no-go task only for the supraliminal faces. Results revealed that the discrimination of visible emotional faces (either happy or neutral) was modulated by the facial expressions of the backward-masked faces in the opposite visual field. The emotionally congruent condition showed higher accuracy than the incongruent condition. However, this effect was observed only for participants whose visual awareness of backward-masked faces was above the chance level in the final awareness check task. Results of Experiment 2 demonstrated that the conscious processing of happy faces remained intact in hearing-impaired adults, as reflected in the happy-face recognition advantage in reaction time. Overall, these findings imply that extrafoveal happy face processing relies on visual awareness in hearing-impaired adults. The present study provides insights into the visual perception ability of facial expressions in the hearing-impaired population.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"130"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144800634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lisa R Fournier, Shikha Prashad, Hannah Mouradian, Andrew Y Paek
{"title":"Will you precrastinate? Sensitivity to potential performance costs and effort in chronic cannabis users and non-users.","authors":"Lisa R Fournier, Shikha Prashad, Hannah Mouradian, Andrew Y Paek","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02139-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02139-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examined whether those who chronically use cannabis (chronic users), compared to those who do not use cannabis (non-users), tend to precrastinate (start or complete a subgoal as soon as possible) and engage in reactive (vs. proactive) decision-making incurring greater potential costs in task performance and perhaps costs in cognitive and physical effort. Participants walked down a hallway and retrieved two full cups of water (one near and one far from their starting position) in the order of their choice and carried both back to their start location with the goal of not spilling. First-cup choice (near or far) and attributions of first-cup choice were recorded. Counter to expectations, chronic users tended to choose the far cup first (i.e., avoided precrastination), the more efficient choice, and this tendency was not different from non-users. Participants' attributions confirmed that those who chose the far cup first likely engaged in proactive decision-making while those who chose the near cup first likely engaged in reactive decision-making. Additionally, chronic users and non-users utilized proactive control in the AX-Continuous Performance Task even though chronic users had lower short-term and working memory span scores. These results contradict research suggesting chronic users (vs. non-users) are more impulsive, lack inhibitory control, tend to invest physical effort regardless of reward, and tend not to invest cognitive effort for reward. We suggest that chronic cannabis use may not impair decision making as profoundly as previously thought if individuals are motivated by potential consequences of their decisions in tasks with low memory demand.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"129"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144785650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do exergame training affect college students' spatial working memory? The differential role of cognitive engagement and exercise intensity.","authors":"Chaoxin Ji, Jianqian Sun, Lianzhong Cao","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02157-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02157-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study examines how cognitive engagement and exercise intensity in exergame training differentially enhance spatial working memory (SWM) accuracy and reaction time among college students.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>156 college students were equally divided into four groups: low cognition-high intensity group (LCHI, 28 males and 11 females), high cognition-high intensity group (HCHI, 28 males and 11 females), low cognition-low intensity group (LCLI, 27 males and 12 females) and high cognition-low intensity group (HCLI, 28 males and 11 females). Each groups underwent exergame training, which was divided into a total of 8 weeks, 2 times per week, and the participants' SWM was assessed at four time points: baseline (T1), after one time of exergame training (T2), after 4 weeks of exergame training (T3), after 8 weeks of exergame training (T4).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A single session of exercise training was able to improve participants' SWM. Exercise intensity and cognitive engagement had different effects in college students' SWM, higher exercise intensity significantly reduced SWM reaction time, while higher cognitive engagement significantly improved SWM accuracy.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>High cognitive engagement improved SWM accuracy, while high exercise intensity reduced reaction time. Exergame training with high cognitive engagement and high exercise intensity had the best effect on improving college students' SWM.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"127"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144692057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inhibition and updating share common resources: Bayesian evidence from signal detection theory and drift diffusion model.","authors":"Yuhong Sun, Yaohui Lin, Shangfeng Han","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02160-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02160-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inhibition and updating are fundamental cognitive functions in humans, yet the nature of their relationship-whether shared or distinct-remains ambiguous. This study investigates the relationship between inhibition and updating within a unified task framework using a novel paradigm that integrates the N-back task with the congruent/incongruent Stroop task, creating conditions that require either updating alone or both inhibition and updating. Employing Signal Detection Theory (SDT) and the hierarchical drift diffusion model (HDDM), the results provided overall extremely strong Bayesian evidence that participants exhibited longer response times and lower accuracy in conditions requiring both inhibition and updating, compared to those requiring only updating. SDT analysis revealed a decline in discriminability, while HDDM analysis showed slower drift rates, longer non-decision times and a lower decision threshold in inhibition-demanding conditions. Even after controlling for the congruency sequence effect and current stimulus attributes, the results remained robust, showing a larger inhibition effect size compared to the traditional Stroop task. These findings suggest that inhibition consumes cognitive resources, impairing updating performance, and implying that both functions may rely on shared cognitive resources. Overall, the results elucidate the relationship between these fundamental executive functions, supporting the notion that inhibition and updating share cognitive resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"128"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144692059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zeynep G Özkan, Jukka Hyönä, Maria Fernández-López, Manuel Perea
{"title":"How does vertical reading affect saccade programming and lexical processing in the Roman script?","authors":"Zeynep G Özkan, Jukka Hyönä, Maria Fernández-López, Manuel Perea","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02154-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02154-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although computational models of eye movement control in reading have focused on horizontal text layouts, vertically oriented text is also encountered in daily life in the Roman script. To examine the interplay between saccade programming and lexical processing under vertical reading in the Roman script, we manipulated (1) the layout of words in a sentence (horizontal vs. vertical) and (2) word frequency (high vs. low). In the vertical layout, the words themselves remained in standard orientation but were arranged vertically (one below the other). Eye-movement measures at the sentence level (e.g., total reading time, number of fixations) showed a cost for the vertical arrangement, primarily reflected in longer fixation durations rather than a greater number of fixations. Critically, at the target-word level, the word-frequency effect -which increased in later eye-fixation measures (gaze duration, total time)- remained similar in size across both layouts. The additive pattern of word frequency and text layout, supported by Bayes factors, suggests that slower saccade programming in the vertical format does not substantially impact lexical processing. While lexical processing can influence saccade programming, delays in saccade programming do not, in turn, alter lexical processing-a pattern that constrains current models of eye movement control in reading.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"125"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12283434/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144692058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David J C Smith, Philip Furley, Fabian Wunderlich, Herbert Heuer, Daniel Memmert
{"title":"The perils of the first try: experimental evidence for visuomotor calibration in darts and hammering.","authors":"David J C Smith, Philip Furley, Fabian Wunderlich, Herbert Heuer, Daniel Memmert","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02161-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02161-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Task such as hammering or throwing darts involve intentional actions performed with the anticipation of a desired effect that requires precision to achieve success. Visual perception of the goal, defined in an external frame of reference, plays a crucial role in specifying movement parameters in a body-centered frame of reference. Physical interruption of the task decouples the internal and external frames of reference leading to rapid performance decrements. Motor calibration, as noted by the 'Calibration Effect', is the fine-tuning of motor commands following performance-related feedback in the external frame of reference. Here we test the calibration effect with non-skilled populations in both a sport specific and an everyday type of task, darts and hammering. Participants performed 20 rounds of five attempts of hitting a goal with a stable bodily position. Between rounds they moved around to perturb the fine tuning. The first repetition within a round of repeated attempts was less accurate than the subsequent attempts within that same round, even if controlling for gradual learning effects. Thus, the calibration effect, a rapid component of warm-up, is present both in professional athletes and unskilled dart players as well as in everyday activities such as hammering.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"126"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12283878/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144692060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is Kiki angry and Bouba happy? Association between emotions, shapes, and sounds.","authors":"Lari Vainio, Xinyuan Mo, Martti Vainio","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02158-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02158-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research has shown that particular shapes and speech sounds have common higher-order emotional properties, which might mediate associating angular shapes with kiki-like words and round shapes with bouba-like words, resulting in the so-called kiki-bouba effect. However, research supporting this account has mostly recruited explicit association tests to investigate whether people link particular emotions with these shapes and pseudo-words. This study investigated whether the kiki-bouba effect, observed in the implicit association test, can be similarly based on these emotional mediation processes. We found that the explicit and implicit association tests robustly produced a link between angular shape and angry facial expressions, whereas the round shape was associated with happy and calm facial expressions. In contrast, aurally presented kiki and bouba-like words were associated with these facial expressions in the explicit association test but not in the implicit association test. These observations suggest that people process implicitly the emotional properties of angular/round shapes, while they do not automatically process the emotional properties of the perceived kiki/bouba-like words when the task emphasizes implicit association processes. Consequently, we propose that the kiki-bouba effect, which is observed in explicit association tests, can be partially based on emotional mediation processes. In contrast, the kiki-bouba effect, which is based on implicitly operating association processes, is not likely to be based on emotional mediation processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"124"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12259753/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144627463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The influence of emotion regulation strategy on covert and overt retrieval practice effects.","authors":"Qi Zhang, Xiaofeng Ma","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02159-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02159-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research has examined how emotion regulation influences human memory in the context of negative emotional stimuli. However, the specific impact of emotion regulation on the retrieval practice effects, particularly covert and overt formats, remains unclear. This study conducted three experiments to investigate how two commonly used emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) affect the covert and overt retrieval practice effects. In Experiment 1, a modified retrieval practice paradigm was employed with a 3 (emotion regulation strategy: cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, control) × 2 (learning condition: retrieval practice vs. restudy) mixed-design. The results revealed that cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression differentially affected the retrieval practice effect. Moreover, Experiments 2 and 3 investigated how different emotion regulation strategies influence the effects of both overt and covert retrieval practice. The results not only replicated the findings from Experiment 1 but also revealed that cognitive reappraisal effectively mitigated the disruptive effects of negative emotion on both overt and covert retrieval practice. In sum, cognitive reappraisal was a successful emotion regulation strategy that improved retrieval practice processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 4","pages":"123"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144620906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}