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Longitudinal relationships between visuospatial working memory, verbal counting and number line knowledge in preschoolers. 学龄前儿童视觉空间工作记忆、言语计数和数轴知识的纵向关系。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02142-z

Sandra Pellizzoni, Federica Granello, Alessandro Cuder, Eleonora Doz, Maria Chiara Passolunghi

{"title":"Longitudinal relationships between visuospatial working memory, verbal counting and number line knowledge in preschoolers.","authors":"Sandra Pellizzoni, Federica Granello, Alessandro Cuder, Eleonora Doz, Maria Chiara Passolunghi","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02142-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02142-z","url":null,"abstract":"Number line knowledge is widely recognized as a strong predictor of children's math achievement. In this longitudinal study, we investigated the interplay between domain-general (i.e., visuospatial working memory) and domain specific indicators (i.e., verbal counting, one-to-one counting) of number line knowledge in children attending the second and third year of preschool. A total of 135 children underwent assessments in two phases (T1 and T2), five months apart. At T1 children were tested on visuospatial WM, verbal counting, one-to-one counting, and number line knowledge. At T2, the evaluation of number line knowledge was repeated. Path analysis revealed that children's visuospatial WM predicted number line knowledge at T2, both directly and indirectly through the mediators of verbal counting and number line knowledge at T1. Findings suggest visuospatial WM is essential for acquiring number line knowledge and that verbal counting may serve as a strategy for estimating number positions in number line tasks. The implications of these findings for early math education in preschool settings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 3","pages":"108"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144217309","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}

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Was the study time allocation based on expectation-maximization in value-test likelihood tradeoff situation? 在价值测试可能性权衡的情况下，学习时间分配是否基于期望最大化？

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02141-0

Hui Xu, Yue Chu, Xiuya Li, Ruoyu Hou, Weihai Tang, Xiping Liu

{"title":"Was the study time allocation based on expectation-maximization in value-test likelihood tradeoff situation?","authors":"Hui Xu, Yue Chu, Xiuya Li, Ruoyu Hou, Weihai Tang, Xiping Liu","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02141-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02141-0","url":null,"abstract":"When preparing for entrance exams, learners often face limited study time and need to allocate it by making trade-offs among items with varying combinations of scores and test likelihoods. This study explored how learners allocate study time under time constraints by establishing a trade-off situation with three types of items: low score-high test likelihood, high score-low likelihood, and medium score-medium likelihood. The learners needed to allocate study time to the items. Experiment 1 found that participants allocated the most study time to medium score-medium likelihood items rather than to those with the highest scores or likelihood. They also allocated equal time to low score-high likelihood and high score-low likelihood items despite their differing expected scores. It suggests that under short time constraints, learners did not rely solely on expected scores to allocate study time. In actual learning processes, the influence of difficulty cannot be overlooked. Therefore, Experiment 2 examined whether item difficulty affected the allocation strategy. Results indicated that even with varying difficulty levels, learners did not base their decisions entirely on expected scores. To rule out the possibility that the 5-second time constraint was too short to allocate study time based on expected utility, Experiment 3 extended the study time but found that learners still did not allocate time according to expected utility under longer time constraints. It suggests that learners consider both scores and test likelihoods; however, their allocation process is not completely based on the expected scores. These findings contradict the expected utility theory.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 3","pages":"107"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144209946","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}

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Attention on demand: Do people strategically heighten control when distraction is expected but rare? 关注需求：当分散注意力的可能性很小时，人们会策略性地加强控制吗？

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02131-2

Christopher O Nuño, Merve Ileri-Tayar, Julie M Bugg

{"title":"Attention on demand: Do people strategically heighten control when distraction is expected but rare?","authors":"Christopher O Nuño, Merve Ileri-Tayar, Julie M Bugg","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02131-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02131-2","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: People reliably relax cognitive control in response to pre-cues signaling a low likelihood of distraction (e.g., mostly congruent lists). However, there is limited evidence that people heighten control when pre-cued that distraction is likely (e.g., mostly incongruent lists). One possible explanation for this asymmetry pertains to floor effects in mostly incongruent lists, where interference is minimal even without pre-cues. Hence, we examined whether individuals would heighten control in mostly congruent lists-where control is typically relaxed-when given pre-cues and novel instructions emphasizing the difficulty posed by infrequent but disruptive incongruent trials.Method: In Experiments 1a and 1b, participants performed a color-word Stroop task with mostly congruent and mostly incongruent lists and encountered informative or uninformative pre-cues before each list. Instructions highlighted the difficulty of performing well in mostly congruent lists (1a) or mostly incongruent lists (1b). In Experiment 2, we additionally tested whether forming implementation intentions would enhance pre-cue use and facilitate on-demand control.Results: Comparisons across Experiments 1a and 1b provided modest evidence that participants heightened control in response to pre-cues in mostly congruent lists. Experiment 2 found no additional benefit from implementation intentions.Conclusion: These findings suggest that perhaps individuals can heighten control on demand when distraction is infrequent but nonetheless disruptive, which may be critical given the potential to be caught off-guard in such conditions. However, other factors beyond list composition seem to contribute to the limited evidence of an on-demand heightening of control.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 3","pages":"106"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144192341","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}

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An examination of how reward associations facilitate and impair Stroop performance. 关于奖励联想如何促进和损害Stroop表现的研究。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02135-y

Brent Pitchford, Karen M Arnell

{"title":"An examination of how reward associations facilitate and impair Stroop performance.","authors":"Brent Pitchford, Karen M Arnell","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02135-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02135-y","url":null,"abstract":"Rewarded stimuli are prioritized by the attentional system. Behavioral performance is improved when the task-relevant dimension is tied to a potential reward but is impaired when the irrelevant dimension is reward related. Within the rewarded Stroop task, the facilitation (reward responsiveness) and impairment (modulation of interference of reward association; MIRA) from reward-associated stimuli are thought to be due to different cognitive processes. In four experiments, we explored whether reward responsiveness and MIRA were influenced by reward magnitude and persisted following reward discontinuation. We manipulated how informed participants were of the stimulus-reward contingency based on whether they received stimulus-reward color instructions and whether or not the stimulus-reward contingency was certain (i.e., one color was always tied to one reward outcome). Results suggest that greater reward magnitude increased reward responsiveness, especially when participants were informed about the stimulus-reward contingency. However, greater impairment (MIRA) by a large versus small reward related color word was only observed when participants had little knowledge of the reward contingency (i.e., no instructions and a more uncertain mapping of stimuli to rewards) or during the extinction phase when reward associated colors were less relevant. These findings highlight the distinction between reward responsiveness to maximize gains and the unintentional prioritization of related but irrelevant information and suggest that reward associations that elicit greater reward responsiveness do not necessarily lead to greater impairment of conflict processing.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 3","pages":"105"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144175378","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}

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Even with exposure to errors, motor imagery cannot update internal models. 即使暴露在错误中，运动意象也不能更新内部模型。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02138-9

Juliet M Rowe, Brooke C Cramer, Shaun G Boe

{"title":"Even with exposure to errors, motor imagery cannot update internal models.","authors":"Juliet M Rowe, Brooke C Cramer, Shaun G Boe","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02138-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02138-9","url":null,"abstract":"Recent evidence suggests that motor imagery is insufficient for updating internal models, essential for predicting and refining overt movement outcomes. The covert nature of motor imagery limits exposure to errors, perhaps preventing the updating of internal models. To explore this, 90 participants were exposed to a prism that shifted vision leftward, completing 20 physical pointing trials followed by either 230 more physical pointing trials [physical practice (PP)], 230 imagined pointing trials [physical practice motor imagery (PP-MI)], 230 unrelated task trials [physical practice control (PP-CTRL)], or no further trials [physical practice none (PP-None)]. We hypothesized that if exposure to errors is needed for motor imagery to update internal models, then PP-MI would exhibit aftereffects, characterized by pointing opposite to the prism shift (i.e., rightwards), similar to PP, but differing from PP-CTRL and PP-None. After prism exposure, all groups showed significant aftereffects (PP: 4.73° ± 2.12°, PP-MI: 2.62 ± 1.61, PP-CTRL: 2.58 ± 1.53, PP-None: 3.11 ± 1.68), however there were no significant differences in the magnitude of aftereffects between PP-MI, and PP-CTRL/PP-None. Our findings demonstrate that motor imagery alone is insufficient for updating internal models, even when participants are initially exposed to errors under a prism shift. This further reinforces that motor imagery is not a direct simulation of overt movement, as proposed by Motor Simulation Theory- the foundation for its use in rehabilitation. Deepening our understanding of how learning occurs through motor imagery is crucial for enhancing its effectiveness in practical applications like rehabilitation.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 3","pages":"104"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144162889","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}

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Retrospective attention: Examining temporally specific retrospective reports of mind wandering and engagement during online video lectures. 回顾性注意力：检查在线视频讲座中暂时特定的思维走神和专注的回顾报告。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02133-0

Samantha Ayers-Glassey, Effie J Pereira, Jeffrey D Wammes, Daniel Smilek

{"title":"Retrospective attention: Examining temporally specific retrospective reports of mind wandering and engagement during online video lectures.","authors":"Samantha Ayers-Glassey, Effie J Pereira, Jeffrey D Wammes, Daniel Smilek","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02133-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02133-0","url":null,"abstract":"Attention typically fluctuates on a moment-to-moment basis and often declines over time-on-task during online video lectures. We explored people's retrospective reports of specific moments of their prior states of mind wandering and engagement. Undergraduate participants reported in-the-moment levels of either mind wandering (n = 79) or engagement (n = 77) while watching two 15 min video lectures. Then, they were shown short clips from the videos as cues to retrospectively report their levels of mind wandering or engagement from their initial viewing of those specific sections. Finally, participants completed a short content quiz. We found that (a) typical time-on-task effects generally occurred for both in-the-moment and retrospective reports of mind wandering and engagement; (b) there was high temporal concordance between individuals' retrospective and in-the-moment ratings of both mind wandering and engagement; and (c) performance on the content quiz was correlated with both in-the-moment and retrospective reports of mind wandering and engagement. These findings suggest that individuals can retrospectively report their prior states of both mind wandering and engagement with temporal accuracy. These reports could be based on specific recollections of prior attentional states or inferences made from the video clips used to cue recall.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 3","pages":"103"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144152417","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}

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Is the future ahead or behind? How emotions influence the perception of front - back temporal orientation. 未来是超前还是落后？情绪如何影响前后时间取向的知觉。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02137-w

Weirui Xiong, Yuchen Lv, Lu Yu

{"title":"Is the future ahead or behind? How emotions influence the perception of front - back temporal orientation.","authors":"Weirui Xiong, Yuchen Lv, Lu Yu","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02137-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02137-w","url":null,"abstract":"The perception of temporal front - back orientation is critically important in human cognition; however, emotions' specific influence on this perception remains unclear. In this study, two experiments, namely, the task of classifying time concept and task of starting search, were conducted to investigate how emotions affect the perception of orientation before and after time. Sixty Chinese subjects were recruited for each experiment, and happy and sad emotions were induced in the subjects by recalling and imagining emotions. The results revealed that participants in the positive emotion group showed no significant preference for any spatiotemporal metaphor mapping, while those in the negative emotion group demonstrated a marked preference for the \"past-in-front, future-behind\" spatiotemporal metaphor mapping, indicating a tendency to perceive the future as behind them. In addition, in the happy mood, starting the concept of future time stimulates the attention bias to the front position, while starting the concept of past time makes individuals pay more attention to the back position. Under the sad mood, starting the concept of future time stimulates the attention bias to the back position. This study provides empirical evidence and insights into the influence of negative emotions on the perception of temporal orientation and its cognitive characteristics, with potential applications in behavioral interventions and psychological therapies related to temporal cognition.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 3","pages":"102"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144129243","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}

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Assessing visuospatial perception in clinical and healthy populations: Test-retest reliability and smallest real difference of hill steepness estimation and the distance-on-hill task in virtual reality. 评估临床和健康人群的视觉空间感知：虚拟现实中陡度估计和距离-山上任务的重测信度和最小真实差异

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02125-0

Erin MacIntyre, Mirinda M Whitaker, Felicity A Braithwaite, Jeanine K Stefanucci, Tasha R Stanton

{"title":"Assessing visuospatial perception in clinical and healthy populations: Test-retest reliability and smallest real difference of hill steepness estimation and the distance-on-hill task in virtual reality.","authors":"Erin MacIntyre, Mirinda M Whitaker, Felicity A Braithwaite, Jeanine K Stefanucci, Tasha R Stanton","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02125-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02125-0","url":null,"abstract":"Theories of embodied perception posit that the visuospatial perception of one's environment is not only bound by features of the environmental itself, but also by the body capacity and affective state of the individual. Hill steepness and distance estimation tasks are widely used to assess the influence of physiological and psychological factors on visuospatial perception, but their test-retest reliability and measurement error are unknown. Such information is important to contextualise repeated measures study designs and understanding individual level differences. We aimed to evaluate the test-retest reliability and establish the smallest real difference (SRD) of three commonly used visuospatial perception tasks (ascending and descending hill steepness estimation, the distance-on-hill task) in healthy controls (n = 33) and people with painful knee osteoarthritis (n = 33). All participants completed the virtual reality visuospatial perception tasks two times, one week apart. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC), Bland-Altman plots, and SRD were used to evaluate the tasks. Our results revealed that both hill steepness estimation tasks are suitable for repeat administration in both populations given excellent reliability (uphill ICC = 0.80 to 0.85; downhill ICC = 0.89 to 0.90) and high sensitivity to change (uphill SRD = 17.7 to 18.9 degrees; downhill SRD = 12.1 to 14.7 degrees). The distance-on-hill task may have limited utility due to its poor reliability (ICC = 0.29 to 0.38) and low sensitivity to change (SRD = 6.20 to 8.5 m). Our findings provide methodological support for the use of hill steepness tasks as a measure of visuospatial perception in embodied perception research.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 3","pages":"101"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12092535/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144112475","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}

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Olfactory training and metacognitive aspects of olfaction in children aged 6-9 years: a preliminary study. 6-9岁儿童嗅觉训练和嗅觉元认知方面的初步研究。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02127-y

Anna Oleszkiewicz, Marta Rokosz, Lukasz Gargula, Daniel Marek, Paulina Nawrocka, Aleksandra Reichert, Kornelia Zienkiewicz, Barbara Zyzelewicz, Agnieszka Sorokowska

{"title":"Olfactory training and metacognitive aspects of olfaction in children aged 6-9 years: a preliminary study.","authors":"Anna Oleszkiewicz, Marta Rokosz, Lukasz Gargula, Daniel Marek, Paulina Nawrocka, Aleksandra Reichert, Kornelia Zienkiewicz, Barbara Zyzelewicz, Agnieszka Sorokowska","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02127-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02127-y","url":null,"abstract":"People differ in terms of olfactory abilities and awareness of ambient odors. Olfactory training (OT), a method primarily devoted to the rehabilitation of the sense of smell, has been found to have a positive effect on various olfactory and cognitive abilities. Here, addressing an important gap in the literature, we tested experimentally whether odor awareness and significance in young children can be enhanced through standardized OT. Additionally, we explored whether OT can improve odor identification skills and verbal fluency. A sample of 101 children (52 girls) aged between 6 and 9 years (M = 7.62 ± 0.61) took part in a 12-week OT, preceded and followed by psychophysical and questionnaire testing. Of these, 57 children were assigned to the experimental group who bi-daily smelled four odors (rose, eucalyptus, lemon and cloves), and 44 children to the placebo group who received odorless samples. Odor significance and awareness score slightly increased, and this improvement was more pronounced in the experimental group. The effect was present in the group that presented lower odor awareness at baseline, suggesting that OT may be particularly effective in children who have lesser experience with odors. OT affected neither the odor identification nor the verbal fluency. We conclude that in children, especially those who have less experience with odors, OT procedure might have certain effects on metacognitive aspects of olfaction. More studies are needed to assess the exact effects of OT on metacognitive olfactory development.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 3","pages":"100"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12092523/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144112477","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}

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Enhancing memory through physical activity: beneficial effect on internal memory strategy use in older adults. 通过体育活动增强记忆：对老年人内部记忆策略使用的有益影响。

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Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02132-1

Ilona Moutoussamy, Laurence Taconnat, Hajer Kachouri, Florent Pinard, Séverine Fay

{"title":"Enhancing memory through physical activity: beneficial effect on internal memory strategy use in older adults.","authors":"Ilona Moutoussamy, Laurence Taconnat, Hajer Kachouri, Florent Pinard, Séverine Fay","doi":"10.1007/s00426-025-02132-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-025-02132-1","url":null,"abstract":"The aim was to evaluate the use of an internal strategy (i.e., subjective organization) in relation to physical activity (PA) level in older adults. We expected (1) an effect of age on memory performance and subjective organization, in favor of younger adults, and (2) an association between PA and memory performance and between PA and organization index, particularly in older adults. Forty-five younger (M = 27.58 yo) and 45 older adults (M = 71.49 yo) learned a list of 19 semantically unrelated concrete nouns and took three consecutive recalls. An index was calculated from the order in which the words were recalled (pairwise frequency index, PFI). Participants reported their PA over the past year. Three General Linear Models were conducted to examine: (1) the effect of age and PFI on memory, (2) the effect of age and PA on memory, and (3) the effect of age and PA on PFI. Mediation analyses tested whether subjective organization (PFI) mediated the relationship between PA and memory recall. Younger adults recalled more words and used more subjective organization than older adults. In both age groups, those with better memory performance also used more subjective organization. Positive correlations were found between PA and memory performance in both younger and older adults, and between PA and subjective organization only in older adults. The mediation analysis revealed that PA's effect on memory was partially mediated by subjective organization, explaining 39% of the effect. The present study revealed that higher PA level in older adults was associated with increased recall and use of subjective organization strategy, addressing a gap in understanding the benefits of PA on memory during aging. The results are discussed in terms of the possible implication of executive functions, particularly for their role in implementing effective memory strategies during encoding.","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"89 3","pages":"99"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144081412","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}

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