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The role of action effects in motor sequence planning and execution: exploring the influence of temporal and spatial effect anticipation. 动作效应在动作序列规划与执行中的作用:探讨时空效应预期的影响。
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Psychological Research Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Epub Date: 2021-06-29 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-021-01525-2
Rachel M Brown, Erik Friedgen, Iring Koch
{"title":"The role of action effects in motor sequence planning and execution: exploring the influence of temporal and spatial effect anticipation.","authors":"Rachel M Brown,&nbsp;Erik Friedgen,&nbsp;Iring Koch","doi":"10.1007/s00426-021-01525-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01525-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Actions we perform every day generate perceivable outcomes with both spatial and temporal features. According to the ideomotor principle, we plan our actions by anticipating the outcomes, but this principle does not directly address how sequential movements are influenced by different outcomes. We examined how sequential action planning is influenced by the anticipation of temporal and spatial features of action outcomes. We further explored the influence of action sequence switching. Participants performed cued sequences of button presses that generated visual effects which were either spatially compatible or incompatible with the sequences, and the spatial effects appeared after a short or long delay. The sequence cues switched or repeated across trials, and the predictability of action sequence switches was varied across groups. The results showed a delay-anticipation effect for sequential action, whereby a shorter anticipated delay between action sequences and their outcomes speeded initiation and execution of the cued action sequences. Delay anticipation was increased by predictable action switching, but it was not strongly modified by the spatial compatibility of the action outcomes. The results extend previous demonstrations of delay anticipation to the context of sequential action. The temporal delay between actions and their outcomes appears to be retrieved for sequential planning and influences both the initiation and the execution of actions.</p>","PeriodicalId":501681,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research","volume":" ","pages":"1078-1096"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00426-021-01525-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39119260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Self-other distinction modulates the social softness illusion. 自我-他人区分调节了社会柔软错觉。
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Psychological Research Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Epub Date: 2021-06-25 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-021-01549-8
Maria Pyasik, Elisabetta Fortunato, Olga Dal Monte, Selene Schintu, Francesca Garbarini, Tommaso Ciorli, Lorenzo Pia
{"title":"Self-other distinction modulates the social softness illusion.","authors":"Maria Pyasik,&nbsp;Elisabetta Fortunato,&nbsp;Olga Dal Monte,&nbsp;Selene Schintu,&nbsp;Francesca Garbarini,&nbsp;Tommaso Ciorli,&nbsp;Lorenzo Pia","doi":"10.1007/s00426-021-01549-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01549-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The social softness illusion (i.e., the tendency to perceive another person's skin as softer than our own) is thought to promote the sharing of social-emotional experiences because of the rewarding properties of receiving and giving social affective touch. Here we investigated whether the ability to distinguish someone else's body from our own modulates the social softness illusion. In particular, we tested whether the spatial perspective taken by the participants and seeing or not the touched arms could alter this illusion. Pairs of female participants were assigned the roles of either the giver (i.e., delivering the touches) or the receiver (i.e., being touched). We manipulated the location of the touch (palm or forearm), the spatial perspective of the receiver's body with respect to the giver's body (egocentric or allocentric perspective), and the vision of the touched body part (the giver could either see both her own and the receiver's body part, or she was blindfolded). Consistently with previous findings, the skin of another person was perceived as softer than the own one. Additionally, the illusion was present for both the forearm and the palm, and it was stronger in allocentric compared to the egocentric perspective (i.e., when the self-other distinction was clearer). These findings show that the mechanisms underpinning the ability to represent another person's body as distinct from our own modulates the social softness illusion, and thus support the role of the social softness illusion in fostering social relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":501681,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research","volume":" ","pages":"1165-1173"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00426-021-01549-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39128706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Daily mindfulness training reduces negative impact of COVID-19 news exposure on affective well-being. 每日正念训练可减少COVID-19新闻曝光对情感幸福感的负面影响。
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Psychological Research Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Epub Date: 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-021-01550-1
Julia W Y Kam, Javeria Javed, Chelsie M Hart, Jessica R Andrews-Hanna, Lianne M Tomfohr-Madsen, Caitlin Mills
{"title":"Daily mindfulness training reduces negative impact of COVID-19 news exposure on affective well-being.","authors":"Julia W Y Kam,&nbsp;Javeria Javed,&nbsp;Chelsie M Hart,&nbsp;Jessica R Andrews-Hanna,&nbsp;Lianne M Tomfohr-Madsen,&nbsp;Caitlin Mills","doi":"10.1007/s00426-021-01550-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01550-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>COVID-19 has led to mental health adversities worldwide. The current study examined whether daily practice of brief mindfulness training has a beneficial impact on affective well-being, and mitigates the negative impact of exposure to COVID-19 news during the pandemic. Participants were randomly assigned into a mindfulness training (MT) group or a waitlist control (WC) group. Participants in the MT group practiced guided mindfulness meditation for a minimum of 10 min each day for 10 days. Both groups completed questionnaires assessing well-being at baseline and after the 10-day period. We also included four ecological momentary assessments (EMA) interspersed throughout the day to measure fine-grained affective states and recent exposure to COVID-19-related news, which has been linked to negative affect. We observed an increase in positive affect in the MT group compared to the WC group in the post-training assessment. However, no group differences emerged in the other three post-training affective measures of negative affect, anxiety and depression. EMA revealed that the MT group also showed more positive affective valence than the WC group across the 10 days. Notably, the WC group reported more negative affective valence following COVID-19 news exposure, whereas the MT group was not impacted. Taken together, our study indicates brief sessions of guided mindfulness meditation during COVID-19 may boost positive affect and serve as a protective buffer against the negative impact of exposure to COVID-19-related news on affective well-being. These findings highlight the utility of mindfulness meditation as an accessible and cost-effective technique to elevate positive affect amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":501681,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research","volume":" ","pages":"1203-1214"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00426-021-01550-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39122768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 14
Age-related post-error slowing and stimulus repetition effect in motor inhibition during a stop-signal task. 停止信号任务中与年龄相关的错误后减缓和刺激重复对运动抑制的影响。
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Psychological Research Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Epub Date: 2021-06-23 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-021-01551-0
Howard Muchen Hsu, Shulan Hsieh
{"title":"Age-related post-error slowing and stimulus repetition effect in motor inhibition during a stop-signal task.","authors":"Howard Muchen Hsu,&nbsp;Shulan Hsieh","doi":"10.1007/s00426-021-01551-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01551-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aims to investigate how older adults react to a failed-inhibition error while performing a stop-signal task. That is, whether elderly people would exhibit enlarged post-error slowing and whether such slowing revealed an adaptive process, maladaptive process, or a mixture of maladaptive followed by adaptive processes. This study also addresses if the post-error process might further interact with a stimulus repetition effect based on the memory retrieval explanation. A group of 34 younger adults (age range 20-30 years) and a group of 34 older adults (age range 60-80 years) were included for the analyses. The results of the current study supported a mixture model by showing that older adults exhibited a larger post-error slowing than younger adults, and their post-error slowing was initially accompanied by deceased accuracy that then increased on the subsequent trial. Furthermore, such post-error slowing on older adults only occurred in the trial condition where the stimulus was repeated from the previous trial suggesting a memory-based process (a form of negative priming) involved in post-error processes. The implication of the current finding is that older adults might maintain the ability to detect and monitor the response error, yet their post-error adjustment might require a much longer time to start functioning well after the initial detrimental orienting response to the error and the entire process was memory-based.</p>","PeriodicalId":501681,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research","volume":" ","pages":"1108-1121"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00426-021-01551-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39099342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Inhibition and individual differences in behavior and emotional regulation in adolescence. 青少年行为和情绪调节的抑制与个体差异。
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Psychological Research Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Epub Date: 2021-08-07 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-021-01565-8
Chiara Malagoli, Carlo Chiorri, Laura Traverso, Maria Carmen Usai
{"title":"Inhibition and individual differences in behavior and emotional regulation in adolescence.","authors":"Chiara Malagoli,&nbsp;Carlo Chiorri,&nbsp;Laura Traverso,&nbsp;Maria Carmen Usai","doi":"10.1007/s00426-021-01565-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01565-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Impulsivity/Reflexivity issue in inhibitory control ability has seldom been investigated in terms of individual differences in typically developing populations. Although there is evidence of changes in executive functioning (EF), including inhibition, in adolescence, very little is known about the role of individual differences. Using the data from 240 14-to-19-year-old high school students who completed a battery of EF tasks (Flanker, Go No-Go, Antisaccade, and Stop signal task), measures of emotion regulation strategies and behavioral difficulties, we performed a latent profile analysis to identify qualitatively distinct score profiles. The results showed the existence in adolescence of two inhibition profiles, Impulsive vs Reflexive, differing in performances at the inhibition tasks. The two profiles were not associated with socio-demographic characteristics, or to psychological variables, such as behavioral characteristics and emotional regulation strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":501681,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research","volume":" ","pages":"1132-1144"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9090849/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39288210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
The loci of Stroop effects: a critical review of methods and evidence for levels of processing contributing to color-word Stroop effects and the implications for the loci of attentional selection. Stroop效应的基因座:对色字Stroop效应的加工水平及其对注意选择基因座的影响的方法和证据的批判性回顾。
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Psychological Research Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Epub Date: 2021-08-13 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-021-01554-x
Benjamin A Parris, Nabil Hasshim, Michael Wadsley, Maria Augustinova, Ludovic Ferrand
{"title":"The loci of Stroop effects: a critical review of methods and evidence for levels of processing contributing to color-word Stroop effects and the implications for the loci of attentional selection.","authors":"Benjamin A Parris,&nbsp;Nabil Hasshim,&nbsp;Michael Wadsley,&nbsp;Maria Augustinova,&nbsp;Ludovic Ferrand","doi":"10.1007/s00426-021-01554-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01554-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite instructions to ignore the irrelevant word in the Stroop task, it robustly influences the time it takes to identify the color, leading to performance decrements (interference) or enhancements (facilitation). The present review addresses two questions: (1) What levels of processing contribute to Stroop effects; and (2) Where does attentional selection occur? The methods that are used in the Stroop literature to measure the candidate varieties of interference and facilitation are critically evaluated and the processing levels that contribute to Stroop effects are discussed. It is concluded that the literature does not provide clear evidence for a distinction between conflicting and facilitating representations at phonological, semantic and response levels (together referred to as informational conflict), because the methods do not currently permit their isolated measurement. In contrast, it is argued that the evidence for task conflict as being distinct from informational conflict is strong and, thus, that there are at least two loci of attentional selection in the Stroop task. Evidence suggests that task conflict occurs earlier, has a different developmental trajectory and is independently controlled which supports the notion of a separate mechanism of attentional selection. The modifying effects of response modes and evidence for Stroop effects at the level of response execution are also discussed. It is argued that multiple studies claiming to have distinguished response and semantic conflict have not done so unambiguously and that models of Stroop task performance need to be modified to more effectively account for the loci of Stroop effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":501681,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research","volume":" ","pages":"1029-1053"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00426-021-01554-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39309408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 23
Context dependency of time-based event-related expectations for different modalities. 不同模态下基于时间的事件相关期望的语境依赖性。
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Psychological Research Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Epub Date: 2021-07-28 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-021-01564-9
Felix Ball, Julia Andreca, Toemme Noesselt
{"title":"Context dependency of time-based event-related expectations for different modalities.","authors":"Felix Ball,&nbsp;Julia Andreca,&nbsp;Toemme Noesselt","doi":"10.1007/s00426-021-01564-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01564-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Expectations about the temporal occurrence of events (when) are often tied with the expectations about certain event-related properties (what and where) happening at these time points. For instance, slowly waking up in the morning we expect our alarm clock to go off; however, the longer we do not hear it the more likely we already missed it. However, most current evidence for complex time-based event-related expectations (TBEEs) is based on the visual modality. Here we tested whether implicit TBEEs can act cross-modally. To this end, visual and auditory stimulus streams were presented which contained early and late targets embedded among distractors (to maximise temporal target uncertainty). Foreperiod-modality-contingencies were manipulated run-wise: visual targets either occurred early in 80% of trials and auditory targets occurred late in 80% of trials or vice versa. Participants showed increased sensitivity for expected auditory early/visual late targets which increased over time while the opposite pattern was observed for visual early/auditory late targets. A benefit in reaction times was only found for auditory early trials. Together, this pattern of results suggests that implicit context-dependent TBEEs for auditory targets after short foreperiods (be they correct or not) dominated and determined which modality became more expected at the late position irrespective of the veridical statistical regularity. Hence, TBEEs in cross-modal and uncertain environments are context-dependent, shaped by the dominant modality in temporal tasks (i.e., auditory) and only boost performance cross-modally when expectations about the event after the short foreperiod match with the run-wise context (i.e., auditory early/visual late).</p>","PeriodicalId":501681,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research","volume":" ","pages":"1239-1251"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00426-021-01564-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39231672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Anticipation of aversive visual stimuli lengthens perceived temporal duration. 对厌恶视觉刺激的预期延长了感知的时间持续时间。
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Psychological Research Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Epub Date: 2021-08-06 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-021-01559-6
Ville Johannes Harjunen, Michiel Spapé, Niklas Ravaja
{"title":"Anticipation of aversive visual stimuli lengthens perceived temporal duration.","authors":"Ville Johannes Harjunen,&nbsp;Michiel Spapé,&nbsp;Niklas Ravaja","doi":"10.1007/s00426-021-01559-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01559-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Subjective estimates of elapsed time are sensitive to the fluctuations in an emotional state. While it is well known that dangerous and threatening situations, such as electric shocks or loud noises, are perceived as lasting longer than safe events, it remains unclear whether anticipating a threatening event speeds up or slows down subjective time and what defines the direction of the distortion. We examined whether the anticipation of uncertain visual aversive events resulted in either underestimation or overestimation of perceived duration. The participants did a temporal bisection task, where they estimated durations of visual cues relative to previously learnt long and short standard durations. The colour of the to-be-timed visual cue signalled either a 50% or 0% probability of encountering an aversive image at the end of the interval. The cue durations were found to be overestimated due to anticipation of aversive images, even when no image was shown afterwards. Moreover, the overestimation was more pronounced in people who reported feeling more anxious while anticipating the image. These results demonstrate that anxiogenic anticipation of uncertain visual threats induce temporal overestimation, which questions a recently proposed view that temporal underestimation evoked by uncertain threats is due to anxiety.</p>","PeriodicalId":501681,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research","volume":" ","pages":"1230-1238"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9090676/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39283292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
The fronto-central N2 but not parietal P3 reflects response inhibition in the count/no-count task. 在计数/不计数任务中,额中央区N2反映反应抑制,而顶叶区P3不反映反应抑制。
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Psychological Research Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Epub Date: 2021-08-06 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-021-01571-w
Jingyan Jing, Zhuyun Zhang, Mingming Qi, Heming Gao
{"title":"The fronto-central N2 but not parietal P3 reflects response inhibition in the count/no-count task.","authors":"Jingyan Jing,&nbsp;Zhuyun Zhang,&nbsp;Mingming Qi,&nbsp;Heming Gao","doi":"10.1007/s00426-021-01571-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01571-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to investigate whether the N2 or P3 component in the count/no-count task reflects response inhibition. The participants were asked to count/withhold counting the number of O/X letters in the count/no-count task, and to calculate the sum of all digits (i.e., 1/0) in the digital accumulation task. Therefore, four conditions were obtained in this study: count, no-count, Add 1, and Add 0. In the count and Add 1 conditions, the counting/calculation number need to be updated. In both no-count and Add 0 conditions, the memory of counting/calculation number need not to be updated; a No-go (withhold) instruction was given in the no-count condition, but a Go instruction was given in the Add 0 condition. Results showed that an enhanced fronto-central N2 was evoked in the no-count than in the Add 0 condition, indicating that a stronger response conflict or stronger inhibition might be triggered in the No-count condition. The frontocentral P3 showed no differences between no-count and Add 0 conditions, however, an enhanced centro-parietal P3 component was observed for the count relative to the no-count condition and for the Add 1 relative to the Add 0 condition, indicating that a greater amount of attentional resources might be consumed during memory updating process. Taken together, in the count/no-count task, the fronto-central N2 might reflect response inhibition or conflict and the parietal P3 might reflect attentional resource allocation but not response inhibition.</p>","PeriodicalId":501681,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research","volume":" ","pages":"1122-1131"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00426-021-01571-w","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39283293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
The categorical use of a continuous time representation. 连续时间表示法的明确使用。
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Psychological Research Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Epub Date: 2021-07-21 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-021-01553-y
Alessia Beracci, Julio Santiago, Marco Fabbri
{"title":"The categorical use of a continuous time representation.","authors":"Alessia Beracci,&nbsp;Julio Santiago,&nbsp;Marco Fabbri","doi":"10.1007/s00426-021-01553-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01553-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The abstract concept of time is mentally represented as a spatially oriented line, with the past associated with the left space and the future associated with the right. Although the line is supposed to be continuous, most available evidence is also consistent with a categorical representation that only discriminates between past and future. The aim of the present study was to test the continuous or categorical nature of the mental timeline. Italian participants judged the temporal reference of 20 temporal expressions by pressing keys on either the left or the right. In Experiment 1 (N = 32), all words were presented at the center of the screen. In Experiment 2 (N = 32), each word was presented on the screen in a central, left, or right position. In Experiment 3 (N = 32), all text was mirror-reversed. In all experiments, participants were asked to place the 20 temporal expressions on a 10-cm line. The results showed a clear Spatial-TEmporal Association of Response Codes (STEARC) effect which did not vary in strength depending on the location of the temporal expressions on the line. However, there was also a clear Distance effect: latencies were slower for words that were closer to the present than further away. We conclude that the mental timeline is a continuous representation that can be used in a categorical way when an explicit past vs. future discrimination is required by the task.</p>","PeriodicalId":501681,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research","volume":" ","pages":"1015-1028"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9090696/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39207577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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