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{"title":"Real-time cognitive-affective dynamics of failure feedback in a technology-based learning task.","authors":"Helene Ackermann, Anna L Lange, Hanna Dumont, Verena V Hafner, Rebecca Lazarides","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00487-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00487-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As technology-based learning environments increasingly employ automated feedback, understanding how learners process feedback in real time is essential. This study examined how automated cognitive and metacognitive failure feedback delivered by a humanoid robot affected performance and how effects were moderated by feedback characteristics and learner characteristics. Ninety adults (18-59 years, M_age = 29.53, 61 female, 27 male, 2 diverse) completed a learning task in three conditions: (1) fixed guidance condition with fixed-frequency and content-generic feedback, (2) basic-adaptive condition with frequency-adaptive but content-generic feedback, or (3) personalized-adaptive condition with frequency-adaptive and content-personalized feedback adjusting content to learners specific errors and prior steps. A three-level generalized path model (trials nested within time blocks within learners) was estimated to investigate effects of failure feedback on immediate task performance and cross-level moderation effects. Results showed that cognitive and metacognitive failure feedback increased the likelihood of a correct subsequent response across conditions. Relative to fixed guidance (condition 1), the implemented form of frequency-adaptive feedback (condition 2) did not show statistically significant moderation to these effects. Content-personalized feedback (condition 3) reduced effectiveness of cognitive failure feedback on immediate performance but improved overall performance as compared to content-generic feedback (condition 2). Across conditions, learners with higher cognitive ability benefited less, while those reporting higher momentary on-task boredom benefited more from cognitive feedback. These findings highlight that the effectiveness of automated failure feedback depends on both its design and learners' situational cognitive and emotional states, illustrating how a situational, temporally sensitive approach can help open the \"black box\" of feedback effectiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13263339/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148240867","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}

{"title":"Consciously detecting and recognizing a past visual word after its sensory trace is gone.","authors":"Daphné Rimsky Robert, Matteo Lisi, Kevin Nguy, Roxane Jannin, Thomas Hardy, Nathan Beraud, Claire Sergent","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00478-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00478-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>What is the role of sensory processing in conscious perception? Current theories of consciousness are divided on this question. Some propose that conscious perception arises during the buildup of sensory representations. Others argue for a secondary process that broadcasts these representations to higher-level areas. This second view makes a counter-intuitive prediction: one could consciously perceive abstract representations untied to any low-level sensory feature. We tested this prediction by combining visual masking with retrospective cueing. We found that when visually masked words were followed by a semantically related auditory word, participants were better at detecting this past word and reporting its identity, but were strikingly unable to report its visual features (letter casing or position on screen). This suggests that retro-cueing can help a semantic representation reach awareness even after the associated sensory information has been masked. The mechanisms of conscious access might thus be largely independent of early sensory build-up.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13658779/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148207494","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}

{"title":"What 5000 babies can tell us about developing minds and how to study them.","authors":"Brianna T M McMillan, Heidi A Baumgartner, Christina Bergmann, Michael C Frank, J Kiley Hamlin, Dora Kampis, Melissa Kline Struhl, Eon-Suk Ko, Jessica E Kosie, Casey Lew-Williams, Kelsey Lucca, Tobias Schuwerk, Melanie Soderstrom, Ingmar Visser, Francis L Yuen, Martin Zettersten, Krista Byers-Heinlein","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00477-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00477-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13249559/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148214079","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}

{"title":"Sensory processing sensitivity is associated with state-dependent stabilization of perceptual organization in auditory streaming.","authors":"Hirohito M Kondo, Daniel Pressnitzer","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00482-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00482-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Perceptual experience is shaped not only by external input but also by stable individual traits. Here, we investigated how sensory processing sensitivity, a personality trait reflecting responsiveness to sensory input, relates to the temporal dynamics of bistable auditory streaming. Forty-eight participants listened to repeating triplet-tone sequences and continuously reported their percepts as they switched between an integrated one-stream percept and a segregated two-stream percept. Greater sensory processing sensitivity was reliably associated with longer percept durations in the two-stream state and fewer perceptual switches overall. A Bayesian beta-regression model provided little evidence that this pattern reflected a generic bias toward segregation or a global slowing of perceptual dynamics. In contrast, a time-resolved discrete-time hazard model indicated that greater sensory processing sensitivity was linked to a lower termination probability for the two-stream percept relative to the one-stream percept. A Gamma distributional regression further showed that trait-related differences were expressed mainly as changes in dominance-duration timescale, whereas effects on distributional regularity were modest. Thus, sensory processing sensitivity was associated with the temporal dynamics of auditory streaming mostly through the stabilization of perceptual segregation once established. This state-dependent pattern is broadly compatible with a predictive-processing framework, in which stronger weighting of temporal regularity cues could stabilize an already established perceptual organization.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13319501/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148214060","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}

{"title":"Higher mindfulness and lower self-absorption predict greater compassion within romantic relationships.","authors":"Theresa Waclawek, Georges Monette, Astrid Schuetz","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00483-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00483-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Investigations into mindfulness and well-being have increasingly turned toward social outcomes such as compassion. However, research is needed to understand how mindfulness relates to compassion in real-world contexts. Moreover, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain insufficiently understood, with self-related processes-particularly self-absorption and interdependent self-construal-representing important candidates. To address these gaps, we conducted a preregistered, ten-day diary study with n = 230 adults (M_age= 40, SD = 12; 50% female, 49% male, and 1% N/A) in heterosexual romantic relationships (M_{length of relationship} = 15 years, SD = 11 years; n = 114 dyads with both members contributing). Partner ratings of compassion were collected to capture how mindfulness relates to a person's compassion as perceived by close others in everyday life. We found that distinct facets of mindfulness showed different associations with compassion across levels of analysis: within persons, daily state increases in mindful acceptance corresponded with higher compassion (B = 0.19, SE = 0.06, p = 0.002, 95% CI[0.07, 0.31]), whereas between persons, greater trait mindful attention predicted greater compassion (B = 0.52, SE = 0.17, p = 0.002, 95% CI[0.19, 0.85]). We also found support for self-absorption as a mediating mechanism, as greater mindfulness (state and trait) was associated with more compassion through lower self-absorption. Although we expected this indirect effect to be stronger among individuals higher in interdependent self-construal, this moderation was not supported. Together, these findings highlight the importance of distinguishing state and trait processes in understanding the link between mindfulness and compassion in real-world contexts, and identify self-absorption as a key mechanism. Future work can address limitations of this work by investigating its generalizability to other populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13242517/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148195355","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}

{"title":"Causal attributions shape the formation of novel ability self-beliefs.","authors":"Annalina V Mayer, Alexander Schröder, David S Stolz, Nora Czekalla, Frieder M Paulus, Sören Krach, Tobias Kube, Laura Müller-Pinzler","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00479-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00479-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Healthy individuals typically attribute success to internal and failure to external factors, while people with depression and low self-esteem tend to do the opposite. At the same time, depression and low self-esteem are associated with negatively biased self-related learning and self-beliefs. Here, we used a validated self-related learning task to investigate how internal versus external attributions of performance feedback affect the formation of self-beliefs about ability and how these processes relate to depressive symptoms and self-esteem. Drawing on a computational model that incorporates prediction error valence and causal attributions, we found that participants updated their ability beliefs less when feedback was attributed to external causes. Furthermore, individuals with higher levels of depression and lower self-esteem showed a stronger negativity bias in learning and lower self-esteem was linked to a reduced self-serving attributional bias. These findings provide insight into cognitive mechanisms associated with negative self-related ability beliefs and may help to inform our understanding of processes linked to depressive symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13237141/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148166401","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}

{"title":"Natural language processing captures memory content associated with shared neural patterns at encoding and retrieval.","authors":"June-Kyo Kim, Joshua Koh, Charan Ranganath, Alexander J Barnett","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00481-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00481-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People can experience the same event yet form distinct memories shaped by individual interpretations. Prior research shows that multivariate activity patterns in the Default Mode Network (DMN) are correlated across individuals during shared experiences, suggesting a role in representing high-level event features. However, it remains unclear whether these shared neural patterns reflect similarity in subsequent memory content. Here, we examined whether memory similarity correlates with intersubject spatial patterns in the DMN using a pre-existing dataset. Twenty-four individuals watched and recounted two cartoon movies during fMRI scanning. Using topic modeling, we transformed verbal recall into vectors of latent topics to quantify memory similarity across participants. We found that greater similarity in recalled content was associated with stronger shared activation patterns at encoding and retrieval, particularly in the posterior medial, medial prefrontal and anterior temporal cortices. These findings highlight the utility of natural language processing tools in linking memory representations to brain activity and underscore the DMN's role in encoding, interpreting, and recalling complex event features.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13547101/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148166351","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}

{"title":"Intuitions about content moderation are misaligned with effective practices for reducing conspiracy beliefs.","authors":"Madeline Jalbert, Morgan Wack","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00480-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00480-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given that the spread of false information online often outpaces efforts to address it, it is important to understand i) what content is the most important to remove to prevent false beliefs and ii) whether lay intuitions about content removal are aligned with these findings. In four experiments, participants viewed social media posts containing false evidence for novel conspiracy theories. In Experiment 1 (N = 300), removing posts containing plausible evidence significantly decreased participants'conspiracy belief, while removing posts containing implausible evidence did not. In Experiments 2a-2c (Ns = 350, 352, 351, respectively), we investigated new participants' moderation preferences for the same posts. Worryingly, participants chose to remove posts containing implausible evidence more often than posts containing plausible evidence (Exp. 2a-2b). And, even when oriented to the goal of reducing belief in the broader conspiracy theory, participants still removed both types of posts at similar rates (Exp. 2c). Our results suggest that relying on lay intuitions to guide content removal decisions may result in prioritizing the removal of content that does not substantively contribute to the spread of broader false beliefs over content that does. These findings have important implications for moderation efforts and highlight the need to look beyond belief in isolated claims when developing effective misinformation interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13507241/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148059212","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}

{"title":"Learning via short videos impairs memory accuracy and reduces brain synchrony.","authors":"Meiting Wei, Yandan Li, Haosen Ni, Zhenglong Li, Jiang Liu, Guang-Heng Dong","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00476-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00476-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rapid rise of short videos (SVs), particularly social media-style formats characterized by rapid switching and fragmented content, has led to their increasing integration into learning environments. However, their efficacy and neurocognitive impact remain contentious. The present study examined whether SVs are superior or inferior to long videos as tools for learning and memory. Across three experiments, memory performance and forgetting rate were assessed under both incidental and intentional encoding conditions, and inter-subject correlation (ISC) analysis was employed to investigate neural response patterns during SV viewing. Behaviorally, participants learning with SVs showed significantly lower immediate memory accuracy across encoding conditions and exhibited a higher rate of forgetting when explicitly instructed to remember. At the neural level, ISC analyses revealed that SVs elicited reduced neural synchrony in key brain regions supporting visuospatial attention, episodic memory, and cognitive control, including the superior parietal lobule, precuneus, and middle occipital gyrus. In contrast, SVs evoked higher synchrony in temporal and frontal regions associated with bottom-up attentional processing. Furthermore, functional connectivity analyses indicated that SVs weakened coupling between visual, attentional, and cognitive control networks. Together, these findings suggest that the fragmented and rapidly switching nature of typical social media short videos enhances bottom-up attentional capture at the expense of top-down cognitive processes critical for deep learning and long-term memory consolidation. This study provides converging neurobehavioral evidence suggesting that SVs viewing in social media contexts is associated with reduced neural synchronization and poorer memory performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13493826/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148045317","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}

{"title":"Action video game playing impacts occupational screening for high-stakes professionals.","authors":"Aaron Cochrane, Ciara Sibley, Rebecca NeSmith, C Shawn Green, Daphne Bavelier","doi":"10.1038/s44271-026-00470-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44271-026-00470-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Action video game playing has been linked with enhanced cognitive and perceptual abilities measured via a variety of basic psychological lab tests. However, much less work has examined such relations in the context of measures with direct real-world workplace relevance. Here we examined the performance of male United States military personnel on a psychomotor task battery, part of an official selection test designed to assess aptitude for military aviation. We found that action video game playing was significantly and positively associated with performance on this battery. More specifically, increased action video game experience among Naval Flight Students was linked to both better initial performance as well as more rapid learning within the psychomotor task. In contrast, when examining the same associations in a control group for whom the psychomotor task was not occupationally relevant (i.e., not Naval Flight Students), action video game playing was not reliably associated with psychomotor task learning. Time spent playing recreational video games with mechanics more similar to the screening task, flight simulator games, was not related to psychomotor task learning speed in either group. This pattern suggests that recreational action video game playing may work in concert with explicit occupational training to support effective learning and successful workplace outcomes in high-stakes professions.</p>","PeriodicalId":501698,"journal":{"name":"Communications Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13478157/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148008156","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}