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Finding the key in Kiwi during second language spoken production: Low proficiency speakers sound more native-like if they live in mixed-language environments.

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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1037/cep0000372

Annie C Gilbert, Jason Gullifer, Shanna Kousaie, Max Wolpert, Debra Titone, Shari R Baum

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Free-range haptic search.

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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1037/cep0000370

Hunter B Sturgill, David A Rosenbaum

{"title":"Free-range haptic search.","authors":"Hunter B Sturgill, David A Rosenbaum","doi":"10.1037/cep0000370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000370","url":null,"abstract":"We search for objects every day using touch alone, as in reaching for keys in our pockets or reaching for pens in our desk drawers. In such contexts, we engage in a \"free-range\" haptic search. The objects we feel can be moved freely and our hands can move freely. Free-range haptic search has been little studied, so we developed a laboratory task to do so. We invited college student to feel for a plastic pipe of fixed length among a variable number of uniformly shorter or longer plastic pipes, giving half of our participants informative precues (pictures showing the number of distractors and size difference between the target and distractors) and the other half uninformative precues (a simple \"go-ahead\" message). The informative precues boosted efficiency only when the target was much larger than the distractors. The result suggests that participants could take advantage of the informative precues to opt for a quick sweep of the search area to pick out the object that would \"stick out like a sore thumb.\" Otherwise, they would resort to that strategy with a lower probability. Because our task has high ecological validity, we can recommend that informative advance information may help haptically impaired individuals search more efficiently. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143671718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Are text comprehension and calculation processes in word problem solving sequential or interactive? An eye-tracking study in children.

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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1037/cep0000366

Gabriella Daroczy, Christina Artemenko, Magdalena Wolska, Detmar Meurers, Hans-Christoph Nuerk

{"title":"Are text comprehension and calculation processes in word problem solving sequential or interactive? An eye-tracking study in children.","authors":"Gabriella Daroczy, Christina Artemenko, Magdalena Wolska, Detmar Meurers, Hans-Christoph Nuerk","doi":"10.1037/cep0000366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000366","url":null,"abstract":"The difficulty of a word problem is influenced by both linguistic and arithmetic processes. However, whether these processes are sequential or interactive is a matter of debate. Little is known about how eye-movement behaviour changes when faced with different linguistic and arithmetic task characteristics, both in relation to the entire problem and to specific components (i.e., numerical and textual elements). To address this gap, we conducted a study monitoring the eye movements of children aged 10-13 years during word problem solving. We manipulated linguistic and arithmetic task characteristics independently, focusing on the mathematical factor operation (addition/subtraction) and the linguistic factors consistency (consistent/inconsistent) and nominalization (verbalized/nominalized). The results revealed that eye movements generally increased as linguistic difficulty (e.g., nominalization) or arithmetic difficulty (e.g., operation) increased. Thereby, specific parts of the text were differentially affected based on the task characteristics. Increasing arithmetic difficulty led to a shift in eye movements towards numerical elements, while increasing linguistic difficulty resulted in a shift towards textual elements. Interestingly, the increase in arithmetic difficulty also influenced processing in the linguistic domain. For example, textual parts of the word problem received more fixations when the arithmetic difficulty increased, but not vice versa. This suggests that text comprehension and calculation processes in word problem solving are not separate and not strictly sequential; instead, they interact and/or do partially rely on shared cognitive resources. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143671716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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On the importance of visuo-spatial thinking for research mathematicians.

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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1037/cep0000365

Hester Breman, Renee S Hoekzema, Mikkel Willum Johansen, Henrik Kragh Sørensen, Rainer Goebel

{"title":"On the importance of visuo-spatial thinking for research mathematicians.","authors":"Hester Breman, Renee S Hoekzema, Mikkel Willum Johansen, Henrik Kragh Sørensen, Rainer Goebel","doi":"10.1037/cep0000365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000365","url":null,"abstract":"While in society mathematics is often thought of as formal and rigid, mathematicians themselves frequently consider the discipline creative and visual. To challenge stereotypes, we focus on visuo-spatial thinking by research mathematicians (n = 232). Via the Object-Spatial Imagery and Verbal Questionnaire (Blazhenkova & Kozhevnikov, 2009), together with open questions, we ask the following: (1) Are mathematicians visuo-spatial thinkers? (2) Is the degree of visual thinking correlated with mathematical subdiscipline? (3) Which role does visual thinking play in mathematical research? The Object-Spatial Imagery and Verbal Questionnaire results indicate that mathematicians are more strongly visuo-spatial thinkers than scientists, humanities researchers or visual artists. The degree of visuo-spatial thinking does not correlate to how 'visual' the mathematical subdiscipline is as measured by average figure environment per article, obtained through text mining 3,799 arXiv articles. In open questions, two thirds of respondents (n = 222) report using visual mental imagery during mathematical research. Some mathematicians mention metaphors for research that refer to spatial movement, such as rock climbing, moving through a jungle or attacking the problem like an insect. Our study contributes to the research agenda set by Alcock et al. (2016), which aims to improve our understanding of mathematical cognition for the purpose of elucidating the nature of mathematical thinking and inform policymakers to address challenges in mathematics education. We conclude that visualisation plays an important part in the practice of mathematics, contrary to common belief. As Hadamard wrote in 1945: 'deductions in the realm of numbers may be, at least in several mathematical minds, most generally accompanied by images'. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143671722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Leveraging social network data to ground multilingual background measures: The case of general and socially based language entropy. 利用社交网络数据进行多语言背景测量：通用语言熵和基于社交网络的语言熵案例。

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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-30 DOI: 10.1037/cep0000352

Antonio Iniesta, Michelle Yang, Anne L Beatty-Martínez, Inbal Itzhak, Jason W Gullifer, Debra Titone

{"title":"Leveraging social network data to ground multilingual background measures: The case of general and socially based language entropy.","authors":"Antonio Iniesta, Michelle Yang, Anne L Beatty-Martínez, Inbal Itzhak, Jason W Gullifer, Debra Titone","doi":"10.1037/cep0000352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000352","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research on multilingualism highlights the role of language diversity in modulating the cognitive capacities of communication and suggests a gap in available measures for quantifying socially realistic language experience. One questionnaire-based measure that potentially fills this gap is Language Entropy (e.g., Gullifer & Titone, 2018, 2020), which quantifies the balance between compartmentalised and integrated language use. However, an open question is whether questionnaire-based Language Entropy is a valid reflection of socially realistic language behaviours. To address this question, we grounded questionnaire-based Language Entropy using personal social network data for a linguistically diverse sample of speakers of French and English in the city of Montréal (n = 95). Specifically, we used exploratory factor analysis to characterise the factor structures resulting from questionnaire-based and social network-based Entropy. In addition, we examined the generalisability and stability of the relationship between both entropies across three bilingual groups with different social network compositions: simultaneous, English-dominant, and French-dominant. Our findings indicated that both questionnaire-based and social network-based entropies loaded onto the same factors and that the relationship between them was not affected by group differences in social network composition or by context. This suggests that questionnaire-based Language Entropy aligns well with social network-based Entropy and that this relationship is stable across different sociolinguistic realities, validating Language Entropy as a useful tool for quantifying language diversity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":"79 1","pages":"15-27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Complex meanings shape early noun and verb vocabulary structure and learning. 复杂的含义决定了早期名词和动词词汇的结构和学习。

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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-21 DOI: 10.1037/cep0000355

Justin B Kueser, Arielle Borovsky

{"title":"Complex meanings shape early noun and verb vocabulary structure and learning.","authors":"Justin B Kueser, Arielle Borovsky","doi":"10.1037/cep0000355","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cep0000355","url":null,"abstract":"Verbs and nouns vary in many ways-including in how they are used in language and in the timing of their early learning. We compare the distribution of semantic features that comprise early acquired verb and noun meanings and measure their effect on learning. First, couched in prior literature, we use semantic feature data to establish that features pattern on a hierarchy of complexity, with perceptual features being less complex than other features like encyclopaedic features. Second, given overall semantic and syntactic differences between nouns and verbs, we hypothesize that the preference for directly perceptible features observed for nouns will be attenuated for verbs. Building on prior work using semantic features and semantic networks in nouns, we find that compared to early learned nouns (N = 359), early learned verbs (N = 103) have meanings disproportionately built from complex information inaccessible to the senses. Third, we find that 16- to 30-month-old children's early noun and verb vocabularies (N = 3,804) show semantic relationships that differ in their use of this complex information from the beginning of vocabulary development. Last, we find that the complexity of nouns' and verbs' meanings affects their typical order of learning in early vocabulary development. Complexity differs in early noun and verb meanings, affects the semantic structure of children's vocabularies, and shapes the course of word learning. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":"85-97"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11908919/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142480421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Collective memory and fluency tasks: Leveraging network analysis for a richer understanding of collective cognition.

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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-30 DOI: 10.1037/cep0000353

Garrett D Greeley, Tori Peña, Nicholas W Pepe, Hae-Yoon Choi, Suparna Rajaram

{"title":"Collective memory and fluency tasks: Leveraging network analysis for a richer understanding of collective cognition.","authors":"Garrett D Greeley, Tori Peña, Nicholas W Pepe, Hae-Yoon Choi, Suparna Rajaram","doi":"10.1037/cep0000353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000353","url":null,"abstract":"Collective memory broadly refers to the memories shared by a group of people. Interest in collective memory among cognitive psychologists has boomed in recent years, with many studies leveraging fluency tasks to probe what events and people come to mind given a prompt. As other research using fluency tasks has benefitted greatly from network analysis (e.g., semantic memory research), it seems there is an opportunity to deepen our understanding of collective cognition and changes in collective cognition by adopting a network perspective. In the current article, we ask whether collective memory investigations could be enriched by harnessing the tools of network science. We start by reviewing the relevant collective memory literature and touch on the deep semantic memory literature to the extent it provides ties to network analysis for present goals. Our novel contributions to the topic include the introduction of a large fluency data set collected over the course of a decade as part of a task embedded within several research projects. We conduct several descriptive analyses and initial, proof-of-concept network analyses examining collective memory for U.S. cities. Some cities-those that are recalled most frequently-are recalled at similar rates and in similar output positions across time and task contexts. Our network approach suggests that recall transitions (e.g., recalling Los Angeles and San Francisco in adjacent positions) are made at similar rates as well. Together, these complementary approaches suggest a striking stability in both what people recall and their ordering, providing a window into the composition of collective memories. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":"79 1","pages":"61-73"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Network science in experimental psychology.

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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1037/cep0000367

Yoed N Kenett, Cynthia S Q Siew, Michael S Vitevitch

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Evidence of community structure in phonological networks of multiple languages. 多种语言语音网络中群落结构的证据。

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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-21 DOI: 10.1037/cep0000357

Jazton Chern, Nichol Castro, Cynthia S Q Siew

{"title":"Evidence of community structure in phonological networks of multiple languages.","authors":"Jazton Chern, Nichol Castro, Cynthia S Q Siew","doi":"10.1037/cep0000357","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cep0000357","url":null,"abstract":"Thousands of phonological word forms known to a speaker can be organised as a lexical network using the tools of network science. In these networks, nodes represent words and edges are placed between phonological neighbours. Previous work has shown that phonological networks of various languages have similar macrolevel network properties. The present study aimed to investigate if phonological networks of different languages also have similar mesolevel properties, specifically, the presence of robust community structure. Prior community detection analyses revealed robust community structure for English. Community detection analyses conducted on French, German, Dutch, and Spanish networks indicate that all networks showed strong evidence of community structure-mesolevel clustering of word forms whereby larger communities tended to contain shorter, frequent words with many phonological neighbours. Words of the same community tended to share similar phonotactic structures. Results suggest that the organisation of phonological word forms in language are governed by similar principles that could have important implications for lexical processing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":"4-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142480423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How retrieval processes change with age: Exploring age differences in semantic network and retrieval dynamics. 检索过程如何随年龄变化：探索语义网络和检索动态的年龄差异。

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Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1037/cep0000332

Mariana Teles, Isabelle Moore, Yoed N Kenett

{"title":"How retrieval processes change with age: Exploring age differences in semantic network and retrieval dynamics.","authors":"Mariana Teles, Isabelle Moore, Yoed N Kenett","doi":"10.1037/cep0000332","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cep0000332","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the impact of age on semantic memory networks and retrieval dynamics using a single-list free recall paradigm, involving 318 participants. The younger group, with 175 participants aged 25-55 years (M = 46.68 years; SD = 10.69), and the older group, consisting of 143 participants aged 61-88 years (M = 68.71 years; SD = 6.09), completed a word recall test to assess delayed recall performance. Semantic memory networks were constructed from recall data by analyzing the co-occurrence and sequence of recalled words. We observed significant differences in network structure, where the older group displayed higher average shortest path length and modularity values, indicative of less integrated networks, while the younger group exhibited a higher clustering coefficient, suggesting a more interconnected network. In terms of retrieval dynamics, both groups showed a temporal contiguity effect with forward asymmetry. However, this effect was less pronounced in older adults. The study also identified participants that diverted from the average dynamic curves: one subgroup relied on nontemporal mechanisms, and the other employed a backward direction in memory search. Participants utilizing forward temporal associations demonstrated the highest recall performance. Overall, our findings suggest that lower free recall performance in older adults may be related to a diminished capacity to reinstate temporal context for retrieval and distinct differences in their semantic memory network structure. Specifically, older adults appear to exhibit networks with a less flexible, small-world-like structure. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":"109-123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141762502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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