{"title":"Dynamics of second-language learners' semantic memory networks: Evidence from a snowball sampling paradigm.","authors":"Artem Barmin, Boris B Velichkovsky","doi":"10.1037/cep0000350","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cep0000350","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article provides an analysis of structural changes in second-language (L2)-based semantic memory networks-graphs composed of L2 words as nodes and semantic relations between them as edges, during L2 learning. We used snowball sampling paradigm to create individual semantic networks of participants divided into two groups differing in L2 learning time and then compare their structural characteristics cross-sectionally. The results showed that as L2 learning progresses, semantic memory networks tend to become more connected (by increasing the average node degree), more efficient (by decreasing the average shortest path length), less fragmented (by decreasing the modularity), less centralized (by decreasing the centralization), less dense (by decreasing the density), and no more \"small-worlded\" (by similar average clustering coefficients and small-world indices). The findings provide quantitative evidence of how the duration of L2 learning shapes the structure of L2-based semantic memory networks generated in the snowball sampling paradigm. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":"98-108"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142480422","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}
{"title":"Some challenges in using multilayer networks to bridge brain and mind.","authors":"Michael S Vitevitch","doi":"10.1037/cep0000341","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cep0000341","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The application of techniques from network science to create single-layer networks of the brain and mind has resulted in significant advances in the neuro- (i.e., structural and functional brain networks) and cognitive sciences (i.e., cognitive network science). Recent advances in network science on multilayer networks increase the possibility that a \"network of networks\" might finally connect the physical brain to the intangible mind, much like physical fibre optic cables and wires connect to other layers of the internet to allow intangible social networks to form in various social media platforms. Several advances in structural brain networks, functional brain networks, cognitive networks, and multilayer networks are briefly reviewed. The possibility that these single-layer networks can be connected in a multilayer network to connect the brain to the mind is discussed, as well as some of the challenges that face such an ambitious endeavour. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":"74-84"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141789836","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}
{"title":"Predicting individual vocabulary learning: The importance of approximating toddlers' linguistic environment.","authors":"Jennifer M Weber, Eliana Colunga","doi":"10.1037/cep0000364","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cep0000364","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using network representations of the lexicon has expanded our understanding of vocabulary growth processes and vocabulary structure during early development. These models of vocabulary development have used multiple types of sources to create lexical representations. More recently, Weber and Colunga (2022) demonstrated that predictions of early vocabulary norms can be improved by using network representations based on a corpus incorporating language a young child might typically hear. The present work goes a step further by evaluating the accuracy of network representations for predicting individual children's word learning that are based on embeddings that are readily available or embeddings gathered from the same child language corpus. We predicted the specific words that individual children add to their vocabulary over time, using a longitudinal data set of 86 monolingual English-speaking toddler's changing vocabulary from 18 to 30 months of age. The toddler-based network predicted word learning more accurately than the off-the-shelf network. Further, there was an advantage for prediction methods that took into account the individual child's particular network structure rather than overall network connectivity. These results highlight the importance of tailoring representational and processing choices to the population of interest. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":"79 1","pages":"28-40"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626788","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}
{"title":"Electrophysiological and behavioral correlates of global and local digits processing.","authors":"Shay Menashe, Nira Mashal, David Anaki","doi":"10.1037/cep0000373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000373","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study investigated global and local processing of hierarchical digits using a selective attention paradigm. Behavioural and event-related potentials measures were collected while participants performed global and local tasks in which hierarchical digits were presented to the centre of the screen. The first aim of this study was to investigate the global precedence effect. The second aim was to examine the lateralization patterns associated with global and local processing. The behavioural results indicated that the global precedence effect was not evident. In addition, the event-related potential findings showed that the global and local levels were processed in parallel during certain phases of processing, while different lateralization effects were found during processing. Although the N2 findings in the present study support the notion that this component is an index for global versus local processing even for hierarchical digits, the overall findings suggest that complex interactions between the hemispheres exist during the different phases of processing. The results are discussed in terms of the effects of both centrally presented hierarchical digits and the selective attention paradigm. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442918","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}
{"title":"Adults' knowledge of mathematical orthography.","authors":"Seyeon Kim, Heather P Douglas, Jo-Anne LeFevre","doi":"10.1037/cep0000368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000368","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mathematical orthography comprises knowledge of mathematical symbols and the conventions for combining those symbols. For example, in the expression x3 + 3x, the positions of the symbol \"3\" in each term dictate its meanings in the expression. To be successful mathematical problem solvers, people need to know these conventional orthographic patterns. In this study, mathematical orthography skills were assessed in an online format for 189 adults using a timed dichotomous symbol-decision task (e.g., are these expressions conventional? (|<i>x</i>| or ||<i>x</i>)). The symbol-decision task predicted unique variance in whole-number arithmetic, word problem solving, and algebra, controlling for verbal working memory. These results support the role of individual differences in mathematical orthography as a predictor of advanced mathematical skills. In contrast, a written language orthography task only predicted unique variance in word problem solving, where participants read texts. The role of mathematical orthography should be considered in models of mathematical cognition. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442930","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}
Garret J Hall, Wilhelmina van Dijk, Jason C Chow, Matthew J Cooper Borkenhagen
{"title":"Parallel models of reading and numerical cognition.","authors":"Garret J Hall, Wilhelmina van Dijk, Jason C Chow, Matthew J Cooper Borkenhagen","doi":"10.1037/cep0000371","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cep0000371","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reading and math are related due to many codeveloping skills. Historically, theorizing in these two areas has progressed separately, despite well-documented empirical evidence for a range of shared underlying developmental processes subserving these learning domains. The purpose of this article was to describe the links between the Triple Code Model, an influential model of numerical cognition, and the Triangle Framework, a dominant model of learning to read. We describe several parallels between the theoretical models and discuss how the cognitive mechanisms posited by the Triangle Framework might be used to understand the commonalities in learning processes across these learning domains. In particular, we discuss how the cognitive mechanisms implemented in the Triangle Framework can be used to understand linguistic aspects of numerical cognition, specifically, learning the connections among numerals (e.g., 24) and spoken words (e.g., twenty-four), and linking those to semantic representations of magnitude. Following from these commonalities between the two models, we discuss several ways that interdisciplinary work integrating both models can benefit math cognition research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442953","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}
Gigi Luk, Esteban Hernández-Rivera, Karla Tarín, Dan Chen, Michelle Jang, Debra Titone
{"title":"Math attitudes and verbal memory in multilingual younger adults.","authors":"Gigi Luk, Esteban Hernández-Rivera, Karla Tarín, Dan Chen, Michelle Jang, Debra Titone","doi":"10.1037/cep0000348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000348","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research on attitudes towards mathematics has mostly been assessed in a single language. We examined whether math attitudes differ by language in multilingual younger adults (ages 18-25). Furthermore, we evaluated the relationships between math attitudes, verbal memory, and calculation fluency in this sample. Eighty-seven French-English multilingual young adults self-reported their math attitudes using the Mathematics Anxiety Scale-Revised (Bai et al., 2009) in both English and French. Participants also self-reported verbal memory, calculation fluency, and general language proficiency in English and French. Results showed that attitudes towards mathematics for English and French were similar. Exploratory factor analysis also confirmed that the extracted factors revealed negative and positive attitudes towards mathematics, with English and French items loading on the same factors. Correlation analysis showed a negative relationship between negative attitudes towards mathematics and verbal memory only in English. This relationship remained statistically significant after controlling for general language proficiency. However, neither positive nor negative math attitudes were correlated with calculation fluency. Building on the examination of symbolic representations of mathematical cognition by Campbell, results from the study were interpreted as the first step to investigating math attitudes in individuals with diverse linguistic backgrounds. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143016099","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}
{"title":"Multiple constraint network classification reveals functional brain networks distinguishing 0-back and 2-back task.","authors":"Anthony Nguyen, Christopher McNorgan","doi":"10.1037/cep0000360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000360","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Working memory is associated with general intelligence and is crucial for performing complex cognitive tasks. Neuroimaging investigations have recognized that working memory is supported by a distribution of activity in regions across the entire brain. Identification of these regions has come primarily from general linear model analyses of statistical parametric maps to reveal brain regions whose activation is linearly related to working memory task conditions. This approach can fail to detect nonlinear task differences or differences reflected in distributed patterns of activity. In this study, we take advantage of the increased sensitivity of multivariate pattern analysis in a multiple-constraint deep learning classifier to analyze patterns of whole-brain blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) activity in children performing two different conditions of the emotional <i>n</i>-back task. Regional (supervoxel) whole-brain activation patterns from functional imaging runs of 20 children were used to train a set of neural network classifiers to identify task category (0-back vs. 2-back) and activation co-occurrence probability, which encoded functional connectivity. These simultaneous constraints promote the discovery of coherent networks that contribute towards task performance in each memory load condition. Permutation analyses discovered the global activation patterns and interregional coactivations that distinguish memory load. Examination of model weights identified the brain regions most predictive of memory load and the functional networks integrating these regions. Community detection analyses identified functional networks integrating task-predictive regions and found distinct patterns of network activation for each task type. Comparisons to functional network literature suggest more focused attentional network activation during the 2-back task. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142958558","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}
Claudia Morales Valiente, Stefan Köhler, Ken McRae
{"title":"Personal likelihood and event familiarity influence the simulation of future events.","authors":"Claudia Morales Valiente, Stefan Köhler, Ken McRae","doi":"10.1037/cep0000363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000363","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Episodic future thinking is the ability to project the self forward in time to preexperience a potential future event. It has been hypothesized that two components enhance simulations of future events: personal likelihood and event familiarity. Personal likelihood varies depending on the dynamics of personal goals throughout an individual's lifetime. In contrast, event familiarity varies depending on a person's accumulated schematic (also called event or semantic) knowledge about a type of event. We investigated these two components through individuals' belief in the likelihood of an event's occurrence during the next 10 years and their familiarity with a type of event. We predicted that likelihood and familiarity enhance future event simulations, making them clearer and more detailed. We used two norming studies to develop participant-specific sets of future events. In the experiment, participants simulated and described events, and they rated phenomenological aspects of their simulations. Likelihood and familiarity played individual and combined roles during future event simulation. The strongest effects were found with phenomenological ratings, with likelihood and familiarity influencing three of four measures, including interacting for other sensory details ratings. For internal details as measured using the Autobiographical Interview, likelihood influenced total details and perceptual details, and familiarity influenced total, perceptual, and time details, including their interaction for perceptual details. We conclude that event future thinking is a dynamic simulation process that uses event knowledge learned from past experience and is influenced by a person's belief of how likely an event is to occur via mental rehearsal of likely events. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933547","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}
Hannah D Loenneker, Krzysztof Cipora, Christina Artemenko, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Elien Bellon, Bert De Smedt, Javier García-Orza, Vaitsa Giannouli, Ismael Gutiérrez-Cordero, Katarzyna Lipowska, Jean-Philippe van Dijck, Xinru Yao, Hans-Christoph Nuerk, Julia F Huber
{"title":"Math4Speed: A freely available measure of arithmetic fluency.","authors":"Hannah D Loenneker, Krzysztof Cipora, Christina Artemenko, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Elien Bellon, Bert De Smedt, Javier García-Orza, Vaitsa Giannouli, Ismael Gutiérrez-Cordero, Katarzyna Lipowska, Jean-Philippe van Dijck, Xinru Yao, Hans-Christoph Nuerk, Julia F Huber","doi":"10.1037/cep0000347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000347","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We introduce the <i>Math4Speed</i> (M4S), a paper-and-pencil measure incorporating the four arithmetic operations with items of varying complexity. M4S consists of 50 addition, 50 subtraction, 50 multiplication, and 50 division problems, limited to 2 min per operation. The psychometric evaluation was conducted by combining convenience samples of young adults (<i>N</i> = 1,165), who were mainly university students (77.2%), from six European countries (the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Greece, and Spain). Reliability and validity were satisfactory. Construct validity was reflected in the largest associations between inverse operations (e.g., multiplication and division). Convergent and divergent validity were reflected in higher associations of the M4S with other arithmetic measures than with a spelling test. As a freely available measure, M4S will be widely accessible and will in this first step allow cross-study comparison for typical experimental samples. In the next step, we invite all researchers to contribute to further development of M4S by providing more culturally diverse, minority, or representative samples to broaden the use cases of this screening of arithmetic fluency and enable more generalizability. Interested contributors can get in contact via email (math4speed@psychologie.uni-tuebingen.de). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144040489","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}