{"title":"Analyses of response time data in the same-different task.","authors":"Denis Cousineau, Bradley Harding, Jesika A Walker, Guillaume Durand, Julien T-Groulx, Sébastien Lauzon, Marc-André Goulet","doi":"10.1037/cep0000301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000301","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Same-Different task presents two stimuli in close succession and participants must indicate whether they are completely identical or if there are any attributes that differ. While the task is simple, its results have proven difficult to explain. Notably, response times are characterized by a <i>fast-same</i> effect whereby <i>Same</i> responses are faster than <i>Different</i> responses even though identical stimuli should be exhaustively processed to be accurate. Herein, we examine a little more than a quarter million response times (N = 255,744) obtained from 327 participants who participated in one of 14 variants of the task involving minor changes in the stimuli or their durations. We performed distribution fitting and analyzed estimated parameters stemming from the ex-Gaussian, lognormal, and Weibull distributions to infer the cognitive processing characteristics underlying this task. The results exclude serial processing of the stimuli and do not support dual-route processing. The fast-same effect appears only through a shift of the entire response time distributions, a feature impossible to detect solely with mean response time analyses. An attention-modulated process driven by entropy may be the most adequate model of the fast-same effect. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":"77 2","pages":"115-129"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9883731","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":"Psychological and nonpsychological inferences in reading comprehension in children: The role of initial level comprehension.","authors":"Valérie Golly Ledoux, Christelle Declercq, Stéphanie Caillies","doi":"10.1037/cep0000298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000298","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated young children's ability to draw psychological and nonpsychological inferences during reading comprehension. Whereas nonpsychological inferences require the retrieval of general background knowledge, psychological inferences rely on more contextualised knowledge relating to mental states. Based on several pretests, children, who were able to read fluently, aged 7-8 years (second graders; <i>n</i> = 42) and 8-9 years (third graders; <i>n</i> = 46) were assigned to either a skilled comprehenders group or a less skilled comprehenders group, based on their listening comprehension. They were then given short stories to read, followed by comprehension questions. Some questions required the drawing of psychological or nonpsychological inferences. Generalized linear mixed models revealed that (a) psychological inferences were more difficult to generate than nonpsychological inferences for all the children, skilled and less skilled comprehenders alike, (b) both types of inference skills (psychological and nonpsychological) were associated with similar improvements as grade level increased, and (c) less skilled comprehenders had greater difficulty than skilled comprehenders generating psychological and nonpsychological inferences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":"77 1","pages":"20-34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10830015","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":"Message from the incoming editor.","authors":"Debra A Titone","doi":"10.1037/cep0000307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000307","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (CJEP) publishes rigorous experimental psychology research through a fair and constructive review process. CJEP is supported and managed by the Canadian Psychological Association, who partners with the American Psychological Association with respect to journal production. CJEP represents world class research communities that affiliate with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CPA), and the Brain and Cognitive Sciences section of CPA. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":"77 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10831964","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}
Jennifer S Burt, Jack M I Leggett, Laura E Anderson
{"title":"Increasing the duration of an intervening distractor word can increase repetition blindness: Evidence for interitem competition in rapid visual sequences.","authors":"Jennifer S Burt, Jack M I Leggett, Laura E Anderson","doi":"10.1037/cep0000286","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cep0000286","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP), accurate report of a critical item (C2) declines when an earlier critical item (C1) is identical rather than unrelated. The most prominent theories of this phenomenon of <i>repetition blindness</i> (RB) concern the effects of processing C1 on later processing of C2. However, characteristics of distractor items between C1 and C2 strongly moderate RB, suggesting that items may compete for registration as separate events. We investigated interitem competition by manipulating the word frequency of distractors and C2s, and introducing novel manipulations of C1 and distractor duration. The frequency manipulations affected overall performance but not the size of RB; C2 reporting accuracy improved when distractors were of higher frequency and, contrary to typical results in lexical tasks, when C2s were of lower frequency. These results align with a competition model in which lower frequency words have an advantage. C1 duration had no significant effects on performance. A new finding was that increasing distractor duration had no main effect on performance but did increase the size of RB. The difficulty of registering a repeated C2 in memory under time pressure is exacerbated by the competitive effects of a temporally adjacent word of longer duration. The findings add to other evidence that interitem competition is important in RB and in processing of rapid visual sequences more generally. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":"77 1","pages":"73-83"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10826015","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":"Separating the effect of verbal cue on task-set activation into stimulus- and response-related processes: An eye-tracking study.","authors":"Erina Saeki, Satoru Saito","doi":"10.1037/cep0000297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000297","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In task selection, a verbal cue is interpreted as more meaningful, and thus, it can elicit a faster response than an arbitrary cue. To investigate the effect of verbal cues on activating target task information, we combined an eye-tracking technique with a task-switching paradigm using an arbitrary cue and a type of verbal cue-a word cue with a short cue-target interval (CTI) and long CTI. We measured stimulus-selection time (time to orienting a stimulus) and postselection response time (time to respond to a stimulus after orienting to the stimulus) and separately examined the differential effect of cue types on these divided response times. Consequently, we found that word cues reduced stimulus-selection time and postselection response time compared with arbitrary sign cues in both the long and short CTI conditions. The results suggest that verbal cues activate task information more quickly, including a stimulus dimension and stimulus-response rule, than arbitrary cues. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":"77 1","pages":"45-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10835319","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}
Ana Paula Soares, Tiago França, Francisco-Javier Gutiérrez-Domínguez, Inês Sousa, Helena M Oliveira
{"title":"As trials go by: Effects of 2-AFC item repetition on statistical learning performance.","authors":"Ana Paula Soares, Tiago França, Francisco-Javier Gutiérrez-Domínguez, Inês Sousa, Helena M Oliveira","doi":"10.1037/cep0000290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000290","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the most popular tasks used to test statistical learning (SL) involves asking participants to identify which of two stimuli, a triplet presented during the previous familiarization phase versus a new sequence made of the same stimuli never presented together, is more familiar based on the stream presented before, that is, to perform a two-alternative forced-choice (2-AFC) task. Despite the widespread use of this task, it has come under increasing criticism in current cognitive research due to psychometric flaws. A common practice to improve SL measurement involves increasing the number of 2-AFC trials by presenting the same items (triplets and foils) several times during the test phase. This work aimed to directly analyze the effect that this practice entails by examining how the proportion of correct discriminations of three-syllable nonsense words presented during the familiarization phase of an auditory triplet embedded task changed as the number of 2-AFC item repetitions increased. We also tested whether this effect was modulated by the predictability of the \"words\" embedded in the auditory streams (high and low) and the conditions under which they were presented to participants (implicit and explicit). Results showed that 2-AFC item repetitions had indeed detrimental effects on SL measurement, as indexed by a significant decrease in the proportion of correct discriminations as the number of items repetitions increased, both in the 2-AFC task performed under implicit and explicit conditions, although, in the first case, only for low-predictable \"words.\" These findings recommend caution when using this strategy to improve SL measurement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":"77 1","pages":"57-72"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9080644","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}
Jonathan M Fawcett, Maddison M Baldwin, Jedidiah W Whitridge, Michelle Swab, Kyla Malayang, Brooke Hiscock, Dalainey H Drakes, Hannah V Willoughby
{"title":"Production improves recognition and reduces intrusions in between-subject designs: An updated meta-analysis.","authors":"Jonathan M Fawcett, Maddison M Baldwin, Jedidiah W Whitridge, Michelle Swab, Kyla Malayang, Brooke Hiscock, Dalainey H Drakes, Hannah V Willoughby","doi":"10.1037/cep0000302","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cep0000302","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The production effect refers to the finding that words read aloud are better remembered than those read silently. This pattern has most often been explained as arising from the incorporation of sensorimotor elements into the item representation at study, which could then be used to guide performance at later test. This theoretical framework views aloud items as being distinctive in relation to silent items, and thus the effect was thought to emerge only when production was manipulated within-subjects. This claim was later challenged, and a reliable (albeit smaller) between-subject production effect has since been shown in recognition memory. Across a series of meta-analyses, we extend this earlier work, replicating the between-subject production effect for recognition, and demonstrating no such effect for overall target recall. However, supporting recent theoretical claims, we further observed an interaction between the production effect and serial position within recall, such that a production effect was observed for late time points but not early time points (a similar, albeit smaller and noncredible trend was observed for recognition). Finally, we provide evidence that production reduces off-list intrusions. In summary, production has a reliable impact on recognition memory when manipulated between-subjects, but a more complex relationship with recall performance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":"77 1","pages":"35-44"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9391298","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}
Geneviève Desmarais, Laura Schneeberger, Hilary Pearson, Kiara Bubar, Jonathan Wilbiks
{"title":"The impact of attentional demands on audiovisual integration depends on task-specific components.","authors":"Geneviève Desmarais, Laura Schneeberger, Hilary Pearson, Kiara Bubar, Jonathan Wilbiks","doi":"10.1037/cep0000295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000295","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research investigating how attentional demands impacts audiovisual (AV) integration has used a variety of multisensory tasks and procedures to manipulate attentional demands, leading to very differing results. Also, the secondary tasks used to increase attentional demands draw on the sensory modalities already being investigated; for example, a visual distracter task may be used to increase attentional demands in an audiovisual integration task. It is therefore not clear whether the additional task interfered with sensory processing or with audiovisual integration. We used a Colavita task where participants are asked to report the modality of auditory, visual, and audiovisual stimuli to investigate whether increasing attentional demands would impact audiovisual integration. In Experiments 1 and 2, we used a concurrent foot-tapping task to show that increasing attentional demands by having participants completing a secondary task in a different modality interfered with sensory processing but did not affect audiovisual integration. In Experiments 3 and 4, we manipulated attentional demands by having participants respond to all stimuli or only to target stimuli and showed that audiovisual integration was only impacted when targets were infrequent: When participants responded to specific targets amongst five different distracters, they no longer produced more \"visual-only\" responses than \"auditory-only\" responses. Whether attentional demands can impact audiovisual integration does not seem unitary and instead seems to depend on task-specific components. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":"77 1","pages":"3-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9374856","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":"Within-person variability contributes to more durable learning of faces.","authors":"Rebekah L Corpuz, Chris Oriet","doi":"10.1037/cep0000282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000282","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exposure to the natural, unsystematic within-person variability present across different encounters with a face (e.g., differences in emotion, makeup, and hairstyle) increases the likelihood the face will be recognized despite changes in appearance. In most studies, participants' memories are tested with a matching task administered shortly after exposure to a set of training images. In the real world, however, the time between when a face is first encountered and when it needs to be identified can be much longer. We hypothesized that in addition to facilitating acquisition of a representation of a face, unsystematic variability might also lead to better retention. To test this, in two experiments participants were randomly assigned to one of three training conditions: (a) no variability (still image), (b) systematic variability (changes in camera angle and pose in an otherwise constant setting), and (c) unsystematic variability (changes in hairstyle, makeup, clothing, and setting). Participants completed a sorting task 15 min and 5 days after viewing the target identity. Unsystematic variability led to better recognition than systematic variability, and this benefit was not reduced after a 5-day delay. Although participants expected their memory to be worse with a 5-day delay than with a 15-min delay, both overall accuracy and the advantage for training with unsystematic variability were virtually unaffected. The results suggest that exposure to unsystematic variability influences not only the initial acquisition of faces but also contributes to establishing a durable, flexible representation of faces in memory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":"76 4","pages":"270-282"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9511665","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}
Mehrgol Tiv, Ethan Kutlu, Elisabeth O'Regan, Debra Titone
{"title":"Bridging people and perspectives: General and language-specific social network structure predict mentalizing across diverse sociolinguistic contexts.","authors":"Mehrgol Tiv, Ethan Kutlu, Elisabeth O'Regan, Debra Titone","doi":"10.1037/cep0000273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000273","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mentalizing, or reasoning about others' mental states, is a dynamic social cognitive process that aids in communication and navigating complex social interactions. We examined whether exposure to diverse perspectives, afforded by occupying influential social network positions, predicted bilingual adults' performances on a behavioral mentalizing rating task in regions of high and low linguistic diversity. We calculated the degree to which respondents' social network position generally bridged unconnected others (i.e., general betweenness) and specifically bridged language communities (i.e., language betweenness). General betweenness predicted mentalizing performance regardless of region, whereas language betweenness only predicted mentalizing in a high linguistic diversity region, where bilingualism is ubiquitous and mentalizing to resolve perspective differences on the basis of language may be an adaptive cognitive strategy. These results indicate that human cognition is sensitive to social context and adaptive to the sociolinguistic demands of the broader environment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51529,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale","volume":" ","pages":"235-250"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39653510","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}