{"title":"Correction: Probing beyond: The impact of model size and prior informativeness on Bayesian SEM fit indices.","authors":"Ejike Edeh, Xinya Liang, Chunhua Cao","doi":"10.3758/s13428-025-02672-9","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13428-025-02672-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8717,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Research Methods","volume":"57 5","pages":"148"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12003497/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143960219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhiming Lu, Zijun Ke, Rebecca Y M Cheung, Qian Zhang
{"title":"Synthesizing data from pretest-posttest-control-group designs in mediation meta-analysis.","authors":"Zhiming Lu, Zijun Ke, Rebecca Y M Cheung, Qian Zhang","doi":"10.3758/s13428-025-02661-y","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13428-025-02661-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aims to address the existing concerns for mediation meta-analysis (MMA) conducted under pretest-posttest-control-group (PPCG) designs. These issues include the validity of meta-analytic structural equation modeling with a binary independent variable, heterogeneously defined treatment doses, and potential violations of the homogeneous variance assumption. Moreover, an open question remains regarding whether effect sizes in MMA over PPCG designs should be computed from posttest scores (PSMMA) or from pretest-posttest change scores (CSMMA). This study employs theoretical discussions and Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate the feasibility of MMA under PPCG designs and to compare CSMMA and PSMMA. Furthermore, the procedures for computing effect sizes are summarized, and an empirical example is presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":8717,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Research Methods","volume":"57 5","pages":"146"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143969120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giuseppe Ippolito, Thomas Quettier, Sara Borgomaneri, Vincenzo Romei
{"title":"Silicon Spike: An Arduino-based low-cost and open-access triggerbox to precisely control TMS devices.","authors":"Giuseppe Ippolito, Thomas Quettier, Sara Borgomaneri, Vincenzo Romei","doi":"10.3758/s13428-025-02653-y","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13428-025-02653-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a widely used tool in the field of clinical and cognitive neuroscience. To exploit its excellent temporal properties, TMS usually relies on triggerbox devices, which temporize the delivery of magnetic pulses according to the paradigm requirements. However, a main limitation of most of the widely used triggerbox devices is that they rely solely on the experimental computer processor, which might add temporal uncertainty in delivering the TMS pulse when the computer's resources are drained by other experimental devices or by task execution itself, especially during repetitive TMS or dual-coil protocols. We aimed at developing a low-cost and easily reproducible triggerbox device which could overcome these limitations by relying on an external processor to handle the timing precision. We used an Arduino Uno R4 Minima to build Silicon Spike, a low-cost ($60) triggerbox device. We tested the device's precision in delivering the TMS pulses under different working load conditions, and the impact over time. All of the tests were ecological, delivering real TMS pulses during dual-coil, repetitive, and patterned TMS protocols. We obtained extremely high precision (< 0.022 ms) in all of the tests. This means that, for smaller or longer latencies, the error remains negligible for TMS studies. Thus, the Silicon Spike device demonstrated microsecond precision in handling the TMS pulse delivery, establishing itself as a simple and yet precise device. We freely provide the source code and the hardware schematics, allowing anyone to reproduce our work.</p>","PeriodicalId":8717,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Research Methods","volume":"57 5","pages":"145"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12000144/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143952540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katrin Linnig, Saskia Seel, Bernadette von Dawans, William Standard, Daniel Zielasko, Benjamin Weyers, Gregor Domes
{"title":"Open TSST VR: Psychobiological reactions to an open version of the Trier Social Stress Test in virtual reality.","authors":"Katrin Linnig, Saskia Seel, Bernadette von Dawans, William Standard, Daniel Zielasko, Benjamin Weyers, Gregor Domes","doi":"10.3758/s13428-025-02662-x","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13428-025-02662-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) has become one of the most frequently employed laboratory stressors in human studies over the past decades. Several TSST adaptations for the presentation in virtual reality (VR) have been introduced and evaluated recently. Here, we describe a freely available version, the Open TSST-VR. In two independent studies, we evaluated subjective, endocrine, and heart rate responses to the Open TSST-VR compared to an active control condition. In study 1, 50 men were randomly assigned to the Open TSST-VR or the control condition. Compared to the active control condition, the Open TSST-VR induced higher levels of subjective stress and significantly more cortisol responders. In study 2, we employed a balanced within-subject design comparing groups of 46 men and women. Again, the TSST-VR induced more stress than the control condition and a stronger cortisol response, but there were also order effects suggesting that the TSST-VR is less suitable for within-subject comparisons. In both studies, we observed a substantial stress level (and cortisol responders) in the control condition indicating that future studies should further elaborate on non-stressful control conditions, either without any task or non-stressful active components. Overall, the Open TSST-VR is a versatile tool for collaborative experimental stress research that offers flexibility to a broad range of future research questions among various disciplines.</p>","PeriodicalId":8717,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Research Methods","volume":"57 5","pages":"147"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12000176/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143963729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A tutorial for estimating Bayesian hierarchical mixture models for visual working memory tasks: Introducing the Bayesian Measurement Modeling (bmm) package for R.","authors":"Gidon T Frischkorn, Vencislav Popov","doi":"10.3758/s13428-025-02643-0","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13428-025-02643-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mixture models for visual working memory tasks using continuous report recall are highly popular measurement models in visual working memory research. Yet, efficient and easy-to-implement hierarchical Bayesian estimation procedures that flexibly enable group or condition comparisons are scarce. Specifically, most software packages implementing mixture models have used maximum likelihood estimation for single-subject data. Such estimation procedures require a large number of trials per participant to obtain robust and reliable estimates. This problem can be solved with hierarchical Bayesian estimation procedures that provide robust and reliable estimates with lower trial numbers. In this tutorial, we illustrate how mixture models for visual working memory tasks can be specified and fit in the newly developed R package bmm. The benefit of this implementation over existing hierarchical Bayesian implementations is that bmm integrates hierarchical Bayesian estimation of the mixture models with an efficient linear model syntax that enables us to adapt the mixture model to practically any experimental design. Specifically, this implementation allows for varying model parameters over arbitrary groups or experimental conditions. Additionally, the hierarchical structure and the specification of informed priors can frequently improve subject-level parameter estimation and solve estimation problems. We illustrate these benefits in different examples and provide R code for easy adaptation to other use cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":8717,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Research Methods","volume":"57 5","pages":"144"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11996974/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143964695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CoVox: A dataset of contrasting vocalizations.","authors":"Camila Bruder, Pauline Larrouy-Maestri","doi":"10.3758/s13428-025-02664-9","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13428-025-02664-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The human voice is remarkably versatile and can vary greatly in sound depending on how it is used. An increasing number of studies have addressed the differences and similarities between the singing and the speaking voice. However, finding adequate stimuli material that is at the same time controlled and ecologically valid is challenging, and most datasets lack variability in terms of vocal styles performed by the same voice. Here, we describe a curated stimulus set of vocalizations where 22 female singers performed the same melody excerpts in three contrasting singing styles (as a lullaby, as a pop song, and as an opera aria) and spoke the text aloud in two speaking styles (as if speaking to an adult or to an infant). All productions were made with the songs' original lyrics, in Brazilian Portuguese, and with a/lu/sound. This ecologically valid dataset of 1320 vocalizations was validated through a forced-choice lab experiment (N = 25 for each stimulus) where lay listeners could recognize the intended vocalization style with high accuracy (proportion of correct recognition superior to 69% for all styles). We also provide acoustic characterization of the stimuli, depicting clear and contrasting acoustic profiles depending on the style of vocalization. All recordings are made freely available under a Creative Commons license and can be downloaded at https://osf.io/cgexn/ .</p>","PeriodicalId":8717,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Research Methods","volume":"57 5","pages":"142"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11991967/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143975670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psycholinguistic norms for the dominant and secondary names of 700 LinguaPix color photographs in Mandarin Chinese.","authors":"Ya-Ning Chang, Leqi Cheng, Jie Wang, Yiu-Kei Tsang, Agnieszka Ewa Krautz, Susanna Siu-Sze Yeung, Suiping Wang, Hsuan-Chih Chen","doi":"10.3758/s13428-025-02644-z","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13428-025-02644-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Norming studies on picture naming usually identify different correct names for each picture and provide more information on the dominant name (i.e., the most frequently produced name of a given picture) or weighted values based on all the names. The current study is among the first attempts to establish psycholinguistic norms for both the dominant and secondary names of pictures. The following norms in Mandarin Chinese were provided for 700 color photographs from the LinguaPix database: name agreement, naming latency, name length, image agreement, age of acquisition (AoA), and concept familiarity of the dominant and secondary names, as well as overall accuracy, number of names, H-statistic, familiarity, visual complexity, valence, and arousal of the pictures. This dataset increases the diversity of stimuli available for picture naming studies in Chinese and greatly facilitates stimuli selection by allowing researchers to manipulate not only common psycholinguistic properties of the dominant picture name but also those of the secondary name and the relations between them. The database is available in the Open Science Framework repository ( https://osf.io/5rphx/ ).</p>","PeriodicalId":8717,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Research Methods","volume":"57 5","pages":"143"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11991977/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143975876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Esterman, Sam Agnoli, Travis C Evans, Audreyana Jagger-Rickels, David Rothlein, Courtney Guida, Carrie Hughes, Joseph DeGutis
{"title":"Characterizing the effects of emotional distraction on sustained attention and subsequent memory: A novel emotional gradual onset continuous performance task.","authors":"Michael Esterman, Sam Agnoli, Travis C Evans, Audreyana Jagger-Rickels, David Rothlein, Courtney Guida, Carrie Hughes, Joseph DeGutis","doi":"10.3758/s13428-025-02641-2","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13428-025-02641-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the impact of emotional distraction on sustained attention using a novel gradual onset continuous performance task (gradCPT). Sustained attention is a foundational cognitive process, vulnerable to both internal (endogenous) and external (exogenous) disruptions. Reliable, validated paradigms to assess internal sources of variation in sustained attention have been used to characterize basic aspects of attention as well as individual differences and neurobiological mechanisms. However, sustained attention can also be disrupted by external distraction, especially highly salient distractors, due to their affective and/or arousing nature. Markedly less work has been conducted to develop reliable and validated paradigms to study these effects on sustained attention. This study introduces a novel task, the emogradCPT, to characterize the impact of emotional distractors (background images) on the ability to sustain attention during an emotionally neutral task (digit discrimination task). Across two experiments and three rounds of data collection, we demonstrate that emotionally negative distractors robustly and reliably disrupt ongoing ability to sustain attention, reflected in reduced accuracy, and slower RTs, relative to neutral, positive, and no distractor conditions. Further, we validated the task by correlating objective and subjective measures of distraction, as well as demonstrating the impact of these distractors on downstream memory encoding and affect. Making these data and tools publicly available, we encourage the use of this paradigm to inform future basic, clinical, and neuroimaging studies of affective interactions with ongoing goal-directed attentional processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":8717,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Research Methods","volume":"57 5","pages":"141"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143964698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A lexical database of British Sign Language (BSL) and German Sign Language (DGS): Iconicity ratings, iconic strategies, and concreteness norms.","authors":"Gerardo Ortega, Annika Schiefner, Nia Lazarus, Pamela Perniss","doi":"10.3758/s13428-025-02660-z","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13428-025-02660-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Iconicity, understood as a resemblance relationship between meaning and form, is an important variable that has important psycholinguistic effects in lexical processing and language learning across modalities of language. With the growing interest in iconicity, clear operationalizations in terms of the different ways in which iconicity is construed and measured are critical for establishing its broader psycholinguistic profile. This study reports a normed database of iconicity ratings for the same concepts in British Sign Language (BSL) and German Sign Language (DGS). As a related dimension, we also report the type of iconic mapping strategy, i.e., a nominal variable that reflects the different ways in which signs make form-meaning associations for each sign. Finally, we include concreteness ratings for the same concepts. Data from deaf and hearing signers show that iconicity ratings are strongly correlated across both languages, with different distributions across the different strategies, and skewed towards the iconic end of the scale for all groups except German hearing non-signers. Concreteness ratings in BSL and DGS are correlated, though more weakly, and skewed towards the concrete end of the scale. Interestingly, this differs from findings for spoken languages, where concreteness ratings exhibit substantially stronger correlations and abstract concepts are more predominantly represented. We also find that iconicity and concreteness ratings have a moderate positive and strong positive correlation in BSL and DGS, respectively. These results will be useful in psycholinguistic research and highlight differences that can be attributed to the manual-visual modality of signs.</p>","PeriodicalId":8717,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Research Methods","volume":"57 5","pages":"139"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11982127/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143959085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new person-fit statistic for the detection of aberrant responses in polytomous cognitive diagnostic models.","authors":"Xuliang Gao, Minmin Hou, Fang Wang, Jinyu Zhou","doi":"10.3758/s13428-025-02659-6","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13428-025-02659-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Assessing person-fit in cognitive diagnostic assessments is a critical research area. Inability to identify misfitting responses can lead to misinterpretation of students' attribute profiles, potentially resulting in incorrect remedial actions. Despite its importance, there is a lack of research on person-fit statistics for polytomous cognitive diagnostic models (CDM). To address this, we propose a new person-fit statistic, WR, specifically designed for polytomous items in CDMs. We evaluated WR's ability to detect three types of abnormal behaviors through simulation studies, comparing its performance with established statistics including l<sub>z</sub>, infit, and outfit. The results show that WR consistently demonstrated stable and superior detection capabilities across all experimental scenarios. Traditional methods showed inconsistent detection abilities for different anomalies; l<sub>z</sub> was more effective at detecting cheating, while infit was better for creative responses. In high-quality test environments, WR performed best, though the difference compared to traditional methods was not significant. However, in low-quality conditions, WR significantly outperformed traditional methods. Overall, WR proved to be an effective tool for detecting person misfit in polytomous scoring CDMs. Finally, we analyzed a real educational assessment data to assess the practical application of WR.</p>","PeriodicalId":8717,"journal":{"name":"Behavior Research Methods","volume":"57 5","pages":"138"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143963807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}