Do emotional faces capture attention, and does this depend on awareness? Evidence from the visual probe paradigm [0.03%]
情绪面孔是否能吸引注意？视觉探针范式的证据表明意识是否有影响？
Nicholas Hedger,Matthew Garner,Wendy J Adams
Nicholas Hedger
The visual probe (VP) paradigm provides evidence that emotional stimuli attract attention. Such effects have been reported even when stimuli are presented outside of awareness. These findings have shaped the idea that humans possess a proce...
Grab that face, hammer, or line: No effect of hands position on visual memory [0.03%]
抓取物体：手部位置不会影响视觉记忆
Tomer Sahar,Tal Makovski
Tomer Sahar
Is visual memory enhanced near the hands? The embodied cognition framework postulates that body states and action greatly influence cognition. Accordingly, numerous studies have argued that hands position affects visual perception and atten...
Evidence for a reduction of the rightward extent of the perceptual span when reading dynamic horizontally scrolling text [0.03%]
阅读动态水平卷动文本时感知跨度右侧范围减小的证据
Hannah Harvey,Simon P Liversedge,Robin Walker
Hannah Harvey
The dynamic horizontally scrolling text format produces a directional conflict in the allocation of attention for reading, with a necessity to track each word leftward (in the direction of movement) concurrently with normal rightward shifts...
The relationship between working memory and the dual-target cost in visual search guidance [0.03%]
工作记忆与视觉搜索双重目标成本之间的关系
Tamaryn Menneer,Kyle R Cave,Elina Kaplan et al.
Tamaryn Menneer et al.
Searching for two targets produces a dual-target cost compared with single-target search, with reduced attentional guidance toward targets (Stroud, Menneer, Cave, & Donnelly, 2012). We explore the effect of holding a color in working memory...
Iman Feghhi,David A Rosenbaum
Iman Feghhi
People judge the relative difficulty of different kinds of tasks all the time, yet little is known about how they do so. We asked university students to choose between tasks that taxed perceptual-motor control and memorization to different ...
Real-world size is automatically encoded in preschoolers' object representations [0.03%]
学龄前儿童的对象表示中会自动编码真实尺寸
Bria Long,Mariko Moher,Susan Carey et al.
Bria Long et al.
When adults see a picture of an object, they automatically process how big the object typically is in the real world (Konkle & Oliva, 2012a). How much life experience is needed for this automatic size processing to emerge? Here, we ask whet...
Precise movements in awkward postures: A direct test of the precision hypothesis of the end-state comfort effect [0.03%]
精确动作与别扭姿态——关于终极状态舒适效应的精确实验检验
Oliver Herbort,Wilfried Kunde
Oliver Herbort
When humans manipulate an object, they prefer to grasp the object in a way that allows to terminate the manipulation in a comfortable posture. The reasons for this end-state comfort effect have remained elusive so far. One explanation assum...
Richard Ramsey,Kohinoor M Darda,Paul E Downing
Richard Ramsey
Automaticity has been argued to be a core feature of the mental processes that guide social interactions, such as those underpinning imitative behaviors. To date, however, there is little known about the automaticity of imitative tendencies...
Rachel A Searston,Matthew B Thompson,John R Vokey et al.
Rachel A Searston et al.
Humans can see through the complexity of scenes, faces, and objects by quickly extracting their redundant low-spatial and low-dimensional global properties, or their style. It remains unclear, however, whether semantic coding is necessary, ...
Complexity drives speech sound development: Evidence from artificial language training [0.03%]
复杂性驱动语音发育：来自人工语言训练的证据
Akshay R Maggu,René Kager,Shimeng Xu et al.
Akshay R Maggu et al.
Traditionally, learning is assumed to take place with exposure to simpler elements first followed by exposure to elements with increasing levels of difficulty. Recent reports suggest that exposure to complex elements leads to more widesprea...