Browsing Faculty Publications by Department "Psychology"
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(NeuroImage: Clinical, 2020)Background The ability to flexibly apply rules to novel situations is a critical aspect of adaptive human behavior. While executive function deficits are known to appear early in the course of psychosis, it is unclear ...
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(Mouton de Gruyter, 2011)When drawing familiar objects there is a bias in starting location, stroke direction, and object orientation or facing. Directional biases are also apparent in the speed and accuracy with which rightward vs. leftward facing ...
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(Elsevier, 1989)Perceptions of happy facial effect from asymmetric composite faces presented in free vision were compared in four groups: left-to-right readers (Hindi), right-to-left readers (Arabic), left-to-right and right-to-left readers ...
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(Elsevier, 2007-03)Two meta-analyses of 66 behavioral studies examined variables influencing functional cerebral lateralization of each language of brain-intact bilingual adults. Functional lateralization was found to be primarily influenced ...
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(PsyArXiv, 2020)Most theories describing the cognitive processes underlying task switching allow for contributions of active task-set reconfiguration and task set inertia. Manipulations of the Cue-to-Stimulus-Interval (CSI) are generally ...
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(NeuroImage, 2020-04)How can creative problem solving be enhanced? The paper identifies and examines modulatory approaches from the cognitive and neuroscientific literature that have been made to make creative problem solving better. We review ...
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(1979)The cognitive processing strategies of two groups of French-English bilinguals were studied by means of an auditory Stroop test designed to evaluate cerebral hemispheric involvement. An “early bilingual” group were bilingual ...
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(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005)Chinese-English bilingual participants listed exemplars of 10 common categories on two occasions. Half responded in the same language in both sessions (Chinese or English) and half responded in one language in one session ...
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(2005)Chinese-English bilingual participants listed exemplars of 10 common categories on two occasions, one week apart. Half responded in the same language in both sessions (Chinese or English) and half responded in one language ...
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(2002)Sixteen French–English late bilinguals performed a speeded language recognition task on lateralized words that were either marked or unmarked for language on the basis of digram frequency. Response latencies were faster ...
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Dynamic cognitive flexibility: Influences of time and personality traits on voluntary task selection (psyArXiv, 2021-03)Cognitive flexibility, or the ability to flexibly switch between different task sets, is often operationalized using performance on voluntary task switching (VTS) paradigms. In VTS paradigms, performance is commonly measured ...
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(Frontiers Media SA, 2014-06-23)In two experiments we examined the role of emotion, specifically worry, anxiety, and mood, on prospection during decision-making. Worry is a particularly relevant emotion to study in the context of prospection because high ...
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(Neuropsychologia, 2018-08-01)A meta-analysis of studies using single-session transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to target the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) was undertaken to examine the effect of stimulation on executive function ...
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(Frontiers, 2013-12-13)After fear conditioning, presenting the conditioned stimulus (CS) alone yields a context-specific extinction memory; fear is suppressed in the extinction context, but renews in any other context. The context-dependence of ...
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(2002)Unlike other writing systems that are readily classifiable as alphabetic or syllabic in their structure, the Indic Devanagari script (of which Hindi is an example) has properties of both syllabic and alphabetic writing ...
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(Elsevier, 2003)Two lexical decision semantic priming experiments examined when, in the course of reading a joke, the initial and the intended meanings are primed; whether the meanings overlap in time; and what happens to the initial ...
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(1997)Native Korean readers were studied in a visual half-field paradigm. Subjects were to make speeded judgments on Hangul (syllabic) and Hanzza (logographic) scripts based on phonetic or visual properties of the stimuli. A ...
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(2007)In an examination of the time course of activation of phonological and semantic information in processing kanji script, two lexical decision experiments were conducted with native readers of Japanese. Kanji targets were ...
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(2004)This article is an overview of studies in a special issue of the journal, focused on reading and writing in semi-syllabic scripts.