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Research on Re-Searching: Interrupted Foraging Is Not Disrupted Foraging
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Injae Hong; Jeremy M. Wolfe – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
In classic visual search, observers typically search for the presence of a target in a scene or display. In foraging tasks, there may be multiple targets in the same display (or "patch"). Observers typically search for and collect these target items in one patch until they decide to leave that patch and move to the next one. This is a…
Descriptors: Food, Visual Learning, Decision Making, Learning Activities
Even Affective Changes Induced by the Global Health Crisis Are Insufficient to Perturb the Hyper-Stability of Visual Long-Term Memory
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Zhao, Chong; Fukuda, Keisuke; Park, Sohee; Woodman, Geoffrey F. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Past studies of emotion and mood on memory have mostly focused on the learning of emotional material in the laboratory or on the consequences of a punctate catastrophic event. However, the influence of a long-lasting global condition on memory and learning has not been studied. The COVID-19 pandemic unfortunately offered a unique situation to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, COVID-19, Pandemics, Long Term Memory
A Starring Role for Inference in the Neurocognition of Visual Narratives
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Cohn, Neil – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
Research in verbal and visual narratives has often emphasized backward-looking inferences, where absent information is subsequently inferred. However, comics use conventions like star-shaped "action stars" where a reader "knows" events are undepicted "at that moment," rather than omitted entirely. We contrasted the…
Descriptors: Inferences, Cognitive Processes, Brain, Visual Learning