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Vallesi, Antonino; Lozano, Violeta N.; Correa, Angel – Cognition, 2013
Preparation over time is a ubiquitous capacity which implies decreasing uncertainty about when critical events will occur. This capacity is usually studied with the variable foreperiod paradigm, which consists in the random variation of the time interval (foreperiod) between a warning stimulus and a target. With this paradigm, response time (RT)…
Descriptors: Models, Intervals, Reaction Time, Prediction
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Peterson, Robin L.; Pennington, Bruce F.; Olson, Richard K. – Cognition, 2013
We investigated the phonological and surface subtypes of developmental dyslexia in light of competing predictions made by two computational models of single word reading, the Dual-Route Cascaded Model (DRC; Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon, & Ziegler, 2001) and Harm and Seidenberg's connectionist model (HS model; Harm & Seidenberg, 1999). The…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Phonology, Prediction, Models
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Taylor, Kirsten I.; Devereux, Barry J.; Acres, Kadia; Randall, Billi; Tyler, Lorraine K. – Cognition, 2012
Conceptual representations are at the heart of our mental lives, involved in every aspect of cognitive functioning. Despite their centrality, a long-standing debate persists as to how the meanings of concepts are represented and processed. Many accounts agree that the meanings of concrete concepts are represented by their individual features, but…
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Identification, Experiments, Models
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Juhos, Csongor; Quelhas, Ana Cristina; Johnson-Laird, P. N. – Cognition, 2012
The mental model theory postulates that the meanings of assertions, and knowledge about their context can "modulate" the logical meaning of sentential connectives, such as "if" and "or". One known effect of modulation is to block the representation of possibilities to which a proposition refers. But, modulation should also add relational…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Inferences, Models, Theories
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Glockner, Andreas; Pachur, Thorsten – Cognition, 2012
In the behavioral sciences, a popular approach to describe and predict behavior is cognitive modeling with adjustable parameters (i.e., which can be fitted to data). Modeling with adjustable parameters allows, among other things, measuring differences between people. At the same time, parameter estimation also bears the risk of overfitting. Are…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Individual Differences, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Development
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Roland, Douglas; Yun, Hongoak; Koenig, Jean-Pierre; Mauner, Gail – Cognition, 2012
The effects of word predictability and shared semantic similarity between a target word and other words that could have taken its place in a sentence on language comprehension are investigated using data from a reading time study, a sentence completion study, and linear mixed-effects regression modeling. We find that processing is facilitated if…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Probability
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Jepma, Marieke; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan; Nieuwenhuis, Sander – Cognition, 2012
People are able to use temporal cues to anticipate the timing of an event, enabling them to process that event more efficiently. We conducted two experiments, using the fixed-foreperiod paradigm (Experiment 1) and the temporal-cueing paradigm (Experiment 2), to assess which components of information processing are speeded when subjects use such…
Descriptors: Expectation, Cues, Reaction Time, Models
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van Ravenzwaaij, Don; Brown, Scott; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan – Cognition, 2011
Research in the field of mental chronometry and individual differences has revealed several robust regularities (Jensen, 2006). These include right-skewed response time (RT) distributions, the worst performance rule, correlations with general intelligence ("g") that are more pronounced for RT standard deviations (RTSD) than they are for RT means…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Reaction Time, Individual Differences, Information Processing
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Scherer, Aaron M.; Windschitl, Paul D.; O'Rourke, Jillian; Smith, Andrew R. – Cognition, 2012
People must often engage in sequential sampling in order to make predictions about the relative quantities of two options. We investigated how directional motives influence sampling selections and resulting predictions in such cases. We used a paradigm in which participants had limited time to sample items and make predictions about which side of…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Sampling, Prediction, Influences
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Holbrook, Colin; Fessler, Daniel M. T. – Cognition, 2013
Victory in modern intergroup conflict derives from complex factors, including weaponry, economic resources, tactical outcomes, and leadership. We hypothesize that the mind summarizes such factors into simple metaphorical representations of physical size and strength, concrete dimensions that have determined the outcome of combat throughout both…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Leadership, War, Weapons
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Maddox, W. Todd; Gorlick, Marissa A.; Worthy, Darrell A.; Beevers, Christopher G. – Cognition, 2012
Individuals with depressive symptoms typically show deficits in decision-making. However, most work has emphasized decision-making under gain-maximization conditions. A gain-maximization framework may undermine decision-making when depressive symptoms are present because depressives are generally more sensitive to losses than gains. The present…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Rewards, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Cheyne, J. Allan; Solman, Grayden J. F.; Carriere, Jonathan S. A.; Smilek, Daniel – Cognition, 2009
We present arguments and evidence for a three-state attentional model of task engagement/disengagement. The model postulates three states of mind-wandering: occurrent task inattention, generic task inattention, and response disengagement. We hypothesize that all three states are both causes and consequences of task performance outcomes and apply…
Descriptors: Prediction, Models, Attention
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Hsu, Anne S.; Chater, Nick; Vitanyi, Paul M. B. – Cognition, 2011
There is much debate over the degree to which language learning is governed by innate language-specific biases, or acquired through cognition-general principles. Here we examine the probabilistic language acquisition hypothesis on three levels: We outline a novel theoretical result showing that it is possible to learn the exact "generative model"…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Prediction, Natural Language Processing, Language Acquisition
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Gerstenberg, Tobias; Lagnado, David A. – Cognition, 2010
How do people assign responsibility to individuals in a group context? Participants played a repeated trial experimental game with three computer players, in which they counted triangles presented in complex diagrams. Three between-subject conditions differed in how the group outcome was computed from the individual players' answers. After each…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Computers, Games, Responsibility
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Tremoliere, Bastien; De Neys, Wim; Bonnefon, Jean-Francois – Cognition, 2012
According to the dual-process model of moral judgment, utilitarian responses to moral conflict draw on limited cognitive resources. Terror Management Theory, in parallel, postulates that mortality salience mobilizes these resources to suppress thoughts of death out of focal attention. Consequently, we predicted that individuals under mortality…
Descriptors: Conflict, Moral Issues, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Value Judgment
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