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Puglisi, Jose L.; Negroni, Jorge A.; Chen-Izu, Ye; Bers, Donald M. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2013
The force-frequency relationship has intrigued researchers since its discovery by Bowditch in 1871. Many attempts have been made to construct mathematical descriptions of this phenomenon, beginning with the simple formulation of Koch-Wesser and Blinks in 1963 to the most sophisticated ones of today. This property of cardiac muscle is amplified by…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Mathematical Models, Prediction, Intervals
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Urcuioli, Peter J.; Swisher, Melissa – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
Pigeons trained on successive AB symbolic matching show emergent BA antisymmetry if they are also trained on successive AA oddity and BB identity (Urcuioli, 2008, Experiment 4). In other words, when tested on BA probe trials following training, they respond more to the comparisons on the reverse of the nonreinforced AB baseline trials than on the…
Descriptors: Animals, Animal Behavior, Experiments, Stimuli
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Grondin, Simon – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
According to the hypothesis of a scalar property for time, the variability to time ratio should be constant. Three experiments tested the validity of this hypothesis in a restricted range of durations (standard values = 1, 1.3, 1.6, and 1.9 s). In each experiment, time intervals to be discriminated, reproduced, or categorized were presented with…
Descriptors: Intervals, Experiments, Information Processing, Memory
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Pinkston, Jonathan W.; Lamb, R. J. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
When given to pigeons, the direct-acting dopamine agonist apomorphine elicits pecking. The response has been likened to foraging pecking because it bears remarkable similarity to foraging behavior, and it is enhanced by food deprivation. On the other hand, other data suggest the response is not related to foraging behavior and may even interfere…
Descriptors: Animals, Brain, Biochemistry, Experiments
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Mallpress, Dave E. W.; Fawcett, Tim W.; McNamara, John M.; Houston, Alasdair I. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
The relationship between positive and negative reinforcement and the symmetry of Thorndike's law of effect are unresolved issues in operant psychology. Here we show that, for a given pattern of responding on variable interval (VI) schedules with the same programmed rate of food rewards (positive reinforcement VI) or electric shocks (negative…
Descriptors: Animals, Stimuli, Rewards, Positive Reinforcement
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Hein, Elisabeth; Moore, Cathleen M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
We live in a dynamic environment in which objects change location over time. To maintain stable object representations the visual system must determine how newly sampled information relates to existing object representations, the "correspondence problem". Spatiotemporal information is clearly an important factor that the visual system takes into…
Descriptors: Motion, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception, Stimuli
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DeGraaf, Allison; Schlinger, Henry D., Jr. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2012
Gutierrez (2006) experimentally demonstrated the effects of joint control and particularly the role of response mediation in the sequencing behavior of adults using an unfamiliar language. The purpose of the current study was to replicate and extend the procedures used by Gutierrez by comparing the effects of joint control training with the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Adults, Comparative Analysis, Experiments
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Cieslicka, Anna B.; Heredia, Roberto R. – Brain and Language, 2011
This study investigates the contribution of the left and right hemispheres to the comprehension of bilingual figurative language and the joint effects of salience and context on the differential cerebral involvement in idiom processing. The divided visual field and the lexical decision priming paradigms were employed to examine the activation of…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Intervals, Figurative Language, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Oberauer, Klaus; Lewandowsky, Stephan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2013
The article tests the assumption that forgetting in working memory for verbal materials is caused by time-based decay, using the complex-span paradigm. Participants encoded 6 letters for serial recall; each letter was preceded and followed by a processing period comprising 4 trials of difficult visual search. Processing duration, during which…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Recall (Psychology), Maintenance, Models
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Creel, Sarah C.; Tumlin, Melanie A. – Cognitive Science, 2012
Three experiments explored online recognition in a nonspeech domain, using a novel experimental paradigm. Adults learned to associate abstract shapes with particular melodies, and at test they identified a played melody's associated shape. To implicitly measure recognition, visual fixations to the associated shape versus a distractor shape were…
Descriptors: Music, Experiments, Memory, Models
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Patching, Geoffrey R.; Englund, Mats P.; Hellstrom, Ake – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Despite the importance of both response probability and response time for testing models of choice, there is a dearth of chronometric studies examining systematic asymmetries that occur over time- and space-orders in the method of paired comparisons. In this study, systematic asymmetries in discriminating the magnitude of paired visual stimuli are…
Descriptors: Computation, Visual Stimuli, Probability, Reaction Time
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Kangas, Brian D.; Berry, Meredith S.; Branch, Marc N. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2011
Despite its frequent use to assess effects of environmental and pharmacological variables on short-term memory, little is known about the development of delayed matching-to-sample (DMTS) performance. This study was designed to examine the dimensions and dynamics of DMTS performance development over a long period of exposure to provide a more…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Stimuli, Memory, Intervals
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Holden, John G.; Choi, Inhyun; Amazeen, Polemnia G.; Van Orden, Guy – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Variability of repeated measurements in human performances exhibits fractal 1/f noise. Yet the relative strength of this fractal pattern varies widely across conditions, tasks, and individuals. Four experiments illustrate how subtle details of the conditions of measurement change the fractal patterns observed across task conditions. The results…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Experiments, Statistical Analysis, Psychology
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Dalvit, Silvia; Eimer, Martin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Previous research has shown that the detection of a visual target can be guided not only by the temporal integration of two percepts, but also by integrating a percept and an image held in working memory. Behavioral and event-related brain potential (ERP) measures were obtained in a target detection task that required temporal integration of 2…
Descriptors: Intervals, Short Term Memory, Eye Movements, Stimuli
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Woltz, Dan J.; Gardner, Michael K.; Kircher, John C.; Burrow-Sanchez, Jason J. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
Two experiments investigated the relationship between subjective interpretation of frequency terms and corresponding objective values. Evidence supported the existence of a nonlinear relationship that is well described by a logarithmic function. The general form of this relationship was consistent across different methods of eliciting subjective…
Descriptors: Evidence, Rating Scales, Acoustics, Scoring
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