Cognitive Psychology: Recent submissions
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-25)The impact of trauma on individuals can have a profound and lasting effect on wellbeing. Ongoing research in the field is interested in the neurocognitive impact of trauma, including its effect on memory. However, there ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-10)Traditional approaches in studying decision making typically use artificial or well-defined lab stimuli to investigate changes in the perception of choices. However, the processes of how people generate, evaluate, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-20)There are studies (Smith, Haynes, Lazarus, & Pope, 1993) suggesting that appraisals of blame mediate between causal attributions and anger. Thus, causal attributions appear to be systematic antecedents to appraisals of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-20)The current study examines the distinct and common mechanisms underlying individual differences in reading skill and anxiety symptoms in children ages 7- to 12-years-old. A standardized oral word reading assessment is used ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-21)Alpha oscillations, or brain waves with a frequency between 8-12 Hz, are a neural correlate of attentional selection. Correlational studies show increases and decreases in alpha-band activity are associated with the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023)Recognition-induced forgetting refers to a visual memory phenomenon in which the initial recognition of certain objects within a category causes the subsequent forgetting of other objects within the same category. Memory ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)The purpose of this study is to understand differences in rapid decision-making processes between anesthesiologists with excellent, medium, and poor critical event management skills. A panel of expert clinicians and educators ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)We explored evidence for a domain-general contribution, domain-specific ability, and the influence of experience and personality on the visual recognition of prepared food – a previously unexplored domain. Four questions ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)This project investigated the benefits and costs of cueing on memory. Participants were shown images, some of which were cued as especially important to remember, in encoding blocks. The percentage of images cued changed ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-06)Classical views of human visual long-term memory propose that people first encode the visual stimuli into a long-term store, and then retrieve the visual information during task period. In examining the temporal dynamics ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)Gestalt principles of grouping have been widely studied in diagrammatic reasoning because diagrams that follow these principles are easier to understand than those that are not (Lemon et al 2007, Stieff 2007, Novick and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-18)The purpose of the study was to analyze the different contexts in which the social sharing of emotion occurs and the comparative benefits associated with two different contexts of emotion sharing. Previous research has ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04)This paper analyzed three models of emotional eating: the restraint disinhibition model, the affect-regulation model, and the externality model (Herman and Polivy, 1975; Haedt-Matt & Keel, 2011; Schachter, 1968). Emotional ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016)This project investigated the differences in reaction times between recognition of objects by feelings of familiarity and recognition of objects through direct recollection. Participants were shown images in a study phase, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-10)Trans-cranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a method of electrical stimulation directed through a specific lobe or section of the brain in order to excite neurons and bring about a behavioral change. tDCS has ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-01)How a problem is presented can influence students’ problem-solving performance. For example, including diagrams can alter students’ understanding, choice of strategy and accuracy on word problems. In this study, we examined ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-01)This study explored the roles that vision and proprioception play in learning while throw a ball repeatedly to a fixed location. In two experiments, participants threw a baseball to a target 12 meters away while wearing ...