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Clara Pracana Ed.; Michael Wang Ed. – Online Submission, 2023
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2023, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS), held in International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2023, held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 22 to 24 of April…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
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Lupker, Stephen J.; Pexman, Penny M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Performance in a lexical decision task is crucially dependent on the difficulty of the word-nonword discrimination. More wordlike nonwords cause not only a latency increase for words but also, as reported by Stone and Van Orden (1993), larger word frequency effects. Several current models of lexical decision making can explain these types of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Word Frequency, Semiotics
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Miles, Sarah J.; Minda, John Paul – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Current theories of category learning posit separate verbal and nonverbal learning systems. Past research suggests that the verbal system relies on verbal working memory and executive functioning and learns rule-defined categories; the nonverbal system does not rely on verbal working memory and learns non-rule-defined categories (E. M. Waldron…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Learning, Children, Short Term Memory, Investigations
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Fortin, Claudette; Schweickert, Richard; Gaudreault, Remi; Viau-Quesnel, Charles – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Recent studies suggest that timing and tasks involving executive control processes might require the same attentional resources. This should lead to interference when timing and executive tasks are executed concurrently. This study examined the interference between timing and task switching, an executive function. In 4 experiments, memory search…
Descriptors: Intervals, Reaction Time, Memory, Cognitive Processes