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Mixed evidence for a richness-of-encoding account of animacy effects in memory from the generation-of-ideas paradigm
Animacy effects in memory correspond to the observation that animates (e.g., cow ) are remembered better than inanimates (e.g., pencil ). Although the...
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Animacy and animate imagery improve retention in the method of loci among novice users
Recently, researchers have identified word animacy as a strong predictor of recall. In contrast, the method of loci is an ancient mnemonic technique...
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Brief category learning distorts perceptual space for complex scenes
The formation of categories is known to distort perceptual space: representations are pushed away from category boundaries and pulled toward...
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Aesthetic preferences for causality in biological movements arise from visual processes
“People watching” is a ubiquitous component of human activities. An important aspect of such activities is the aesthetic experience that arises...
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Animacy and threat in recognition memory
Animate items are better remembered than inanimate items, suggesting that human memory has evolved to prioritize information related to survival. The...
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Priming the self as an agent influences causal, spatial, and temporal events: implications for animacy, cultural differences, and clinical settings
People intentionally engage in goal-directed actions—i.e., set goals, create plans, and execute volitional control, which are fundamental for our...
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Paired-associate learning, animacy, and imageability effects in the survival advantage
The current study examined animacy and paired-associate learning through a survival-processing paradigm (Nairne et al. in Journal of Experimental...
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Standardized database of 400 complex abstract fractals
In experimental settings, characteristics of presented stimuli influence cognitive processes. Knowledge about stimulus features is important to...
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Exposure to multisensory and visual static or moving stimuli enhances processing of nonoptimal visual rhythms
Research has shown that visual moving and multisensory stimuli can efficiently mediate rhythmic information. It is possible, therefore, that the...
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Agency of Subjects and Eye Movements in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
People with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) show anomalies in language processing with respect to “who is doing what” in an action. This...
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Pareidolic faces receive prioritized attention in the dot-probe task
Face pareidolia occurs when random or ambiguous inanimate objects are perceived as faces. While real faces automatically receive prioritized...
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Ratings of survival-related dimensions for a set of 732 words, their relationships with other psycholinguistic variables and memory performance
When words are processed for their fitness-relevance (e.g., for finding food), they are remembered better than when they are processed for...
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Eye pupil signals life motion perception
The ability to readily detect and recognize biological motion (BM) is fundamental to survival and interpersonal communication. However, perception of...
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Reinforcement learning of adaptive control strategies
Humans can up- or downregulate the degree to which they rely on task information for goal-directed behaviour, a process often referred to as...
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What is an Emotion-label Word? Emotional Prototypicality (EmoPro) Rating for 1,083 Chinese Emotion Words and Its Relationships with Psycholinguistic Variables
The present study offered the emotion prototypicality (EmoPro) ratings for 1,083 Chinese emotion words. EmoPro measures the extent to which an...
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Adaptive memory: Is the animacy effect on memory due to emotional arousal?
Animate entities are often better remembered than inanimate ones. The proximal mechanisms underlying this animacy effect on recall are unclear. In...
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Mechanisms of processing speed training and transfer effects across the adult lifespan: protocol of a multi-site cognitive training study
BackgroundIn recent years, cognitive training has gained popularity as a cost-effective and accessible intervention aiming at compensating for or...
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THINGSplus: New norms and metadata for the THINGS database of 1854 object concepts and 26,107 natural object images
To study visual and semantic object representations, the need for well-curated object concepts and images has grown significantly over the past...
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Distributed attention model of perceptual averaging
The visual system efficiently processes complex and redundant information in a scene despite its limited capacity. One strategy for coping with the...
