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People often fail to notice unexpected objects and events when they are focusing attention on something else. Most studies of this “inattentional blindness” use unexpected objects that are irrelevant to the pr...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:37
Published on: 20 September 2017
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Radiologists make many important decisions when detecting nodules on chest radiographs. While training can result in high levels of performance of this task, there could be individual differences in relevant p...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:36
Published on: 20 September 2017
Original article
This study investigates whether introducing simple cognitive interventions that are known to enhance learning in laboratory studies can be transferred to classroom settings. In an introductory psychology class...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:39
Published on: 20 September 2017
Editorial
Embodied learning approaches emphasize the use of action to support pedagogical goals. A specific version of embodied learning posits an action-to-abstraction transition supported by gesture, sketching, and an...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:38
Published on: 12 September 2017
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In a real world search, it can be important to keep ‘an eye out’ for items of interest that are not the primary subject of the search. For instance, you might look for the exit sign on the freeway, but you sho...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:35
Published on: 23 August 2017
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The present study examined everyday attentional disengagements in educational contexts. Undergraduate students completed various cognitive ability measures in the laboratory and recorded everyday mind-wanderin...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:32
Published on: 23 August 2017
Original article
Memories consolidate over time, with one consequence being that what we experience after learning can influence what we remember. In these experiments, women who engaged in 5 minutes of low-impact exercise immedi...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:33
Published on: 23 August 2017
Brief report
This paper describes a novel method for displaying data obtained by three-dimensional medical imaging, by which the position and orientation of a freely movable screen are optically tracked and used in real ti...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:34
Published on: 23 August 2017
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Advances in digital technology mean that the creation of visually compelling photographic fakes is growing at an incredible speed. The prevalence of manipulated photos in our everyday lives invites an importan...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:30
Published on: 18 July 2017
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Theories of study time allocation and of curiosity suggest that people are most engaged with and want to devote their time to materials that are not completely mastered but also are not so difficult that they ...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:31
Published on: 18 July 2017
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The everyday auditory environment is complex and dynamic; often, multiple sounds co-occur and compete for a listener’s cognitive resources. ‘Change deafness’, framed as the auditory analog to the well-document...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:29
Published on: 28 June 2017
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In line with theories of embodied cognition, hands-on experience is typically assumed to support learning. In the current paper, we explored this issue within the science domain of sinking objects. Adults had ...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:28
Published on: 20 June 2017
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Our perception of depth is substantially enhanced by the fact that we have binocular vision. This provides us with more precise and accurate estimates of depth and an improved qualitative appreciation of the t...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:25
Published on: 24 May 2017
Original article
Visual narratives sometimes depict successive images with different characters in the same physical space; corpus analysis has revealed that this occurs more often in Japanese manga than American comics. We us...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:27
Published on: 24 May 2017
Brief report
Visual hallucinations are a common, distressing, and disabling symptom of Lewy body and other diseases. Current models suggest that interactions in internal cognitive processes generate hallucinations. However...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:26
Published on: 24 May 2017
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A mixed design was created using text and game-like multimedia to instruct in the content of physics. The study assessed which variables predicted learning gains after a 1-h lesson on the electric field. The t...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:24
Published on: 24 May 2017
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People draw automatic social inferences from photos of unfamiliar faces and these first impressions are associated with important real-world outcomes. Here we examine the effect of selecting online profile ima...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:23
Published on: 14 April 2017
Original article
Spatial thinking is a vital component of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculum. However, to date, broad development of learning environments that target domain-specific spatial think...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:22
Published on: 20 March 2017
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People’s impression of their own “sense-of-direction” (SOD) is related to their ability to effectively find their way through environments, such as neighborhoods and cities, but is also related to the speed an...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:18
Published on: 20 March 2017
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Understanding and reasoning about phenomena at scales outside human perception (for example, geologic time) is critical across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Thus, devising strong methods t...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:21
Published on: 20 March 2017
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We argue that people compare values in graphs with a visual routine – attending to data values in an ordered pattern over time. Do these visual routines exist to manage capacity limitations in how many values can...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:20
Published on: 20 March 2017
Original article
Human behavior is frequently described both in abstract, general terms and in concrete, specific terms. We asked whether these two ways of framing equivalent behaviors shift the inferences people make about th...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:17
Published on: 20 March 2017
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
The visual system can be highly influenced by changes to visual presentation. Thus, numerous techniques have been developed to augment imagery in an attempt to improve human perception. The current paper exami...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:19
Published on: 20 March 2017
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Gender induction has been claimed to be virtually impossible unless nouns provide reliable semantic or phonological gender-relevant cues. However, learners might exploit syntactic cues, such as definite articl...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:11
Published on: 20 February 2017
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A number of real-world search tasks (i.e. police search, detection of improvised explosive devices (IEDs)) require searchers to search exhaustively across open ground. In the present study, we simulated this p...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2017 2:14
Published on: 20 February 2017
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