Original article
Formal mathematics is a paragon of abstractness. It thus seems natural to assume that the mathematical expert should rely more on symbolic or conceptual processes, and less on perception and action. We argue i...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:25
Published on: 7 December 2016
Original Article
Aspects of spatial cognition, specifically spatial skills, are strongly correlated with interest and success in STEM courses and STEM-related professions. Because growth in STEM-related industries is expected ...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:24
Published on: 7 December 2016
Brief report
Doing long sums in the absence of complementary actions or artefacts is a multistep procedure that quickly taxes working memory; congesting the phonological loop further handicaps performance. In the experimen...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:26
Published on: 7 December 2016
Original Article
Many topics in science are notoriously difficult for students to learn. Mechanisms and processes outside student experience present particular challenges. While instruction typically involves visualizations, s...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:27
Published on: 7 December 2016
Review article
This journal is dedicated to “use-inspired basic research” where a problem in the world shapes the hypotheses for a study in the laboratory. This brief review presents several examples of “use-inspired basic r...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:17
Published on: 14 November 2016
Original article
A recently developed visual foraging task, involving multiple targets of different types, can provide a rich and dynamic picture of visual attention performance. We measured the foraging performance of 66 chil...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:18
Published on: 14 November 2016
Original article
This research examined the impact of in-vehicle information system (IVIS) interactions on the driver’s cognitive workload; 257 subjects participated in a weeklong evaluation of the IVIS interaction in one of t...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:16
Published on: 14 November 2016
Original article
Each year thousands of people are killed by looming motor vehicles. Throughout our evolutionary history looming objects have posed a threat to survival and perceptual systems have evolved unique solutions to c...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:15
Published on: 14 November 2016
Original article
In five experiments, we evaluated how secondary information presented on a heads-up display (HUD) impacts performance of a concurrent visual attention task. To do so, we had participants complete a primary vis...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:13
Published on: 5 November 2016
Original article
Over multiple response opportunities, recall may be inconsistent. For example, an eyewitness may report information at trial that was not reported during initial questioning—a phenomenon called reminiscence. Such...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:14
Published on: 5 November 2016
Original article
Many in the eyewitness identification community believe that sequential lineups are superior to simultaneous lineups because simultaneous lineups encourage inappropriate choosing due to promoting comparisons a...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:11
Published on: 5 November 2016
Original article
It is well reported that expert athletes have refined perceptual-cognitive skills and fixate on more informative areas during representative tasks. These perceptual-cognitive skills are also crucial to perform...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:12
Published on: 31 October 2016
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
In some circumstances, people interact with a virtual keyboard by triggering a binary switch to guide a moving cursor to target characters or items. Such switch keyboards are commonly used by patients with sev...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:6
Published on: 22 September 2016
Original article
Accurately inferring three-dimensional (3D) structure from only a cross-section through that structure is not possible. However, many observers seem to be unaware of this fact. We present evidence for a 3D amo...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:9
Published on: 22 September 2016
Original article
Taking multiple-choice practice tests with competitive incorrect alternatives can enhance performance on related but different questions appearing on a later cued-recall test (Little et al., Psychol Sci 23:133...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:3
Published on: 22 September 2016
Original article
Gestures serve many roles in communication, learning and understanding both for those who view them and those who create them. Gestures are especially effective when they bear resemblance to the thought they r...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:4
Published on: 22 September 2016
Original article
Men’s perceptions of women’s sexual interest were studied in a sample of 250 male undergraduates, who rated 173 full-body photos of women differing in expressed cues of sexual interest, attractiveness, provoca...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:8
Published on: 22 September 2016
Brief report
How should the accuracy of eyewitness identification decisions be measured, so that best practices for identification can be determined? This fundamental question is under intense debate. One side advocates fo...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:10
Published on: 22 September 2016
Original article
Novices struggle to interpret maps that show information about continuous dimensions (typically latitude and longitude) layered with information that is inherently continuous but segmented categorically. An ex...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:2
Published on: 22 September 2016
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Humans often falsely report having seen a causal link between two dynamic scenes if the second scene depicts a valid logical consequence of the initial scene. As an example, a video clip shows someone kicking ...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:7
Published on: 22 September 2016
Editorial
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:1
Published on: 22 September 2016
Brief report
Whether and when humans in general, and physicians in particular, use their beliefs about base rates in Bayesian reasoning tasks is a long-standing question. Unfortunately, previous research on whether doctors...
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2016 1:5
Published on: 22 September 2016
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