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  1. Evidence-based algorithms can improve both lay and professional judgements and decisions, yet they remain underutilised. Research on advice taking established that humans tend to discount advice—especially whe...

    Authors: Bence Pálfi, Kavleen Arora and Olga Kostopoulou
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:70
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  2. Task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs) are frequent distractions from our everyday tasks, which can reduce productivity and safety during task performance. This necessitates the examination of factors that modulate TU...

    Authors: Chelsie M. Hart, Caitlin Mills, Raela F. Thiemann, Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna, Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen and Julia W. Y. Kam
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:69
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  3. Health misinformation is a problem on social media, and more understanding is needed about how users cognitively process it. In this study, participants’ accuracy in determining whether 60 health claims were t...

    Authors: Mark Lowry, Neha Trivedi, Patrick Boyd, Anne Julian, Melissa Treviño, Yuki Lama, Kathryn Heley and Frank Perna
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:68
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  5. The drift diffusion model (DDM) is a widely applied computational model of decision making that allows differentiation between latent cognitive and residual processes. One main assumption of the DDM that has u...

    Authors: Joshua Sandry and Timothy J. Ricker
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:66
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  6. Sequential lineups are one of the most commonly used procedures in police departments across the USA. Although this procedure has been the target of much experimental research, there has been comparatively lit...

    Authors: David Kellen and Ryan M. McAdoo
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:65
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  7. Use of face masks is one of the measures adopted by the general community to stop the transmission of disease during this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This wide use of face masks has indeed been shown to disrupt...

    Authors: Ricky V. Tso, Celine O. Chui and Janet H. Hsiao
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:64
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  8. Surgical face masks reduce the spread of airborne pathogens but also disturb the flow of information between individuals. The risk of getting seriously ill after infection with SARS-COV-2 during the present CO...

    Authors: Lea Henke, Maja Guseva, Katja Wagemans, Doris Pischedda, John-Dylan Haynes, Georg Jahn and Silke Anders
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:63
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  9. Past studies of emotion and mood on memory have mostly focused on the learning of emotional material in the laboratory or on the consequences of a punctate catastrophic event. However, the influence of a long-...

    Authors: Chong Zhao, Keisuke Fukuda, Sohee Park and Geoffrey F. Woodman
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:62
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  10. Nowadays individuals can readily set reminders to offload intentions onto external resources, such as smartphone alerts, rather than using internal memory. Individuals tend to be biased, setting more reminders...

    Authors: Lea Fröscher, Ann-Kathrin Friedrich, Max Berentelg, Curtis Widmer, Sam J. Gilbert and Frank Papenmeier
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:61
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  11. Forensic science practitioners compare visual evidence samples (e.g. fingerprints) and decide if they originate from the same person or different people (i.e. fingerprint ‘matching’). These tasks are perceptua...

    Authors: Bethany Growns, Alice Towler, James D. Dunn, Jessica M. Salerno, N. J. Schweitzer and Itiel E. Dror
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:60
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  12. While face masks provide necessary protection against disease spread, they occlude the lower face parts (chin, mouth, nose) and consequently impair the ability to accurately perceive facial emotions. Here we e...

    Authors: Sarah D. McCrackin, Sabrina Provencher, Ethan Mendell and Jelena Ristic
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:59
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  13. Representing the base-10 structure of numbers is a challenging cognitive ability, unique to humans, but it is yet unknown how precisely this is done. Here, we examined whether and how literate adults represent...

    Authors: Dror Dotan and Nadin Brutmann
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:58
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:74

  14. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, face coverings were introduced as a safety measure in certain environments in England and some research suggests that they can affect emotion recognition. Factors such as ...

    Authors: Holly Cooper, Amrit Brar, Hazel Beyaztas, Ben J. Jennings and Rachel J. Bennetts
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:57
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  15. Visual search—looking for targets among distractors—underlies many critical professions (e.g., radiology, aviation security) that demand optimal performance. As such, it is important to identify, understand, a...

    Authors: Justin N. Grady, Patrick H. Cox, Samoni Nag and Stephen R. Mitroff
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:56
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  16. There is an increasing need in eyewitness identification research to identify factors that not only influence identification accuracy but may also impact the confidence–accuracy (CA) relationship. One such var...

    Authors: Sara D. Davis and Daniel J. Peterson
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:55
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  17. Facial expressions provide key information for successful social interactions. Recent research finds that accurate perception of emotion expressions decreases when faces are presented with face masks. What is ...

    Authors: Riley H. Swain, Aminda J. O’Hare, Kamila Brandley and A. Tye Gardner
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:54
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  18. Face masks occlude parts of the face which hinders social communication and emotion recognition. Since sign language users are known to process facial information not only perceptually but also linguistically,...

    Authors: Wee Kiat Lau, Jana Chalupny, Klaudia Grote and Anke Huckauf
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:53
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  19. Many studies have shown that using a computer-aided detection (CAD) system does not significantly improve diagnostic accuracy in radiology, possibly because radiologists fail to interpret the CAD results prope...

    Authors: Fallon Branch, K. Matthew Williams, Isabella Noel Santana and Jay Hegdé
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:52
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  20. The world population is getting older and, as a result, the number of older victims of crime is expected to increase. It is therefore essential to understand how ageing affects eyewitness identification, so pr...

    Authors: Juliet S. Holdstock, Polly Dalton, Keith A. May, Stewart Boogert and Laura Mickes
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:51
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  22. Although the positive effects of congruency between stimuli are well replicated in face memory paradigms, mixed findings have been found in face matching. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, face masks are n...

    Authors: Alejandro J. Estudillo and Hoo Keat Wong
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:49
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  23. The interactions between emotion and attention are complex due to the multifaceted nature of attention. Adding to this complexity, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the emotional landscape, broadly heightening...

    Authors: Caitlin A. Sisk, Yi Ni Toh, Jihyang Jun, Roger W. Remington and Vanessa G. Lee
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:48
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  24. Many concepts are defined by their relationships to one another. However, instructors might teach these concepts individually, neglecting their interconnections. For instance, students learning about statistic...

    Authors: Daniel Corral, Alice F. Healy and Matt Jones
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:47
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  25. Over the past two years, face masks have been a critical tool for preventing the spread of COVID-19. While previous studies have examined the effects of masks on speech recognition, much of this work was condu...

    Authors: Anne Marie Crinnion, Joseph C. Toscano and Cheyenne M. Toscano
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:46
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  26. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the wearing of face masks became mandatory in public areas or at workplaces in many countries. While offering protection, the coverage of large parts of our face (nose, mouth and ...

    Authors: Diana Kollenda and Benjamin de Haas
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:45
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  27. Individuals with homonymous visual field loss (HVFL) fail to perceive visual information that falls within the blind portions of their visual field. This places additional burden on memory to represent informa...

    Authors: Garrett Swan, Jing Xu, Vilte Baliutaviciute and Alex Bowers
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:44
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  29. A rapidly growing body of empirical research has recently started to emerge highlighting the connotative and/or semiotic meanings that consumers typically associate with specific abstract visual design feature...

    Authors: Charles Spence and George Van Doorn
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:42
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  30. Previous research suggests people struggle to detect a series of movements that might imply hostile intentions of a vessel, yet this ability is crucial in many real world Naval scenarios. To investigate possib...

    Authors: Colleen E. Patton, Christopher D. Wickens, Benjamin A. Clegg, Kayla M. Noble and C. A. P. Smith
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:41
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  31. Past studies have provided evidence that the effects of tactile stimulation on binocular rivalry are mediated by primitive features (orientation and spatial frequency) common in vision and touch. In this study...

    Authors: Mikoto Ono, Nobuyuki Hirose and Shuji Mori
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:40
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  32. Holistic processing has been identified as an expertise marker of face and object recognition. By contrast, reduced holistic processing is purportedly an expertise marker in recognising orthographic characters...

    Authors: Ricky Van-yip Tso, Terry Kit-fong Au and Janet Hui-wen Hsiao
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:39
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  33. On April 13, 2021, the CDC announced that the administration of Johnson and Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine would be paused due to a rare blood clotting side effect in ~ 0.0001% of people given the vaccine. Most pe...

    Authors: Madison Fansher, Tyler J. Adkins, Poortata Lalwani, Aysecan Boduroglu, Madison Carlson, Madelyn Quirk, Richard L. Lewis, Priti Shah, Han Zhang and John Jonides
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:38
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  34. We examined how prior experience encountering targets affected attention allocation and event-based prospective memory. Participants performed four color match task blocks with a difficult, but specified prosp...

    Authors: Kara N. Moore, James Michael Lampinen, Eryn J. Adams, Blake L. Nesmith and Presley Burch
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:37
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  35. From infrared body temperature surveillance to lifeguarding, real-life visual search is usually continuous and comes with rare targets. Previous research has examined realistic search tasks involving separate ...

    Authors: Louis K. H. Chan and Winnie W. L. Chan
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:36
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  36. Current theories of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) propose that memory abnormalities are central to the development and persistence of symptoms. While the most notable memory disturbances in PTSD involve...

    Authors: Barbara L. Pitts, Michelle L. Eisenberg, Heather R. Bailey and Jeffrey M. Zacks
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:35
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  37. Accumulating evidence suggests that individuals with greater executive resources spend less time mind wandering. Independent strands of research further suggest that this association depends on concentration a...

    Authors: David Marcusson-Clavertz, Stefan D. Persson, Etzel Cardeña, Devin B. Terhune, Cassandra Gort and Christine Kuehner
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:34
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  38. Previous research has shown that face masks impair the ability to perceive social information and the readability of emotions. These studies mostly explored the effect of standard medical, often white, masks o...

    Authors: Olesya Blazhenkova, Kivilcim Dogerlioglu-Demir and Robert W. Booth
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:33
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  39. We examined how mask use affects performance and eye movements in face recognition and whether strategy change reflected in eye movements is associated with performance change. Eighty-eight participants perfor...

    Authors: Janet Hui-wen Hsiao, Weiyan Liao and Ricky Van Yip Tso
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:32
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  40. One important aspect of cognitive control is the ability to stop a response in progress and motivational aspects, such as self-relevance, which may be able to influence this ability. We test the influence of s...

    Authors: Maximilian A. Friehs, Martin Dechant, Sarah Schäfer and Regan L. Mandryk
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:31
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  41. To slow the spread of COVID-19, many people now wear face masks in public. Face masks impair our ability to identify faces, which can cause problems for professional staff who identify offenders or members of ...

    Authors: Daniel J. Carragher, Alice Towler, Viktoria R. Mileva, David White and Peter J. B. Hancock
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:30
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  42. Previous research has mostly approached face recognition and target identification by focusing on face perception mechanisms, but memory mechanisms also appear to play a role. Here, we examined how the presenc...

    Authors: Teresa Garcia-Marques, Manuel Oliveira and Ludmila Nunes
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:29
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  43. Humans have deliberately scented their environment for purpose or pleasure for millennia. In the contemporary marketplace most consumers prefer and purchase scented versions of common household products. Howev...

    Authors: Rachel S. Herz, Maria Larsson, Rafael Trujillo, Marisa C. Casola, Farah K. Ahmed, Stacy Lipe and Morgan E. Brashear
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:28
    Content type: Review article Published on:

  44. Research has consistently shown that concealing facial features can hinder subsequent identification. The widespread adoption of face masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical and urgent ...

    Authors: Krista D. Manley, Jason C. K. Chan and Gary L. Wells
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:27
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  45. Considerable research has examined the prevalence and apparent consequences of task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs) in both laboratory and authentic educational settings. Few studies, however, have explored methods ...

    Authors: Matthew S. Welhaf, Natalie E. Phillips, Bridget A. Smeekens, Akira Miyake and Michael J. Kane
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:26
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  46. Spatial skills are critical for student success in K-12 STEM education. Teachers’ spatial skills and feelings about completing spatial tasks influence students’ spatial and STEM learning at both the primary an...

    Authors: Kelsey Rocha, Catherine M. Lussier and Kinnari Atit
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:25
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  47. Face masks have become common protective measures in community and workplace environments to help reduce the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Face masks can mak...

    Authors: Brenda T. Poon and Lorienne M. Jenstad
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:24
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  48. Stable individual differences in cognitive motivation (i.e., the tendency to engage in and enjoy effortful cognitive activities) have been documented with self-report measures, yet convergent support for a tra...

    Authors: Jennifer L. Crawford, Sarah A. Eisenstein, Jonathan E. Peelle and Todd S. Braver
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:23
    Content type: Registered Reports and Replication Published on:

  49. We used a driving simulator to investigate landmark-based route navigation in young adults. Previous research has examined how proximal and distal landmarks influence route navigation, however, these effects h...

    Authors: Yasaman Jabbari, Darren M. Kenney, Martin von Mohrenschildt and Judith M. Shedden
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:22
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  50. Two aspects of real-world visual search are typically studied in parallel: category knowledge (e.g., searching for food) and visual patterns (e.g., predicting an upcoming street sign from prior street signs). ...

    Authors: Austin Moon, Jiaying Zhao, Megan A. K. Peters and Rachel Wu
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2022 7:21
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