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  1. Working memory capacity is known to predict the performance of novices and experts on a variety of tasks found in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). A common feature of STEM tasks is tha...

    Authors: Mike Stieff, Stephanie Werner, Dane DeSutter, Steve Franconeri and Mary Hegarty
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:18
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  2. Considering how spatial thinking connects to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) outcomes, recent studies have evaluated how spatial interventions impact elementary students’ math learning....

    Authors: Heather Burte, Aaron L. Gardony, Allyson Hutton and Holly A. Taylor
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:17
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  3. Social media is an increasingly popular outlet for leisure and social interaction. On many social media platforms, the user experience involves commenting on or responding to user-generated content, such as im...

    Authors: Jordan Zimmerman and Sarah Brown-Schmidt
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:16
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  4. In peer instruction, instructors pose a challenging question to students, students answer the question individually, students work with a partner in the class to discuss their answers, and finally students ans...

    Authors: Jonathan G. Tullis and Robert L. Goldstone
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:15
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  5. Investigating the relationship between the human body and its spatial environment is a critical component in understanding the process of acquiring spatial knowledge. However, few empirical evaluations have lo...

    Authors: Jiayan Zhao, Mark Simpson, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Pejman Sajjadi and Alexander Klippel
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:14
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  6. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards inspectors are faced with the difficult task of learning the layout of complex nuclear facilities while being escorted through the facilities. This study ad...

    Authors: Mallory C. Stites, Laura E. Matzen and Zoe N. Gastelum
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:13
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  7. Anyone who has ever found themselves lost while driving in an unfamiliar neighborhood or forgotten where they parked their car can appreciate the importance of being able to navigate their environment. Navigat...

    Authors: Vanessa Vieites, Shannon M. Pruden and Bethany C. Reeb-Sutherland
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:12
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  8. Social media content is well-remembered, possibly because of its personal relevance and gossipy nature. It is unclear whether the mnemonic advantage of social media extends to a population less familiar with t...

    Authors: Kimberly A. Bourne, Sarah C. Boland, Grace C. Arnold and Jennifer H. Coane
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:11
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  9. Mental rotation (MR) is the ability to transform a mental representation of an object so as to accurately predict how the object would look from a different angle (Sci 171:701–703, 1971), and it is involved in...

    Authors: Scott P. Johnson and David S. Moore
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:10
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  10. Unfamiliar face processing is an ability that varies considerably between individuals. Numerous studies have aimed to identify its underlying determinants using controlled experimental procedures. While such t...

    Authors: Lisa Stacchi, Eva Huguenin-Elie, Roberto Caldara and Meike Ramon
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:8
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  11. Two-hundred one college undergraduates completed four nonverbal interference tasks (Simon, spatial Stroop, vertical Stroop, and flanker) and trait scales of self-control and impulsivity. Regression analyses te...

    Authors: Kenneth R. Paap, Regina Anders-Jefferson, Brandon Zimiga, Lauren Mason and Roman Mikulinsky
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:7
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  12. Causality is inherently linked to decision-making, as causes let us better predict the future and intervene to change it by showing which variables have the capacity to affect others. Recent advances in machin...

    Authors: Min Zheng, Jessecae K. Marsh, Jeffrey V. Nickerson and Samantha Kleinberg
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:6
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  13. Event-based prospective memory (PM) involves carrying out intentions when specific events occur and is ubiquitous in everyday life. It consists of a prospective component (remembering that something must be done)...

    Authors: Mateja F. Böhm, Ute J. Bayen and Marie Luisa Schaper
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:5
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  14. Extensive research has shown that practice yields highly specific perceptual learning of simple visual properties such as orientation and contrast. Does this same learning characterize more complex perceptual ...

    Authors: Li Z. Sha, Yi Ni Toh, Roger W. Remington and Yuhong V. Jiang
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:4
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  15. In many real-world settings, individuals rarely present another person’s ID, which increases the likelihood that a screener will fail to detect it. Three experiments examined how within-person variability (i.e...

    Authors: Dawn R. Weatherford, William Blake Erickson, Jasmyne Thomas, Mary E. Walker and Barret Schein
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:3
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  16. Making decisions about food is a critical part of everyday life and a principal concern for a number of public health issues. Yet, the mechanisms involved in how people decide what to eat are not yet fully und...

    Authors: Jane Dai, Jeremy Cone and Jeff Moher
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:2
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  17. Cognitive offloading refers to the act of reducing the mental processing requirements of a task through physical actions like writing down information or storing information on a cell phone or computer. Offloa...

    Authors: Alexandra B. Morrison and Lauren L. Richmond
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2020 5:1
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  18. Most science categories are hierarchically organized, with various high-level divisions comprising numerous subtypes. If we suppose that one’s goal is to teach students to classify at the high level, past rese...

    Authors: Robert M. Nosofsky, Colin Slaughter and Mark A. McDaniel
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:48
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  19. Memory retrieval is driven by similarity between a present situation and some prior experience, but not all similarity is created equal. Analogical retrieval, rooted in the similarity between two situations in...

    Authors: Micah B. Goldwater and Anja Jamrozik
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:47
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  20. Retrieval practice, such as filling in blanks or taking quizzes, is firmly established as an effective study strategy. However, the underlying mechanism of how retrieval practice benefits memory is still uncle...

    Authors: Min Kyung Hong, Sean M. Polyn and Lisa K. Fazio
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:46
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  21. Cognitive offloading is the use of physical action to reduce the cognitive demands of a task. Everyday memory relies heavily on this practice; for example, when we write down to-be-remembered information or us...

    Authors: Annika Boldt and Sam J. Gilbert
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:45
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  22. Recent experimental work has shown that hyper-realistic face masks can pass for real faces during live viewing. However, live viewing embeds the perceptual task (mask detection) in a powerful social context th...

    Authors: Jet Gabrielle Sanders, Yoshiyuki Ueda, Sakiko Yoshikawa and Rob Jenkins
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:43
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  23. Users can make judgments about web pages in a glance. Little research has explored what semantic information can be extracted from a web page within a single fixation or what mental representations users have ...

    Authors: Justin W. Owens, Barbara S. Chaparro and Evan M. Palmer
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:44
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  25. Previous research has found that spatial learning while navigating in novel spaces is impaired with extreme restricted peripheral field of view (FOV) (remaining FOV of 4°, but not of 10°) in an indoor environm...

    Authors: Erica M. Barhorst-Cates, Kristina M. Rand and Sarah H. Creem-Regehr
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:41
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  26. The use of neuroscience in the courtroom can be traced back to the early twentieth century. However, the use of neuroscientific evidence in criminal proceedings has increased significantly over the last two de...

    Authors: Darby Aono, Gideon Yaffe and Hedy Kober
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:40
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  27. Hybrid search requires observers to search both through a visual display and through the contents of memory in order to find designated target items. Because professional hybrid searchers such as airport bagga...

    Authors: Jessica Madrid and Michael C. Hout
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:39
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  28. Deception is a prevalent component of human interaction. However, meta-analyses suggest that discriminating between truthful and deceptive statements is a very arduous task and accuracy on these judgments is a...

    Authors: Daniella K. Cash, Rachel E. Dianiska and Sean M. Lane
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:38
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  29. We present a series of experiments on visual search in a highly complex environment, security closed-circuit television (CCTV). Using real surveillance footage from a large city transport hub, we ask viewers t...

    Authors: Mila Mileva and A. Mike Burton
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:37
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  30. A common goal in psychological research is the measurement of subjective impressions, such as first impressions of faces. These impressions are commonly measured using Likert ratings. Although these ratings ar...

    Authors: Nichola Burton, Michael Burton, Dan Rigby, Clare A. M. Sutherland and Gillian Rhodes
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:36
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  31. Testing oneself (i.e., doing retrieval practice) is an effective way to study. We attempted to make learners choose to test themselves more often. In Experiment 1, participants were asked how they wanted to st...

    Authors: Kalif E. Vaughn and Nate Kornell
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:35
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  32. Most experiments in event perception and cognition have focused on events that are only a few minutes in length, and the previous research on popular movies is consistent with this temporal scope. Scenes are g...

    Authors: James E. Cutting and Kacie L. Armstrong
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:34
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  33. Emoji have become a prominent part of interactive digital communication. Here, we ask the questions: does a grammatical system govern the way people use emoji; and how do emoji interact with the grammar of wri...

    Authors: Neil Cohn, Jan Engelen and Joost Schilperoord
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:33
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  34. Road crashes are a leading cause of death worldwide. In many countries, it is common to see spontaneous roadside memorials constructed in response to road fatalities. These memorials are controversial and are ...

    Authors: Vanessa Beanland and Rachael A. Wynne
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:32
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  35. Visualizing data through graphs can be an effective way to communicate one’s results. A ubiquitous graph and common technique to communicate behavioral data is the bar graph. The bar graph was first invented i...

    Authors: Jessica K. Witt
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:31
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  36. An error occurred during the publication of a number of articles in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. Several articles were published in volume 4 with a duplicate citation number.

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  37. Criminal associates such as terrorist members are likely to deny knowing members of their network when questioned by police. Eye tracking research suggests that lies about familiar faces can be detected by dis...

    Authors: Ailsa E. Millen and Peter J. B. Hancock
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:23
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  38. True and false intentions (i.e., lies and truths about one’s future actions) is a relatively new research topic, despite the high societal value of being able to predict future criminal behavior (e.g., in the ...

    Authors: Sofia Calderon, Karl Ask, Erik Mac Giolla and Pär Anders Granhag
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:29
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  39. In recent years, fraudsters have begun to use readily accessible digital manipulation techniques in order to carry out face morphing attacks. By submitting a morph image (a 50/50 average of two people’s faces)...

    Authors: Robin S. S. Kramer, Michael O. Mireku, Tessa R. Flack and Kay L. Ritchie
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:28
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  40. The role of image colour in face identification has received little attention in research despite the importance of identifying people from photographs in identity documents (IDs). Here, in two experiments, we...

    Authors: Anna K. Bobak, Viktoria R. Mileva and Peter J. B. Hancock
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:27
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  41. In general, people are poor at detecting deception. Older adults are even worse than young adults at detecting deceit, which might make them uniquely vulnerable to certain types of financial fraud. One reason ...

    Authors: Jennifer Tehan Stanley and Britney A. Webster
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:26
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  42. Intentional forgetting refers to the attempt to marshal top-down control to purposefully forget, and has been demonstrated in the laboratory using directed forgetting paradigms. Here, we asked whether the mech...

    Authors: Ashleigh M. Maxcey, Bernadette Dezso, Emma Megla and Ashton Schneider
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:25
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  43. In two studies we investigated whether removing opportunities to calculate could improve students’ subsequent ability to solve similar word problems. Students were first asked to write explanations for three w...

    Authors: Karen B. Givvin, Veronika Moroz, William Loftus and James W. Stigler
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:24
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  44. A growing body of research is beginning to understand how people comprehend sequential visual narratives. However, previous work has used materials that primarily rely on visual information (i.e., they contain...

    Authors: Ryan D. Kopatich, Daniel P. Feller, Christopher A. Kurby and Joseph P. Magliano
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:22
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  45. Interpretation of volumetric medical images represents a rapidly growing proportion of the workload in radiology. However, relatively little is known about the strategies that best guide search behavior when l...

    Authors: Lauren H. Williams and Trafton Drew
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:21
    Content type: Review article Published on:

  46. New automobiles provide a variety of features that allow motorists to perform a plethora of secondary tasks unrelated to the primary task of driving. Despite their ubiquity, surprisingly little is known about ...

    Authors: David L. Strayer, Joel M. Cooper, Rachel M. Goethe, Madeleine M. McCarty, Douglas J. Getty and Francesco Biondi
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:18
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  47. Researchers have argued that simultaneous lineups should follow the principle of propitious heterogeneity, based on the idea that if the fillers are too similar to the perpetrator even an eyewitness with a goo...

    Authors: Curt A. Carlson, Alyssa R. Jones, Jane E. Whittington, Robert F. Lockamyeir, Maria A. Carlson and Alex R. Wooten
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:20
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  48. While the coordination of oculomotor and manual behavior is essential for driving a car, surprisingly little is known about this interaction, especially in situations requiring a quick steering reaction. In th...

    Authors: Norbert Schneider and Lynn Huestegge
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:19
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  49. Research examining the relation between spatial skills and the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields has focused on small-scale spatial skills, even though some STEM disciplines—partic...

    Authors: Alina Nazareth, Nora S. Newcombe, Thomas F. Shipley, Mia Velazquez and Steven M. Weisberg
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:17
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  50. A significant problem in eyewitness identification occurs when witnesses view a suspect in one venue such as a mugshot and then later in a lineup where the suspect is the only previously viewed person. Prior r...

    Authors: Wenbo Lin, Michael J. Strube and Henry L. Roediger III
    Citation: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2019 4:16
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