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Journal of CognitionMusic making across cultures arguably involves a blend of innovation and adherence to established norms. This integration allows listeners to recognise a range of innovative, surprising, and functional elements in music, while also associating them to a ...
Tudor Popescu +2 more
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Collective intelligence in fingerprint analysis
Cognitive Research, 2020 When a fingerprint is located at a crime scene, a human examiner is counted upon to manually compare this print to those stored in a database. Several experiments have now shown that these professional analysts are highly accurate, but not infallible ...
Jason M. Tangen +2 more
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Sequential Effects on Reaction Time Distributions: Commonalities and Differences Across Paradigms
Journal of CognitionA common finding across numerous response time (RT) paradigms is that the mean RT in one trial depends strongly on the characteristics of the immediately preceding trial.
Anne Voormann, Jeff Miller
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The relationship between political affiliation and beliefs about sources of “fake news”
Cognitive Research, 2021 The 2016 US Presidential campaign saw an explosion in popularity for the term “fake news.” This phenomenon raises interesting questions: Which news sources do people believe are fake, and what do people think “fake news” means?
Robert B. Michael, Brooke O. Breaux
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Journal of CognitionOur performance on cognitive tasks fluctuates: the same individual completing the same task will differ in their response’s moment-to-moment. For decades cognitive fluctuations have been implicitly ignored – treated as measurement error – with a focus ...
Nicholas Judd +3 more
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Beyond small-scale spatial skills: Navigation skills and geoscience education
Cognitive Research, 2019 Background 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—particularly the geography and ...
Alina Nazareth +4 more
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When Load is Low, Working Memory is Shielded From Long-Term Memory’s Influence
Journal of CognitionPrevious studies found that episodic long-term memory (eLTM) enhances working memory (WM) performance when both novel and previously learnt word pairs must be retained on a short-term basis.
Lea M. Bartsch +2 more
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The Relation Between Memory Speed and Capacity: A Domain-General Law of Human Cognition?
Journal of Cognition, 2019 This study tests an important and appealing hypothesis that has been around in the fields of cognitive psycho logy and neuroscience for over 40 years, but that lacks a conclusive empirical test.
Kim Uittenhove, Evie Vergauwe
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Journal of Cognition, 2019 It is a well-replicated finding that reaction time is correlated with performance in intelligence tests. According to the binding hypothesis of working memory capacity, the ability to establish bindings between elements and to integrate them into new ...
Gizem Hülür +3 more
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Cognitive Research, 2020 Teachers sometimes believe in the efficacy of instructional practices that have little empirical support. These beliefs have proven difficult to efface despite strong challenges to their evidentiary basis.
Kit S. Double +3 more
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