Abstract: The Editor wishes to thank the following ad hoc referees for their essential contributions of evaluating manuscripts for CPL:BBC. We apologize for any oversight that could have happened collecting this list. Astrid Kappers - Utrecht University John C. Soechting - University of Minnesota, USA Denise Henriques - York University, Toronto Audrey Van der Meer - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim Rainoud Bootsma – Aix Marseille University JeffreyWagman - Illinois State University, Normal Liliane Sprenger-Charolles - Université Paris Descartes Sylviane Valdois - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble Tatjana Nazir - CNRS, ISC, Lyon Jean-Pierre Thibault - University of Poitiers Christopher Robinson - Ohio State University, Columbus Sao Luis Castro - University of Porto Sophie Dufour - Aix Marseille University Rinck Radboud - University Nijmeguen Dominique Valentin - Centre Européen des Sciences du Goût - Dijon Valérie Pennequin - University Francois Rabelais, Tours Pierre-Yves Gi... PubDate: 2013-11-28
Authors:Jacques Vauclair Abstract: Starting with Volume 24, Issue 1, all the papers published in our journal will be available both as htlm full text documents and as PDF documents. I hope that this ease in the availability of the papers will facilitate the use, the quotation and the indexation of Current Psychology Letters: Behaviour, Brain & Cognition. The Editorial board of the journal has also been partially renewed: Carl Martin Allwood, University of Lundt, Sweden James R. Anderson, University of Stirling, United Kingdom Peter Ayton, City University, London, United Kingdom Fabrizio Butera, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Michèle Carlier, University of Provence, Marseille, France Sao Luis Castro, University of Porto, Portugal Cesar Coll, University of Barcelone, Spain Vittorio Girotto, University of Venice, Italy Bernhard Hommel, University of Leiden, The Netherlands François Jouen, EHESS, Paris, France Astrid Kappers, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Mark Keane, University College, Dublin, Ireland Stephen Levinson,... PubDate: 2013-11-28
Abstract: The Editor wishes to thank the following ad hoc referees for their essential contributions of evaluating manuscripts for CPL:BBC. We apologize for any oversight that could have happened collecting this list. Alain Content,University of Geneva Audrey Van der Meer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Bruce Milliken, McMaster University Christopher W. Robinson, Ohio State University, Columbus Denise Henriques, York University Daniel Martins,University Paris X Ellick Wong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Fabrizio Butera, University of Lausanne Guido Peeters, Catholic University of Leuven Isabelle Tapiero, University Lyon 2 Josef Perner, University of Salzburg John C. Soechting, University of Minnesota Jean-Pierre Thibaut, University of Poitiers Jeffrey Wagman, Illinois State University Kazuhito Yoshizaki, Aichi Shukutoku University Karen Iler Kirk, University of Purdue Liliane Sprenger-Charolles, University Paris 7 - CNRS Léonard Katz, University of Connecticut Maya Machunsk... PubDate: 2013-11-28
Abstract: Starting with year 2003, our journal CPL/BBC will become freely available as an exclusively electronic journal. This is a significant step toward easy and universal access to the full-text content of our scientific publication. According to recent counts, (http://www.doaj.org/) over 500 hundred refereed journals are now freely available online. In the field of scientific psychology, several journals are already available online, the most prominent of them being Psycoloquy (http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/). Such a change can only be positive for the visibility of our journal. A survey made by S. Lawrence (Nature, 2001, 6837, 521) has revealed that articles freely available online are 4.5 times more highly cited than usual papers. As was the case for the printed version of CPL/BBC, we will still be indexed in the Psycinfo database and in the near future we also expect to be indexed in the ISI (Current Content) database. Of course, nothing has been changed in the evaluation procedure ... PubDate: 2013-11-28
Authors:Evelyne Clément, Delphine Duvallet Abstract: The present paper aimed to investigate changes in the expressive behavior and in the physiological activity during different appraisals associated with a problem solving situation. To this purpose, while participants completed the five disks version of the Tower of Hanoi, electrodermal activity and facial expressions were recorded over the course of the activity. In order to match expressive, physiological, and behavioral data and, to test the changes in both physiological and expressive patterns, an individual protocol analysis was conducted. As predicted, results showed different patterns of expressive and physiological activity according to the events of the problem solving. Results are discussed in light of the goal conduciveness and the coping potential appraisals notions. PubDate: 2013-11-28
Authors:Stephanie J. Babb, Ruth M. Johnson Abstract: Tulving (1972) defined episodic memory as memory for what, where, and when. Clayton and Dickinson’s (1998) behavioral model for animals was adapted to examine what, where, and when memory in humans. Participants viewed unique visual scenes of furnished homes in both blocked and mixed designs. They were tested separately for memory of objects (What), spatial configurations (Where), and temporal order of the scenes (When), and participants’ accuracy and reaction times were examined for each condition. Performance was highest and reaction time was fastest for the What condition. Participants were also faster and more accurate in the mixed design experiment compared to the blocked design experiment. This study established a behavioral analysis of episodic memory in humans based upon Clayton and Dickinson’s (1998) animal model, which will provide a basis for functional episodic memory studies to separately characterize the cortical mechanisms for processing episodic memory using the obje... PubDate: 2013-11-28
Authors:Madalina Sucala, Bari Scheckner, Daniel David Abstract: Time perception encompasses different subjective time experiences, like: (1) interval length (duration) estimation, and (2) subjective passage of time judgments, defined as the perceived speed of time passage. This study aims to investigate and clarify the impact of task difficulty, temporal relevance and hedonic interest on both interval length judgments and subjective passage of time judgments. Another aim of the study is to investigate whether interval length judgments and subjective passage of time judgments are related. The results of the present study indicate that task difficulty and temporal relevance have a significant impact on interval length judgments. In terms of their interaction, the results show that when the task is simple, a high temporal relevance leads to interval length overestimates. Another major finding of this study was that subjective time passage judgments seem to be affected by the same factors as interval length estimation. In other words, results indica... PubDate: 2013-11-28
Authors:Delphine Gandini, Eléonore Ardiale, Patrick Lemaire Abstract: Fifth and seventh graders were asked to provide a quick and rough estimate of the number of items in collections of 11—79 items. We collected verbal strategy reports and performance on each item. Results showed that: (a) participants used six different estimation strategies, (b) overall, fifth and seventh graders used the same set of strategies but varied in how often they used each strategy, (c) fifth graders’ strategy repertoire was smaller than seventh graders’, and (d) strategy selection varied as a function of children’s age, and of numerosities and configurations of items. These findings show that different processes are available for approximate quantification in both fifth and seventh graders, and document age-related differences in children’s approximate quantification. PubDate: 2013-11-28
Authors:Pamela Gobin, Stéphanie Mathey Abstract: The aim was to investigate the activation spread between the orthographic lexicon and the affective system by means of emotional orthographic neighbourhood. Target words with a neutral emotional valence (e.g., tenace, fuseau) were selected so that they had only one higher-frequency orthographic neighbour with either a negative valence (e.g., menace) or a neutral valence (e.g., fuseau). All target words were presented in a primed lexical decision task, either preceded by their neighbour or by a control prime during 66 or 166 ms. The main finding was the inhibitory effect of negative emotional orthographic neighbourhood. Target word responses were delayed when the valence of the neighbour was negative rather than neutral. The data also indicated an inhibitory orthographic neighbourhood priming effect that was enhanced by prime duration. The results are discussed within an interactive-activation framework of visual word recognition adapted to affective processing. PubDate: 2013-11-25
Authors:Ali Oker, Rémy Versace Abstract: The main objective of our study was to confirm that the distinctiveness effect could emerge in implicit memory tasks and to show that the specificity of an item can be varied by manipulating the contextual information associated with the item during encoding. In an encoding phase and test phase, participants had to categorize target words as referring to artifactual or natural items. Each target word was associated with a context consisting of a colored frame in which the word was presented. To manipulate the distinctiveness of the contextual information, 75 % of the words were encoded with the same color (frequent context) and the remaining 25 % with a different color (rare context). We tested the context effect by presenting words in the test phase with a context of either the same color as in the encoding phase or the other color. The results confirmed our predictions and are discussed in the theoretical framework of episodic memory models. PubDate: 2013-11-25
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