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Literacy improves short-term serial recall of spoken verbal but not visuospatial items - Evidence from illiterate and literate adults
Smalle, Eleonore H M; Szmalec, Arnaud; Bogaerts, Louisa; Page, Michael; Narang, Vaishna; Misra, Deepshikha; Araujo, Susana; Lohagun, Nishant; Khan, Ouroz; Singh, Anuradha; Mishra, Ramesh; Huettig, Falk (2019-04)It is widely accepted that specific memory processes, such as serial-order memory, are involved in written language development and predictive of reading and spelling abilities. The reverse question, namely whether ... -
A localist implementation of the Primacy model of immediate serial recall
Norris, D.; Page, M.P.A. (Springer Nature, 1997)We present a localist, connectionist implementation of the Primacy model of immediate serial recall. We demonstrate a connectionist ordering mechanism which is localist and activation-based rather than based on association ... -
Localist models are compatible with information measures, sparseness indices and complementary learning systems in the brain
Page, Michael (2017-03-16)In this paper, I express continued support for localist modelling in psychology and critically evaluate previous studies that have sought to weaken the localist case in favour of models with thoroughgoing distributed ... -
A longitudinal investigation of repressive coping and ageing
Erskine, James; Kvavilashvili, Lia; Myers, Lynn; Leggett, Sarah; Davies, Steve; Hiskey, Syd; Hogg, Joanna; Yeo, Sophia; Georgiou, George (2015-07-03)Two studies investigated the possibility that repressive coping is more prevalent in older adults and that this represents a developmental progression rather than a cohort effect. Study 1 examined repressive coping and ... -
A longitudinal investigation of the relationship between symbolic gesture, maternal mind-mindedness and theory of mind.
Kirk, Elizabeth; Pine, Karen; Wheatley, Lisa; Howlett, Neil; Schulz, Joerg; Fletcher, Ben (2015-10-10)Follow-up data are presented from a longitudinal investigation of the effects of encouraging symbolic gesture in mother-infant dyads. Infants had been randomly allocated to either gesture training or control conditions at ... -
Memory for route and survey descriptions across the adult lifespan: The role of verbal and visuospatial working memory resources
Markostamou, Ioanna; Coventry, Kenny (2021-12-01)Spatial representations of an environment involve different perspectives and can derive from different inputs, including spatial descriptions. While it is well-established that memory of visually-encoded spatial representations ... -
Memory for staged events: supporting older and younger adults’ memory with SenseCam
Mair, Ali; Poirier, Marie; Conway, Martin A. (2019-04-01)Two experiments measured the effect of retrieval support provided by a wearable camera, SenseCam, on older and younger adults’ memory for a recently experienced complex staged event. In each experiment participants completed ... -
Mental Representations of Weekdays
Ellis, David A; Wiseman, Richard; Jenkins, Rob (2015-08-19)Keeping social appointments involves keeping track of what day it is. In practice, mismatches between apparent day and actual day are common. For example, a person might think the current day is Wednesday when in fact it ... -
Metamemory for involuntary autobiographical memories and semantic mind‐pops in 5‐, 7‐ and 9‐year‐old children and young adults
Kvavilashvili, Lia; Ford, Ruth M. (2022-05-21)In a cross‐sectional study, 5‐, 7‐, and 9‐year‐old‐children and adults (N = 144, 86 females, predominantly White U.K. sample of lower‐middle to middle‐class background) were interviewed about their experiences of involuntary ... -
Metamemory prediction accuracy for simple prospective and retrospective memory tasks in 5-year-old children
Kvavilashvili, Lia; Ford, R.M. (2014-11-01)It is well documented that young children greatly overestimate their performance on tests of retrospective memory (RM), but the current investigation is the first to examine children’s prediction accuracy for prospective ... -
A model linking immediate serial recall, the Hebb repetition effect and the learning of phonological word forms
Page, M.P.A.; Norris, D. (2009)We briefly review the considerable evidence for a common ordering mechanism underlying both immediate serial recall (ISR) tasks (e.g. digit span, non-word repetition) and the learning of phonological word forms. In addition, ... -
Modeling immediate serial recall with a localist implementation of the primacy model.
Page, M.P.A.; Norris, D. (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998)In this chapter we discuss a localist, connectionist implementation of the primacy model of immediate serial recall (Norris, Page & Baddeley, 1994, 1995; Page & Norris, 1996). In our earlier papers, we preferred to avoid ... -
Naming spatial relations across the adult lifespan: At the crossroads of language and perception
Markostamou, Ioanna; Coventry, Kenny (2022-03-31)Objective: Language abilities in adulthood remain relatively intact with increasing age, while spatial abilities decline. However, much less is known about ageing effects on spatial language (the ability to verbally describe ... -
A New Version of the Beuchet Chair Illusion
Wiseman, Richard (2016-12-01)The Beuchet Chair is a powerful and highly popular optical illusion. The illusion involves two reasonably large pieces of apparatus: an oversized chair seat and four normal-sized chair legs. When properly arranged and ... -
Night School : The Life-Changing Science of Sleep
Wiseman, Richard (Macmillan, 2014)Almost a third of your whole life is spent asleep. Every night you close your eyes, become oblivious to your surroundings and waste hours flying, being chased or watching all your teeth fall out – and then you wake up. ... -
On the Nature of Everyday Prospection: A Review and Theoretical Integration of Research on Mind-Wandering, Future Thinking, and Prospective Memory
Kvavilashvili, Lia; Rummel, Jan (2020-09-01)The ability to imagine and simulate events that may happen in the future has been studied in several related but independent research areas (e.g., episodic future thinking, mind-wandering, prospective memory), with a newly ... -
Order or Disorder? Impaired Hebb Learning in Dyslexia
Szmalec, Arnaud; Loncke, Maaike; Page, M.P.A.; Duyck, Wouter (2011-09)The present study offers an integrative account proposing that dyslexia and its various associated cognitive impairments reflect an underlying deficit in the long-term learning of serial-order information, here operationalized ... -
Order recall in verbal short-term memory: The role of semantic networks
Poirier, Marie; Saint-Aubin, Jean; Mair, Ali; Tehan, Gerry; Tolan, Anne (2015-04-01)In their recent article, Acheson, MacDonald, and Postle (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 37:44-59, 2011) made an important but controversial suggestion: They hypothesized that (a) semantic ... -
Paranormal beliefs and cognitive function: A systematic review and assessment of study quality across four decades of research
Dean, Charlotte E; Akhtar, Shazia; Gale, Tim M; Irvine, Karen; Grohmann, Dominique; Laws, Keith R (2022-05-04)BACKGROUND: Research into paranormal beliefs and cognitive functioning has expanded considerably since the last review almost 30 years ago, prompting the need for a comprehensive review. The current systematic review aims ... -
Paranormality
Wiseman, Richard (2011-03-12)Professor Richard Wiseman is clear about one thing: paranormal phenomena don't exist. But in the same way that the science of space travel transforms our everyday lives, so research into telepathy, fortune-telling and ...