Journal of Cognition

New content: Boudry, L., Nador, J. D., & Ramon, M. (2024). Determinants of Face Recognition: The Role of Target Prevalence and Similarity. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 27, pp. 1–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.339

New content: Boudry, L., Nador, J. D., & Ramon, M. (2024). Determinants of Face Recognition: The Role of Target Prevalence and Similarity. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 27, pp. 1–15. DOI:

Determinants of Face Recognition: The Role of Target Prevalence and Similarity Studies of facial identity processing typically assess perception (via matching) and/or memory (via recognition), with experimental designs differing with respect to one important aspect: Target Prevalence. Some designs include “target absent” (TA) among “target present” (TP)...

New content: Ding, Y., Simons, D. J., Hults, C. M., & Raja, R. (2024). Are Familiar Objects More Likely to Be Noticed in an Inattentional Blindness Task? Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 28, pp. 1–15. DOI:

Are Familiar Objects More Likely to Be Noticed in an Inattentional Blindness Task? People often fail to notice the presence of unexpected objects when their attention is engaged elsewhere. In dichotic listening tasks, for example, people often fail to notice unexpected content in the ignored speech stream even though they occasionally do notice highly familiar stimuli like their o...

New content: Lorenzoni, A., Faccio, R., & Navarrete, E. (2024). Does Foreign-Accented Speech Affect Credibility? Evidence
from the Illusory-Truth Paradigm. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 26, pp. 1–15. DOI:

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New content: Boeve, S., Möttönen, R., & Smalle, E. H. M. (2024).
Specificity of Motor Contributions to Auditory Statistical Learning. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 25, pp. 1–16. DOI:

Specificity of Motor Contributions to Auditory Statistical Learning Statistical learning is the ability to extract patterned information from continuous sensory signals. Recent evidence suggests that auditory-motor mechanisms play an important role in auditory statistical learning from speech signals. The question remains whether auditory-motor mechanisms support su...

New content: Ishiguro, S., & Saito, S. (2024). The Semantic Similarity Effect on Short-Term Memory: Null Effects of Affectively Defined Semantic Similarity. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 24, pp. 1–13. DOI:

The Semantic Similarity Effect on Short-Term Memory: Null Effects of Affectively Defined Semantic Similarity Studies on short-term memory have repeatedly demonstrated the beneficial effect of semantic similarity. Although the effect seems robust, the aspects of semantics targeted by these studies (e.g., categorical structure, associative relationship, or dimension of meaning) should be clarified. A recent....

New content: Tan A. S. L., Lau, R. C., Anderson, P. J., Gathercole, S., Bellgrove, M. A., Wiley, J. F., & Spencer-Smith, M. M. (2024).
Exploring Working Memory Capacity and Efficiency Processes to Understand Working Memory Training Outcomes in Primary School Children. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 23, pp. 1–16. DOI:

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New content: Gatti, D., Günther, F., & Rinaldi, L. (2024). A Body Map Beyond Perceptual Experience. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 22, pp. 1–15. DOI:

A Body Map Beyond Perceptual Experience The human body is perhaps the most ubiquitous and salient visual stimulus that we encounter in our daily lives. Given the prevalence of images of human bodies in natural scene statistics, it is no surprise that our mental representations of the body are thought to strongly originate from visual expe...

New content: Snell, J., & Melo, A. N. (2024). Do Love You Me? Failure to Notice Word Transpositions is Induced by Parallel Word
Processing. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 21, pp. 1–8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.335

New content: Snell, J., & Melo, A. N. (2024). Do Love You Me? Failure to Notice Word Transpositions is Induced by Parallel Word
Processing. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 21, pp. 1–8. DOI:

Do Love You Me? Failure to Notice Word Transpositions is Induced by Parallel Word Processing Recent research has shown that readers may to fail notice word transpositions during reading (e.g., the transposition of “fail” and “to” in this sentence). Although this transposed word (TW) phenomenon was initially taken as evidence that readers process multiple words in par...

New content: Vandendaele, A., Prutean, N., & Declerck, M. (2024). A Blessing in Disguise: Flanking Words Can Cancel Language Switch Costs. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 20, pp. 1–14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.332

A Blessing in Disguise: Flanking Words Can Cancel Language Switch Costs Prior research has shown that a sentence context can decrease the necessity for language control relative to single word processing. In particular, measures of language control such as language switch costs are reduced or even absent in a sentence context. Yet, this evidence is mainly based on bilin...

New content: Holcomb, P. J., Akers, E. M., Midgley, K. J., & Emmorey, K. (2024). Orthographic and Phonological Code Activation in Deaf and Hearing Readers. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 19, pp. 1–16. DOI:

Orthographic and Phonological Code Activation in Deaf and Hearing Readers Grainger et al. (2006) were the first to use ERP masked priming to explore the differing contributions of phonological and orthographic representations to visual word processing. Here we adapted their paradigm to examine word processing in deaf readers. We investigated whether reading-matched deaf a...

New content: Peressotti, F., Pianezzola, G., Battistutta, M., & Miozzo, M. (2024). Foreign and Regional Languages Make You Less Deontological. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 18, pp. 1–15.
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Foreign and Regional Languages Make You Less Deontological Previous studies have shown that foreign languages can change people’s responses to moral dilemmas, making them more likely to choose harm (e.g., to kill one individual in order to save a few lives). Regional languages have also been shown to make sacrificial choices more likely. Regional lang...

New content: Pascucci, S., Forte, G., Angelini, E., Marinozzi,
F., Bini, F., Antonucci, G., Iosa, M., & Tieri, G. (2024). Michelangelo Effect in Virtual Sculpturing: Prospective for Motor Neurorehabilitation in the Metaverse. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 17, pp. 1–14. DOI:

Michelangelo Effect in Virtual Sculpturing: Prospective for Motor Neurorehabilitation in the Metaverse We investigated the Michelangelo effect, i.e. the facilitatory effect of a virtual art therapy in motor rehabilitation (Iosa et al. 2021), with a novel virtual reality paradigm in which users are engaged in motor exercises with 3D sculptures. In particular, thirty young adults were immersed in a vir...

New content: Storms, G. (2024). If My Memory Serves Me Well:
Investigating My Memory for the Past 24 Years. Journal of
Cognition, 7(1): 16, pp. 1–19. DOI:

If My Memory Serves Me Well: Investigating My Memory for the Past 24 Years This paper reports on a study of my autobiographical memory for 2691 notes recorded over 24 years in my diary, without any intention to ever use the notes as test material. I never read any of the notes again until the start of the memory study. I remembered less than two thirds of the recorded even...

New content: Bonnet, P., Bonnefond, M., & Kösem, A. (2024). What is a Rhythm for the Brain? The Impact of Contextual Temporal Variability on Auditory Perception. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 15, pp. 1–16. DOI:

What is a Rhythm for the Brain? The Impact of Contextual Temporal Variability on Auditory Perception Temporal predictions can be formed and impact perception when sensory timing is fully predictable: for instance, the discrimination of a target sound is enhanced if it is presented on the beat of an isochronous rhythm. However, natural sensory stimuli, like speech or music, are not entirely predicta...

New content: Hershman, R., Share, D. L., Weiss, E. M., Henik, A., & Shechter, A. (2024). Insights from Eye Blinks into the Cognitive Processes Involved in Visual Word Recognition. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 14, pp. 1–9. DOI:

Insights from Eye Blinks into the Cognitive Processes Involved in Visual Word Recognition Behavioral differences in speed and accuracy between reading familiar and unfamiliar words are well-established in the empirical literature. However, these standard measures of skill proficiency are limited in their ability to capture the moment-to-moment processing involved in visual word recogniti...

New content: Gambi, C., Lelonkiewicz, J. R., & Crepaldi, D. (2024). Do Children (and Adults) Benefit From a Prediction Error Boost in One- Shot Word Learning? Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 13, pp. 1–16. DOI:

Do Children (and Adults) Benefit From a Prediction Error Boost in One-Shot Word Learning? Influential theories and computational models suggest error-based learning plays an important role in language acquisition: Children learn new words by generating predictions about upcoming utterances and revising those predictions when they are erroneous. Critically, revising stronger (rather than....

New content: Fuhrmeister, P., Elbuy, S., & Bürki, A. (2024). Are Faster Participants Always Faster? Assessing Reliability of
Participants’ Mean Response Speed in Picture Naming.
Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 12, pp. 1–23. DOI:

Are Faster Participants Always Faster? Assessing Reliability of Participants’ Mean Response Speed in Picture Naming Studies of language production often make use of picture naming tasks to investigate the cognitive processes involved in speaking, and many of these studies report a wide range of individual variability in how long speakers need to prepare the name of a picture. It has been assumed that this variabi...

New content: Dodwell, G., Nako, R., & Eimer, M. (2024). The Preparatory Activation of Guidance Templates for Visual Search
and of Target Templates in Non-Search Tasks. Journal of
Cognition, 7(1): 11, pp. 1–19. DOI:

The Preparatory Activation of Guidance Templates for Visual Search and of Target Templates in Non-Search Tasks Representations of task-relevant object attributes (attentional templates) control the adaptive selectivity of visual processing. Previous studies have demonstrated that templates involved in the guidance of attention during visual search are activated in a preparatory fashion prior to the arrival o...

New content: Hintz, F., McQueen, J. M., & Meyer, A. S. (2024). Using Psychometric Network Analysis to Examine the Components of Spoken Word Recognition. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 10, pp. 1–22. DOI:

Using Psychometric Network Analysis to Examine the Components of Spoken Word Recognition Using language requires access to domain-specific linguistic representations, but also draws on domain-general cognitive skills. A key issue in current psycholinguistics is to situate linguistic processing in the network of human cognitive abilities. Here, we focused on spoken word recognition and u...

New content: Muhmenthaler, M. C., & Meier, B. (2024). Response-Category Conflict and Control Mode Determine Memory Performance for Distractors in a Flanker Paradigm. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 9, pp. 1–14. DOI:

Response-Category Conflict and Control Mode Determine Memory Performance for Distractors in a Flanker Paradigm Cognitive conflicts can lead to better memory for task-relevant information. However, little is known about memory performance for task-irrelevant information. The present study investigated memory performance of task-irrelevant distractors using a Flanker paradigm. In two experiments (N = 699), par...

New content: Koevoet, D., Naber, M., Strauch, C., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2024). The Intensity of Internal and External Attention Assessed with Pupillometry. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 8, pp. 1–10. DOI:

The Intensity of Internal and External Attention Assessed with Pupillometry Not only is visual attention shifted to objects in the external world, attention can also be directed to objects in memory. We have recently shown that pupil size indexes how strongly items are attended externally, which was reflected in more precise encoding into visual working memory. Using a retr...

New content: Winckel, E., & Dąbrowska, E. (2024). Language Analytic Ability, Print Exposure, Memory and Comprehension of Complex Syntax by Adult Native Speakers. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 7, pp. 1–23. DOI:

Language Analytic Ability, Print Exposure, Memory and Comprehension of Complex Syntax by Adult Native Speakers Nativist theories of language development assume that all native speakers of a particular language ultimately converge on (more or less) the same grammar, and argue that this is only possible because they are born with a genetic blueprint for language. However, a number of recent studies have found....

New content: Pham, V. A.-V., & Fletcher, R. (2024). Negative Space: An Alternative Framework for Archaeoacoustics. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 6, pp. 1–17. DOI:

Negative Space: An Alternative Framework for Archaeoacoustics Hearing the remote past seems impossible. Archaeoacoustics is a contemporary field intent on reconstructing the evolution of early communication systems, offering the possibility of developing methodologies relating to past sound signaling and music. Through a contribution of the emerging sensory fi...

New content: Grasina, A., Espirito-Santo, H., Lemos, L., Vilar, M. M., Simões-Cunha, L., & Daniel, F. (2024). Mini-ACE: Validation
Study Among Older People in Long-Term Care. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 5, pp. 1–16. DOI:

Mini-ACE: Validation Study Among Older People in Long-Term Care Background: The Mini-Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination (M-ACE) is a valid and reliable tool that accurately differentiates various types of cognitive impairment from Normal-cognition assessed in multiple settings. However, its validity among older individuals in long-term care (LTC) was not....

New content: Martin, C. D., Pastureau, R., Kerr, E., & de Bruin, A. (2024). Processing of Synonyms and Homographs in Bilingual and Monolingual Speakers. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 4, pp. 1–19. DOI:

Processing of Synonyms and Homographs in Bilingual and Monolingual Speakers Bilinguals have long-lasting experience with cross-language double-mappings (i.e., translation equivalents and interlingual homographs (or false friends)). Considering this, we examined whether bilinguals differ from monolinguals in within-language double-mapping (i.e., synonyms and homographs) proc...

New content: Petilli, M. A., & Marelli, M. (2024). Visual Intuitions in the Absence of Visual Experience: The Role of Direct Experience in Concreteness and Imageability Judgements. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 3, pp. 1–10. DOI:

Visual Intuitions in the Absence of Visual Experience: The Role of Direct Experience in Concreteness and Imageability Judgements The strongest formulations of grounded cognition assume that perceptual intuitions about concepts involve the re-activation of sensorimotor experience we have made with their referents in the world. Within this framework, concreteness and imageability ratings are indeed of crucial importance by oper...

New content: Parsons, T.D. (2024). High- dimensional Metaverse Platforms and the Virtually Extended Self. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 2, pp. 1–15. DOI:

High-dimensional Metaverse Platforms and the Virtually Extended Self The study of cognition has traditionally used low-dimensional measures and stimulus presentations that emphasize laboratory control over high-dimensional (i.e., ecologically valid) tools that reflect the activities and interactions in everyday living. Although controlled experimental presentations i...

New content: Barnas, A. J., Ebner, N. C., & Weisberg, S. M. (2024). Allocation of Space-Based Attention is Guided by Efficient Comprehension of Spatial Direction. Journal of Cognition, 7(1): 1, pp. 1–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.325