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Individual and developmental differences in working memory across the life span
The effects of secondary tasks on verbal and spatial working memory were examined in multiple child, young adult, and older adult samples. Although memory span increased with age in the child samples and decre...
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Age and individual differences in visuospatial processing speed: Testing the magnification hypothesis
Forty young adults and 40 older adults performed seven visuospatial information processing tasks. Factor analyses of the response times (RTs) yielded a single principal component with a similar composition in ...
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Stocks and losses, items and interference: A reply to Oberauer and Süß (2000)
Results of a recent study of spatial working memory are presented in support of the claim by Jenkins and her colleagues (Jenkins, Myerson, Hale, & Fry, 1999) that secondary tasks produce larger interference ef...
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Analysis of group differences in processing speed: Brinley plots, Q-Q plots, and other conspiracies
Researchers in a growing number of areas (including cognitive development, aging, and neuropsychology) use Brinley plots to compare the processing speed of different groups. Ratcliff, Spieler, and McKoon (2000...
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The difference engine: A model of diversity in speeded cognition
A theory of diversity in speeded cognition, the difference engine, is proposed, in which information processing is represented as a series of generic computational steps. Some individuals tend to perform all o...
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Predicting the size of individual and
An a priori test of the difference engine model (Myerson, Hale, Zheng, Jenkins, & Widaman, 2003) was conducted using a large, diverse sample of individuals who performed three speeded verbal tasks and three sp...
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Psychoeducational Groups
Clients attending psychoeducational groups report that in addition to skills learned and social benefits, the activities reinforce content, assist in establishing healthy milieus, encourage involvement in the ...
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Children’s higher order cognitive abilities and the development of secondary memory
The relations between higher cognitive abilities and immediate and delayed recall were studied in 57 children (6–16 years of age). The participants were tested repeatedly on free recall of a supraspan list (Ch...
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Making strides in modeling individual differences: Reply to Leite, Ratcliff, and White (2007)
Leite, Ratcliff, and White (2007) claimed that the diffusion model (Ratcliff, 1978) could simulate the molar patterns in response times (RTs) from the multiple tasks observed by Chen, Hale, and Myerson (2007)....
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Reading your own lips: Common-coding theory and visual speech perception
Common-coding theory posits that (1) perceiving an action activates the same representations of motor plans that are activated by actually performing that action, and (2) because of individual differences in t...
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Dual n-back training increases the capacity of the focus of attention
Working memory (WM) training has been reported to benefit abilities as diverse as fluid intelligence (Jaeggi et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105:6829–68...
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The effects of environmental support and secondary tasks on visuospatial working memory
In the present experiments, we examined the effects of environmental support on participants’ ability to rehearse locations and the role of such support in the effects of secondary tasks on memory span. In Exp...
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Individuals with low working memory spans show greater interference from irrelevant information because of poor source monitoring, not greater activation
Although individuals with high and low working memory (WM) span appear to differ in the extent to which irrelevant information interferes with their performance on WM tasks, the locus of this interference is n...
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The self-advantage in visual speech processing enhances audiovisual speech recognition in noise
Individuals lip read themselves more accurately than they lip read others when only the visual speech signal is available (Tye-Murray et al., Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 115–119, 2013). This self-advantage...
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Age-Related Slowing in Online Samples
Three experiments assessed the use of online samples recruited from the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) worker pool for studying the psychology of aging. The results replicated several. benchmark findings: Olde...
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Cross-modal Informational Masking of Lipreading by Babble
Whereas the energetic and informational masking effects of unintelligible babble on auditory speech recognition are well established, the present study is the first to investigate its effects on visual speech ...
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Evaluation of an online communication skills training programme for oncology nurses working with patients from minority backgrounds
This study aimed to develop and assess the feasibility of an online communication skills training intervention to increase cultural competence amongst oncology nurses working with individuals from minority bac...
