Cue-dependent forgetting
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The shaping of social perception by stimulus and knowledge cues to human animacy Open
Although robots are becoming an ever-growing presence in society, we do not hold the same expectations for robots as we do for humans, nor do we treat them the same. As such, the ability to recognize cues to human animacy is fundamental fo…
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Dutch and English toddlers' use of linguistic cues in predicting upcoming turn transitions Open
Adults achieve successful coordination during conversation by using prosodic and lexicosyntactic cues to predict upcoming changes in speakership. We examined the relative weight of these linguistic cues in the prediction of upcoming turn s…
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Intentional Forgetting in Organizations: The Importance of Eliminating Retrieval Cues for Implementing New Routines Open
To cope with the already large, and ever increasing, amount of information stored in organizational memory, "forgetting," as an important human memory process, might be transferred to the organizational context. Especially in intentionally…
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The Influence of Auditory Cues on Bodily and Movement Perception Open
The sounds that result from our movement and that mark the outcome of our actions typically convey useful information concerning the state of our body and its movement, as well as providing pertinent information about the stimuli with whic…
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Win-Concurrent Sensory Cues Can Promote Riskier Choice Open
Reward-related stimuli can potently influence behavior; for example, exposure to drug-paired cues can trigger drug use and relapse in people with addictions. Psychological mechanisms that generate such outcomes likely include cue-induced c…
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More than words: word predictability, prosody, gesture and mouth movements in natural language comprehension Open
The ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction, comprising cues such as prosody, co-speech gestures and mouth movements. Yet, the multimodal context is usually stripped away in experiments as dominant paradigms focus on linguist…
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Olfactory cues are more effective than visual cues in experimentally triggering autobiographical memories Open
Folk wisdom often refers to odours as potent triggers for autobiographical memory, akin to the Proust phenomenon that describes Proust’s sudden recollection of a childhood memory when tasting a madeleine dipped into tea. Despite an increas…
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Ongoing neurogenesis in the adult dentate gyrus mediates behavioral responses to ambiguous threat cues Open
Fear learning is highly adaptive if utilized in appropriate situations but can lead to generalized anxiety if applied too widely. A role of predictive cues in inhibiting fear generalization has been suggested by stress and fear learning st…
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Generalization and transfer of contextual cues in motor learning Open
We continuously adapt our movements in daily life, forming new internal models whenever necessary and updating existing ones. Recent work has suggested that this flexibility is enabled via sensorimotor cues, serving to access the correct i…
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Auditory cues influence the rubber-hand illusion. Open
The perception of one's own body depends on the dynamic integration of signals from different sensory modalities. Earlier studies have shown that visual, tactile, and proprioceptive information contributes to this process. However, little …
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Degree of Language Experience Modulates Visual Attention to Visible Speech and Iconic Gestures During Clear and Degraded Speech Comprehension Open
Visual information conveyed by iconic hand gestures and visible speech can enhance speech comprehension under adverse listening conditions for both native and non‐native listeners. However, how a listener allocates visual attention to thes…
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Retrospective cues based on object features improve visual working memory performance in older adults Open
Research with younger adults has shown that retrospective cues can be used to orient top-down attention toward relevant items in working memory. We examined whether older adults could take advantage of these cues to improve memory performa…
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The (Un)Clear Effects of Invalid Retro-Cues Open
Studies with the retro-cue paradigm have shown that validly cueing objects in visual working memory long after encoding can still benefit performance on subsequent change detection tasks. With regard to the effects of invalid cues, the lit…
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Hearing Where the Eyes See: Children Use an Irrelevant Visual Cue When Localizing Sounds Open
To reduce sensory uncertainty, humans combine cues from multiple senses. However, in everyday life, many co‐occurring cues are irrelevant to the task at hand. How do humans know which cues to ignore? And does this ability change with devel…
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Mechanisms of Memory Retrieval in Slow-Wave Sleep Open
These experiments suggest that the memory effects of TMR are influenced by the acoustic overlap between stimuli delivered at training and sleep. Our findings hint at the existence of two processing routes for memory retrieval during sleep.…
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The impact of retrieval suppression on conceptual implicit memory Open
When people suppress retrieval of episodic memories, it can induce forgetting on later direct tests of memory for those events. Recent reports indicate that suppressing retrieval affects less conscious, unintentional retrieval of unwanted …
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Dynamic re-weighting of acoustic and contextual cues in spoken word recognition Open
Listeners integrate acoustic and contextual cues during word recognition. However, experiments investigating this integration disrupt natural cue correlations. It was investigated whether changes in correlational structure affect listeners…
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Integration of haptics and vision in human multisensory grasping Open
Grasping actions are directed not only toward objects we see but also toward objects we both see and touch (multisensory grasping). In this latter case, the integration of visual and haptic inputs improves movement performance compared to …
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Cue-invariant shape recognition in rats as tested with second-order contours Open
Nonhuman primates are the main animal model to investigate high-level properties of human cortical vision. For one property, transformation-invariant object recognition, recent studies have revealed interesting and unknown capabilities in …
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The perception of speech modulation cues in lexical tones is guided by early language-specific experience Open
A number of studies showed that infants reorganize their perception of speech sounds according to their native language categories during their first year of life. Still, information is lacking about the contribution of basic auditory mech…
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Recognition-induced forgetting is not due to category-based set size Open
What are the consequences of accessing a visual long-term memory representation? Previous work has shown that accessing a long-term memory representation via retrieval improves memory for the targeted item and hurts memory for related item…
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Prosodic cues enhance rule learning by changing speech segmentation mechanisms Open
Prosody has been claimed to have a critical role in the acquisition of grammatical information from speech. The exact mechanisms by which prosodic cues enhance learning are fully unknown. Rules from language often require the extraction of…
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Attentional modulation of masked semantic priming by visible and masked task cues Open
In contrast to classical theories of cognitive control, recent evidence suggests that cognitive control and unconscious automatic processing influence each other. First, masked semantic priming, an index of unconscious automatic processing…
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Ambiguous Agents: The Influence of Consistency of an Artificial Agent’s Social Cues on Emotion Recognition, Recall, and Persuasiveness Open
This article explores the relation between consistency of social cues and persuasion by an artificial agent. Including (minimal) social cues in Persuasive Technology (PT) increases the probability that people attribute human-like character…
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Social Salience Discriminates Learnability of Contextual Cues in an Artificial Language Open
We investigate the learning of contextual meaning by adults in an artificial language. Contextual meaning here refers to the non-denotative contextual information that speakers attach to a linguistic construction. Through a series of short…
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Gaze in Visual Search Is Guided More Efficiently by Positive Cues than by Negative Cues Open
Visual search can be accelerated when properties of the target are known. Such knowledge allows the searcher to direct attention to items sharing these properties. Recent work indicates that information about properties of non-targets (i.e…
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Onomatopoeia, gestures, actions and words: how do caregivers use multimodal cues in their communication to children? Open
Most research on how children learn the mapping between words and world has assumed that language is arbitrary, and has investigated language learning in contexts in which objects referred to are present in the environment. Here, we report…
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Attentional capture by context cues, not inhibition of cue singletons, explains same location costs. Open
Recent attentional capture studies with the spatial cueing paradigm often found that target-dissimilar precues resulted in longer RTs on valid than invalid cue trials. These same location costs were accompanied by a contralateral positivit…
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Visual cues do not enhance sea lion pups’ response to multimodal maternal cues Open
Mammals use multiple sensory cues for mother-offspring recognition. While the role of single sensory cues has been well studied, we lack information about how multiple cues produced by mothers are integrated by their offspring. Knowing tha…
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Developing Social Robots with Empathetic Non-Verbal Cues Using Large Language Models Open
We propose augmenting the empathetic capacities of social robots by integrating non-verbal cues. Our primary contribution is the design and labeling of four types of empathetic non-verbal cues, abbreviated as SAFE: Speech, Action (gesture)…