Let’s go beyond “the effect of”: reappraising the impact of ordinary activities on cognition
The demands of today’s society for interventions that optimize cognitive abilities and prevent their decline have motivated the translation of scientific findings into applied programs. Ordinary activities such as physical exercise, chess, meditation, playing video games or a musical instrument, as well as specific cognitive programs, have witnessed the growth of evidence emphasizing their cognitive benefits. Here, we outline several issues that need consideration before speculating on the implications of [...]
Experiencing Extinction Facilitates Subsequent Acquisition of Positive, but not Negative Patterning in Human Predictive Learning
Two experiments evaluated whether the experience of extinction facilitates subsequent acquisition [...]
Validation of a reading comprehension efficiency test for Spanish university students
Despite the importance of reading literacy in adulthood, research in this [...]
A cue specifically associated with extinction reduces response recovery in human predictive learning
An experiment evaluated whether a stimulus associated with extinction can [...]
What a transparent Romance language with a Germanic gender-determiner mapping tells us about gender retrieval: Insights from European Portuguese
The study of the representation and processing of grammatical gender [...]