In previous research (Kim, Porter, & Goolkasian, 2014), we examined conceptual priming within and across modalities and found that target categorization was facilitated by the advanced presentation of conceptually related exemplars, but there were differences in effectiveness when pictures and environmental sounds appeared as primes. The present study follows up this research by manipulating th...

False working memories readily emerge using a visual item-recognition variant of the converging associates task. Two experiments, manipulating study and test modality, extended prior working memory results by demonstrating a reliable false recognition effect (more false alarms to associatively related lures than to unrelated lures) within seconds of encoding in either the visual or auditory mod...

Recently, elevated ongoing pre-stimulus beta power (13-17 Hz) at encoding has been associated with subsequent memory formation for visual stimulus material. It is unclear whether this activity is merely specific to visual processing or whether it reflects a state facilitating general memory formation, independent of stimulus modality. To answer that question, the present study investigated the ...

The aim of the study was to validate attack scenes in beach volleyball (BV) for construction a declarative tactical knowledge test (DTKAT) modality. 32 real situations BV game through were assessed Content Validity Coefficient (CVC) criteria language clarity, practical relevance and item representativity, using 1-5 likert scale. results showed that all [image clarity (CVC - 0.98); 0.97); repres...

A Concealed Information Test (CIT) investigates differential physiological responses to deed-related ("probe") vs. irrelevant items. The present study focused on the detection of concealed information using simultaneous recordings of autonomic and brain electrical measures. As a secondary issue, verbal and pictorial presentation were compared with respect to their influence on the recorded meas...

Mental imagery may occur in any sensory modality, although visual imagery has been most studied. A sensitive measure of the vividness of imagery across a range of modalities is needed: the shorter version of Bett's Questionnaire upon Mental Imagery (Sheehan, , J. Clin. Psychology, 23, 386) uses outdated items and has an unreliable factor structure. We report the development and initial validati...

Many languages show systematic marking for evidentiality, indicating the source of a speaker’s information, the modality by which that information was gained, and the speaker’s stance towards the veracity of the information. Among the meanings expressed through such markings are quotativity, distance, reportedness, surprise, eyevs. ear-witness, and in general any sort of “mediation” by the spea...

In the context of multimedia content, a modality can be de€ned as a type of data item such as text, images, music, and videos. Up to now, only limited research has been conducted on cross-modal retrieval of suitable music for a speci€ed video or vice versa. Moreover, much of the existing research relies on metadata such as keywords, tags, or associated description that must be individually prod...

Whether rehearsal has a causal role in verbal STM has been controversial in the literature. Recent theories of working memory emphasize a role of attentional resources, but leave unclear how they contribute to verbal STM. Two experiments (with 49 and 102 adult participants, respectively) followed up previous studies with children, aiming to clarify the contributions of attentional capacity and ...

High perceptual load in a task is known to reduce the visual perception of unattended items (e.g., Lavie, Beck, & Konstantinou, 2014). However, it remains an open question whether perceptual load in one modality (e.g., vision) can affect the detection of stimuli in another modality (e.g., hearing). We report four experiments that establish that high visual perceptual load leads to reduced detec...