In the part-set cuing effect, cuing a subset of previously studied items impairs recall of the remaining noncued items. This experiment reveals that cuing participants with previously-studied emotional pictures (e.g., fear-evoking pictures of people) can impair recall of pictures involving the same emotion but different content (e.g., fear-evoking pictures of animals). This indicates that new e...

We examined sensitivity to grammatical sequences of colors in an artificial grammar learning task in a sample of 120 children aged between 5 and 8 years. The aim of the experiment was to test whether the children would preferentially learn the specific salient features of the items they were exposed to or the rules that generated these items. The children were divided into two experimental grou...

A 135-item alcohol behavior questionnaire and the short-form Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory were administered to 160 new admissions to a state hospital. The alcohol questionnaire was constructed with substantial item redundancy so that specific factors could be defined if they exist. Factor analysis of the 135 items revealed one large alcoholism factor plus 10 small specific factor...

With the full implementation of policy “Chinese Culture Going Global”, more attention has been paid to English translation Chinese tourism publicity materials. One major challenges that translators face is a large number culture-specific items (CSIs) contained in There some discussion about Chinese-English CSIs However previous studies are largely inadequate and unsystematic. In this paper, cat...

Items that violate a category rule are remembered better than items that follow the rule. This finding cannot be predicted by exemplar models when all exemplars share the same attention along a dimension. With dimension-wide attention, violating and rule-following items are treated equally. When each exemplar selects which dimensions to attend to, exemplar models can predict the memory advantag...