Wang Xinyue, You Liandong, Li Ming, Li Ming
Mothers, particularly human mothers, exhibit exceptional sensitivity to the unique acoustic features, emotional valence, and survival cues embedded in infant cries and laughter. This article evaluates various cognitive experimental paradigms developed using infant cry materials and investigates mate…
Wu Xia, Li Yiwei, Sun Xiaoya, Chen Ying, Jiang Yunpeng, Chen Yan, Chen Yan
Category-based attentional selection (CAS) is a core process through which the brain optimizes information filtering via abstract category representations, yet the synergistic mechanism by which it is modulated by cognitive control and salience processing remains unclear. This study combined the maj…
Dong Yaohua, Tang Yuyao, Zhang Dandan, Zhang Dandan
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is a non-invasive electrical neuromodulation technique that delivers periodic microcurrents of specific frequencies to the scalp to modulate neural oscillations in particular brain regions, thereby altering specific cognitive functions or ameliorat…
Hu Xiao, Hu Xiao
Signal detection theory is widely employed to explain individuals' decision-making processes across various types of cognitive tasks. However, a significant limitation of classical signal detection theory is its difficulty in further elucidating the intrinsic psychological mechanisms that underlie t…
Chen Mingjing, Wang Yongsheng, Zhao Bingjie, Li Xin, Bai Xuejun, Wang Yongsheng, Bai Xuejun
Abstract Based on the E-Z Reader model and the integrated model of Chinese reading, there is controversy over whether word segmentation and lexical identification constitute an interactive unified process. By manipulating reading direction to alter text familiarity, we investigated its role in word …
Yan Chi, Yunfei Gao, Hu Saisai, Song Fangxing, Wang Yonghui, Zhao Jingjing, Wang Yonghui, Zhao Jingjing
Eye gaze plays an important role in human social interaction and in capturing and maintaining attention. However, how eye gaze interacts with objects to guide attention allocation remains unclear to date. Therefore, this study adopted a two-rectangle cueing paradigm, using faces or objects with two …