Journal Articles (Psychology)
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- 6McMillan, Neil
- 5Nicoladis, E.
- 5Spetch, Marcia L.
- 5Sturdy, Christopher B.
- 4Allison H. Hahn
- 4Campbell, Kimberley A.
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2019-06-06
This study contrasted two hypotheses theorizing the role of the global shape of a boundary in object location memory. People differentiate reference points based on the global shape extracted from the environment configuration and choose appropriate parts for encoding a specific location....
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Can you hear me now? The effect of signal degradation on perceived predator threat in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)
Download2020-09-21
Jenna V. Congdon, Allison H. Hahn, Kimberley A. Campbell, Erin N. Scully, Daniel A. Yip, Erin M. Bayne, Christopher B. Sturdy
Avian predators vary in their degree-of-threat to chickadees; for example, smaller owls and hawks are of higher threat to chickadees as they can easily maneuver through the trees, while larger predators cannot. We conducted an operant go/no-go discrimination task to investigate the effect of...
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Chamberlain, J. M., Gagné, C. L., Spalding, T. L., & Lõo, K. (2019). Detecting spelling errors in compound and pseudocompound words. Published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
Download2019-12-20
Chamberlain, Jenna, Gagné, Christina L., Spalding, Thomas L.
Three experiments using a spelling error detection task, in which participants were asked to determine whether words have a spelling error, investigated the extent to which morphemes and pseudo-morphemes affect word processing. We compared the processing of transparent compound words (e.g.,...
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2016-01-01
Jenna V. Congdon, Allison H. Hahn, Neil McMillan, Marc T. Avey, Christopher B. Sturdy
Chickadees produce many vocalizations, including chick-a-dee calls which they use as a mobbing call in the presence of predators. Previous research has shown that chickadees produce more D notes in their mobbing calls in response to high-threat predators compared to low-threat predators, and may...
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2017-04-05
McMillan, Neil, Hahn, Allison H., Congdon, Jenna V., Campbell, Kimberley A., Hoang, J., Scully, Erin N., Spetch, Marcia L., Sturdy, Christopher B.
Chickadees are high-metabolism, non-migratory birds, and thus an especially interesting model for studying how animals follow patterns of food availability over time. Here, we studied whether black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) could learn to reverse their behavior and/or to anticipate...
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2022-05-06
Bioacoustic analysis have been used for a variety of purposes including classifying vocalizations for biodiversity monitoring and understanding mechanisms of cognitive processes. A wide range of statistical methods, including various automated methods, have been used to successfully classify...
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2019-10-13
Lei Zhang, Weimin Mou, Xuehui Lei, Yu Du
This study investigated when the Bayesian cue combination of piloting and path integration occurs in human homing behaviors. The Bayesian cue combination was hypothesized to occur in estimating the home location or self-localization. In Experiment 1, the participants learned the locations of five...
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Cue integration in spatial search for jointly learned landmarks but not for separately learned landmarks--Manuscript
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Mou, Weimin, Madan, Christopher R., Du, Yu, McMillan, Neil, Spetch, Marcia L.
We investigated how humans use multiple landmarks to locate a goal. Participants searched for a hidden goal location along a line between two distinct landmarks on a computer screen. On baseline trials, the location of the landmarks and goal varied, but the distance between each of the landmarks...
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Cue integration in spatial search for jointly learned landmarks but not for separately learned landmarks--Supplementary materials
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McMillan, Neil, Spetch, Marcia L., Du, Yu, Madan, Christopher R., Mou, Weimin
We investigated how humans use multiple landmarks to locate a goal. Participants searched for a hidden goal location along a line between two distinct landmarks on a computer screen. On baseline trials, the location of the landmarks and goal varied, but the distance between each of the landmarks...
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Cue Interaction between Buildings and Street Configurations during Reorientation in Familiar and Unfamiliar Outdoor Environments
Download2017-07-24
Weimin Mou, Peter Dixon, Lin Wang
Two experiments investigated how people use buildings and street configurations to reorient in large-scale environments. In immersive virtual environments, participants learned objects’ locations in an intersection consisting of four streets. The objects’ locations were specified by two cues: a...