Process dissociation of familiarity and recollection in children: Response deadline affects recollection but not familiarity
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Koenig, L., Wimmer, M. C., & Hollins, T. J. (2015)
Process dissociation of familiarity and recollection in children: Response deadline affects recollection but not familiarity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 131, 120-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.11.003
According to dual-process theories, recollection (slow and associated with contextual details) and familiarity (fast and automatic) are two independent processes underlying re...
“I can’t skip it”: does free report improve accuracy in false memories?
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Wimmer, M. C., Whalley, B., & Hollins, T. J. (2021)
“I can’t skip it”: does free report improve accuracy in false memories?. Memory, 29(3), 353-361. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1895223
Strategic monitoring of recognition memory by children and adults was examined using a semantic DRM procedure. Children (7- and 10-year-olds) and adults (overall N = 393) stud...
Item repetition and response deadline affect familiarity and recollection differently across childhood
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Koenig, L., Wimmer, M. C., & Trippas, D. (2020)
Item repetition and response deadline affect familiarity and recollection differently across childhood. Memory, 28(7), https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1790612
The aim was to examine how item repetition at encoding and response deadline at retrieval affect familiarity and recollection in 5-, 7-, or 11-year-old children (N= 156). Fami...
The format of children’s mental images: Penetrability of spatial images
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Wimmer, M. C., Maras, K. L., Robinson, E. J., & Thomas, C. (2016)
The format of children’s mental images: Penetrability of spatial images. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 13(5), 582-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2015.1132623
To investigate the format of mental images and the penetrability of mental imagery performance to top-down influences in the form of gravity information, children (4-, 6-, 8- ...
Is the letter cancellation task a suitable index of ego-depletion? Empirical and conceptual issues
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Wimmer, M. C., Dome, L., Hancock, P. J., & Wennekers, T. (2019)
Is the letter cancellation task a suitable index of ego-depletion? Empirical and conceptual issues. Social Psychology, 50, 345-354. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000393
The aim was to quantify ego depletion and measure its effect on inhibitory control. Adults (N = 523) received the letter “e” cancellation ego depletion task and were subsequen...
The format of children's mental images: Evidence from mental scanning.
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Wimmer, M. C., Maras, K. L., Robinson, E. J., & Thomas, C. (2016)
The format of children's mental images: Evidence from mental scanning. Cognition, 154, 49-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.05.017
This study examined the development and format of children's mental images. Children (4-, 5-, 6-7-, 8-9-, and 11-year-olds) and adults (N=282) viewed a map of a fictitious isl...
Children’s perception of visual and auditory ambiguity and its link to executive functions and creativity
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Taranu, M., Wimmer, M. C., Ross, J., Farkas, D., van Ee, R., Winkler, I., & Denham, S. L. (2019)
Children’s perception of visual and auditory ambiguity and its link to executive functions and creativity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 184, 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.03.010
The phenomenon of perceptual bistability provides insights into aspects of perceptual processing not normally accessible to everyday experience. However, most experiments have...
Vernacular cinema, self-concept and the perceptual–conceptual shift: exploring conversations between film education and developmental psychology
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Chambers, J., Munro, R., Ross, J., & Wimmer, M. (2023)
Vernacular cinema, self-concept and the perceptual–conceptual shift: exploring conversations between film education and developmental psychology. Film Education Journal, 6(2), 82-100. https://doi.org/10.14324/fej.06.2.02
Co-authored by film education practitioners and developmental psychologists, this article seeks to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue between the emergent discourses of f...
Piecing together the puzzle of pictorial representation: How jigsaw puzzles index metacognitive development
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Doherty, M. J., Wimmer, M. C., Gollek, C., Stone, C., & Robinson, E. J. (2021)
Piecing together the puzzle of pictorial representation: How jigsaw puzzles index metacognitive development. Child Development, 92(1), 205-221. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13391
Jigsaw puzzles are ubiquitous developmental toys in Western societies, used here to examine the development of metarepresentation. For jigsaw puzzles this entails understandin...
Inhibitory processes in visual perception: A bilingual advantage
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Wimmer, M. C., & Marx, C. (2014)
Inhibitory processes in visual perception: A bilingual advantage. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 126, 412-419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.03.004
Bilingual inhibitory control advantages are well established. An open question is whether inhibitory superiority also extends to visual perceptual phenomena that involve inhib...