Journal Alert - PSYCHOLOGIA

> Journal Name: PSYCHOLOGIA (ISSN: 0033-2852)
> Issue: Vol. 55 No. 4, 2012
> IDS#: 063BG
> Alert Expires: 10 JAN 2014
> Number of Articles in Issue: 5 (5 included in this e-mail)
> Organization ID: c4f3d919329a46768459d3e35b8102e6
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> *Pages: 227-245 (Article)
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> Title:
> AMODAL COMPLETION OF BOUNDARIES IN COLOURED SURFACES
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> Authors:
> Dadam, J; Albertazzi, L; Canal, L; Micciolo, R
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> *PSYCHOLOGIA*, 55 (4):227-245; DEC 2012
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> We present an experimental study on the influence of colour and spatial
> position in the assessment of boundaries in occluded surfaces. Subjects
> were asked to mark the place that they judged to be the location of a
> boundary between two differently coloured parts of a vertical rectangle
> partially occluded by a horizontal rectangle. Besides the use of eight
> pairs of colours, the position of the occluder was randomly changed
> resulting in 13 possible sizes of the coloured parts. The same colours
> were set for half of the time on the lower part of the vertical
> rectangle, and for half on the upper part, so as to verify whether
> changing the colour location would give rise to measurable effects.
> Results show that amodal completion is influenced not only by spatial
> cues but also by colour.
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> *Pages: 246-256 (Article)
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> RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF THE DIGIT CANCELLATION TEST, A BRIEF SCREEN OF ATTENTION
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> Authors:
> Hatta, T; Yoshizaki, K; Ito, Y; Mase, M; Kabasawa, H
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> *PSYCHOLOGIA*, 55 (4):246-256; DEC 2012
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> The reliability and validity of a screening test called the D-CAT (Digit
> Cancellation Test) were evaluated across two studies. The D-CAT was
> developed to provide a highly practical and user-friendly assessment of
> various aspects of prefrontal cortex functioning, including information
> processing speed, the ability to focus attention, and executive
> functioning. Participants perform the D-CAT by deleting given target
> numbers on a sheet of randomly arranged possibilities. In Study 1, the
> reliability of the D-CAT was evaluated using a test-retest paradigm.
> Reasonably high correlations between scores on the two test sessions
> were obtained. In Study 2, construct validity was examined using a
> sample of participants with traumatic brain injury. TBI participants
> showed significantly lower D-CAT performance than age and education
> level matched healthy controls. On the basis of these findings, the
> D-CAT can be regarded as a reliable and valid screening test for
> attentional functioning.
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> *Pages: 257-268 (Article)
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> THE POSITIVE INFLUENCE OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES ON ENGLISH DIGIT-SPAN PERFORMANCE AMONG JAPANESE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN: A THREE-YEAR CROSS-SEQUENTIAL STUDY
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> Authors:
> Sakuma, Y; Saito, S
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> *PSYCHOLOGIA*, 55 (4):257-268; DEC 2012
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> Abstract:
> We conducted an experimental study of an English-experience program in
> which children regularly engaged in English-language activities in a
> Japanese elementary school over the course of 3 years. Three groups of
> children (first, third, and fifth graders upon joining the project)
> participated. The children engaged in Japanese and English aural
> digit-span tests in the first, second, and third years of the program.
> Results showed that the children's digit-span performance in English
> improved dramatically during their 3-year participation and that the
> increase was larger than that in Japanese. This finding was most
> pronounced in children in the middle group, and was discussed in terms
> of total exposure time to spoken English, the amount of after-school
> English activities, and the sensitive period hypothesis of a second
> language acquisition. We concluded that the English-activities program
> employed in this study was effective in facilitating the acquisition of
> phonological forms of English among Japanese students in elementary
> school.
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> *Pages: 269-279 (Article)
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> HIGH SELF-ESTEEM INCREASES SPONTANEOUS ATTENTION TO POSITIVE INFORMATION: AN EVENT-RELATED BRAIN POTENTIAL STUDY
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> Authors:
> Ishii, K; Sugimoto, F; Katayama, J
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> *PSYCHOLOGIA*, 55 (4):269-279; DEC 2012
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> Abstract:
> By using event-related brain potentials (ERPs), the current study tested
> a hypothesis that high self-esteem increases spontaneous attention to
> positive information and influences negativity bias, defined as greater
> attention to negative information than positive information.
> Participants were asked to judge the pleasantness of positive and
> negative trait words infrequently presented in a sequence of neutral
> words. Compared to positive trait words, negative trait words elicited
> larger N2 amplitudes, thought to be elicited by a mismatch between the
> expectation and stimuli presented; this tendency was more extreme in
> individuals with a mindset associated with positive feelings and
> thinking, as measured by self-esteem, self-relatedness to positive trait
> words, and frequency of positive emotions in daily life. In contrast, no
> differences were found between the emotional words at the P3 amplitude,
> due to the set of stimuli being manipulated so that the emotional words
> were similar in arousal.
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> *Pages: 280-290 (Article)
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> Title:
> DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AMONG THE JAPANESE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF VICTIMIZATION
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> Authors:
> Hall, RE
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> *PSYCHOLOGIA*, 55 (4):280-290; DEC 2012
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> Abstract:
> Japanese women suffer domestic violence by their significant male other
> but by cultural tradition lack the necessary support which relegates in
> myth. Members of the Japanese community both at home and abroad are no
> exception. Domestic violence in Japan is in fact committed for purposes
> of control by one partner of the other. Subsequently domestic violence
> is a problem which appears non-existent in the Japanese community at the
> expense of its victims. Real life contradictions, pertaining to domestic
> violence events among the Japanese are sustained not only by tradition
> but limited discourse as well. Therefore, accounts of domestic violence
> among the Japanese necessitate investigation of the pathology where it
> occurs regardless of culture, shame or demographic category.
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