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...
“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...
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...
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...
Bilinguals’ inhibitory control and attentional processes in a visual perceptual task
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Wimmer, M. C., Marx, C., Stirk, S., & Hancock, P. J. (2021)
Bilinguals’ inhibitory control and attentional processes in a visual perceptual task. Psychological Research, 85, 1439-1448. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01333-0
The aim was to examine theories of bilingual inhibitory control superiority in the visual domain. In an ambiguous figure task the ability to reverse (switch) interpretations (...
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...
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...
Similar but separate systems underlie perceptual bistability in vision and audition
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Denham, S. L., Farkas, D., van Ee, R., Taranu, M., Kocsis, Z., Wimmer, M., …Winkler, I. (2018)
Similar but separate systems underlie perceptual bistability in vision and audition. Scientific Reports, 8, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25587-2
The dynamics of perceptual bistability, the phenomenon in which perception switches between different interpretations of an unchanging stimulus, are characterised by very simi...
Ego depletion in visual perception: Ego-depleted viewers experience less ambiguous figure reversal.
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Wimmer, M. C., Stirk, S., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2017)
Ego depletion in visual perception: Ego-depleted viewers experience less ambiguous figure reversal. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24, 1620-1626. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1247-2
This study examined the effects of ego depletion on ambiguous figure perception. Adults (N = 315) received an ego depletion task and were subsequently tested on their inhibito...
Are developments in mental scanning and mental rotation related?
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Wimmer, M. C., Robinson, E. J., & Doherty, M. J. (2017)
Are developments in mental scanning and mental rotation related?. PLOS ONE, 12, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171762
The development and relation of mental scanning and mental rotation were examined in 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-year old children and adults (N = 102). Based on previous findings from adu...