Irene Visser
Biographic Data
| ID | 176337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene Visser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene |
| FAMILY NAME | Visser |
| SIGNATURE | VISSER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3855-2778 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What’s in a name
(e.g., characters or fractals) and concrete stimuli (e.g., pictures of everyday objects) are used interchangeably in the reinforcement-learning literature. Yet, it is unclear whether the same learning processes underlie learning from these different stimulus types. In two preregistered experiments (N = 50 each), we assessed whether abstract and concrete stimuli yield different reinforcement-learning performance and whether this difference can be …
Latent Markov Models to Test the Strategy Use of 3-Year-Olds in a Rule-Based Feedback-Learning Task
This study is the first to investigate how 3-year-olds learn simple rules from feedback using the Toddler Card Sorting Task (TCST). To account for intra- and inter- individual differences in the learning process, latent Markov models were fitted to the time series of accuracy responses using maximum likelihood techniques (Visser et al., 2002). In a first, exploratory study (N = 110, 3- to 5-years olds) a considerable group of 3-year olds applied …
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition
Development and socialization of self-regulation from infancy to adolescence
Self-regulation has been intensely studied across developmental science disciplines in virtue of its significance to understanding and fostering adaptive functioning throughout life. Whereas research has predominantly focused on self-regulatory abilities, age-related changes in goals and motivation that underlie self-regulation have been largely neglected. In a systematic meta-review, we disentangle the development of self-regulatory abilities fr…
The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants
Determining the meanings of words requires language learners to attend to what other people say. However, it behooves a young language learner to simultaneously encode relevant non‐verbal cues, for example, by following the direction of their eye gaze. Sensitivity to cues such as eye gaze might be particularly important for bilingual infants, as they encounter less consistency between words and objects than monolingual infants, and do not always …
Real‐world scene perception in infants
The foci of visual attention were modeled as a function of perceptual salience, adult fixation locations, and attentional control mechanisms (measured in separate tasks) in infants ( N = 45, 3‐ to 15‐month‐olds) as they viewed static real‐world scenes. After controlling for the center bias, the results showed that low‐level perceptual salience predicts where infants look. In addition, high‐level factors also played a role: Infants fixated parts o…
Unresolved Tensions
This essay argues for a wider recognition of The Unvanquished as a short-story cycle and for a new appreciation of its generic features of simultaneous fragmentation and unity. For much of its critical history The Unvanquished was misinterpreted as a short story miscellany or as a bildungsroman. Presenting first an overview of the conflicted critical history of The Unvanquished, and demonstrating Faulkner’s deliberate use of hybrid forms, the ess…
Fairy Tale and Trauma in Toni Morrison'sHome
Toni Morrison’s tenth novel Home (2013), set in the 1950s, presents a disturbing and dark narrative of childhood abuse, war trauma, and racial discrimination. While poignantly dramatizing the traumatic experiences of war veteran Frank Money and his sister Ycidra (Cee), the novel also explores avenues leading to resilience, resolution, and recovery. A major question that Home addressesis how traumatized characters may come “home” to a sense of bel…
What Counts
This essay explores Flannery O’Connor’s “The River” and “Revelation” from an interdisciplinary perspective. Concepts from social sciences such as social dramas, ritual performance, and symbolic actions illuminate main moments of conflict and reconciliation between characters and their social milieu and aid understanding of the reading experience offered in O’Connor’s stories
Decolonizing Trauma Theory
Decolonizing trauma theory has been a major project in postcolonial literary scholarship ever since its first sustained engagements with trauma theory. Since then, trauma theory and postcolonial literary studies have been uneasy bedfellows, and the time has now come to take stock of what remains in postcolonial trauma studies from the original formulations of trauma theory, and see which further steps must be envisaged in order to reach the ideal…
Cognitive strategy use as an index of developmental differences in neural responses to feedback
Developmental differences in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and superior parietal cortex (SPC) activation are associated with differences in how children, adolescents, and adults learn from performance feedback in rule-learning tasks (Crone, Zanolie, Leijenhorst, Westenberg, & Rombouts, 2008). Both maturational differences and performance differences can potentially explain variance in functional brain ac…
A Creative Partnership
Spirituality and sexuality are key notions in the novels of Zakes Mda, one of South Africa's leading contemporary authors. In Mda's novels the mysterious interrelatedness of the spiritual and the sexual, in which art and creativity are vital elements, functions as a catalyst in individual and collective processes towards change. Suggesting that current literary conventions may be inadequate to a postcolonial criticism that seeks to explore repres…
Getting Ready to Stay Dead
This article uses concepts from anthropology to explore the representation of rites of passage as crucial episodes in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (1930), The Sound and the Fury (1929), and Light in August (1932). Rites of passage, as conceptualized by anthropologists, are transformative and integrative social forces. Death rites, in particular, function as cultural systems of signification that operate both within and beyond restrictions of…
Trauma theory and postcolonial literary studies
The plurality and growing number of responses to cultural trauma theory in postcolonial criticism demonstrate the ongoing appeal of trauma theory despite the fact that it is also increasingly critiqued as inadequate to the research agenda of postcolonial studies. In the dialogue between trauma theory and postcolonial literary studies the central question remains whether trauma theory can be effectively “postcolonialized” in the sense of being use…
The role of reversal frequency in learning noisy second order conditional sequences
How to Live? Guilt and Goodness in Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart
Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart is a painful analysis of communal guilt and personal responsibility in the context of the (often paradoxical) complex race relationships in South Africa. This paper aims to create a dialogic connection between Malan's narrative and Philippa Foot's discussion of guilt and responsibility in her widely acclaimed book on moral philosophy, Natural Goodness (2001). By bringing together Foot's moral philosophy and Malan's…
Rule transition on the balance scale task
For various domains in proportional reasoning cognitive development is characterized as a progression through a series of increasingly complex rules. A multiplicative relationship between two task features, such as weight and distance information of blocks placed at both sides of the fulcrum of a balance scale, appears difficult to discover. During development, children change their beliefs about the balance scale several times: from a focus on t…
Inferring the structure of latent class
Prototypes of gender
Reading pleasure
This article discusses various components of the theory of the gendered gaze, in order to construct a framework for an analysis of how William Faulkner understood and fictionally presented the mechanism of the gaze in Light in August. Linking theory and praxis, this article explores the relationship between patriarchy and gender construction in Faulkner's literary representation of visual structures in this major novel
The prototypicality of gender
Trauma theory and postcolonial literary studies
The plurality and growing number of responses to cultural trauma theory in postcolonial criticism demonstrate the ongoing appeal of trauma theory despite the fact that it is also increasingly critiqued as inadequate to the research agenda of postcolonial studies. In the dialogue between trauma theory and postcolonial literary studies the central question remains whether trauma theory can be effectively “postcolonialized” in the sense of being use…
Fairy Tale and Trauma in Toni Morrison'sHome
Toni Morrison’s tenth novel Home (2013), set in the 1950s, presents a disturbing and dark narrative of childhood abuse, war trauma, and racial discrimination. While poignantly dramatizing the traumatic experiences of war veteran Frank Money and his sister Ycidra (Cee), the novel also explores avenues leading to resilience, resolution, and recovery. A major question that Home addressesis how traumatized characters may come “home” to a sense of bel…
Prototypes of gender
The prototypicality of gender
Cognitive strategy use as an index of developmental differences in neural responses to feedback
Developmental differences in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and superior parietal cortex (SPC) activation are associated with differences in how children, adolescents, and adults learn from performance feedback in rule-learning tasks (Crone, Zanolie, Leijenhorst, Westenberg, & Rombouts, 2008). Both maturational differences and performance differences can potentially explain variance in functional brain ac…
How to Live? Guilt and Goodness in Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart
Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart is a painful analysis of communal guilt and personal responsibility in the context of the (often paradoxical) complex race relationships in South Africa. This paper aims to create a dialogic connection between Malan's narrative and Philippa Foot's discussion of guilt and responsibility in her widely acclaimed book on moral philosophy, Natural Goodness (2001). By bringing together Foot's moral philosophy and Malan's…
The prototypicality of gender
Reading pleasure
This article discusses various components of the theory of the gendered gaze, in order to construct a framework for an analysis of how William Faulkner understood and fictionally presented the mechanism of the gaze in Light in August. Linking theory and praxis, this article explores the relationship between patriarchy and gender construction in Faulkner's literary representation of visual structures in this major novel
Prototypes of gender
Inferring the structure of latent class
Rule transition on the balance scale task
For various domains in proportional reasoning cognitive development is characterized as a progression through a series of increasingly complex rules. A multiplicative relationship between two task features, such as weight and distance information of blocks placed at both sides of the fulcrum of a balance scale, appears difficult to discover. During development, children change their beliefs about the balance scale several times: from a focus on t…
How to Live? Guilt and Goodness in Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart
Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart is a painful analysis of communal guilt and personal responsibility in the context of the (often paradoxical) complex race relationships in South Africa. This paper aims to create a dialogic connection between Malan's narrative and Philippa Foot's discussion of guilt and responsibility in her widely acclaimed book on moral philosophy, Natural Goodness (2001). By bringing together Foot's moral philosophy and Malan's…
The role of reversal frequency in learning noisy second order conditional sequences
Trauma theory and postcolonial literary studies
The plurality and growing number of responses to cultural trauma theory in postcolonial criticism demonstrate the ongoing appeal of trauma theory despite the fact that it is also increasingly critiqued as inadequate to the research agenda of postcolonial studies. In the dialogue between trauma theory and postcolonial literary studies the central question remains whether trauma theory can be effectively “postcolonialized” in the sense of being use…
A Creative Partnership
Spirituality and sexuality are key notions in the novels of Zakes Mda, one of South Africa's leading contemporary authors. In Mda's novels the mysterious interrelatedness of the spiritual and the sexual, in which art and creativity are vital elements, functions as a catalyst in individual and collective processes towards change. Suggesting that current literary conventions may be inadequate to a postcolonial criticism that seeks to explore repres…
Getting Ready to Stay Dead
This article uses concepts from anthropology to explore the representation of rites of passage as crucial episodes in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (1930), The Sound and the Fury (1929), and Light in August (1932). Rites of passage, as conceptualized by anthropologists, are transformative and integrative social forces. Death rites, in particular, function as cultural systems of signification that operate both within and beyond restrictions of…
Cognitive strategy use as an index of developmental differences in neural responses to feedback
Developmental differences in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and superior parietal cortex (SPC) activation are associated with differences in how children, adolescents, and adults learn from performance feedback in rule-learning tasks (Crone, Zanolie, Leijenhorst, Westenberg, & Rombouts, 2008). Both maturational differences and performance differences can potentially explain variance in functional brain ac…
Decolonizing Trauma Theory
Decolonizing trauma theory has been a major project in postcolonial literary scholarship ever since its first sustained engagements with trauma theory. Since then, trauma theory and postcolonial literary studies have been uneasy bedfellows, and the time has now come to take stock of what remains in postcolonial trauma studies from the original formulations of trauma theory, and see which further steps must be envisaged in order to reach the ideal…
Fairy Tale and Trauma in Toni Morrison'sHome
Toni Morrison’s tenth novel Home (2013), set in the 1950s, presents a disturbing and dark narrative of childhood abuse, war trauma, and racial discrimination. While poignantly dramatizing the traumatic experiences of war veteran Frank Money and his sister Ycidra (Cee), the novel also explores avenues leading to resilience, resolution, and recovery. A major question that Home addressesis how traumatized characters may come “home” to a sense of bel…
What Counts
This essay explores Flannery O’Connor’s “The River” and “Revelation” from an interdisciplinary perspective. Concepts from social sciences such as social dramas, ritual performance, and symbolic actions illuminate main moments of conflict and reconciliation between characters and their social milieu and aid understanding of the reading experience offered in O’Connor’s stories
Unresolved Tensions
This essay argues for a wider recognition of The Unvanquished as a short-story cycle and for a new appreciation of its generic features of simultaneous fragmentation and unity. For much of its critical history The Unvanquished was misinterpreted as a short story miscellany or as a bildungsroman. Presenting first an overview of the conflicted critical history of The Unvanquished, and demonstrating Faulkner’s deliberate use of hybrid forms, the ess…
Real‐world scene perception in infants
The foci of visual attention were modeled as a function of perceptual salience, adult fixation locations, and attentional control mechanisms (measured in separate tasks) in infants ( N = 45, 3‐ to 15‐month‐olds) as they viewed static real‐world scenes. After controlling for the center bias, the results showed that low‐level perceptual salience predicts where infants look. In addition, high‐level factors also played a role: Infants fixated parts o…
The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants
Determining the meanings of words requires language learners to attend to what other people say. However, it behooves a young language learner to simultaneously encode relevant non‐verbal cues, for example, by following the direction of their eye gaze. Sensitivity to cues such as eye gaze might be particularly important for bilingual infants, as they encounter less consistency between words and objects than monolingual infants, and do not always …
Development and socialization of self-regulation from infancy to adolescence
Self-regulation has been intensely studied across developmental science disciplines in virtue of its significance to understanding and fostering adaptive functioning throughout life. Whereas research has predominantly focused on self-regulatory abilities, age-related changes in goals and motivation that underlie self-regulation have been largely neglected. In a systematic meta-review, we disentangle the development of self-regulatory abilities fr…
What’s in a name
(e.g., characters or fractals) and concrete stimuli (e.g., pictures of everyday objects) are used interchangeably in the reinforcement-learning literature. Yet, it is unclear whether the same learning processes underlie learning from these different stimulus types. In two preregistered experiments (N = 50 each), we assessed whether abstract and concrete stimuli yield different reinforcement-learning performance and whether this difference can be …
Latent Markov Models to Test the Strategy Use of 3-Year-Olds in a Rule-Based Feedback-Learning Task
This study is the first to investigate how 3-year-olds learn simple rules from feedback using the Toddler Card Sorting Task (TCST). To account for intra- and inter- individual differences in the learning process, latent Markov models were fitted to the time series of accuracy responses using maximum likelihood techniques (Visser et al., 2002). In a first, exploratory study (N = 110, 3- to 5-years olds) a considerable group of 3-year olds applied …
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition
Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)