Paula Goolkasian
Biographic Data
| ID | 5853845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula Goolkasian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Goolkasian |
| SIGNATURE | GOOLKASIAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0463-6992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mindfulness meditation improves cognition
Modality Effects in Sentence Recall
The authors examined the intrusion of lures into sentence recall when manipulating the modality of distractor-word lists and sentences separately. Participants received a list of words followed by a sentence, and the list did or did not contain a lure related to a target in the sentence. Conceptual regeneration of the sentence during recall predicted higher lure intrusions than spontaneous intrusions in all conditions. However, if surface informa…
Mirror Neurons
Pictures, Words, and Sounds
The effect of presentation format on reasoning was studied with a sentence verification task. Background information was presented in single-format and combined conditions that included pictured, printed, or spoken versions of the stimulus items. In Experiment 1, a test sentence appeared together with the background at varied stimulus onset asynchronies, to study how format influences the acquisition of the stimulus information. In Experiments 2 …
Covert and Overt Attention and the Processing of Cues for Location and Target Identification
The authors compared covert and overt attention in a series of experiments designed to test some assumptions of space-based theories of visual attention. In Experiment 1, they measured reaction times (RTs) to a scaled letter presented at varied eccentricities. When the letter's location was cued in advance by a bar marker, identification responses were found to be similar across a 20° area to the right and left of fixation. When related distracto…
Software Reviews
Recognition Memory for Easy and Difficult Text
A recognition memory paradigm was used to study the effect of text difficulty on memory for practical stimuli. In the first two studies, passages drawn from driving regulations were compared with passages from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) materials; in the third study, material was selected from two psychology textbooks that were rated in different categories of difficulty. The authors expected that in each comparison the more difficult text wo…
Illusory Conjunctions in the Processing of Clock Times
A search task was used in two studies to investigate whether clock times are processed holistically or whether they can be formed from hour and minute components presented concurrently in different stimuli. In the first experiment, two kinds of catch trials were compared: control trials and conjunction trials. False-alarm rates were significantly higher in the conjunction condition than in the control condition, and this difference was apparent w…
Phase and Sex Effects in Pain Perception
The psychological literature in pain perception is reviewed to clarify the influence of sex and menstrual phase on the phenomenon of pain. An attempt is made to resolve some of the discrepancies in the reported findings by taking special note of the methodological differences in the pain studies. The appropriateness of the measures of pain threshold, pain tolerance, discrimination accuracy, and of response bias to the study of pain are discussed
The Role of Familiarity in Proofreading
A speeded yes/no task was developed and tested in three studies that examined the role of familiarity in proofreading. A signal detection theory analysis was used to separate effects due to the discriminability of errors from influences on the placement of the response criterion for detecting errors. Experiment 1 tested whether repetition of the stimulus items influenced measures of discrimination and response bias; Experiment 2 varied the number…
Pictures, Words, and Sounds
The effect of presentation format on reasoning was studied with a sentence verification task. Background information was presented in single-format and combined conditions that included pictured, printed, or spoken versions of the stimulus items. In Experiment 1, a test sentence appeared together with the background at varied stimulus onset asynchronies, to study how format influences the acquisition of the stimulus information. In Experiments 2 …
Software Reviews
The Role of Familiarity in Proofreading
A speeded yes/no task was developed and tested in three studies that examined the role of familiarity in proofreading. A signal detection theory analysis was used to separate effects due to the discriminability of errors from influences on the placement of the response criterion for detecting errors. Experiment 1 tested whether repetition of the stimulus items influenced measures of discrimination and response bias; Experiment 2 varied the number…
Phase and Sex Effects in Pain Perception
The psychological literature in pain perception is reviewed to clarify the influence of sex and menstrual phase on the phenomenon of pain. An attempt is made to resolve some of the discrepancies in the reported findings by taking special note of the methodological differences in the pain studies. The appropriateness of the measures of pain threshold, pain tolerance, discrimination accuracy, and of response bias to the study of pain are discussed
The Role of Familiarity in Proofreading
A speeded yes/no task was developed and tested in three studies that examined the role of familiarity in proofreading. A signal detection theory analysis was used to separate effects due to the discriminability of errors from influences on the placement of the response criterion for detecting errors. Experiment 1 tested whether repetition of the stimulus items influenced measures of discrimination and response bias; Experiment 2 varied the number…
Illusory Conjunctions in the Processing of Clock Times
A search task was used in two studies to investigate whether clock times are processed holistically or whether they can be formed from hour and minute components presented concurrently in different stimuli. In the first experiment, two kinds of catch trials were compared: control trials and conjunction trials. False-alarm rates were significantly higher in the conjunction condition than in the control condition, and this difference was apparent w…
Recognition Memory for Easy and Difficult Text
A recognition memory paradigm was used to study the effect of text difficulty on memory for practical stimuli. In the first two studies, passages drawn from driving regulations were compared with passages from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) materials; in the third study, material was selected from two psychology textbooks that were rated in different categories of difficulty. The authors expected that in each comparison the more difficult text wo…
Software Reviews
Covert and Overt Attention and the Processing of Cues for Location and Target Identification
The authors compared covert and overt attention in a series of experiments designed to test some assumptions of space-based theories of visual attention. In Experiment 1, they measured reaction times (RTs) to a scaled letter presented at varied eccentricities. When the letter's location was cued in advance by a bar marker, identification responses were found to be similar across a 20° area to the right and left of fixation. When related distracto…
Pictures, Words, and Sounds
The effect of presentation format on reasoning was studied with a sentence verification task. Background information was presented in single-format and combined conditions that included pictured, printed, or spoken versions of the stimulus items. In Experiment 1, a test sentence appeared together with the background at varied stimulus onset asynchronies, to study how format influences the acquisition of the stimulus information. In Experiments 2 …
Mirror Neurons
Modality Effects in Sentence Recall
The authors examined the intrusion of lures into sentence recall when manipulating the modality of distractor-word lists and sentences separately. Participants received a list of words followed by a sentence, and the list did or did not contain a lure related to a target in the sentence. Conceptual regeneration of the sentence during recall predicted higher lure intrusions than spontaneous intrusions in all conditions. However, if surface informa…
Mindfulness meditation improves cognition
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