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Miracle Fruit and Flavor: An Experiment Performed at APS 2010
The results are in! At Convention last year APS Past-President Linda Bartoshuk led a miracle fruit experiment with the audience during the Presidential Symposium in Boston, MA. Audience members tasted 'miracle fruit,' a freeze-dried West African berry, that changed the way they tasted fruit they ate afterwards. Bartoshuk shared the results with attendees in a poster presentation at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Synsepalum dulcificum berries (miracle fruit) affect the tongue such that sweet taste is added to acids.
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Men’s Learning About Women’s Sexual Interest
My name is Teresa A. Treat from the University of Iowa and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. This study examines learning processes in young men regarding women's sexual-interest cues under probabilistic feedback conditions. The conditions established were more characteristic of "real-world" social-learning environments than deterministic feedback. 661 undergraduate males completed a category-learning task with photographs of women in an equivalent age range. Probabilistic feedback decreased sexual-interest utilization; individual differences in learning correlated with sexual-aggression risk.
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Emotional Clarity as a Differential Predictor of Symptoms of Depression in Adolescents
My name is Angelo Boccia from Temple University and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. This study explored the relationships among emotional clarity, Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI) scores, and Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) scores. Results show that emotional clarity significantly predicted CDI scores at Time 2, but not MASC scores. Additionally, negative cognitive style seems to be a better predictor of MASC scores than CDI scores when controlling for emotional clarity. Poster Session IV - Board: IV- 044 Friday, May 27, 2011, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Columbia Hall Angelo S. Boccia Temple University Elissa J.
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Cognitive Differences in Reading From Kindle, iPad, and Paper Text
My name is Thomas Gable from The College of Wooster, and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. Participants’ reading speeds and memory (of a short story) while using either paper text, an iPad, or Kindle were compared. Paper text resulted in significantly faster reading speeds. Short-term memory performance was significantly better for electronic-readers, but no long-term memory differences occurred. Electronic-readers exhibited no cognitive disadvantage on an academic learning task. Poster Session IV - Board: IV- 133 Friday, May 27, 2011, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Columbia Hall Thomas M. Gable The College of Wooster Claudia R. Thompson The College of Wooster
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Brain Adenosine Mediates the Negative Effect of Mental Fatigue on Endurance Exercise Performance
My name is Walter Staiano from Bangor University, United Kingdom, and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. In Italian: Interaction between positive effects of caffeine treatment, considered as an adenosine receptor antagonist, and negative consequences of mental fatigue on subsequent physical activity suggests contribution of brain adenosinergic mechanisms on changes in physical performance. These outcomes can better clarify the importance of brain mechanisms on physical performance tasks.
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Cultural Differences Are Not Always Reduced to Individual Differences
My name is Jinkyung Na from the University of Michigan and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC. We show that differences in social orientation and cognition between cultures do not necessarily have corollary individual differences within cultures. Evidence comes from a large-scale study conducted with five measures of independent versus interdependent social orientation and 11 measures of analytic versus holistic cognitive style.
