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Abstracts of the PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY Volume 25 • November 2020 Abstracts OF THE PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY Volume 25 • November 2020 61st ANNUAL MEETING POSTER SESSIONS Held virtually Thursday, November 19–Saturday, November 21 Session I: Thursday, November 19 ..........5:30–7:30 PM EST All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST). Session II: Friday, November 20 ............4:00–6:00 PM EST Session III: Saturday, November 21 .........4:00–6:00 PM EST KEYNOTE ADDRESS Thursday, November 19...................7:30–8:30 PM EST AWARDS AND BUSINESS MEETING TMI: Disengagement and Memory Saturday, November 21 . 3:00–4:00 PM EST Lynn Hasher, University of Toronto Meeting includes presentation of all Psychonomic Society Awards and the business of the Psychonomic Society. OPENING VIRTUAL RECEPTION FUTURE MEETINGS Thursday, November 19...................8:30–9:30 PM EST (immediately following Keynote Address) 2021 San Diego, CA, November 18–21 2022 Washington, DC, November 17–20 2023 San Francisco, CA, November 16–19 2024 New York, NY, November 21–24 2025 Denver, CO, November 20–23 2026 San Diego, CA, November 19–22 SYMPOSIA Symposium I: Estimating and Communicating Symposium V: Emerging Research on Creative Probabilistic Information Cognition and Neuroscience of Insight Friday, November 20 ................9:00–11:00 AM EST Saturday, November 21 . .9:00–11:00 AM EST Symposium II: How Do We Decide What Is True? Symposium VI: Cognitive Off-Loading and Friday, November 20 .............11:00 AM–1:00 PM EST Prospective Memory Saturday, November 21 . 11:00 AM–1:00 PM EST Symposium III: Age Differences in Episodic Memory Control Processes Symposium VII: Using Network Science to Friday, November 20 ................ 12:00–2:00 PM EST Understand Language Saturday, November 21 . 12:00–2:00 PM EST Special Symposium IV: Seeing Race in Cognitive Psychology DRAFTSymposium VIII: Verbal Working Memory: Friday, November 20 ................. 2:00–4:00 PM EST Domain General or Domain Specific? Saturday, November 21 . 1:00–3:00 PM EST A PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY PUBLICATION www.psychonomic.org General Information CONTENTS General Information .....................................................................................................................................................................2 2020 Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award....................................................................................................6 2020 Mid-Career Awards .............................................................................................................................................................7 2020 Early Career Awards ............................................................................................................................................................8 2020 J. Frank Yates Student Travel Awards ................................................................................................................................9 2020 Graduate Travel Awards ................................................................................................................................................... 10 2020 FABBS Early Impact Award............................................................................................................................................. 11 2020 Best Article Awards ........................................................................................................................................................... 12 Special Events .............................................................................................................................................................................. 13 In Memoriam .............................................................................................................................................................................. 14 Condensed Schedule A, sessions by time .............................................................................................................................. 19 Condensed Schedule B, events by type ................................................................................................................................... 22 Condensed Schedule C, abstracts by time .............................................................................................................................. 25 Spoken Sessions, Friday ............................................................................................................................................................. 42 Spoken Sessions, Saturday ......................................................................................................................................................... 69 Poster Session I, Thursday ........................................................................................................................................................ 99 Poster Session II, Friday ........................................................................................................................................................... 242 Poster Session III, Saturday ..................................................................................................................................................... 242 Author Index ............................................................................................................................................................................. 313 Keyword Index .......................................................................................................................................................................... 332 DRAFT 1 General Information OPENING SESSION/KEYNOTE ADDRESS TMI: Disengagement and Memory Lynn Hasher University of Toronto THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 7:30–8:30 PM EST Captioning and an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter will be available for this address. Can you really have too much information? And what happens when you do? Our research program focuses on these questions and may help explain patterns of age-related cognitive deficits as well as spared functioning. Older adults show a shift from intentionally biased processing of information to a more incidental bias, which results in excessive encoding and, subsequently, in delays in disengaging from nonrelevant information. As a consequence, too much information can be active at any one point in time, resulting in poor explicit recall—and sometimes, in superior implicit memory. This pattern may be especially pronounced in older adults, but it is not unique to them. A limited literature suggests that positive moods and circadian disruptions can produce similar outcomes. Opening Virtual Reception Friday Virtual Networking Reception THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 8:30–9:30 PM EST FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 4:00–6:00 PM EST (immediately following the keynote address) Saturday Virtual Networking Reception Diversity & Inclusion Virtual Reception SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 4:00–6:00 PM EST FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 3:00–4:00 PM EST 2020 INVITED TALKS 2019-2020 Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award Recipients Nora Newcombe, Temple University .................................................SATURDAY, 11:00 AM EST Mary Peterson, University of Arizona ...................................................FRIDAY, 12:00 PM EST Suparna Rajaram, Stony Brook University ............................................... FRIDAY, 9:00 AM EST Henry L. Roediger, III, Washington University in St. Louis .............................. SATURDAY, 1:00 PM EST 2019-2020 Mid-Career Award recipients Michael Anderson, University of Cambridge .............................................FRIDAY, 11:00 AM EST Jan De Houwer, Ghent University ...................................................SATURDAY, 11:00 AM EST Kathleen McDermott, Washington University in St. Louis ...............................SATURDAY, 9:00 AM EST Klaus Oberauer, University of Zurich .................................................... FRIDAY, 9:00 AM EST Jeffrey Zacks, Washington University in St. Louis .....................................SATURDAY, 12:00 PM EST 2019-2020 Early Career Award recipients Brian Anderson, Texas A&MDRAFT University .............................................SATURDAY, 12:00 PM EST Timothy Brady, University of California, San Diego ...................................SATURDAY, 10:00 AM EST Karen Campbell, Brock University ..................................................... FRIDAY, 10:00 AM EST Heather Ferguson, University of Kent ...................................................FRIDAY, 12:00 PM EST Aidan Horner, University of York ...................................................SATURDAY, 10:00 AM EST Roland Pfister, Universität Würzburg ...................................................FRIDAY, 11:00 AM EST Karen Schloss, University of Wisconsin – Madison ........................................ FRIDAY, 9:00 AM EST Brandon Turner, Ohio State University ...............................................SATURDAY, 9:00 AM EST 2 General Information REGISTRATION DESIGNATION OF AWARD RECIPIENTS Register online at www.psychonomic.org/2020registration. Within this book, by an author’s name indicates a All attendees must register for the conference by recipient of the Psychonomic Society Clifford T. Morgan November 16, 2020, in order to access the virtual Distinguished Leadership, Mid-Career, or Early Career meeting platform. Award. by an author’s name indicates a recipient of the J. Frank Yates Student Conference Award or Graduate Members Conference Award. Registration
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