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PROCEEDINGS EUROPEAN SOCIETY for COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 29Th AUGUST – 1St SEPTEMBER, 2007 MARSEILLE, FRANCE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 29th AUGUST – 1st SEPTEMBER, 2007 MARSEILLE, FRANCE Conference committee: Jonathan Grainger (chair) François-Xavier Alario Boris Burle Stéphanie Desous Stéphane Dufau Niels Janssen Conference proceedings edited by the scientific committee, consisting of Jonathan Grainger François-Xavier Alario Boris Burle Niels Janssen Table of Contents Map Conference Centre – Université de Provence 2 General Information 3-4 European Society for Cognitive Psychology 5 Condensed Schedule 6-7 Program Schedule 8-17 Keynote lectures 18 Abstracts 19-59 Poster Session I 60-81 Poster Session II 82-104 Poster Session III 105-125 Author Address Index 126-140 1 MAP CONFERENCE CENTRE – UNIVERSITE DE PROVENCE 2 GENERAL INFORMATION WELCOME ORAL PRESENTATIONS We warmly welcome you to the 15th All oral presentations are meant to last 15 conference of the European Society for minutes. Chairs and speakers are strongly Cognitive Psychology in Marseille. The urged to stick to the time schedule. In order to organizing committee is happy to welcome ensure rapid changeover between talks within around 700 visitors to a meeting with over a session, each chairperson has been asked to 600 contributions on a wide variety of current put all the talks of the session they are issues in cognitive psychology. We wish chairing on a single laptop computer. Please everyone an interesting conference and a contact the chair of your session before the pleasant stay in Marseille start of the conference and bring your talk on a memory stick or CD ready to be transferred THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE to another computer. Jonathan Grainger (chair), CNRS-LPC POSTER SESSIONS François-Xavier Alario, CNRS-LPC Boris Burle, CNRS-LNC Poster sessions will be held on the thursday, Stéphanie Desous, CNRS-LPC friday, and saturday afternoons. Posters for Stéphane Dufau, CNRS-LPC presentation on a given day should be Niels Janssen, LPC available for viewing throughout the whole day. Authors are requested to stand by their LOCATION posters during the poster session. The conference will be held on the St. Charles SPONSORS campus of the University of Provence. CNRS SPECIAL EVENTS Conseil Général des Bouches du Rhône ESCoP We would like to draw your attention to the IFR Sciences du Cerveau et de la Cognition following events: Université de Provence Ville de Marseille Day Time Event Wednesday 5:00-6:00 Keynote Lecture (Mary Potter) Wednesday 6:30-8:30 Opening Reception Thursday 4:30-5:30 The Broadbent Lecture (Claus Bundesen) Friday 4:30-5:30 The Bertelson Lecture (Eric-Jan Wagenmakers) Saturday 4:00-5:00 Keynote Lecture (James L. McClelland) Saturday 7:30 pm Conference Dinner 3 GENERAL INFORMATION SPECIAL THANKS Organising an ESCoP meeting is no easy feat. Admittedly I had been warned about this, but thanks to André and Michel I eventually accepted. The number of participants has been rising steadily over the years and now appears to be stabilizing at around 600-700. This is a lot of people to handle, and I would like to thank everyone who was involved in the local organisation. However, there are two people in particular who deserve special mention – Stéphanie Desous and Stéphane Dufau. Without them none of this would have been possible, and I would probably already be on an early retirement plan (or extended sabbatical, however you want to call it). In the end, thanks to our two SDs, organising the 15th ESCoP conference almost became a pleasure (this is for future organisers). Special thanks also to Marilou Vandierendonck for her invaluable contribution to the organisation of this conference. Finally, it is indeed an honour for me, as a regular attendee at ESCoP conferences, to be the host for this one, and I can only hope that we will at least get somewhere close to the extremely high standards set by our predecessors. Wishing you all an excellent conference and enjoyable stay in Marseille, Jonathan Grainger, Head of the Local Organizing Committee CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Stéphanie Stéphane Desous Boris Dufau F.-Xavier Céline Jonathan Niels Burle Alario Cavaillero Grainger Janssen 4 EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ESCoP HISTORY humble beginnings, ESCoP has developed into a broad, The European Society for Cognitive Psychology was successful and respected Society that promotes founded in 1985 by the so called « gang of five » research in cognate subjects. consisting of Alan Baddeley (1st President), Paul nd st Bertelson (2 President), Janet Jackson (1 Secretary), Society Committee: st Wolfgang Prinz (1 Treasurer), and John Michon. Claus Bundesen (Copenhagen), President Maria Teresa Bajo (Granada), Vice-president The first conference took place in the Netherlands, in Bernhard Hommel (Leiden), Treasurer Nijmegen from 9–12 september 1985, and was by Diane Pecher (Rotterdam), Secretary invitation only. “Psychological Research” published Geoffrey Underwood (Nottingham), Member some of the papers of this Inaugural Meeting of André Vandierendonck (Gent), Editor ESCOP in a special issue (number 49) in 1987. Markus Knauff (Giessen), Member The second conference, the first officially open ESCoP Axel Cleeremans (Bruxelles), Member meeting, was held in Madrid in 1987, and was Cristina Cacciari (Modena), Member organized by Maria Victoria Sebastian. Iring Koch (Aachen), Member Following conferences and their organizers: ESCoP Membership III - 1988 Cambridge (John Richardson) IV - 1990 Como (Carlo Umilta & Giovanni Flores d’Arcais) There are three types of membership within the V - 1992 Paris (Michel Denis) Society: associated members (postgraduates or VI - 1993 Elsinore (Claus Bundesen) postdoctoral researchers who are developing their VII - 1994 Lissabon (Amancio Da Costa Pinto) research career) full members and retired members. VIII - 1995 Rome (Marta Olivetti Belardinelli) IX - 1996 Würzburg (Joachim Hoffmann) Full membership is open to persons who are active X - 1998 Jerusalem (Shlomo Bentin) and established researchers in some area of Cognitive XI - 1999 Gent (André Vandierendonck) Psychology. Such persons would normally have a XII - 2001 Edinburgh (Vicki Bruce & Robert Logie) Ph.D. or equivalent, and recent publications in refereed XIII - 2003 Granada (Teresa Bajo) journals of psychology and cognate subjects. XIV - 2005 Leiden (Bernhard Hommel) Exceptionally, at the discretion of the Committee, persons not fulfilling these criteria may be admitted to About the Society Full membership. Persons having Full membership shall be known as "Full members". ESCoP is a large Society with over 500 members, across a range of European countries and beyond. Associate membership is open to persons in the initial ESCoP's mission is "the furtherance of scientific stages of their research careers and who are active enquiry within the field of Cognitive Psychology and researchers in some area of Cognitive Psychology. related subjects, particularly with respect to Such persons would normally be working on their collaboration and exchange of information between Ph.D. (or equivalent). Associate membership would researchers in different European countries". normally be limited to a maximum of five years. Any extension would be at the discretion of the Committee. Persons having Associate membership shall be known The Society encourages scientific research through the as "Associate members". publication of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. Other forms of communication include less formal newsletters sent to all members, this Retired membership Full members who retire can website, and an electronic mailing list. The Society request a status of retired member. The committee also promotes research through its regular conference defines the modalities under which this status is meetings, has a highly successful program of summer granted. Each year, the committee can elect a few full schools, and provides funding for young researchers members for the status of honorary member. This and activities. It has recently initiated research status can be granted to full members who have been workshops to act as a catalyst for the establishment and officers of the society and have contributed to the networking of research groups in emerging areas of advancement of cognitive psychology in Europe. The cognitive psychology. duration of this status is limited in time. The committee defines the modalities (duration, how many each year, fees, …) under which honorary member status is The Society has a constitution and a committee who granted. oversee the workings of the Society. From relatively 5 CONDENSED SCHEDULE EVENTS Grand Amphi Registration open 11.00-12.30 meeting: Women in Cognitive 10:00 Science. Speaker: Virginia Valian.
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