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Wise Up: Clarifying the Role of Metacognition in the Dunning-Kruger Effect by McIntosh, Robert D, Fowler, Elizabeth A, Lyu, Tianjiao, Della Sala, Sergio

“…The Dunning-Kruger effect (DKE) is the finding that, across a wide range of tasks, poor performers greatly overestimate their ability, whereas top performers…”
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Boosting long-term memory via wakeful rest: intentional rehearsal is not necessary, consolidation is sufficient by Dewar, Michaela, Alber, Jessica, Cowan, Nelson, Della Sala, Sergio

“…People perform better on tests of delayed free recall if learning is followed immediately by a short wakeful rest than by a short period of sensory…”
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Brief Wakeful Resting Boosts New Memories Over the Long Term by Dewar, Michaela, Alber, Jessica, Butler, Christopher, Cowan, Nelson, Sala, Sergio Della

“…A brief wakeful rest after new verbal learning enhances memory for several minutes. In the research reported here, we explored the possibility of extending…”
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Autobiographical thinking interferes with episodic memory consolidation by Craig, Michael, Della Sala, Sergio, Dewar, Michaela

“…New episodic memories are retained better if learning is followed by a few minutes of wakeful rest than by the encoding of novel external information. Novel…”
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Short-term memory binding deficits in Alzheimer's disease by Parra, Mario A., Abrahams, Sharon, Fabi, Katia, Logie, Robert, Luzzi, Simona, Sala, Sergio Della

“…Alzheimer's disease impairs long term memories for related events (e.g. faces with names) more than for single events (e.g. list of faces or names). Whether or…”
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Accelerated long-term forgetting in transient epileptic amnesia: An acquisition or consolidation deficit? by Hoefeijzers, Serge, Dewar, Michaela, Della Sala, Sergio, Zeman, Adam, Butler, Christopher

“…Accelerated Long-term Forgetting (ALF) is the rapid loss of newly acquired memories over days to weeks despite normal retention at standard (~30min) intervals…”
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Low and high imagers activate networks differentially in mental rotation by Logie, Robert H., Pernet, Cyril R., Buonocore, Antimo, Sala, Sergio Della

“…► Novel findings regarding the mental imagery debate. ► New insights into the neuroanatomical correlates of mental rotation. ► Poor and good mental imagers…”
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Cognitive Advantage in Bilingualism: An Example of Publication Bias? by de Bruin, Angela, Treccani, Barbara, Sala, Sergio Della

“…It is a widely held belief that bilinguals have an advantage over monolinguals in executive-control tasks, but is this what all studies actually demonstrate?…”
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Misinformation lingers in memory: Failure of three pro-vaccination strategies by Pluviano, Sara, Watt, Caroline, Della Sala, Sergio

“…People's inability to update their memories in light of corrective information may have important public health consequences, as in the case of vaccination…”
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Effect of age on dual-task performance in children and adults by Anderson, Mike, Bucks, Romola S., Bayliss, Donna M., Della Sala, Sergio

“…Age effects on dual-task costs were examined in healthy adults (Exp. 1 ) and in typically developing children (Exp. 2 ). In both experiments, individual…”
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Politics dictating on science is like a gunshot in a concert by Della Sala, Sergio

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Rate of forgetting is independent of initial degree of learning by Rivera-Lares, Karim, Logie, Robert, Baddeley, Alan, Della Sala, Sergio

“…It is commonly assumed that the rate of forgetting depends on initial degree of learning. Hence, comparison of forgetting across groups is usually carried out…”
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Concurrent performance of two memory tasks: Evidence for domain-specific working memory systems by COCCHINI, Gianna, LOGIE, Robert H, DELLA SALA, Sergio, MACPHERSON, Sarah E, BADDELEY, Alan D

“…Previous studies of dual-task coordination in working memory have shown a lack of dual-task interference when a verbal memory task is combined with concurrent…”
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Spatial transformation in mental rotation tasks in aphantasia by Zhao, Binglei, Della Sala, Sergio, Zeman, Adam, Gherri, Elena

“…Aphantasia refers to the inability to summon images to one’s own mind’s eye, resulting in selective deficits of voluntary object imagery. In the present study,…”
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Cognitive Approach to the Assessment of Limb Apraxia by Bartolo, Angela, Cubelli, Roberto, Sala, Sergio Della

“…A new instrument for the assessment of the different levels of gesture processing, as identified by recent cognitive models of apraxia, is presented. The…”
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Verbal recall in amnesiacs under conditions of diminished retroactive interference by Cowan, Nelson, Beschin, Nicoletta, Della Sala, Sergio

“…In amnesiacs, stimuli that at first can be recalled are usually forgotten within 1 min, but the conditions required for this severe forgetting have remained…”
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The selective disruption of spatial working memory by eye movements by Postle, Bradley R., Idzikowski, Christopher, Sala, Sergio Della, Logie, Robert H., Baddeley †, Alan D.

“…In the late 1970s/early 1980s, Baddeley and colleagues conducted a series of experiments investigating the role of eye movements in visual working memory…”
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Forgetting rates of gist and peripheral episodic details in prose recall by Sacripante, Riccardo, Logie, Robert H., Baddeley, Alan, Della Sala, Sergio

“…In a seminal study, Slamecka and McElree showed that the degree of initial learning of verbal material affected the intercepts but not the slopes of forgetting…”
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Effect of test instructions: The example of the pantomime production task by Bartolo, Angela, Della Sala, Sergio, Cubelli, Roberto

“…•Different test instructions result in different responses.•Pantomime performances vary if instructions refer to objects' name or function.•Naming objects’…”
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Age-Associated Delay in Mental Rotation by Zhao, Binglei, Della Sala, Sergio, Gherri, Elena

“…Age-associated slowing in mental rotation (MR) process has been documented in the literature. Particularly, the intercept of the response times function of…”
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