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Vernacular cinema, self-concept and the perceptual–conceptual shift: exploring conversations between film education and developmental psychology (2023)
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Chambers, J., Munro, R., Ross, J., & Wimmer, M. (2023). Vernacular cinema, self-concept and the perceptual–conceptual shift: exploring conversations between film education and developmental psychology. Film Education Journal, 6(2), 82-100. https://doi.org/10.14324/fej.06.2.02

Co-authored by film education practitioners and developmental psychologists, this article seeks to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue between the emergent discourses of film education and developmental psychology. In particular, it explores the... Read More about Vernacular cinema, self-concept and the perceptual–conceptual shift: exploring conversations between film education and developmental psychology.

“I can’t skip it”: does free report improve accuracy in false memories? (2021)
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Wimmer, M. C., Whalley, B., & Hollins, T. J. (2021). “I can’t skip it”: does free report improve accuracy in false memories?. Memory, 29(3), 353-361. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1895223

Strategic monitoring of recognition memory by children and adults was examined using a semantic DRM procedure. Children (7- and 10-year-olds) and adults (overall N = 393) studied lists of semantically related words either incidentally or intentionall... Read More about “I can’t skip it”: does free report improve accuracy in false memories?.

Piecing together the puzzle of pictorial representation: How jigsaw puzzles index metacognitive development (2020)
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Doherty, M. J., Wimmer, M. C., Gollek, C., Stone, C., & Robinson, E. J. (2021). Piecing together the puzzle of pictorial representation: How jigsaw puzzles index metacognitive development. Child Development, 92(1), 205-221. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13391

Jigsaw puzzles are ubiquitous developmental toys in Western societies, used here to examine the development of metarepresentation. For jigsaw puzzles this entails understanding that individual pieces, when assembled, produce a picture. In Experiment... Read More about Piecing together the puzzle of pictorial representation: How jigsaw puzzles index metacognitive development.

Item repetition and response deadline affect familiarity and recollection differently across childhood (2020)
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Koenig, L., Wimmer, M. C., & Trippas, D. (2020). Item repetition and response deadline affect familiarity and recollection differently across childhood. Memory, 28(7), https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1790612

The aim was to examine how item repetition at encoding and response deadline at retrieval affect familiarity and recollection in 5-, 7-, or 11-year-old children (N= 156). Familiarity and recollection were estimated using a process dissociation paradi... Read More about Item repetition and response deadline affect familiarity and recollection differently across childhood.

Bilinguals’ inhibitory control and attentional processes in a visual perceptual task (2020)
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Wimmer, M. C., Marx, C., Stirk, S., & Hancock, P. J. (2021). Bilinguals’ inhibitory control and attentional processes in a visual perceptual task. Psychological Research, 85, 1439-1448. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01333-0

The aim was to examine theories of bilingual inhibitory control superiority in the visual domain. In an ambiguous figure task the ability to reverse (switch) interpretations (e.g., duckrabbit) was examined in 3-5-year-old bilinguals and monolinguals... Read More about Bilinguals’ inhibitory control and attentional processes in a visual perceptual task.

Is the letter cancellation task a suitable index of ego-depletion? Empirical and conceptual issues (2019)
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Wimmer, M. C., Dome, L., Hancock, P. J., & Wennekers, T. (2019). Is the letter cancellation task a suitable index of ego-depletion? Empirical and conceptual issues. Social Psychology, 50, 345-354. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000393

The aim was to quantify ego depletion and measure its effect on inhibitory control. Adults (N = 523) received the letter “e” cancellation ego depletion task and were subsequently tested on Stroop task performance. Difficulty of the cancellation task... Read More about Is the letter cancellation task a suitable index of ego-depletion? Empirical and conceptual issues.

Children’s perception of visual and auditory ambiguity and its link to executive functions and creativity (2019)
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Taranu, M., Wimmer, M. C., Ross, J., Farkas, D., van Ee, R., Winkler, I., & Denham, S. L. (2019). Children’s perception of visual and auditory ambiguity and its link to executive functions and creativity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 184, 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.03.010

The phenomenon of perceptual bistability provides insights into aspects of perceptual processing not normally accessible to everyday experience. However, most experiments have been conducted in adults, and it is not clear to what extent key aspects o... Read More about Children’s perception of visual and auditory ambiguity and its link to executive functions and creativity.

Similar but separate systems underlie perceptual bistability in vision and audition (2018)
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Denham, S. L., Farkas, D., van Ee, R., Taranu, M., Kocsis, Z., Wimmer, M., Carmel, D., & Winkler, I. (2018). Similar but separate systems underlie perceptual bistability in vision and audition. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 7106 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25587-2

The dynamics of perceptual bistability, the phenomenon in which perception switches between different interpretations of an unchanging stimulus, are characterised by very similar properties across a wide range of qualitatively different paradigms. Th... Read More about Similar but separate systems underlie perceptual bistability in vision and audition.

Ego depletion in visual perception: Ego-depleted viewers experience less ambiguous figure reversal. (2017)
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Wimmer, M. C., Stirk, S., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2017). Ego depletion in visual perception: Ego-depleted viewers experience less ambiguous figure reversal. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24, 1620-1626. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1247-2

This study examined the effects of ego depletion on ambiguous figure perception. Adults (N = 315) received an ego depletion task and were subsequently tested on their inhibitory control abilities that were indexed by the Stroop task (Experiment 1) an... Read More about Ego depletion in visual perception: Ego-depleted viewers experience less ambiguous figure reversal..

Are developments in mental scanning and mental rotation related? (2017)
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Wimmer, M. C., Robinson, E. J., & Doherty, M. J. (2017). Are developments in mental scanning and mental rotation related?. PLOS ONE, 12, Article e0171762. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171762

The development and relation of mental scanning and mental rotation were examined in 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-year old children and adults (N = 102). Based on previous findings from adults and ageing populations, the key question was whether they develop as a... Read More about Are developments in mental scanning and mental rotation related?.

The format of children's mental images: Evidence from mental scanning. (2016)
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Wimmer, M. C., Maras, K. L., Robinson, E. J., & Thomas, C. (2016). The format of children's mental images: Evidence from mental scanning. Cognition, 154, 49-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.05.017

This study examined the development and format of children's mental images. Children (4-, 5-, 6-7-, 8-9-, and 11-year-olds) and adults (N=282) viewed a map of a fictitious island containing various landmarks and two misleading signposts, indicating t... Read More about The format of children's mental images: Evidence from mental scanning..

The format of children’s mental images: Penetrability of spatial images (2016)
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Wimmer, M. C., Maras, K. L., Robinson, E. J., & Thomas, C. (2016). The format of children’s mental images: Penetrability of spatial images. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 13(5), 582-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2015.1132623

To investigate the format of mental images and the penetrability of mental imagery performance to top-down influences in the form of gravity information, children (4-, 6-, 8- and 10-year-olds) and adults (N = 112) performed mental rotation tasks. A l... Read More about The format of children’s mental images: Penetrability of spatial images.

How Visuo-Spatial Mental Imagery Develops: Image Generation and Maintenance (2015)
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Wimmer, M. C., Maras, K. L., Robinson, E. J., Doherty, M. J., & Pugeault, N. (2015). How Visuo-Spatial Mental Imagery Develops: Image Generation and Maintenance. PLOS ONE, 10, e0142566--e0142566. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142566

Two experiments examined the nature of visuo-spatial mental imagery generation and maintenance in 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-year old children and adults (N = 211). The key questions were how image generation and maintenance develop (Experiment 1) and how accura... Read More about How Visuo-Spatial Mental Imagery Develops: Image Generation and Maintenance.

Process dissociation of familiarity and recollection in children: Response deadline affects recollection but not familiarity (2014)
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Koenig, L., Wimmer, M. C., & Hollins, T. J. (2015). Process dissociation of familiarity and recollection in children: Response deadline affects recollection but not familiarity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 131, 120-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.11.003

According to dual-process theories, recollection (slow and associated with contextual details) and familiarity (fast and automatic) are two independent processes underlying recognition memory. An adapted version of the process dissociation paradigm w... Read More about Process dissociation of familiarity and recollection in children: Response deadline affects recollection but not familiarity.

Getting the Picture: Iconicity Does Not Affect Representation-Referent Confusion (2014)
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Wimmer, M. C., Robinson, E. J., Koenig, L., & Corder, E. (2014). Getting the Picture: Iconicity Does Not Affect Representation-Referent Confusion. PLOS ONE, 9, e107910--e107910. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107910

Three experiments examined 3- to 5-year-olds' (N = 428) understanding of the relationship between pictorial iconicity (photograph, colored drawing, schematic drawing) and the real world referent. Experiments 1 and 2 explored pictorial iconicity in pi... Read More about Getting the Picture: Iconicity Does Not Affect Representation-Referent Confusion.

Mental imagery scanning in autism spectrum disorder (2014)
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Maras, K. L., Wimmer, M. C., Robinson, E. J., & Bowler, D. M. (2014). Mental imagery scanning in autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 8(10), 1416-1423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2014.07.003

Navigational impairments have previously been reported in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The present study examined the ability of individuals with ASD to generate and scan their mental image of a previously viewed map. Twenty-one ASD adults and 20... Read More about Mental imagery scanning in autism spectrum disorder.

Inhibitory processes in visual perception: A bilingual advantage (2014)
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Wimmer, M. C., & Marx, C. (2014). Inhibitory processes in visual perception: A bilingual advantage. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 126, 412-419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.03.004

Bilingual inhibitory control advantages are well established. An open question is whether inhibitory superiority also extends to visual perceptual phenomena that involve inhibitory processes. This research used ambiguous figures to assess inhibitory... Read More about Inhibitory processes in visual perception: A bilingual advantage.

The development of ambiguous figure perception (2011)
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Wimmer, M. C., & Doherty, M. J. (2011). The development of ambiguous figure perception. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 76(1), 1-130

Ambiguous figures have fascinated researchers for almost 200 years. The physical properties of these figures remain constant, yet two distinct interpretations are possible; these reverse (switch) from one percept to the other. The consensus is that r... Read More about The development of ambiguous figure perception.

The development of automatic and controlled inhibitory retrieval processes in true and false recall (2011)
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Knott, L. M., Howe, M. L., Wimmer, M. C., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2011). The development of automatic and controlled inhibitory retrieval processes in true and false recall. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109(1), 91-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2011.01.001

In three experiments, we investigated the role of automatic and controlled inhibitory retrieval processes in true and false memory development in children and adults. Experiment 1 incorporated a directed forgetting task to examine controlled retrieva... Read More about The development of automatic and controlled inhibitory retrieval processes in true and false recall.

Children with autism's perception and understanding of ambiguous figures: Evidence for pictorial metarepresentation, a research note (2010)
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Wimmer, M. C., & Doherty, M. J. (2010). Children with autism's perception and understanding of ambiguous figures: Evidence for pictorial metarepresentation, a research note. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28(3), 627-641. https://doi.org/10.1348/026151009X465362

A large body of autism research over the last 20 years has shown that people with autism have difficulties understanding mental states. This has been conceived of as a metarepresentational deficit. An open question is whether people with autism's met... Read More about Children with autism's perception and understanding of ambiguous figures: Evidence for pictorial metarepresentation, a research note.