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Willem Jacob Louter

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Open access Sep 2026

Been around the block: The sustained influence of efficacy on cognitive effort allocation over time

Modern accounts of cognitive effort posit that it is actively controlled based on a cost-benefit analysis, integrating (subjective) costs and possible rewards, which is furthermore moderated by efficacy (i.e., whether there is a clear relationship between successful task performance and reward). Although there is...

Willem Jacob Louter, S. T. Steendam, Nicoleta Prutean et al. · BMC Psychology · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Does the animacy effect extend to images? A registered replication report.

Animate entities tend to be remembered better than inanimate objects. Bonin et al. (2014) demonstrated this animacy effect on memory with picture stimuli and as such is often referenced to show that the animacy effect extends beyond verbal stimuli. This registered report intended to replicate this classic and oft-cited...

Willem Jacob Louter, Tanner Tuttle, Elina Guina et al. · Memory · 1 citation