Editorial: How do Abstract Representations Enable Transfer?

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Longman C. S. Milton F. Wills A. J. (2024). Transfer of strategic task components across unique tasks that share some common structures. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(10), 2000–2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231221046

Longman C. S. Milton F. Wills A. J. Verbruggen F. (2018). Transfer of learned category-response associations is modulated by instruction. Acta Psychologica, 184, 144–167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.04.004

Longman C. S. Pfeuffer C. U. P. Kiesel A. (2025). Are the automatic effects of instructions modulated by instructed, context-specific strategic control? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251360669

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Nemeth M. Geißler C. F. Schmalbrock P. Frings C. Moeller B. (2025). Binding effects occur even shortly after integration: Implications on the retrieval process in action control. Quarterly journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251362823

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Rennie J. Astle D. (2025). Up, down, and all around? Deciphering the boundary conditions for training induced transfer effects within a set of hierarchically nested tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251334370

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Siqi-Liu A. Longman C. S. Egner T. (2025). Domain-specific cognitive flexibility: Shift-readiness adaptations for task- and attention-switching are non-transferrable. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251352839

Snoddy S. Kurtz K. J. (2024). Spontaneous transfer of relational category structures between category learning tasks: A novel approach to measuring analogical transfer. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241301319

Trench M. Frontera L. M. Rivas L. E. (2025). Deliberate search for analogous cases aids the retrieval and transfer of suboptimally-encoded memory items. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241311203

Yamaguchi M. (2025). Transfer asymmetry: Tversky’s contrast model of similarity for human perceptual-motor learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251324185