{"title":"The perception of temporal order can be influenced by retrospective stimulation.","authors":"Fuminori Ono","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02694-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02694-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When judging the order of presentation of the two visual stimuli (targets), if a preceding cue was presented around one of the targets, the target on the cue side was judged to have been given first (the pre-cue effect). In Experiment 1, a cue was presented after the target. As a result, it was found that the target on the cue side was judged to be presented later (post-cue effect). Experiment 2 confirmed the replicability of the post-cue effect by manipulating target-target onset asynchrony. Experiment 3 showed a post-cue effect in simultaneity judgments, demonstrating the robustness of this effect. The post-cue effect demonstrates that the process of judging temporal order or simultaneity is sensitive to stimulation shortly after the task-relevant stimuli, and may suggest that this process relates to the detection of movement direction.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143812131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eye on ambiguity: Effects of valence and valence ambiguity on silent word reading and surprise memory recall using pupillometry.","authors":"Yuen-Lai Chan, Xi Cheng, Chi-Shing Tse","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02685-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02685-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates the impact of valence and valence ambiguity on silent word reading and memory recall using pupillometry. While emotional stimuli are found to influence pupil dilation, there have been mixed findings for the effects of valence in the literature. This study aimed to examine this effect by controlling for extraneous lexical variables (e.g., word and character frequency) and considering valence ambiguity as a distinct factor in linear mixed effects modelling analyses. Native Cantonese-speaking university students (N = 94) engaged in a silent reading task of 90 two-character Chinese words, with their pupillary responses being recorded, followed by a surprise memory recall test. The words varied in valence (negative, neutral, positive) and valence ambiguity (high, low). Analyses revealed that valence ambiguity increased pupil dilation, providing support for the deeper and more elaborated processing associated with words with higher valence ambiguity. While there was no significant effect of valence on pupil dilation, the valence × valence ambiguity interaction showed that negative words with higher ambiguity elicited greater pupil dilation than those with lower ambiguity. Memory recall performance was enhanced by valence ambiguity, independent of word valence, indicating that words with higher valence ambiguity foster more elaborated memory encoding even when it is incidental. These findings further our understanding of pupil dilation in emotional processing during silent word reading and the role of valence ambiguity during memory encoding.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143812127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Item-dependent cues in serial order are tracked by the magnitude (not the presence) of the fill-in tendency.","authors":"Dakota R B Lindsey, Tyler L Harrison","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02684-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02684-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In tasks that measure serial-order memory, it is common to observe a \"fill-in tendency\"-when a person skips an item, the next item they report is more likely to be the skipped item (a fill-in response) than the next list item (an infill response). They tend to \"fill in\" the blank they skipped. The fill-in tendency has informed the modeling of serial-order memory-it presents strong evidence against associative chaining accounts because they predict more infill responses than fill-in responses. Despite the failures of associative chaining theories, evidence grows for the use of chaining-like item-dependent cues in serial-order memory. In this paper, we analyzed fill-in and infill responses from nine serial learning experiments (one new experiment and eight previously published experiments) that used variants of the spin list procedure and found strong evidence of item-dependent retrieval cues in serial-order memory. The current analyses revealed a fill-in tendency in all lists-even in those in which item-dependent cues were suspected to have been used. However, in those lists the likelihood of infill responses was higher, and consequently, the fill-in tendency was weaker. Our results expose a flaw in the conventional understanding of fill-in and infill responses. That is, the presence (or absence) of the fill-in tendency is not a strong test of item-dependent cues. Instead, changes in the magnitude of the fill-in tendency-more specifically, an increase in the likelihood of infill responses-across task conditions seem to better indicate the use of item-dependent cues.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143812130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olmo R van den Akker, Jelte M Wicherts, Linda Dominguez Alvarez, Marjan Bakker, Marcel A L M van Assen
{"title":"Correction: How do psychology researchers interpret the results of multiple replication studies?","authors":"Olmo R van den Akker, Jelte M Wicherts, Linda Dominguez Alvarez, Marjan Bakker, Marcel A L M van Assen","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02687-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02687-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143796047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patrick Louis Rohrer, Ronny Bujok, Lieke van Maastricht, Hans Rutger Bosker
{"title":"From \"I dance\" to \"she danced\" with a flick of the hands: Audiovisual stress perception in Spanish.","authors":"Patrick Louis Rohrer, Ronny Bujok, Lieke van Maastricht, Hans Rutger Bosker","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02683-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02683-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When talking, speakers naturally produce hand movements (co-speech gestures) that contribute to communication. Evidence in Dutch suggests that the timing of simple up-and-down, non-referential \"beat\" gestures influences spoken word recognition: the same auditory stimulus was perceived as CONtent (noun, capitalized letters indicate stressed syllables) when a beat gesture occurred on the first syllable, but as conTENT (adjective) when the gesture occurred on the second syllable. However, these findings were based on a small number of minimal pairs in Dutch, limiting the generalizability of the findings. We therefore tested this effect in Spanish, where lexical stress is highly relevant in the verb conjugation system, distinguishing bailo, \"I dance\" with word-initial stress from bailó, \"she danced\" with word-final stress. Testing a larger sample (N = 100), we also assessed whether individual differences in working memory capacity modulated how much individuals relied on the gestures in spoken word recognition. The results showed that, similar to Dutch, Spanish participants were biased to perceive lexical stress on the syllable that visually co-occurred with a beat gesture, with the effect being strongest when the acoustic stress cues were most ambiguous. No evidence was found for by-participant effect sizes to be influenced by individual differences in phonological or visuospatial working memory. These findings reveal gestural-speech coordination impacts lexical stress perception in a language where listeners are regularly confronted with such lexical stress contrasts, highlighting the impact of gestures' timing on prominence perception and spoken word recognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"People are at least as good at optimizing reward rate under equivalent fixed-trial compared to fixed-time conditions.","authors":"Grant J Taylor, Scott D Brown, Nathan J Evans","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02680-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02680-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Finding an optimal decision-making strategy requires a careful balance between the competing demands of accuracy and urgency. In experimental settings, researchers are typically interested in whether people can optimise this trade-off, typically operationalised as reward rate, with evidence accumulation models serving as the key framework to determine whether people are performing optimally. However, recent studies have suggested that inferences about optimality can be highly dependent on the task design, meaning that inferences about whether people can achieve optimality may not generalise across contexts. Here, we investigate one typically overlooked design factor: whether participants spend a fixed amount of time on each block (fixed time) or have a fixed number of trials in each block (fixed trials). While fixed-time designs are typically thought to be the most appropriate for optimality studies, as to maximise the number of correct responses participants must optimise RR, our Experiments 1 and 2 indicate that people are at least as good at optimising reward rate under fixed-trial designs as fixed-time designs. However, Experiment 3 provides some evidence that fixed-trial designs with no instructions may not be at least as good as fixed-time designs with very specific instructions. Importantly, these findings challenge the idea that fixed-time designs are the most appropriate for reward rate optimality studies, and further emphasise the importance of carefully considering study design factors when making inferences about optimality in decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143780996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ben A Steward, Paige Mewton, Romina Palermo, Amy Dawel
{"title":"Interactions between faces and visual context in emotion perception: A meta-analysis.","authors":"Ben A Steward, Paige Mewton, Romina Palermo, Amy Dawel","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02678-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02678-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Long-standing theories in emotion perception, such as basic emotion theory, argue that we primarily perceive others' emotions through facial expressions. However, compelling evidence shows that other visual contexts, such as body posture or scenes, significantly influence the emotions perceived from faces and vice versa. We used meta-analysis to synthesise and quantify these effects for the first time, testing if faces have primacy over context after accounting for key moderators. Namely, the emotional congruency and clarity of the stimuli. A total of 1,020 effect sizes from 37 articles and 3,198 participants were meta-analysed using three-level mixed-effects models with robust variance estimation. Both visual context and faces were found to have large effects on emotion labelling for the other (g<sub>av</sub> > 1.23). Effects were larger when visual context and faces signalled different (incongruent) rather than the same (congruent) emotions and congruent effects were moderated by how clearly stimuli signalled the target emotion. When these factors were accounted for, faces were no more influential in altering emotion labelling than body postures or body postures with scenes. The findings of this review clearly evidence the integrative nature of emotion perception. Importantly, however, they also highlight that the influence of different emotion signals depends on how clearly they signal an emotion. Future research needs to account for emotional congruency and signal clarity.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143780994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Individual differences do not mask effects of unconscious processing.","authors":"Itay Yaron, Nathan Faivre, Liad Mudrik, Matan Mazor","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02679-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02679-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A wave of criticisms and replication failures is currently challenging claims about the scope of unconscious perception and cognition. Such failures to find unconscious processing effects at the population level may reflect the absence of individual-level effects, or alternatively, the averaging out of individual-level effects with opposing signs. Importantly, only the first suggests that consciousness may be necessary for the tested process to take place. To arbitrate between these two possibilities, we tested previously collected data where unconscious processing effects were not found (26 effects from 470 participants), using five frequentist and Bayesian tests that are robust to individual differences in effect signs. By and large, we found no reliable evidence for unconscious effects being masked by individual differences. In contrast, when we examined 136 non-significant effects from other domains, two novel non-parametric tests did reveal effects that were hidden by opposing individual results, though as we show, some of them might be driven by design-related factors. Taken together, five analysis approaches provide strong evidence for the restricted nature of unconscious processing effects not only across participants, but also across different trials within individuals. We provide analysis code and best-practice recommendations for testing for non-directional effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143700635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategic control finely tunes working memory performance without the benefit of selection history.","authors":"Susan M Ravizza","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02681-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02681-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People can predict the probability of an event occurring and allocate mental resources accordingly. For example, the likelihood of recalling an item from working memory varies as a function of the importance of recalling that item. Strategic control is thought to finely tune working memory performance using probabilistic information, but a possible contribution of automatic processes based on selection history has not been investigated. To determine if graded working memory performance is due to strategic control or selection history, probabilistic information was either blocked (Experiment 1) or changed from trial to trial (Experiment 2). A spatial cue indicated the likelihood (i.e., 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%) that one of two colors would have to be recalled. Attention was directed externally by a pre-cue presented before the memory array or internally by a retro-cue after the memory array. As in previous studies, cue effects increased linearly with greater predictability of the cue in the blocked conditions of Experiment 1. In Experiment 2, this finding was replicated despite a lower contribution from selection history when probability changed from trial to trial. In both experiments, cue effects were similar for the pre-cue and retro-cue conditions. Taken together, these results demonstrate that probability effects on WM performance are due to finely tuned strategic control without a strong contribution from selection history.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-reference promotes vocabulary learning in a foreign language.","authors":"Shimon Pruss, Avi Karni, Anat Prior","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02674-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02674-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Encoding information in reference to the self leads to improved memory, a phenomenon termed the self-reference effect. Learning vocabulary in a foreign language (L2) is a challenging memory task, because learning thousands of words is necessary to achieve listening and reading comprehension. The current study examined the efficacy of self-reference encoding for L2 vocabulary learning. In Experiment 1, native Hebrew speakers learned rare English words with a self-reference task and a control condition of translation repetition. In Experiment 2, participants learned with the same self-reference task and a control task of semantic processing. Across both experiments, memory was higher in the self-reference condition in both an immediate and a delayed test one week later. Thus, self-reference might be adopted as a learning tool in L2 vocabulary learning. Further, we demonstrate the contribution of self-reference to learning new information, going beyond previous demonstration of its positive impact on episodic encoding of known information.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143664388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}