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The bestersell effect: Nuances in positional encoding of morphemes in visual word recognition. 畅销效应：视觉词识别中语素位置编码的细微差别。

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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02693-7

Jasmine Spencer, Hasibe Kahraman, Elisabeth Beyersmann

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Sensorimotor simulation and distributed processing of biological motion: Insights from healthy and paraplegic adults. 感觉运动模拟和生物运动的分布加工：来自健康和截瘫成人的见解。

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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02689-3

Li Shen, Xiaorong Cheng, Zhangjing Ma, Hexing Zhong, Xiaofei Jiao, Ying Wang, Yi Jiang, Zhao Fan, Xianfeng Ding

{"title":"Sensorimotor simulation and distributed processing of biological motion: Insights from healthy and paraplegic adults.","authors":"Li Shen, Xiaorong Cheng, Zhangjing Ma, Hexing Zhong, Xiaofei Jiao, Ying Wang, Yi Jiang, Zhao Fan, Xianfeng Ding","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02689-3","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02689-3","url":null,"abstract":"The processing of biological motion (BM), particularly the local motion cues tracing the movements of crucial joints, is vital for social interaction and human survival. While numerous studies have focused on the brain mechanisms underlying BM processing, the contribution of sensorimotor simulation at peripheral effectors remains unclear. In this study, we examined healthy adults and paraplegic spinal cord injury participants to investigate this issue. For healthy adults, both intact BM stimuli and local BM cues without global configuration induced a temporal dilation effect when sitting (sensorimotor simulation accessible), but not when standing (sensorimotor simulation temporarily hindered). In contrast, for participants with permanently hindered sensorimotor simulation, the temporal dilation effect was observed only with intact BM stimuli but not with local BM cues, indicating a robust reliance on sensorimotor simulation during the processing of local BM cues and a selective compensation based on global configuration cues for the permanent loss of sensorimotor simulation. These findings highlight the role of embodied cognition in the distributed processing of biological motion and suggest the importance of selective compensation under damaged sensorimotor circuits.","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"2285-2295"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144021382","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}

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Complex span and the n-back lack convergent validity as measures of working memory: Reply to Wilhelm et al. (2025). 复杂广度和n-back作为工作记忆的测量缺乏收敛效度：回复Wilhelm等人（2025）。

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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02721-6

Alexander P Burgoyne, David J Frank, Brooke N Macnamara

{"title":"Complex span and the n-back lack convergent validity as measures of working memory: Reply to Wilhelm et al. (2025).","authors":"Alexander P Burgoyne, David J Frank, Brooke N Macnamara","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02721-6","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02721-6","url":null,"abstract":"In our target article, \"Which Working Memory Are We Talking About? N-Back vs. Complex Span Tests,\" we analyzed data from 1,272 participants and demonstrated that complex span and n-back tasks lack convergent validity as measures of working memory. Evidence for their dissociation included 1) exploratory factor analyses revealing two distinct factors with near-zero cross-loadings, 2) confirmatory factor analyses showing these factors share one-fifth of their reliable variance, and 3) both factors correlating more strongly with fluid intelligence than with each other. Structural equation modeling demonstrated that n-back and complex span factors each explained significant unique variance in fluid intelligence (24% and 14% respectively), beyond their jointly explained variance (30%). These findings align with previous meta-analytic results and support a theoretical framework where complex span tasks emphasize information maintenance while n-back tasks require rapid disengagement from outdated information. Our analyses extended beyond method-specific effects by replicating these results at the broader construct level with additional measures of updating and working memory capacity. In their commentary, Wilhelm et al.'s alternative single-factor model suggests a near-perfect association between working memory and fluid intelligence (β = .97). Their model relies on inconsistently applied correlated error terms selected through a data-driven approach. Notably, modification indices suggest improvements to their model that would bring it closer to our two-factor structure, consisting of clusters of measures representing working memory capacity on one hand and updating on the other. Recognizing these distinctions advances our understanding of cognitive abilities and helps avoid the jingle fallacy.","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"2424-2429"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144497941","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}

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Perceptual discrimination learning in children with and without autism: The effect of feedback, modality, and progressive-learning. 自闭症儿童和非自闭症儿童的知觉辨别学习：反馈、模态和渐进式学习的影响。

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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02688-4

Barbara A Church, Jonathan D Rodgers, Brooke N Jackson, Matthew G Wisniewski, Stacy Moppert, Christopher Lopata, Marcus L Thomeer, Eduardo Mercado

{"title":"Perceptual discrimination learning in children with and without autism: The effect of feedback, modality, and progressive-learning.","authors":"Barbara A Church, Jonathan D Rodgers, Brooke N Jackson, Matthew G Wisniewski, Stacy Moppert, Christopher Lopata, Marcus L Thomeer, Eduardo Mercado","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02688-4","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02688-4","url":null,"abstract":"Research suggests autistic children learn and generalize visual family-resemblance categories atypically (e.g., Church, et al., 2010, 2015), particularly when learning incidentally from exposure. This may reflect differences in perceptual learning (Mercado et al., 2020). However, it is unknown whether perceptual discrimination learning is also atypical and if differences extend to other modalities. To address this, autistic children with normal language abilities and IQ and typically developing (TD) matched comparison children completed auditory and visual discrimination tasks, after either incidental exposure to or direct training with stimuli presented in either progressive (easy-to-hard) or random orders of difficulty. In the visual task, both autistic and TD children only performed well after progressive training, suggesting limited perceptual learning from incidental visual exposure. In the auditory task, autistic children showed a progressive learning advantage after both exposure and training, but TD children only showed this advantage after training. They also had significantly better auditory discrimination than TD children after progressive training. These findings suggest typical visual discrimination learning after progressive training and enhanced auditory discrimination learning after progressive training and exposure. This enhanced auditory perceptual learning may help explain why these autistic children are socially impaired while retaining the capacity to learn language.","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"2175-2188"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143977045","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}

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Bears don't always mess with beers: Limits on generalization of statistical learning in speech. 熊并不总是和啤酒混在一起：语音统计学习泛化的限制。

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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02690-w

Timothy K Murphy, Nazbanou Nozari, Lori L Holt

{"title":"Bears don't always mess with beers: Limits on generalization of statistical learning in speech.","authors":"Timothy K Murphy, Nazbanou Nozari, Lori L Holt","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02690-w","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02690-w","url":null,"abstract":"Perception changes rapidly and implicitly as a function of passive exposure to speech that samples different acoustic distributions. Past research has shown that this statistical learning generalizes across talkers and, to some extent, new items, but these studies involved listeners' active engagement in processing statistics-bearing stimuli. In this study, we manipulated the relationship between voice onset time (VOT) and fundamental frequency (F0) to establish distributional regularities either aligned with American English or reversed to create a subtle foreign accent. We then tested whether statistical learning across passive exposure to these distributions generalized to new items never experienced in the accent. Experiment 1 showed statistical learning across passive exposure but no generalization of learning when exposure and test items shared the same initial consonant but differed in vowels (bear/pear → beer/pier) or when they differed in initial consonant but shared distributional regularities across VOT and F0 dimensions (deer/tear → beer/pier). Experiment 2 showed generalization to stimuli that shared the statistics-bearing phoneme (bear/pear → beer/pier), but only when the response set included tokens from both exposure and generalization stimuli. Moreover, statistical learning transferred to influence the subtle acoustics of listeners' own speech productions but did not generalize to influence productions of stimuli not heard in the accent. In sum, passive exposure is thus sufficient to support statistical learning and its generalization, but task demands modulate this dynamic. Moreover, production does not simply mirror perception: generalization in perception was not accompanied by transfer to production.","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"2189-2200"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12425842/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143980326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cross-language phonological activation in bilingual visual word recognition: A meta-analysis. 双语视觉词识别中的跨语言语音激活：一项元分析。

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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02692-8

Nan Zhang, Zhiyi Wu, Min Wang

{"title":"Cross-language phonological activation in bilingual visual word recognition: A meta-analysis.","authors":"Nan Zhang, Zhiyi Wu, Min Wang","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02692-8","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02692-8","url":null,"abstract":"Numerous studies have investigated whether phonological activation in the bilingual lexicon is selective or non-selective, using the classic masked priming paradigm that manipulates the phonological relatedness between primes and targets across two languages. The priming effects, however, are mixed: some studies reported reduced reaction times due to the homophone primes, while others observed non-significant priming. In this meta-analysis, we sought to systematically examine whether there is indeed cross-language phonological priming and to identify the factors that may moderate its magnitude. Analyzing 75 effects from 23 articles, we observed a significant, facilitative phonological priming effect (standardized mean difference Hedge's g = 0.45, SE = 0.07, p <.0001, 95% CI = [0.32, 0.58]), hence supporting the hypothesis of non-selective activation. The moderators examined included priming direction (L1-to-L2 vs. L2-to-L1), task type (lexical decision vs. word naming), script distance (within- vs. cross-script), stimulus-onset-asynchrony (SOA), inter-stimulus interval (ISI), number of participants, as well as number of items per condition. Results revealed a significant effect of task type in cross-script studies. Specifically, the word-naming task produces a smaller priming effect than the lexical decision task. Moreover, the priming effect increases as the number of items in a condition increases. These results collectively suggested that phonological activation in the bilingual lexicon is nonselective, and the effect size is dependent upon task demands and statistical power, essential to a dual-language setting and in cross-language studies.","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"2059-2089"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12426078/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144030675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The superiority of graphics over text in long-term memory retention. 图形在长期记忆中的优势。

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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02708-3

Lorenzo Ciccione, Denis Caroti, Syalie Liu, Valeria Giardino, Elena Pasquinelli, Stanislas Dehaene

{"title":"The superiority of graphics over text in long-term memory retention.","authors":"Lorenzo Ciccione, Denis Caroti, Syalie Liu, Valeria Giardino, Elena Pasquinelli, Stanislas Dehaene","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02708-3","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02708-3","url":null,"abstract":"Graphical representations of data are pervasive in modern communication and are often used to convey socio-economic, scientific, and medical information. Despite their popularity, it is still unknown whether they can enhance the long-term retention of their content. We conducted a delayed-recall task with psychology undergraduates (N = 92), in which participants read about the evolution of a socio-economic phenomenon, with five to six datapoints presented as graphics, text, or table; recall was operationalized as correct reporting of the trend in the data, 2 h after the information was presented. We found that graphics facilitated the delayed recall of such trends. No advantage was found on immediate recall of trends or specific datapoints in another sample of participants (N = 80). Thus, even for equal initial encoding of data, and even for very concise materials, graphics facilitate long-term retention. Overall, the study reveals the potential of graphics as effective tools for enhancing memory retention and therefore highlights their valuable role in educational settings.","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"2322-2330"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144042830","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}

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An embedded computational framework of memory: The critical role of representations in veridical and false recall predictions. 记忆的嵌入式计算框架：表征在真实和错误回忆预测中的关键作用。

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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02669-7

Dominic Guitard, Jean Saint-Aubin, J Nick Reid, Randall K Jamieson

{"title":"An embedded computational framework of memory: The critical role of representations in veridical and false recall predictions.","authors":"Dominic Guitard, Jean Saint-Aubin, J Nick Reid, Randall K Jamieson","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02669-7","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02669-7","url":null,"abstract":"Human memory is reconstructive and thus fundamentally imperfect. One of its critical flaws is false recall-the erroneous recollection of unstudied items. Despite its significant implications, false recall poses a challenge for existing computational models of serial recall, which struggle to provide item-specific predictions. Across six experiments, each involving 100 young adults, we address this issue using the Embedded Computational Framework of Memory (eCFM) that integrates existing accounts of semantic and episodic memory. While the framework provides a comprehensive account of memory processing, its innovation lies in the inclusion of a comprehensive lexicon of word knowledge derived from distributional semantic models. By integrating a lexicon that captures orthographic, phonological, and semantic relationships within an episodic memory model, the eCFM successfully accounts for patterns of veridical serial recall (e.g., proportion correct, intralist errors, omissions) while also capturing false recall (e.g., extralist errors including both critical lures and non-critical lures). We demonstrate the model's capabilities through simulations applied to six experiments, with lists of words (Experiments 1A, 1B, 2A, and 2B) and non-words (Experiments 3A and 3B) that are either related or unrelated semantically (Experiments 1A and 1B), phonologically (Experiments 2A and 2B), or orthographically (Experiments 3A and 3B). This approach fills a computational gap in modelling serial recall and underscores the importance of integrating traditionally separate areas of semantic and episodic memory to provide more precise predictions and holistic memory models.","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"2004-2058"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12425862/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144046052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Strategic control finely tunes working memory performance without the benefit of selection history. 策略控制在没有选择历史的情况下精细地调整工作记忆的表现。

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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02681-x

Susan M Ravizza

{"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":"10.3758/s13423-025-02681-x","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"2114-2123"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","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}

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Variations in unisensory speech perception explain interindividual differences in McGurk illusion susceptibility. 异感言语知觉的变化解释了McGurk错觉易感性的个体间差异。

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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-025-02697-3

Chenjie Dong, Zhengye Wang, Ruqin Li, Uta Noppeney, Suiping Wang

{"title":"Variations in unisensory speech perception explain interindividual differences in McGurk illusion susceptibility.","authors":"Chenjie Dong, Zhengye Wang, Ruqin Li, Uta Noppeney, Suiping Wang","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02697-3","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02697-3","url":null,"abstract":"Face-to-face communication relies on integrating acoustic speech signals with corresponding facial articulations. Audiovisual integration abilities or deficits in typical and atypical populations are often assessed through their susceptibility to the McGurk illusion (i.e., their McGurk illusion rates). According to theories of normative Bayesian causal inference, observers integrate a visual /ga/ viseme and an auditory /ba/ phoneme weighted by their relative phonemic reliabilities into an illusory \"da\" percept. Consequently, McGurk illusion rates should be strongly influenced by observers' categorical perception of the corresponding facial articulatory movements and the acoustic signals. Across three experiments we investigated the extent to which variability in the McGurk illusion rate across participants or stimuli (i.e., speakers) can be explained by the corresponding variations in the categorical perception of the unisensory auditory and visual components. Additionally, we investigated whether the McGurk illusion susceptibility is a stable trait across different testing sessions (i.e., days) and tasks. Consistent with the principles of Bayesian Causal Inference, our results demonstrate that observers' tendency to (mis)perceive the auditory /ba/ and the visual /ga/ stimuli as \"da\" in unisensory contexts strongly predicts their McGurk illusion rates across both speakers and participants. Likewise, the stability in the McGurk illusion across sessions and tasks arises closely aligned with the corresponding stability of the unisensory auditory and visual categorical perception. Collectively, these findings highlight the importance of accounting for variations in unisensory performance and variability of materials (e.g., speakers) when using audiovisual illusions to assess audiovisual integration capability.","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"2230-2245"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143980327","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}

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