Qingsong Tan, Oudeng Jia, Brian A Anderson, Ke Jia, Mengyuan Gong
{"title":"Reward history alters priority map based on spatial relationship, but not absolute location.","authors":"Qingsong Tan, Oudeng Jia, Brian A Anderson, Ke Jia, Mengyuan Gong","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02682-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02682-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Attention is rapidly directed to stimuli associated with rewards in past experience, independent of current task goals and physical salience of stimuli. However, despite the robust attentional priority given to reward-associated features, studies often indicate negligible priority toward previously rewarded locations. Here, we propose a relational account of value-driven attention, a mechanism that relies on spatial relationship between items to achieve value-guided selections. In three experiments (N = 124), participants were trained to associate specific locations with rewards (e.g., high-reward: top-left; low-reward: top-right). They then performed an orientation-discrimination task where the target's absolute location (top-left or top-right) or spatial relationship (\"left of\" or \"right of\") had previously predicted reward. Performance was superior when the target's spatial relationship matched high-reward than low-reward, irrespective of absolute locations. Conversely, the impact of reward was absent when the target matched the absolute location but not the spatial relationship associated with high reward. Our findings challenge the default assumption of location specificity in value-driven attention, demonstrating a generalizable mechanism that humans adopted to integrate value and spatial information into priority maps for adaptive behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144030814","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}
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":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02697-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","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}
Omid Ghasemi, Onurcan Yilmaz, Ozan Isler, Jenny Terry, Robert M Ross
{"title":"Reflective thinking predicts disbelief in God across 19 countries.","authors":"Omid Ghasemi, Onurcan Yilmaz, Ozan Isler, Jenny Terry, Robert M Ross","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02691-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02691-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the present study, we tested three hypotheses about relationships between reflective thinking, intuitive thinking (both measured using the Cognitive Reflection Test; CRT), and belief in God or gods (BiG) in university students across 19 culturally and geographically diverse countries (n = 7,771). In support of our first hypothesis, we found a negative relationship between reflective thinking and BiG; and in support of our second hypothesis, we found a positive relationship between intuitive thinking and BiG. Contrary to our third hypothesis, we found no evidence that measuring CRT prior to measuring BiG decreased BiG. Given that this is the first large cross-cultural test of these hypotheses to have a preregistered analysis plan, the first to hold education constant across countries, and the first to use both Bayesian and frequentist methods, these results considerably bolster the evidence in support of the first two hypotheses and against the third hypothesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144050719","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":"Temporal associations supporting repetitions in free recall.","authors":"Lynn J Lohnas","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02673-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02673-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present studies use a novel approach to characterize how memory representations are updated with repetition. These studies use the free recall paradigm, which boasts greater memory advantages for spaced repetitions (Melton. Journal of Verbal Learning and Memory, 9, 596-606. 1970; Madigan. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 8, 828-835. 1969). However, a single recall of a twice-presented item precludes inferring whether the item's first or second presentation support its recall. The present studies leverage that, in free recall, transitions reflect stronger associations and are more likely between items studied nearby in time (Healey et al., Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(3), 699-720. 2019). The critical analysis asks which transitions are more likely to a repeated item: temporal neighbors from its first presentation or from its second presentation? Transitions should be equally likely from neighbors of each presentation if the repeated item's presentations are stored independently. Transitions from second-presentation neighbors should be more likely if retrieval of item information from the first presentation strengthens the item representation during the second presentation, or if independent traces benefit from being studied more recently. Alternatively, retrieved context theory assumes that each studied item is associated with a slowly drifting temporal context, and repetition evokes study-phase retrieval of the context state from the first presentation (Howard & Kahana. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 46, 269-299. 2002a; Siegel & Kahana. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(3), 755-764. 2014). This context retrieval should strengthen the repeated item's associations to items with similar temporal contexts from its first presentation. As a result, retrieved context theory predicts more transitions to a repeated item from a first-presentation neighbor. Two studies provide support for the prediction of retrieved context theory, with implications for other theories.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144036638","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":"Correction: Who can strategically modulate mind wandering? A preregistered replication and extension of Seli et al. (2018).","authors":"Matthew S Welhaf, Julie M Bugg, Jonathan B Banks","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02664-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02664-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144046055","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}
Hyoju Kim, Bob McMurray, Eldon Sorensen, Jacob Oleson
{"title":"The consistency of categorization-consistency in speech perception.","authors":"Hyoju Kim, Bob McMurray, Eldon Sorensen, Jacob Oleson","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02700-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02700-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Listeners generally map continuous acoustic information onto categories in a gradient manner with varying individual differences. Typically, such individual differences in speech categorization have been characterized by the mean slope of the response function, as quantified through the visual analog scaling (VAS) task. However, recent evidence suggests that categorization consistency (trial-by-trial response variability) may be a more robust predictor of real-world outcomes than the mean slope. Despite this, the extent to which these VAS indices represent reliable and stable traits relevant to speech perception remains uncertain. This study investigates the stability and trait-like nature of VAS indices by analyzing VAS responses across a diverse range of speech continua. We also examine the potential associations between differences in speech categorization and broader cognitive differences. American English-speaking adults (n = 68) completed the VAS task, alongside three questionnaires assessing autistic traits, anxiety, and impulsivity. We found that categorization consistency showed stronger correlations across continuum types than the categorization slope. Furthermore, no significant correlations were observed between the VAS indices and broader cognitive factors. These results suggest categorization consistency is a more stable property of individuals over the mean slope, and importantly, it is not an artifact due to higher cognitive factors. Thus, the extent to which listeners are consistent in their speech categorization may provide a more accurate characterization of individual differences in speech perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144042149","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":"Examining the impact of attentional focus and partner gaze on interpersonal coordination.","authors":"M C Macpherson, A J Brown, L K Miles","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02695-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02695-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As a foundation of social interaction, interpersonal coordination is boosted in prosocial contexts but undermined by negative situations. Exactly how social factors shape coordination is, however, unknown. Previous literature demonstrates that for coordination to emerge people must attend to their interaction partners. This evidence, however, draws from sterile laboratory studies employing heavy-handed manipulations of little interpersonal relevance. By contrast, in more naturalistic contexts subtle differences in how people attend to themselves and others (e.g., a lingering glance vs. a suspicious side glance) can profoundly change the course of interaction. Understanding how social factors shape interpersonal coordination therefore requires consideration of aspects of attentional behaviour that better characterise everyday interaction. To this end, the current research employed virtual reality (VR) to explore how two core features of social attention, focus (self vs. other) and partner gaze (direct vs. averted), influence the spontaneous coordination of arm and head movements. The results indicated that: (i) coordination was enhanced in the other (cf. self) focus condition; and (ii) coordination was diminished in the averted (cf. direct) gaze condition. These findings provide novel evidence to indicate that the emergence of interpersonal coordination varies as a function of the everyday attentional behaviours that punctuate naturalistic social exchange. Of broad theoretical note, here we demonstrate that the among the factors constraining interpersonal coordination, the distribution of attention between self and other plays a meaningful role.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144009250","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":"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":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02690-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","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":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02688-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","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}
{"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":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02692-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","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":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}