{"title":"No evidence that selection is resource-demanding in conflict and bilingual language production tasks: Implications for theories of adaptive control and language-control associations.","authors":"Giacomo Spinelli, Simone Sulpizio","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02672-y","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02672-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Theories of adaptive (and cognitive) control assume that selecting target information in the context of highly salient distractors depends on limited-capacity resources. Building on this assumption, theories of language-control associations propose that the opportunities afforded by bilingualism to engage such effortful selection, such as when speaking in a nondominant language, might improve domain-general adaptive control. The assumption that domain-general or language-specific selection is resource-demanding, however, has surprisingly little empirical support. Here, we tested that assumption by having unbalanced Italian-English bilinguals perform both an L1 Stroop task and an L2 picture-naming task simultaneously with an n-back task. Both tasks showed costs due to the load produced by the n-back task and distractor interference, with slower responses to incongruent (the word GREEN in the color red) and congruent stimuli (RED in red) than neutral ones (XXX in red) in the L1 Stroop task and to noncognate than cognate pictures (pictures with different/similar L1 and L2 names) in the L2 picture-naming task. However, neither task showed larger distractor interference with greater load, with Bayesian analyses favoring the absence of such interactions. These results suggest that domain-general and language-specific selection may occur reactively, i.e., only when the need arises, with no strong reliance on limited-capacity resources. Further, they invite a rethinking of both adaptive-control theories assuming resource-demanding selection and theories of language-control associations assuming that regularly engaging such selection would be conducive to domain-general benefits.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"1901-1914"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12325562/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143586484","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}
{"title":"Fast reasoning and metacognition.","authors":"Valerie A Thompson, Henry Markovits","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02662-0","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02662-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research has demonstrated that reasoners' Feeling of Rightness (FOR) for a quick, intuitive responses predicts the amount of analytic thinking they give to slower, more considered responses operationalized in terms of the length of thinking time and the probability of answer changes (Thompson et al., Cognitive Psychology, 63 (3), 107-140, 2011). In this experiment, we tested the novel hypothesis that FORs can also signal the direction in which answers will change when participants reason about a sequence of similar inferences. 289 participants responded to two blocks of belief-logic conflict syllogisms, with the first under an initial time constraint and the second in a no-constraint condition. Of particular interest were those participants who gave a mixed pattern of validity- and belief-based responses under time constraints, because they had the opportunity to shift their responses towards either belief-based or validity-based responses in the unconstrained condition. Consistent with our hypothesis, reasoners giving low FORs to their belief-based responses shifted their responses towards validity-based ones in the unconstrained condition, whereas those giving high FORs shifted towards belief-based responses. Thus, intuitive FORs generated during a sequence of inferential problems predicted both the probability and direction of answer change.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"1915-1921"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143597807","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":"Do we feel colours? A systematic review of 128 years of psychological research linking colours and emotions.","authors":"Domicele Jonauskaite, Christine Mohr","doi":"10.3758/s13423-024-02615-z","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-024-02615-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Colour is an integral part of natural and constructed environments. For many, it also has an aesthetic appeal, with some colours being more pleasant than others. Moreover, humans seem to systematically and reliably associate colours with emotions, such as yellow with joy, black with sadness, light colours with positive and dark colours with negative emotions. To systematise such colour-emotion correspondences, we identified 132 relevant peer-reviewed articles published in English between 1895 and 2022. These articles covered a total of 42,266 participants from 64 different countries. We found that all basic colour categories had systematic correspondences with affective dimensions (valence, arousal, power) as well as with discrete affective terms (e.g., love, happy, sad, bored). Most correspondences were many-to-many, with systematic effects driven by lightness, saturation, and hue ('colour temperature'). More specifically, (i) LIGHT and DARK colours were associated with positive and negative emotions, respectively; (ii) RED with empowering, high arousal positive and negative emotions; (iii) YELLOW and ORANGE with positive, high arousal emotions; (iv) BLUE, GREEN, GREEN-BLUE, and WHITE with positive, low arousal emotions; (v) PINK with positive emotions; (vi) PURPLE with empowering emotions; (vii) GREY with negative, low arousal emotions; and (viii) BLACK with negative, high arousal emotions. Shared communication needs might explain these consistencies across studies, making colour an excellent medium for communication of emotion. As most colour-emotion correspondences were tested on an abstract level (i.e., associations), it remains to be seen whether such correspondences translate to the impact of colour on experienced emotions and specific contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"1457-1486"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12325498/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142979847","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}
{"title":"Rhythmic beta-frequency TMS over human right parietal cortex strengthens visual size illusions.","authors":"Xue Han, Chao Wang, Lihong Chen","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02649-x","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02649-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rhythmic brain activity has been proposed to structure visual processing. Here we investigated the causal contributions of parietal beta oscillations to context-dependent visual size perception, which is indicated by the classic Ebbinghaus and Ponzo illusions. On each trial, rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was applied over the left or right superior parietal lobule in a train of five pulses at beta frequency (20 Hz). Immediately after the last pulse of the stimulation train, participants were presented with the illusory configuration, and performed a size-matching task. The results revealed that right parietal stimulation significantly increased the magnitudes of both size illusions relative to control vertex stimulation, whereas the illusion effects were unaffected with left parietal stimulation. Moreover, the stimulation effect was not observed with right parietal TMS at theta frequency (5 Hz). The findings clearly demonstrate the functional relevance of beta oscillations for the implementation of cognitive performance, supporting the causal contribution of parietal cortex to the processing of visual size illusions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"1631-1638"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12325394/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365728","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}
Daniele Gatti, Marco Petilli, Michela Marchetti, Tomaso Vecchi, Giuliana Mazzoni, Luca Rinaldi, Marco Marelli
{"title":"False memories from nowhere: Humans falsely recognize words that are not attested in their vocabulary.","authors":"Daniele Gatti, Marco Petilli, Michela Marchetti, Tomaso Vecchi, Giuliana Mazzoni, Luca Rinaldi, Marco Marelli","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02677-7","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02677-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Semantic knowledge plays an active role in many well-known false memory phenomena, including those emerging from the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) task. Indeed, in this experimental paradigm, humans tend to falsely recognize newly presented words via activation of other previously shown stimuli. In the present study we aimed to test what happens in cases in which no apparent prior semantic knowledge is available, like in the case of entirely novel lexical stimuli. To do so, we evaluated semantic similarity effects in a DRM task with lists entirely composed by pseudowords (or \"novel words,\" i.e., letter strings resembling real words but lacking assigned meanings). Semantic similarity between pseudowords were established through a distributional semantic model able to represent in a vector space, not only attested words but also unmapped strings as bags of character n-grams. Participants were instructed to memorize those lists and then to perform a recognition task. Results showed that participants false and veridical recognition increased with increasing semantic similarity between each stimulus and the stimuli comprising its list, as estimated by the distributional model. These findings extend previous evidence indicating that humans are sensitive to the semantic (distributional) patterns elicited by novel words by showing that this sensitivity can even induce humans to falsely recognize stimuli that they have never encountered in their entire lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"1922-1931"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12325460/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143634406","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}
{"title":"A rudimentary form of time-dependent awareness in mice.","authors":"Alexa Minary, Ezgi Gür, Fuat Balcı","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02653-1","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02653-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Keeping track of event times and the uncertainty in the resultant representation time intervals is pivotal for adaptive decision-making and action planning. To this end, earlier experiments showed that humans and rodents can generate adaptive biases in decision-making considering their representational timing uncertainty. More recent studies showed that humans and rats can also track whether and how much one has underestimated or overestimated the duration of an event (resulting from timing uncertainty). These studies overlooked a more rudimentary form of time-dependent awareness-that is, knowing whether or not a response is emitted under temporal control. This type of dual-system control is a common feature of responses in tasks requiring animals to wait. We tested this hypothesis in C57BL/6 male mice (N = 16) that were trained to depress a lever for a minimum target duration to receive a reward. No reward was given when mice under-produced the minimum required target interval. During test trials, the rate of nose-pokes into the food hopper during a variable response window following time production was recorded. Mice nose-poked more vigorously (reflecting higher reward expectancy) following temporal productions around the target duration compared with when they underproduced the minimum target interval. This result suggests that mice can monitor whether their responses resulted from temporal control versus its failure. Our findings point to a rudimentary form of time-dependent awareness in mice.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"1624-1630"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143256453","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":"Distinct detection and discrimination sensitivities in visual processing of real versus unreal optic flow.","authors":"Li Li, Xuechun Shen, Shuguang Kuai","doi":"10.3758/s13423-024-02616-y","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-024-02616-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examined the intricate mechanisms underlying visual processing of complex motion stimuli by measuring the detection sensitivity to contraction and expansion patterns and the discrimination sensitivity to the location of the center of motion (CoM) in various real and unreal optic flow stimuli. We conducted two experiments (N = 20 each) and compared responses to both \"real\" optic flow stimuli containing information about self-movement in a three-dimensional scene and \"unreal\" optic flow stimuli lacking such information. We found that detection sensitivity to contraction surpassed that to expansion patterns for unreal optic flow stimuli, whereas this trend was reversed for real optic flow stimuli. Furthermore, while discrimination sensitivity to the CoM location was not affected by stimulus duration for unreal optic flow stimuli, it showed a significant improvement when stimulus duration increased from 100 to 400 ms for real optic flow stimuli. These findings provide compelling evidence that the visual system employs distinct processing approaches for real versus unreal optic flow even when they are perfectly matched for two-dimensional global features and local motion signals. These differences reveal influences of self-movement in natural environments, enabling the visual system to uniquely process stimuli with significant survival implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"1540-1550"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142984613","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}
Seung-Eun Kim, Bronya R Chernyak, Joseph Keshet, Matthew Goldrick, Ann R Bradlow
{"title":"Predicting relative intelligibility from inter-talker distances in a perceptual similarity space for speech.","authors":"Seung-Eun Kim, Bronya R Chernyak, Joseph Keshet, Matthew Goldrick, Ann R Bradlow","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02652-2","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02652-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers have generally assumed that listeners perceive speech compositionally, based on the combined processing of local acoustic-phonetic cues associated with individual linguistic units. Yet, these cue-based approaches have failed to fully account for variation in listeners' identification of the words produced by a talker (i.e., variation in talker intelligibility). The current study adopts an alternative approach, estimating the perceptual representations used to process speech (the perceptual similarity space) using the machine learning technique of self-supervised learning. We assessed intelligibility of 114 second-language (L2) English talkers and 25 L1 American English talkers through a speech-in-noise experiment (collecting data from ten L1 English listeners per talker, each transcribing 120 sentences). For each sample in a speech recording, we obtained a representation from a self-supervised learning model; the sequence of these representations forms a trajectory in the perceptual similarity space. The holistic distance between trajectories (two speakers' productions of the same sentence) was analyzed. We found that for L2 talkers, the average distance between the trajectories of an L2 talker and the L1 American English talker group predicts relative intelligibility of a given L2 talker. Crucially, the distance measure predicted relative intelligibility among L2 talkers over and above a set of traditional acoustic-phonetic cues. Additionally, we found that the distance measure accounts for some of the relative intelligibility among L1 talkers. These results provide evidence that relative talker intelligibility is better captured with the perceptual similarity space approach, suggesting it is an appropriate tool to study variability in human speech production and perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"1664-1675"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143391570","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":"Enhancing visual perception: The independent and additive effects of temporal and feature-based attention.","authors":"Dan Huang, Feng Gao, Yao Chen","doi":"10.3758/s13423-025-02660-2","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-025-02660-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers often study selective attention in the temporal domain in isolation, but in real-life situations, it typically works together with other types of attention. The interplay between temporal attention (focusing on when) and feature-based attention (focusing on what) is one important aspect of attention that remains poorly understood. To investigate this, we asked subjects to report the orientation of one of the two stimuli sequentially presented at the same position. We used a cue consisting of two arrows to manipulate both temporal and feature-based attention: arrow size conveyed timing information, while direction conveyed orientation information of the upcoming target. This design effectively elicited temporal and feature-based attention to comparable extents, allowing us to examine their isolated and combined effects on perceptual sensitivity systematically. We observed that perceptual sensitivity was significantly influenced by the accuracy of the cue in predicting either target features or timing. When both aspects of the cue were accurate, perceptual sensitivity was maximized. Conversely, when both predictions were incorrect, perceptual sensitivity was minimized. When only one aspect of the cue was accurate, perceptual sensitivity showed an intermediate level. Crucially, our findings demonstrate that temporal and feature-based attention independently and additively affect perceptual sensitivity, suggesting that these attentional mechanisms operate autonomously and in concert to shape visual perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"1839-1851"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143557824","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":"The impact of relative word-length on effects of non-adjacent word transpositions.","authors":"Yun Wen, Jonathan Grainger","doi":"10.3758/s13423-024-02637-7","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13423-024-02637-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A recent study (Wen et al., Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50: 934-941, 2024) found no influence of relative word-length on transposed-word effects. However, following the tradition of prior research on effects of transposed words during sentence reading, the transposed words in that study were adjacent words (words at positions 2 and 3 or 3 and 4 in five-word sequences). We surmised that the absence of an influence of relative word-length might be due to word identification being too precise when the two words are located close to eye-fixation location, hence cancelling the impact of more approximate indices of word identity such as word length. We therefore hypothesized that relative word-length might impact on transposed-word effects when the transposition involves non-adjacent words. The present study put this hypothesis to test and found that relative word-length does modify the size of transposed-word effects with non-adjacent transpositions. Transposed-word effects are greater when the transposed words have the same length. Furthermore, a cross-study analysis confirmed that transposed-word effects are greater for adjacent than for non-adjacent transpositions.</p>","PeriodicalId":20763,"journal":{"name":"Psychonomic Bulletin & Review","volume":" ","pages":"1572-1578"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143010500","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}