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{"title":"EXPRESS: The Influence of Prior Semantic Knowledge in Noisy Channel Interpretation.","authors":"Sihan Chen, Lia Washington, Edward Gibson","doi":"10.1177/17470218251383526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251383526","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How do comprehenders interpret semantically implausible sentences? Previous studies (e.g. Gibson et al., 2013) proposed a noisy-channel framework of sentence comprehension, where communication between a speaker and a comprehender happens in a noisy channel. The comprehender rationally adopts an interpretation of a sentence based on how likely the interpretation is (the semantic prior) and how likely is the interpretation corrupted into the perceived sentence because of noise (the likelihood). The theory predicted that comprehenders would be more likely to adopt a literal interpretation of an implausible sentence if their prior of implausible sentences were higher. To test this hypothesis, Gibson et al., (2013) manipulated the proportion of implausible test sentences in two sets of experiments, where participants read a number of sentences and answer a comprehension question following each sentence. Although their results supported the hypothesis, the experiment was confounded by participants' adaptation effect, or their idiosyncrasy. The first confound was a result of the difference in experiment length, whereas the second confound was a result of the relatively small number of participants recruited in Gibson et al., (2013). In our study, we manipulated the semantic prior and controlled for these confounds. We found participants exposed to more implausible sentences were indeed more likely to interpret implausible sentences literally. Our results hence offer additional support for the noisy-channel framework.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251383526"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145150696","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":"EXPRESS: THE IMPACT OF HUMANOID ROBOT'S PRESENCE ON HUMAN'S COGNITIVE CONTROL IN A STOPSIGNAL TASK.","authors":"Giulia Siri, Abdulaziz Abubshait, Davide De Tommaso, Alessandro D'Ausilio, Agnieszka Wykowska","doi":"10.1177/17470218251383530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251383530","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Motor inhibition - a key aspect of cognitive control - is crucial in interactive contexts, where partners must suppress and adjust actions for optimal coordination. Previous findings has showed that the presence of a human partner impair motor inhibition in joint action tasks. This study investigated whether a similar effect would occur when replacing the human partner with a humanoid robot. To do so, we conducted four experiments using a Stop-Signal Task: (1) a non-engaging robot condition, (2) an engaging robot condition, (3) an engaging robot with disabled cameras, and (4) a human partner condition. Results showed that humanoid robots do not impair motor inhibition, unlike human partners. Instead of increasing cognitive demands, the presence of a humanoid robot appeared to enhance attentional focus when perceived as monitoring, leading to improved motor inhibition. These findings suggest that humanoid robots can be integrated into joint action tasks without compromising cognitive control. Thus, we conclude that, if implemented ethically, robots could offer advantages in collaborative tasks where humans cannot, highlighting their potential for enhancing human performance in shared activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251383530"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145081146","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":"EXPRESS: Influence of word Age-of-Acquisition (AoA), vocabulary size, formal-lexical similarity, and semantic richness of words on lexical recognition and production: A study on foreign-word training.","authors":"Miguel Á Pérez-Sánchez, Lidia Gómez-Cobos, Javier Marín, Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez, Cristina Izura","doi":"10.1177/17470218251378127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251378127","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A distinctive feature of the lexicon is its susceptibility to the order in which words are acquired; those learned earlier are accessed and retrieved more quickly than those acquired later-a phenomenon known as the age of acquisition (AoA) effect. This study investigates how vocabulary size (i.e., word-set size), formal-lexical similarity (i.e., neighbourhood density), and semantic richness (i.e., number of meanings) influence the AoA effect in lexical recognition and production. Three experiments were conducted with Spanish-speaking participants learning Welsh words in a controlled laboratory setting. Some words (\"early\") were trained from the outset, while others (\"late\") were introduced later and interleaved with the early words. Experiment 1 (47 participants) explored the relationship between AoA and vocabulary size, showing that vocabulary size has a strengthening modulatory effect on the AoA effect in lexical decision accuracy, although the interaction was only marginally significant. Experiment 2 (27 participants) examined formal-lexical similarity, finding that AoA is unaffected by neighbourhood density. Experiment 3 (18 participants) assessed semantic richness, showing that AoA effects are modulated by the number of meanings a word possesses in a task-dependent manner: an AoA effect emerged only for two-meaning words in lexical decision, whereas it was observed only for one-meaning words in picture naming. Overall, the results provide mixed evidence for the AoA effect in word production and recognition, primarily influenced by semantic richness and task demands. While the findings mainly support the mapping hypothesis, they also challenge certain predictions derived from it, as well as from the semantic and integrated accounts.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251378127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145024185","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":"Time after time: Voice perception from first impressions to identity recognition.","authors":"Nadine Lavan","doi":"10.1177/17470218251379036","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251379036","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When we hear someone speak, we do not just hear 'a voice'. If the voice is unfamiliar, we form an often complex first impression by inferring various characteristics about the person. If the voice is familiar, at least to some degree, we may be able to recognise and identify the person to whom the voice belongs. Even though first impression formation and identity recognition can thus be seen as being situatied at two opposing ends of a 'familiarity continuum', first impressions and identity recognition functionally serve the same purpose: making sense of who another person is. Theories and empirical work examining impression formation and identity perception from voices have, however, developed largely in isolation from one another, with relatively limited cross-talk. In this paper, I will review some recent findings from the literature on first impression formation from unfamiliar voices and voice identity learning and recognition from familiar(ised) voices. I will ask how impression perception and identity perception may interact and interface with one another along this 'familiarity continuum' between completely unfamiliar and very familiar voices, trying to bring together these two literatures. Specifically, I will consider what happens to first impressions when we become increasingly familiar with a person, whether first impressions might have an impact on how (well) voices can be learned and recognised, and when and how identity recognition might take over from ad-hoc impression formation.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251379036"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966596","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":"Two minds don't boost together: Target detection enhances the recognition of self-relevant, but not other-relevant, items.","authors":"Pietro Spataro, Neil W Mulligan, Alessandro Santirocchi, Clelia Rossi-Arnaud","doi":"10.1177/17470218251379026","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251379026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the attentional boost effect (ABE), participants recognize stimuli paired with targets to which they responded during the encoding phase better than stimuli paired with distractors that they ignored. Based on previous evidence indicating that the simulation of a motor action can enhance the incidental encoding of study words (the joint memory effect-JME), we asked whether the ABE could be likewise triggered by simply observing the responses provided by a co-actor in a joint-action condition. In Experiment 1, pairs of participants studied words paired with self-relevant squares (to which they were to respond), other-relevant squares (to which the co-actor responded), and non-task-relevant squares (to which neither of them responded). Experiment 2 used a variation of this paradigm aimed at reducing the possibility that participants disengaged their attention from the encoding of other-relevant words, in which turns were dictated by the colors of the words (rather than by the colors of the squares). Experiments 1 and 2 used recognition memory, the standard assessment of the ABE. Experiment 3 examined the generalizability of the results to a final test of free recall. In all experiments, the results converged in showing that the ABE was significant for self-relevant trials (participants recognized self-relevant words better than non-task-relevant words), but not for other-relevant trials (participants recognized other-relevant and non-task-relevant words equally well). The findings are discussed in terms of revised version of the dual-task interaction account of the ABE and the social-epistemic account of the JME.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251379026"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966615","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-linguistic effects of the speech-to-song illusion in speakers of Bangla and English.","authors":"Rakhi Akter, Alexis Deighton MacIntyre","doi":"10.1177/17470218241293627","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241293627","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The speech-to-song illusion is a phenomenon in which the continuous repetition of a spoken utterance induces the listeners to perceive it as more song-like. Thus far, this perceptual transformation has been observed in mostly European languages, such as English; however, it is unclear whether the illusion is experienced by speakers of Bangla (Bengali), an Indo-Aryan language. The current study, therefore, investigates the illusion in 28 Bangla and 31 English-speaking participants. The experiment consisted of a listening task in which participants were asked to rate their perception of repeating short speech stimuli on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 = <i>sounds like speech</i> and 5 = <i>sounds like song</i>. The stimuli were composed of English and Bangla utterances produced by two bilingual speakers. To account for possible group differences in music engagement, participants self-reported musical experience and also performed a rhythm discrimination task as an objective measure of non-verbal auditory sequence processing. Stimulus ratings were analysed with cumulative link mixed modelling. Overall, English- and Bangla-speaking participants rated the stimuli similarly and, in both groups, better performance in the rhythm discrimination task significantly predicted more song-like ratings beyond self-reported musical experience. English speakers rated Bangla stimuli as significantly more song-like than English stimuli. Bangla speakers did not distinguish between English and Bangla stimuli-possibly reflecting their enhanced understanding of English, in comparison to the English participants' comprehension of Bangla. An exploratory acoustic analysis revealed the role of harmonic ratio in the illusion for both language groups. These results demonstrate that the speech-to-song-illusion occurs for Bangla speakers to a similar extent as English speakers and that, across both groups, sensitivity to non-verbal auditory structure is positively correlated with susceptibility to this perceptual transformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1852-1865"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12335629/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142506673","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":"Corrigendum to \"Response Generation, not Response Execution, Influences Feelings of Rightness in Reasoning\".","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/17470218241231179","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241231179","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"2041"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139692802","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":"Better face-name recall is associated with better face recognition ability.","authors":"Joseph DeGutis, Tanvi Palsamudram, Alison Campbell, Regan Fry, Mieke Verfaellie, Nicole D Anderson","doi":"10.1177/17470218241290229","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241290229","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Face recognition is a highly developed and specialised human ability, distinct from other cognitive abilities. Previous studies examining individual differences in face recognition have focused on face perception and specialised perceptual mechanisms such as holistic face processing. However, the contribution of specific face memory processes to face recognition ability remains unclear. In 99 neurotypical individuals, we administered validated face perception assessments, three face memory tasks (old/new task, face-scene task, face-name/occupation task), and the Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT) to assess face recognition ability. We found that after accounting for face perception ability (which significantly predicted face recognition ability), face-name recall and recollection of faces in the face-scene task predicted unique variance in face recognition ability, with face-name recall being the strongest predictor. This highlights that associative memory mechanisms contribute to face recognition abilities and suggests that the ability to learn and recall proper names is particularly important to face recognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1769-1784"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142352733","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":"When is a causal illusion an illusion? Separating discriminability and bias in human contingency judgements.","authors":"Stephanie Gomes-Ng, Sarah Cowie, Douglas Elliffe","doi":"10.1177/17470218241293418","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241293418","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humans often behave as if unrelated events are causally related. As the name suggests, such <i>causal illusions</i> imply failures to detect the absence of a causal relation. Taking a signal detection approach, we asked whether causal illusions indeed reflect failures of discriminability, or whether they reflect a general bias to behave as if events are causally related. Participants responded in a discrete trial procedure in which point gains, point losses, or no change in points occurred dependently on or independently of responding. Participants reported whether each event was response-dependent or response-independent by choosing between two stimuli, one corresponding to reporting \"I did it\" and the other to \"I didn't do it.\" Overall, participants responded accurately in about 80% of trials and were biased to report that events depended on responding. This bias was strongest after point gains and for higher-performing participants. Such differences in event-specific biases were not related to response rates; instead, they appear to reflect more fundamental differences in the effects of appetitive and aversive events. These findings demonstrate that people can judge causality relatively well, but are biased to attribute events to their own behaviour, particularly when those events are desirable. This highlights discriminability and bias as separable aspects of causal learning, and suggests that some causal illusions may not really be \"illusions\" at all-they may simply reflect a bias to report causal relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1785-1798"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12335634/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142506695","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":"On the interchangeability of presentation order for cause and effect: Experimental tests of cue and outcome-density effects.","authors":"Sahana Shankar, Nicola Byrom, Wijnand A P van Tilburg, Tim Rakow","doi":"10.1177/17470218241299407","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241299407","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Studies of cue-outcome contingency learning demonstrate outcome-density effects: participants typically overestimate contingencies when the outcome event is relatively frequent. Equivalent cue-density effects occur, although these have been examined less often. Few studies have simultaneously examined both event density effects or have manipulated the presentation order of the events, limiting knowledge of whether these phenomena share underlying principles. We report three well-powered experiments to address those gaps. Participants judged the effectiveness of a medical treatment after viewing a series of pairings for two events, a cause (treatment given vs. not) and an effect (patient recovered vs. not). Experiment 1 manipulated both event densities independently. We then manipulated the presentation order for the cause and the effect, alongside a manipulation of effect density (Experiment 2a) or cause density (Experiment 2b). Experiment 1 found a large main effect of event density (<math><mrow><msubsup><mi>η</mi><mi>p</mi><mn>2</mn></msubsup></mrow></math> = .55), which was qualified by a significant interaction between event type and density level (<math><mrow><msubsup><mi>η</mi><mi>p</mi><mn>2</mn></msubsup></mrow></math> = .10) whereby effect density had greater impact than cause density. Experiments 2a and 2b found effects for effect density (<math><mrow><msubsup><mi>η</mi><mi>p</mi><mn>2</mn></msubsup></mrow></math> = .60) and cause density (<math><mrow><msubsup><mi>η</mi><mi>p</mi><mn>2</mn></msubsup></mrow></math>= .31). The effects of cause-effect presentation order were always small and non-significant. We conclude that effect-density manipulations had substantial impact on contingency judgements, and cause-density manipulations less so. Moreover, it matters little which event (cause or effect) is seen first. These findings have implications for contingency, associative, probabilistic, and causal models of contingency judgement; primarily, that people may be more sensitive to the causal status of events than to their temporal order of presentation.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1892-1908"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12335625/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584086","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}