{"title":"Atypical implicit and explicit sense of agency in autism: A complete characterization using the cue integration approach.","authors":"Alexis Lafleur, Vicky Caron, Baudouin Forgeot d'Arc, Isabelle Soulières","doi":"10.1177/17470218241311582","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218241311582","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There exist indications that sense of agency (SoA), the experience of being the cause of one's own actions and actions' outcomes, is altered in autism. However, no studies in autism have simultaneously investigated the integration mechanisms underpinning both implicit and explicit SoA, the two levels of agency proposed by the innovative cue integration approach. Our study establishes a first complete characterization of SoA functioning in autism, by comparing age- and IQ-matched samples of autistic versus neurotypical adults. Intentional binding and judgments of agency were used to assess implicit and explicit SoA over pinching movements with visual outcomes. Sensorimotor and contextual cues were manipulated using feedback alteration and induced belief about the cause of actions' outcome. Implicit SoA was altered in autism, as showed by an overall abolished intentional binding effect and greater inter-individual heterogeneity. At the explicit level, we observed under-reliance on retrospective sensorimotor cues. The implicit-explicit dynamic was also altered in comparison to neurotypical individuals. Our results show that both implicit and explicit levels of SoA, as well as the dynamic between the two levels, present atypicalities in autism.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1834-1851"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12335631/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865354","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":"Dissociative effects of psychological distance on self-other risky decision-making in individuals with different social value orientations.","authors":"Shenghao Shi, Tao Ding, Peihua Xian, Zhiyuan Liu","doi":"10.1177/17470218251378074","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251378074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Self-other risky decision-making is of general concern to researchers. However, the findings on self-other risky decision-making were inconsistent, which suggested that situational factors and the subject's personality traits need to be considered. Based on three studies with 588 subjects, we explored the influence of psychological distance on self-other risky decision-making in individuals with different social value orientations (SVOs). Both the large sample questionnaires in Study 1 and the laboratory experiment in Study 2 found that the proself (low SVO) group had a higher risk-taking tendency when making decisions for others than for themselves. Study 2 further revealed that the proself group exhibited lower decision quality and weaker negative emotion for loss outcomes when making decisions for others than for themselves. Although the above effects disappeared in the prosocial (high SVO) group, Study 3 indicated that the above differential effects in the proself group were enhanced between making decisions for themselves and for strangers, and weakened between themselves and friends. This study highlighted the dissociative effects of psychological distance on self-other risky decision-making in individuals with different SVOs.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251378074"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966590","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":"Comparison of emotional and neutral false memories at short- and long-term tests.","authors":"Elizabeth M Marsh, Dawn M McBride","doi":"10.1177/17470218251376336","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251376336","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The majority of research on the effects of emotional stimuli false memory has used the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm over long-term delays. Yet, results have been mixed, and studies have not yet considered the effects of emotional content on short-term false memories. The present study examined emotional and neutral false memories at both short and long delays to both compare the results for short- and long-term memory and attempt to clarify previous mixed findings. A secondary purpose was to test the role of attention on false memories across these delays, as this factor has been found to influence emotion effects. In two experiments, participants studied 4-item negative, positive, and neutral DRM lists and completed both immediate, single-item recognition tests (short delay), and a surprise recognition test following all short-term trials (long delay). Attention was manipulated at encoding (Experiment 1) or retrieval (Experiment 2). A novel finding is reported, which replicated across both experiments: only negative lists produced significant false memories at the short delay, whereas all list types produced significant false memories at the long delay. Furthermore, both experiments showed that when attention was divided, negative lists produced higher hit rates than positive lists in short-term tests. However, the attention condition did not affect false memories in either experiment. Results support both the activation-monitoring framework and fuzzy trace theory explanations for false memories, but the finding of negative false memories at short delays is better explained by activation-monitoring views.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251376336"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966638","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":"Representational context modulates the direction and transiency of practice effects on SNARC.","authors":"Ezgi Palaz, Hakan Çetinkaya, Seda Dural","doi":"10.1177/17470218251376338","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251376338","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect typically results in faster left-hand responses for small numbers and right-hand responses for large numbers, aligning with the concept of the mental number line (MNL). It is a robust but a flexible phenomenon that can reverse direction depending on the spatial-numerical mappings employed. This study investigates the potential modulatory effects of two contrasting representational contexts (ruler vs. clockface) on the emergence and persistence of the SNARC effect under two opposing spatial-numerical practices (MNL-compatible vs. MNL-incompatible). In Experiment 1, a magnitude classification task was employed as a practice session including either MNL-compatible or MNL-incompatible stimulus-response mappings, and the transfer and transiency of practice effects were examined by engaging participants in three test parity judgment tasks administered 5 min, 1 day, and 1 week after the practice session. In Experiment 2, different representational contexts were introduced during practice sessions. Experiment 2a utilized an image of a ruler as the context consistent with the MNL, while Experiment 2b employed a clockface image as an inconsistent context. Participants underwent testing three times to assess changes in performance over time. Results revealed that MNL-compatible practice effects did not transfer while MNL-incompatible practice effects resulted in a reverse SNARC effect persisting for up to 1 day. However, introducing the ruler context eliminated this transfer, while the clockface context reduced the persistence of the practice effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251376338"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966582","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 semantic negation scope account for the influence of expression form of negation on possibility judgments from external negated disjunctions.","authors":"Moyun Wang, Yuxuan Jin","doi":"10.1177/17470218251372582","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251372582","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The reading of external negated disjunctions (a disjunction as a clause is externally negated) is an interdisciplinary issue addressed by logic, linguistics, and psychology. For external negated disjunctions, we investigated how their possibility judgments varied with their two expression forms: NTSs (not-true sentences) with the form <i>It is not true that p or q or both</i> versus DSs (deny-sentences) with the form <i>Someone denied that p or q or both</i>). We propose the semantic negation scope account for the question with the hypothesis of the effect of expression form of negation that a NTS will more often elicit the weak local negation strategy that people consider cases negating at least one of the disjuncts as possible, and judge <i>p¬q</i>, <i>¬pq</i>, and <i>¬p¬q</i> as possible; while a DS will more often elicit the strong global negation strategy that people consider only cases negating all disjuncts as possible, and judge only <i>¬p¬q</i> as possible. Experiments 1 and 2 tested the hypothesis in verbal and pictural scenarios, respectively. Both experiments exhibited the effect of expression form of negation that DSs more often elicited the strong global negation strategy, while in conversational and non-conversational contexts, NTSs more often elicited the weak local negation strategy, as favoring the semantic negation scope account over the alternative accounts. The effect of expression form of negation suggests that there seems no unified mental mechanism of the reading of external negated disjunctions with different expression forms.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251372582"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966564","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":"Can multiple-target search paradigms reliably discriminate serial and parallel search processes?","authors":"Yujie Zheng, Yuhang Pan, Yinuo Xu, Zhi Li","doi":"10.1177/17470218251375982","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251375982","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Distinguishing between serial and parallel processing modes in visual search tasks remains a challenge in cognitive psychology. The multiple target search (MTS) paradigm, which utilizes target redundancy gains to identify parallel searches, is currently one of the promising approaches for this distinction. Despite being proposed five decades ago, this method has not gained widespread acceptance among researchers in visual search area, potentially due to two limitations. One is its inability to reliably detect redundancy gains in established parallel searches (e.g., the distinct popout color search). The other is the presence of redundancy gains in pure-target-absent trials, which are apparently incompatible with the MTS's explanation of redundancy gains. In this study, we tested a modified version of the traditional reaction-time-based MTS (rt-MTS) by developing an accuracy-based MTS (acc-MTS). The results suggested that the acc-MTS successfully overcomes the aforementioned limitations of the rt-MTS paradigm while maintaining significantly greater efficiency. These findings established the acc-MTS as a reliable and efficient methodological advancement for determining the serial or parallel nature of visual search tasks.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251375982"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966629","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}
Min Liu, Sainan Li, Zhu Meng, Yongsheng Wang, Chuanli Zang, Guoli Yan, Simon P Liversedge
{"title":"Development of orthographic, phonological and semantic parafoveal processing in Chinese reading.","authors":"Min Liu, Sainan Li, Zhu Meng, Yongsheng Wang, Chuanli Zang, Guoli Yan, Simon P Liversedge","doi":"10.1177/17470218251372482","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251372482","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parafoveal pre-processing of upcoming words is a key aspect of fluent reading. A comparative analysis of how children's orthographic, phonological and semantic parafoveal processing changes with age has not been investigated to date. In the present study, three eye movement experiments used the boundary paradigm to characterize the nature of change in orthographic, phonological and semantic parafoveal processing across children in Grades 2 to 5 (<i>n</i> = 366, Tianjin Primary School) and adults (<i>n</i> = 90, Tianjin Normal University) during natural Chinese reading. In each experiment we manipulated preview type (identical, related or unrelated preview). The results showed that effective orthographic parafoveal processing occurred in all our participant groups; however, effective phonological and semantic parafoveal processing was somewhat delayed, occurring in the third or fourth grade through to adults. We suggest that the differential developmental time course of orthographic relative to phonological and semantic parafoveal processing likely arises because the phonological and semantic characteristics of a written character are accessed via the character's orthographic code. Orthographic parafoveal processing, therefore, likely takes developmental precedence over phonological and semantic parafoveal processing. Together, the results provide a quite comprehensive picture of how a fundamental aspect of reading, parafoveal processing, develops with age.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251372482"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144966547","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":"Beyond the notes: Clarifying the role of expressivity in conveying musical emotion.","authors":"Cameron J Anderson, Jamie Ling, Michael Schutz","doi":"10.1177/17470218251372335","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251372335","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding how performance expression affects perceived emotion requires separating the effects of notated music from its interpretation by performers. Previous studies suggest that compositional cues (e.g., the pitches of a melody) primarily convey <i>valence</i> (negative-positive emotional quality), whereas performance cues (e.g., performance timing, intensity) convey <i>arousal</i> (low-high emotional intensity). However, these conclusions largely follow from simple single-line stimuli that lack the complexity of real-world music. To explore compositional and performance contributions to emotion in more complex works, we conducted experiments comparing participants' (<i>N</i> = 120) valence and arousal ratings of 48 recorded excerpts from a Grammy-winning pianist against parallel deadpan versions lacking emotionally expressive aspects. By comparing differences in ratings of stimuli presented in expressive and deadpan conditions, we corroborate past findings highlighting performance contributions to perceived emotion, while also providing novel insight into the relative importance of analyzed cues. Our findings reveal that removing expressive aspects (i.e., the deadpan condition) significantly affects arousal ratings of 21 excerpts, but valence ratings of only 4. Additionally, we highlight how cues differ in importance between expressive and deadpan conditions through a novel analytical approach employing elastic nets. Our analyses shed new light on how performance expression affects emotions communicated across complex musical works with different levels of compositional cues.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251372335"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144874942","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}
Maria Pombo, Guido B Corradi, Andrew J Elliot, Carlos Velasco
{"title":"EXPRESS: When and how visual aesthetic features influence approach-avoidance motivated behavior.","authors":"Maria Pombo, Guido B Corradi, Andrew J Elliot, Carlos Velasco","doi":"10.1177/17470218251371660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251371660","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For decades, researchers have explored the relationship between aesthetic features such as symmetry and complexity and preference. Likewise, philosophers and psychologists alike have pondered the differences between preference and behavior. Nevertheless, little is known about the relationship between aesthetic preference and motivation. Using an online approach-avoidance motivation task, we compare the reaction times between congruent (aesthetic preference + approach) and incongruent (aesthetic preference + avoidance) conditions. In Experiment 1, we explore the relationship between symmetry and complexity and approach-avoidance motivated behavior. In Experiment 2, we distinguish the mechanisms in play in the relationship by manipulating presentation and decision-making time. In Experiment 3, we assess the generalizability of the results beyond abstract graphical patterns. Overall, our research advances knowledge of the relationship between aesthetic preferences for features like symmetry and complexity and approach-avoidance motivation, and it has implications for fields such as marketing.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251371660"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144874945","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":"Providing choice enhances reading motivation.","authors":"Amrita Bains, Carina Spaulding, Jessie Ricketts, Saloni Krishnan","doi":"10.1177/17470218251370916","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17470218251370916","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multiple literacy programmes embed a choice of reading material into their programmes, as this is believed to enhance motivation for reading. Yet, this practice has not been experimentally evaluated. Is choice effective at boosting reading motivation? Is the nature of choice provided important? Using a new experimental paradigm to tap reading motivation, we assessed whether reading enjoyment and willingness to pay for books were influenced by having: (a) a choice of book; or (b) a choice of book genre. Having choice increased both reading enjoyment and the amount participants were willing to pay for books. Our results show that choice boosts enjoyment for reading. This has implications for the design of literacy programmes, indicating that incorporating choice in such programmes is beneficial.</p>","PeriodicalId":20869,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"17470218251370916"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144874944","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}