I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-12-08eCollection Date: 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241300099
Andrew J Anderson, Margaret S Livingstone
{"title":"The effect of caricaturing on the esthetic appeal of familiar faces, and its relation to simple proportion judgments.","authors":"Andrew J Anderson, Margaret S Livingstone","doi":"10.1177/20416695241300099","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241300099","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It has been suggested that caricaturing enhances esthetic appeal, by making an image more strongly stimulate those areas of the brain encoding the subject's distinctive features than does the subject itself. However, some experimental work suggests that people prefer faces with proportions closer to average, or closer to a particular template. It might be that familiarity with the face is important if caricaturing is to increase the esthetic appeal of a likeness. Here we examined how automated caricaturing of photographs of nominal celebrities influenced judgments of esthetic appeal, and how familiarity with the celebrities affected these. Caricaturing monotonically decreased the esthetic appeal of the celebrity photographs, with subjects' familiarity with the celebrity not influencing this relationship. The degree to which caricaturing influenced esthetic appeal was not correlated with judgments of relative spatial dimensions for a simple shape, either in a discrimination threshold experiment or a peak-shift experiment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 6","pages":"20416695241300099"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11626730/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142802843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-12-08eCollection Date: 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241279675
Jaume Boned, Joan López-Moliner
{"title":"Quantifying uncertainty in time perception: A modified reproduction method.","authors":"Jaume Boned, Joan López-Moliner","doi":"10.1177/20416695241279675","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241279675","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In time perception research, we typically measure how an observer perceives time intervals by collecting data from multiple trials with a single estimate recorded on each. However, this gives us limited information about the observer's uncertainty for each estimate, which we usually measure from the variability across trials. Our study tested the potential of a modified reproduction task to provide a duration estimate as well as a measure of uncertainty on a single-trial basis. Participants were instructed to press and hold a key to temporally bracket the end of a learned duration (0.6-4 s) as narrowly as possible. Therefore, we expected the bracket's length to indicate the level of uncertainty. We compared this method to a conventional reproduction task. Taking the mid-point of the bracket as the duration estimate, we found that both methods produced equivalent data. Critically, the bracket length predicted reproduction variability, indicating that a single bracket obtained in an individual trial could potentially provide as much information as multiple reproductions. Additionally, relative variability in bracket start and end positions suggests a combination of additive and multiplicative noise components. Our findings highlight the bracket method as a more efficient and nuanced approach to measure time estimates and their associated uncertainty, expanding the methodological toolkit and opening new avenues in time perception research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 6","pages":"20416695241279675"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11626670/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142802839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-12-05eCollection Date: 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241304655
Sae Kaneko, Stuart Anstis, Patrick Cavanagh
{"title":"Illusory shrinkage of objects under backward masking.","authors":"Sae Kaneko, Stuart Anstis, Patrick Cavanagh","doi":"10.1177/20416695241304655","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241304655","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Backward masking is a powerful phenomenon that can reduce, often to zero, the visibility of targets. Here, we show that when the masking is less than completely effective so that the target remains visible, the masking has other effects, specifically reducing the perceived size of the target.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 6","pages":"20416695241304655"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11625935/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142802836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-11-25eCollection Date: 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241291303
Stuart Anstis, Sae Kaneko, Patrick Cavanagh
{"title":"Pink illusions and white shifts.","authors":"Stuart Anstis, Sae Kaneko, Patrick Cavanagh","doi":"10.1177/20416695241291303","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241291303","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A rotating stimulus of alternating red and white sectors generates a faint pink fill throughout the image. The trailing cyan after images of the red sectors quickly become the brightest regions in the image, providing an index of the overall illumination that triggers a shift of the white point. Actual white areas then shift in the opposite direction and appear pink.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 6","pages":"20416695241291303"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11598750/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142740534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-11-06eCollection Date: 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241290466
Kento Imori, Tetsuya Watanabe
{"title":"Haptic search asymmetry does not occur due to different-shaped tactile symbols on capsule paper.","authors":"Kento Imori, Tetsuya Watanabe","doi":"10.1177/20416695241290466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695241290466","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research on haptic search using sandpaper with different roughness levels as a target and distractors showed that rough sandpaper among fine \"pops out\" and can be searched for in a shorter time than when the roles of the target and distractors are reversed. However, it is not clear whether the same search asymmetry occurs with differences in the shapes of tactile symbols on capsule paper. To explore this possibility, we conducted a haptic search experiment using circles with or without a dot on capsule paper as a target and distractors, which are often used as point symbols in tactile maps for the blind. Contrary to our expectations, haptic search asymmetry did not occur between these two tactile symbols. Regardless of target type, the search times increased in proportion to the number of items (distractors plus target), as participants tended to adopt serial search strategy in which they placed their index or middle finger on the tactile symbol to distinguish it every time they found a new one. The ratio of the search times for target-absent to target-present trials is precise alignment with the occurrence rate of repetitive search trials.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 6","pages":"20416695241290466"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11542133/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-11-05eCollection Date: 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241286787
Ian M Thornton, Anna Riga
{"title":"Partial object doubling in the periphery induced by negative afterimages.","authors":"Ian M Thornton, Anna Riga","doi":"10.1177/20416695241286787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695241286787","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We describe a new phenomenon-partial object doubling-in which the perceived contours of peripherally viewed moving targets become distorted and duplicated. The effect appears to arise due to interactions between physically drawn contours and the strong negative afterimages that are dynamically released during stable viewing of the displays. An online demo is provided where the effect can be experienced and relevant parameters manipulated.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 6","pages":"20416695241286787"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11540961/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-10-30eCollection Date: 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241290462
Moyou Jiang, Hiroyuki Ito, Tama Kanematsu
{"title":"Factors contributing to transient-induced fading: Examining the impact of luminance contrasts and subjective contours.","authors":"Moyou Jiang, Hiroyuki Ito, Tama Kanematsu","doi":"10.1177/20416695241290462","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241290462","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transient-induced fading is a phenomenon where a peripheral target perceptually fades when a surrounding object is flashed. It has been suggested that the transient-induced fading could be affected not only by the lower-level factors such as the luminance contrast change, but also by the higher-level factors such as Gestalt grouping by similarity. In the present study, Experiment 1 investigated whether the perceptual fading of a visual target could be strongly induced when a ring area surrounding the target with high luminance contrast disappeared rather than appeared. Experiment 2 examined the effect of the (dis)appearance of a higher-level object (Kanizsa-type subjective contour) on the fading perception. Experiment 3 further investigated whether the rating of the perceived effortlessness of a subjective contour could be positively correlated with the fading duration of the target. Our results revealed that perceptual fading was mainly induced by the disappearance of fan areas inside black disks producing a subjective contour surrounding the target. Disappearance of a perceptual object at the representation level does not trigger the transient-induced fading even if a higher-level factor (e.g., grouping by similarity) affects the fading objects.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 5","pages":"20416695241290462"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11528573/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142569959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-10-24eCollection Date: 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241288032
Yuanyuan He, Hiromi Sato, Yoko Mizokami
{"title":"Cross-cultural comparison of the influence of skin-color change on facial impressions.","authors":"Yuanyuan He, Hiromi Sato, Yoko Mizokami","doi":"10.1177/20416695241288032","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241288032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Skin color is one of the colors we are most frequently exposed to. It contains information, such as ethnic group and health status, and numerous studies have demonstrated the influence of various facial attributes on the formation of impressions. However, no research has specifically explored the repercussions of treating changes in skin color as a singular variable. We cross-culturally examined skin color changes along with the red-yellow axis and how they influence facial impressions across six face shapes from three types of ethnicities. A 7-point scale was used for evaluation, and the observers evaluated the impression of face images according to the following six evaluation items: healthiness, preference, brightness, whiteness, transparency, and skin tone. The observers were divided into the following four groups: Japan, China, Thailand, and the Caucasus. Differences in the evaluation and association of skin color with various traits emerged between cultures. For instance, East Asian cultures associated positive attributes with reddish skin colors, whereas Caucasians often linked positive traits with yellowish skin colors. These cultural disparities emphasize the dynamic interplay between culture and perception in assessing facial impressions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 5","pages":"20416695241288032"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11526185/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-10-18eCollection Date: 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241280715
Charles Spence, Yang Gao
{"title":"Enhancing public entertainment with touch: Possibilities and pitfalls.","authors":"Charles Spence, Yang Gao","doi":"10.1177/20416695241280715","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241280715","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There has long been interest in augmenting cinematic and other forms of public entertainment through tactile and/or bodily (i.e., vestibular) stimulation. In this narrative historical review, the early history of touch (or haptics, as it is sometimes called) and other forms of bodily stimulation (e.g., motion platforms) in the context of entertainment is critically reviewed, with a focus on early cinema as well as other early examples of immersive virtual reality travel experiences. Critically, various challenges have limited the introduction of such additional channels of sensory stimulation. These include technological, financial, cognitive, creative, ethical/artistic, and also legal considerations, given the many patents that currently exist covering commercial digital tactile stimulation (e.g., in the gaming context). Taken together, these challenges help to explain why it is that despite the early interest in \"the feelies\" (e.g., an envisioning of film that includes tactile sensations by Aldous Huxley, in his novel Brave New World), touch-enhanced cinema and storytelling have never really caught on in the mainstream in the way that, say, the talkies so obviously did following the introduction of sound into cinema in the early decades of the 20th century. Nevertheless, identifying the potential successful use cases that have emerged from previous attempts to augment public entertainments with tactile/bodily stimulation will likely provide useful guidelines for the future tactile augmentation of home entertainment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 5","pages":"20416695241280715"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11489974/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-10-17eCollection Date: 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241281474
Charles Spence, Yang Gao
{"title":"Augmenting home entertainment with digitally delivered touch.","authors":"Charles Spence, Yang Gao","doi":"10.1177/20416695241281474","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241281474","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this narrative review, we take a critical look at the various attempts that have been made to augment home (or personal) entertainment experiences via the addition of some form of digitally controlled tactile stimulation. There has been an explosive growth in the market for home entertainment in recent years, and a majority of smartphones and other wearable electronic devices are now touch-enabled. As such, it is important to consider the challenges and potential opportunities for enhanced multisensory entertainment that may result from the introduction of tactile/haptic stimulation in the context of audiovisual digital storytelling and/or gaming. The key technological, financial (and legal), cognitive, and creative/artistic, challenges associated with the tactile augmentation of home entertainment experiences are outlined. Tactile augmentation, in the sphere of both public and personal entertainment, is more likely to succeed when it goes beyond the merely pleonastic vibrotactile reproduction of those interactions/events than can already be seen and/or heard on screen. At the same time, however, it remains uncertain under what conditions immersion in an entertainment experience will be enhanced by the addition of some form of primitive digital tactile stimulation. Ultimately, until a clear usage case can be made for the benefits of introducing a tactile element to home entertainment, it is unlikely to gain traction and switch from being merely a gimmick to more of a valuable element of multisensory storytelling.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 5","pages":"20416695241281474"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11490966/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}