VISUAL COGNITIONPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2025-05-25DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2025.2507946
Alan Z Lu, Aditya Upadhyayula, John M Henderson
{"title":"Meaning maps predict reaction time in change detection.","authors":"Alan Z Lu, Aditya Upadhyayula, John M Henderson","doi":"10.1080/13506285.2025.2507946","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13506285.2025.2507946","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To detect changes in our visual environments, the visual system compares pre-and post-change representations maintained in active working memory. Previous research has suggested that change detection is primarily informed by high-level semantics in naturalistic scenes. Here, across two experiments, we used meaning maps - a data driven method to measure the visual semantic information in naturalistic scenes - to investigate whether semantic features predicted visual change detection in a flicker paradigm. Experiment 1 showed that changes in highly meaningful regions were more easily detected than changes in non-meaningful regions despite controlling for low-level visual saliency. Experiment 2 found that the meaning-driven advantage was significantly reduced by scene inversion, further supporting the role of semantics in change detection. Together, these results demonstrate that the visual system relies on semantic features during change detection.</p>","PeriodicalId":47961,"journal":{"name":"VISUAL COGNITION","volume":"33 2","pages":"89-104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12380198/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974316","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}
VISUAL COGNITIONPub Date : 2024-09-04DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2024.2397825
Ananya Mandal, Jan Philipp Röer, Heinrich R. Liesefeld
{"title":"Auditory distractors are processed but do not interfere with visual search of any difficulty when sound is irrelevant","authors":"Ananya Mandal, Jan Philipp Röer, Heinrich R. Liesefeld","doi":"10.1080/13506285.2024.2397825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2397825","url":null,"abstract":"People often report being distracted during their visual tasks, such as monitoring the road ahead, by task-irrelevant sounds, for example, a baby crying on the backseat. When we first tried to stud...","PeriodicalId":47961,"journal":{"name":"VISUAL COGNITION","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VISUAL COGNITIONPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2025-04-11DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2025.2486493
Carly J Leonard
{"title":"Individual differences in first saccade latency predict overt behavior during search for a contour integration target.","authors":"Carly J Leonard","doi":"10.1080/13506285.2025.2486493","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13506285.2025.2486493","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During everyday functioning, the visual world is explored by using saccadic eye movements to direct the information-rich fovea to specific locations. These eye movements are guided by visual input from outside of the fovea, where processes of perceptual organization piece together scene and object structure, including contour information. The current study investigates variation in how the typical population uses eye movements to complete a search for a closed-contour target formed by oriented gabor patches. Performance at contour integration tasks varies across a range of clinical populations, although it is unknown the degree to which performance differs within the typical population and if these differences relate to how individuals move their eyes during the task. The results show large variation in first saccade latency between individuals, with these differences correlating with first saccade accuracy and the total number of fixations needed to complete the task. Within-subject performance variation across trials mirrored these effects, although equivalent changes in first saccade latency did not influence saccadic behavior for all participants in the same way. This finding that longer first saccade latency improves eye movement guidance differently across participants is discussed in terms of the potential benefits of having additional time for recurrent processing and individual differences in ability to spatially spread attention.</p>","PeriodicalId":47961,"journal":{"name":"VISUAL COGNITION","volume":"32 8","pages":"675-686"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12338195/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144838265","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}
VISUAL COGNITIONPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2024.2393467
Fredrik Allenmark, Miloš Stanković, Hermann J. Müller, Zhuanghua Shi
{"title":"Dynamic suppression of likely distractor locations: Task-critical modulation","authors":"Fredrik Allenmark, Miloš Stanković, Hermann J. Müller, Zhuanghua Shi","doi":"10.1080/13506285.2024.2393467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2393467","url":null,"abstract":"When a distractor frequently appears in a certain region of a search display, it interferes less with performance, reflecting learned distractor suppression. While this effect is well established, ...","PeriodicalId":47961,"journal":{"name":"VISUAL COGNITION","volume":"424 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VISUAL COGNITIONPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2024.2344724
Matt Oxner, Norman Forschack, Matthias M. Müller
{"title":"Testing the contributions of proactive target and distractor templates in visual search performance","authors":"Matt Oxner, Norman Forschack, Matthias M. Müller","doi":"10.1080/13506285.2024.2344724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2344724","url":null,"abstract":"When searching for objects with particular visual features, performance is sometimes improved by the presence of a salient colour distractor, such as a red item among green objects. Attention to su...","PeriodicalId":47961,"journal":{"name":"VISUAL COGNITION","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VISUAL COGNITIONPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2024.2335116
Lindsay A. Santacroce, Benjamin J. Tamber-Rosenau
{"title":"Frequency of filler items does not modulate the emotional attentional blink","authors":"Lindsay A. Santacroce, Benjamin J. Tamber-Rosenau","doi":"10.1080/13506285.2024.2335116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2335116","url":null,"abstract":"In the emotional attentional blink (EAB; emotion-induced blindness), emotional distractors impair report of subsequent targets in rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) streams of fillers. Recent ...","PeriodicalId":47961,"journal":{"name":"VISUAL COGNITION","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VISUAL COGNITIONPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2024.2328902
Aylin A. Hanne, Jan Tünnermann, Anna Schubö
{"title":"Handling distractor interference in mixed and fixed search","authors":"Aylin A. Hanne, Jan Tünnermann, Anna Schubö","doi":"10.1080/13506285.2024.2328902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2328902","url":null,"abstract":"When searching for a target, humans can reduce interference from a colour distractor by using different strategies, such as down-weighting the distractor dimension or the most likely distractor loc...","PeriodicalId":47961,"journal":{"name":"VISUAL COGNITION","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VISUAL COGNITIONPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2024.2344721
John A. McNally, William Narhi-Martinez, Andrew B. Leber, Julie D. Golomb
{"title":"Learned relevance of a distracting cue can influence feature interference errors","authors":"John A. McNally, William Narhi-Martinez, Andrew B. Leber, Julie D. Golomb","doi":"10.1080/13506285.2024.2344721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2344721","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has shown that attention can be guided via past experiences and learned regularities of target and/or distractor location. Here, we ask: could the learned relevance of a distracti...","PeriodicalId":47961,"journal":{"name":"VISUAL COGNITION","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VISUAL COGNITIONPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2024.2338605
Michel Failing, Gilles de Hollander, Stefan Pollmann, Christian N. L. Olivers
{"title":"No difference in prior representations of what to attend and what to ignore","authors":"Michel Failing, Gilles de Hollander, Stefan Pollmann, Christian N. L. Olivers","doi":"10.1080/13506285.2024.2338605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2338605","url":null,"abstract":"Adaptive behaviour requires the selection of relevant, and the ignoring of irrelevant visual information. Previous work has shown that prior information about target (i.e., relevant) and non-target...","PeriodicalId":47961,"journal":{"name":"VISUAL COGNITION","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
VISUAL COGNITIONPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2024.2315781
Matteo De Tommaso, Cinzia Chiandetti, Massimo Turatto
{"title":"Habituation to onset capture via associative links with contextual information","authors":"Matteo De Tommaso, Cinzia Chiandetti, Massimo Turatto","doi":"10.1080/13506285.2024.2315781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2315781","url":null,"abstract":"Habituation shows organisms’ ability to ignore irrelevant repetitive stimuli, allowing attentional resources to be allocated to the relevant information. Here we investigated the role of contextual...","PeriodicalId":47961,"journal":{"name":"VISUAL COGNITION","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142218387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}