{"title":"Attentional dynamics in lexical and language identification: evidence from eye-tracking.","authors":"Junru Wu, Niels O Schiller","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02285-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-026-02285-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Language identification has become increasingly critical in real-world applications, particularly in forensic linguistics and natural language processing. This study employed an eye-tracking visual world paradigm to investigate the dynamic modulation of attention during lexical and language identification. Analyses of key-pressing and eye-tracking data across six conditions - speaker-dependent (1), object-dependent (2), speaker- or object-dependent (3), mismatch speaker-object (4), speaker-only (5), and object-only (6) - revealed that lexical identification takes priority over language-speaker identification in auditory speech processing. Nevertheless, a mismatch between the lexical referent and the speaker's language triggered an early (about 600 ms in English and 320 ms in Dutch after word onset) increase in pupil size and early peaking and dropping of inspections to speakers, revealing early attentional integration of the two processes. The results also indicate that language identification is achievable even given very limited prior exposure to an unfamiliar language (when speaker-language association is useful, M = 0.67, SD = 0.38). Specifically, this is achieved through cross-linguistic mutual exclusivity and non-lexical phonetic cues, with individual variability in the use of these strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147844178","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}
Alina Ahrens, Heinrich R Liesefeld, Jule Kinner, Markus Janczyk
{"title":"An attempt to replicate action-effect learning and its generalization without stimulus-stimulus learning.","authors":"Alina Ahrens, Heinrich R Liesefeld, Jule Kinner, Markus Janczyk","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02268-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02268-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13139240/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147822309","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}
Pamela Baess, Shabnamalsadat Ayatollahi, Christina Bermeitinger, Luisa Bogenschütz, Pia Fenske, Ryan P M Hackländer, Mohammad Hamzeloo, Gustavo Adolfo León Montoya
{"title":"Shifting and zooming through space … or not: The role of attention in spatial compatibility tasks - A replication of Stoffer (1991).","authors":"Pamela Baess, Shabnamalsadat Ayatollahi, Christina Bermeitinger, Luisa Bogenschütz, Pia Fenske, Ryan P M Hackländer, Mohammad Hamzeloo, Gustavo Adolfo León Montoya","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02299-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02299-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The mechanism of spatial coding involved in the Simon effect remain debated, with two prominent theories - the attention-shifting account Stoffer, (Psychological Research, 53(2), 127-135, 1991) and the referential coding account Hommel, (Psychological Research, 55(3), 208-222, 1993b) - offering competing explanations why the irrelevant stimulus-location is coded. To date, neither account can fully explain all available empirical data. Most published studies rely on limited sample sizes, which constrains statistical power and leaves the field without conclusive evidence. This study directly replicated Stoffer's (Psychological Research, 53(2), 127-135, 1991) investigation into attentional subprocesses that generate the Simon effect. We manipulated target spatial position across two reference frames: a global frame based on target's screen side and a local frame defined by the relative position within each screen side, allowing us to test for both global and local Simon effects. Targets were presented inside precues, either a large box or two small boxes, which were presented simultaneously with or sequentially before the target. With an adequately-powered sample, our study revealed concurrent global and local Simon effects - a result different from Stoffer's original findings. Only the local Simon effect varied with precue type and simultaneous or sequential target presentation. These results clarify the conditions under which attentional shifting and referential coding mechanisms contribute to different Simon effects, demonstrating that when spatial target positions are defined by both global and local reference frames, these mechanisms shape the emergence of distinct Simon effects in different ways.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13139253/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147822217","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}
Zachariah G Hoyne, Khaya Morris-Binelli, Sean Müller, Benjamin Piggott, Paola Chivers, Evan Dekker
{"title":"Multi-sensory information and simulator immersion: impact on decision-making performance, presence, and cognitive load.","authors":"Zachariah G Hoyne, Khaya Morris-Binelli, Sean Müller, Benjamin Piggott, Paola Chivers, Evan Dekker","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02305-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02305-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Immersive technologies such as 360-degree video virtual reality (360VR) provide unique opportunities to simulate representative environments to investigate decision-making in a safe and cost-effective manner. Inclusion of multi-sensory visual, contextual, and auditory information is important to enhance simulator psychological fidelity. Yet, the influence of increased sensory information on decision-making, presence, and cognitive load in 360VR compared to less immersive two-dimensional video simulators is unknown. This study investigated multi-sensory information, presence, and cognitive load across immersion conditions (360VR and two-dimensional video) in an exemplar sport-specific decision-making task. Fifteen higher-skilled and 15 lesser-skilled Australian Rules Football players completed a decision-making task which presented visual information only, visual and contextual information, and visual, contextual and auditory information. Overall, there were little significant performance difference between simulators. There was a significant decrease in decision-making performance across both skill levels and simulators as contextual and auditory information was added. Decision-making performance decline was more pronounced for lesser-skilled than higher-skilled participants, when they had to utilise contextual information to make riskier decisions to win the game. Significantly more accurate decisions were made when congruent, compared to incongruent, auditory information was presented, particularly in two-dimensional video. Perceptions of presence and cognitive load were significantly higher in 360VR than two-dimensional video, regardless of skill level, whilst across both simulators, cognitive load increased as sensory information was added. These findings indicate provision of multi-sensory information is more important for decision-making than simulator immersion and presence. Therefore, a focus on increasing simulator immersion should be done so with caution.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13139216/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147822266","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}
Vera da Silva Sinha, Wary Kamaiura Sabino, Silke M Göbel, Asifa Majid
{"title":"Numerical cognition in speakers of an Amazonian language with exactly twenty number words.","authors":"Vera da Silva Sinha, Wary Kamaiura Sabino, Silke M Göbel, Asifa Majid","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02300-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02300-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13128774/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147785856","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":"Zero as a semantic boundary: Rethinking the mental number line.","authors":"Tali Leibovich-Raveh, Christine Mireb-Geraisy","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02301-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02301-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13124765/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147786019","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}
María de Lourdes Noboa, Csaba Kertész, Neža Marija Slosar, Ferenc Honbolygó
{"title":"Linking spontaneous speech synchronization and cognitive abilities: evidence from a syllable-timed language.","authors":"María de Lourdes Noboa, Csaba Kertész, Neža Marija Slosar, Ferenc Honbolygó","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02302-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-026-02302-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13110228/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147785924","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":"Temporal dynamics of adaptation to same- and other-race faces: buildup, decay and sustained effects.","authors":"Idris Shareef, Michael E Rudd, Fang Jiang","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02298-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-026-02298-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147785981","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}
Árpád Csathó, Dimitri Van der Linden, Gergő Jakóczi, Rebeka Gőgös, András Matuz
{"title":"Response conflicts in visually guided movements under mental fatigue.","authors":"Árpád Csathó, Dimitri Van der Linden, Gergő Jakóczi, Rebeka Gőgös, András Matuz","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02293-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-026-02293-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13109180/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147786036","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":"I have my eye on the emotion: a review of eye-tracking studies exploring processing of emotional facial expressions.","authors":"Rosalia De Biase, Marta Ponari, Laura Sagliano","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02294-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-026-02294-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147785946","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}