{"title":"Are co-attention effects on memory limited to group members? A registered conceptual replication and extension of Shteynberg (2010).","authors":"Shaheed Azaad, Dirk Scheele, Garriy Shteynberg, Gerald Echterhoff","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02329-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02329-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Co-attention has been shown to enhance memory. Although this effect has been replicated in different social contexts, its minimal conditions remain unclear. Features of previous experiments have been conducive to collaboration, such as participants completing complementary tasks or experiencing a minimal ingroup manipulation. Consequently, it remains unknown whether co-attention effects on memory reflect a fundamental motivation to represent the mental states of those around us, or whether they are limited to coordination contexts. The proposed studies will test whether mere passive co-attention with a stranger is sufficient to enhance memory. We plan two experiments to: (1) conceptually replicate Shteynberg's (2010; JPSP) finding that seeing the same (versus different) stimuli alongside an in-group member enhances memory, and (2) test whether mere co-attention enhances memory, absent the group manipulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13269525/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148254200","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}
Geoffrey Kaye, Adam C Ricci, Ella Weaire, Zarnaab Syed, Natalie Gasson, Emily J Corti, Welber Marinovic
{"title":"Selection with support: How cross-modal attention shapes smooth pursuit eye movements.","authors":"Geoffrey Kaye, Adam C Ricci, Ella Weaire, Zarnaab Syed, Natalie Gasson, Emily J Corti, Welber Marinovic","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02328-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02328-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Smooth pursuit eye movements can offer a window into the interaction between sensorimotor control and cognition. The present study examined how pursuit might be affected by dual-task demands varying in sensory modality and cross-modal conflict. A second, exploratory aim was to assess whether individual differences in working memory (WM) capacity could moderate these effects. Participants were asked to track a moving target whilst performing mental calculations on visual, auditory, or bimodal digit streams. Pursuit was stabilised when attention was directed to visual input but substantially destabilised when directed to auditory input, revealing a bidirectional modality asymmetry. When attention was focused on an auditory stream in the presence of incongruent visual digits, cognitive error increased whilst pursuit variability did not, suggesting that additional conflict may tax cognitive rather than oculomotor processes. Higher WM capacity appeared to provide a modest, selective buffer, reducing pursuit variability specifically under demanding auditory conditions. We interpret these findings through a Selection-with-Support (SWS) principle: dual-task costs depend upon the representational alignment between attentional selection and the motor circuits supporting pursuit. Visual attention appears to directly support pursuit by engaging shared sensorimotor circuits, whilst auditory attention, lacking such premotor grounding, may rely upon executive control that WM can only partially sustain. The present study therefore offers a plausible mechanistic account of how attention might be motorically grounded.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13253661/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148213059","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":"The sense of agency is reduced by stimulus variability but has a limited effect on perceived variability.","authors":"Yunsoo Yeo, Sang Chul Chong","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02325-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02325-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research has shown that the sense of agency depends on various sources of information and can influence other cognitive processes such as visual attention and memory. This study examines whether stimulus variability is another factor that either influences or is influenced by the sense of agency. Stimulus variability reflects environmental uncertainty, which is closely linked to the sense of agency. We hypothesized that a reduced sense of agency increases perceived variability and that higher stimulus variability diminishes the sense of agency. Participants in four experiments moved 40 circle stimuli for 3 s, with a 1 s delay introduced in half the trials to reduce the sense of agency. In Experiments 1-3, color variability was manipulated. Participants reported the perceived color variability (Experiment 1), their sense of agency (Experiment 3), or both (Experiment 2). While the delay manipulation did not influence perceived color variability, color variability reduced the agency ratings. Notably, the effect of color variability emerged only when participants reported both perceived color variability and their agency ratings (Experiment 2), and it disappeared when the color variability was task-irrelevant (Experiment 3). Experiment 4 extended this design to motion-direction variability, and a similar pattern was observed where direction variability reduced the agency ratings but the delay had no effect on perceived direction variability. Together, these results suggest that stimulus variability can influence the sense of agency in a unidirectional manner and that this effect is modulated by the task relevancy of variability information.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148177000","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}
Anqi Hu, Kaitlyn M A Parks, Samantha E Schulz, Stephanie M H Larmer, Laura J Batterink, Ryan A Stevenson
{"title":"Modality-specific consolidation shapes long-term retention in statistical learning.","authors":"Anqi Hu, Kaitlyn M A Parks, Samantha E Schulz, Stephanie M H Larmer, Laura J Batterink, Ryan A Stevenson","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02324-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02324-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Individuals routinely learn patterns from sights and sounds, yet it remains unclear how memories of those patterns compare across senses over time. Statistical learning, the implicit detection and extraction of patterns from continuous input, has been documented across sensory modalities, but most work has focused on immediate learning in unisensory contexts. This study, using a within-subject design, directly compared 24-hour consolidation trajectories of auditory, visual, and audiovisual statistical learning. Twenty-six young adults completed three statistical learning tasks across auditory, visual, and audiovisual modalities. In each task, participants were exposed to a continuous stream of stimuli with embedded triplet patterns. Learning of these patterns was tested immediately after exposure and again 24 h later. Across immediate and delayed tests, multisensory exposure yielded higher accuracy than unisensory exposure, demonstrating a robust multisensory-over-unisensory advantage. In contrast, only auditory statistical learning showed overnight gains, whereas visual and multisensory learning remained stable, suggesting a consolidation advantage for auditory input. Cross-task correlations, both at immediate test and for consolidation magnitudes, were weak, suggesting substantial modality-specific contributions to statistical learning. These findings provide the first evidence that multisensory input boosts long-term retention of learned patterns, and the consolidation of these patterns operates in a modality-specific manner.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148177066","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}
Laure Coudrat, Stéphanie Caharel, Jean-Luc Kop, Loïc P Heurley
{"title":"Emotions in motion: How fear and anger differently influence forward single-step initiation.","authors":"Laure Coudrat, Stéphanie Caharel, Jean-Luc Kop, Loïc P Heurley","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02317-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02317-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The perception of emotional faces plays a critical role in shaping human motor responses. However, the relationship between perceived facial expressions, particularly fear, and approach-related movement remains unclear as prior research often employed ambiguous approach behaviour and tasks requiring emotion identification before action planning, potentially introducing biases from differences in recognition accuracy across emotions. To address these limitations, we examined the effect of emotional (fearful, angry, happy) faces on unambiguous approach-related movement, i.e., forward single-step initiation by using a go/no-go paradigm, in two conditions: a neutral-versus-emotional condition (motor responses depended on whether the face was emotional or neutral), or a face-gender condition. Results showed that the perception of emotional faces impacted forward single-step initiation in the neutral-versus-emotional condition only. More precisely, the motor response was stronger (higher anticipatory postural adjustments amplitude) in front of fearful and happy faces than angry faces, and faster (shorter time to reach the forward velocity peak of the centre of body mass) to fearful than to angry faces. This modulation of approach-related motor response, with facilitation of motor output for fearful relative to angry faces, may reflect a more effective preparation of forward stepping when the emotional information is compatible with the movement. Furthermore, the fact that emotional effects were observed only in the neutral-versus-emotional condition can be interpreted in terms of whether the emotional information was task-relevant or incidental.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13236795/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148158505","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}
Elisabeth Stöttinger, Beate Priewasser, Eva Rafetseder
{"title":"Children require more evidence to revise beliefs under gradual perceptual change.","authors":"Elisabeth Stöttinger, Beate Priewasser, Eva Rafetseder","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02319-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02319-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rafetseder et al. (2021) were the first to demonstrate that children have difficulty revising their beliefs when objects morphed from one object (e.g. a rabbit) into another (e.g. a duck). Children aged four to eight reported the second object significantly later than adults. This is surprising, because both children and adults were presented with the same initial information (\"it is a rabbit\") and were exposed to the same contradictory visual evidence. We conducted three experiments to replicate the results and to and explore reasons for children's delayed belief revision. In Experiment 1 (N = 58; 3- to 6-year-olds), we demonstrated that children only struggle to identify the second object in the gradual condition, while displaying adult-like categorical perception when the same images were presented individually outside of the morphing context. In Experiment 2 (N = 86; 6- to 11-year-olds), we found that only children aged 9 years and over showed a similar pattern to adults, and that a global processing style facilitated identification of the second object. In Experiment 3 (N = 47, 5- to 6-year-olds), when children were explicitly informed of the two possible interpretations of the morphed images, their performance improved, although not to the level observed in the individual condition of Experiment 1. These findings suggest that children of different ages struggle to revise their beliefs in a gradually changing environment for different reasons. While older children may use less efficient, potentially local, exploration strategies, younger children may have difficulties with mental imagery.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13234064/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148151183","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}
Sofia Abrevaya, Hannah Miell, Elena Azañón, Verónica Claudia Ramenzoni, Matthew R Longo
{"title":"How thin is too thin? Evidence from visual aftereffects in body size estimation.","authors":"Sofia Abrevaya, Hannah Miell, Elena Azañón, Verónica Claudia Ramenzoni, Matthew R Longo","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02322-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02322-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exposure to unrealistic body ideals on social media may distort individuals' body image, potentially leading to increased body dissatisfaction. One proposed mechanism for this phenomenon is visual adaptation: prolonged exposure to thin bodies can shift subsequent judgments of body size, leading to subsequent bodies being perceived as fatter than they are. This study investigated whether exposure to body images of varying thinness alters judgments of body size relative to one's own bodyand whether individual differences in body image concerns moderate these aftereffects. Thirty-four young women completed a psychophysical task in which they judged whether test bodies were thinner or fatter than themselves, following adaptation to either an extremely thin or a slightly thinner (but closer-to-self) body. Results showed stronger aftereffects following exposure to extreme-thin adaptors, with lower points of subjective equality (PSEs), indicating a shift toward judging thinner bodies as equivalent to one's own body size. The point of subjective equality (PSE) is the body size at which participants are equally likely to judge a test body as thinner or fatter than their own. Adaptation to both close-thin and extreme-thin bodies resulted in lower PSEs, consistent with a contrastive aftereffect in which test stimuli were perceived as larger following exposure to thin adaptors. Higher body concern was positively associated with larger baseline PSEs, indicating greater perceived body size. These findings support the role of visual adaptation in shaping perceptual judgments of body size and suggest that individual differences in body concern influence this process. Opponent coding may underlie this mechanism, as greater aftereffects were observed for more extreme adaptors.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148145048","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":"Observed actions and their enduring cognitive imprint beyond correction.","authors":"Yaqi Yue, Tianjiao Qiang, Qingrui Zhang, Jing Hu, Yufen Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02318-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02318-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Observing others' actions can blur the boundary between self and other, leading to false memories of self-performance. Although previous research using the observation-inflation paradigm has examined the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon, little is known about its persistence and the cognitive processes that sustain it. In Experiment 1, participants performed or read action phrases and later observed videos of others performing actions. During the five days before the memory test, they received corrective feedback distinguishing actions they had performed from those merely observed. Corrective feedback reduced false self-performance reports, yet participants still showed longer response times when judging previously observed action phrases than unobserved ones, suggesting that prior observation continued to influence retrieval processing even after correction. Experiment 2 employed event-related potentials to differentiate familiarity- and recollection-based processes. Larger LPC amplitudes for read-and-observed phrases, together with the absence of a reliable FN400 difference, suggested a greater contribution of recollection-related than familiarity-related processes. Together, the findings show that even when false beliefs are corrected, observed actions may continue to exert a lasting influence on subsequent memory judgments.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148139476","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}
Amelie C Jung, Markus Janczyk, Dietrich Manzey, Rico Fischer
{"title":"Is multitasking efficient? Different metrics, different conclusions.","authors":"Amelie C Jung, Markus Janczyk, Dietrich Manzey, Rico Fischer","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02281-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02281-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multitasking-defined as the more or less overlapping execution of two or more tasks-has been shown to impair performance and induce performance costs. Nevertheless, individuals frequently engage in multitasking for private and work-related purposes. This raises the question: Do subjective impressions about multitasking efficiency diverge from objective measures, or can multitasking indeed comprise benefits in certain conditions? While previous assessments of multitasking efficiency focused mostly on central processing limitations, they largely neglected benefits of parallel peripheral task processing in overlapping task execution. To address this empirically, we conducted two multitasking studies and compared Time on Task (ToT; Reissland & Manzey, 2016), that is, the total time needed to finish both sub-tasks, in an overlapping versus a sequential dual-task condition. Experiment 1 (N = 18) applied a Psychological Refractory Period (PRP) paradigm with distinct task sets in Task 1 and Task 2. Experiment 2 (N = 32) used identical task sets to maximize between-task interference in the overlapping dual-task condition. Results of both experiments showed shorter ToT in the overlapping compared to the sequential dual-task condition, without much evidence of compensatory effects. These results suggest that the assessment of multitasking efficiency should consider the total time on task needed to perform both tasks to capture the costs of central processing limitations as well as benefits of parallel peripheral task processing. They further underscore the importance of carefully selecting and justifying the chosen evaluation metrics when assessing multitasking efficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13226433/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148139470","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":"Cross-modal training reduced susceptibility to the sound-induced flash illusion and generalized across stimulus onset asynchronies.","authors":"Aijun Wang, Jingci Lang, Zepeng Xing, Xiaole Liu, Guangyao Zu, Jie Huang, Xiaoyu Tang","doi":"10.1007/s00426-026-02321-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00426-026-02321-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The sound-induced flash illusion (SiFI) is a typical auditory-dominated multisensory illusion, and its susceptibility can be modified by perceptual training. However, the effects of different training protocols and their transfer effects on SiFI remain unclear. The present study employed the SiFI paradigm combined with feedback training to examine the effects of different types of training on SiFI performance across multiple stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs). SOA was manipulated in the pretest and posttest to determine whether training effects would generalize to untrained temporal intervals. Participants were assigned to four groups, including a control group that completed only the pretest and posttest and three training groups that received 5 days of combined training, audiovisual training, or visual-only training respectively. The results showed that perceptual training significantly improved performance on the SiFI task, but the magnitude of improvement differed across training modalities. Audiovisual and combined training were more effective than visual-only training, and these benefits generalized from the trained SOA to untrained SOAs, indicating transfer of the training effect across temporal intervals. These findings suggest that cross-modal training is more effective than unimodal visual training in reducing SiFI susceptibility and provide further evidence for the plasticity of multisensory perceptual processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":48184,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung","volume":"90 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148057617","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}