PerceptionPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-06-10DOI: 10.1177/03010066251345988
Frans A J Verstraten
{"title":"When perception profits from the vision of a vision scientist.","authors":"Frans A J Verstraten","doi":"10.1177/03010066251345988","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251345988","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"469-470"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144259225","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}
PerceptionPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1177/03010066251337355
Paweł Stróżak, Tomasz Jankowski, Marcin Wojtasiński, Paweł Augustynowicz
{"title":"Individual differences in the illusion of self-motion (vection): The role of field dependence, anomalous perceptual experiences, and tolerance of ambiguity.","authors":"Paweł Stróżak, Tomasz Jankowski, Marcin Wojtasiński, Paweł Augustynowicz","doi":"10.1177/03010066251337355","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251337355","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vection is an illusion of self-motion that arises from conflicting sensory information. There are large individual differences in experiencing vection, indicating a potential role for individual-difference factors in this illusion. Here, we examined the role of field dependence, anomalous perceptual experiences (a specific domain of psychotic-like experiences) and personality disposition of tolerance of ambiguity. We analyzed data from 170 participants (84 male individuals, 86 female individuals). Biological sex had no significant effect on any of the vection measures. However, we found that higher field dependence was associated with faster onset of vection, and that higher prevalence of anomalous perceptual experiences and lower tolerance of ambiguity were associated with longer duration and higher intensity of the illusion. These results suggest that individual-difference factors reflect internal predispositions that guide the interpretation of incoming sensory signals and, especially in conflicting and ambiguous situations, can modulate the process of creating accurate or illusory percepts.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"534-558"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144022533","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}
PerceptionPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-06-10DOI: 10.1177/03010066251345679
Gerald Westheimer
{"title":"Immanuel Kant's Schema of object perception and cognition.","authors":"Gerald Westheimer","doi":"10.1177/03010066251345679","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251345679","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the <i>Critique of Pure Reason</i>, Kant proposed a detailed system of mental processes and constructs that might lead to a person's perceiving and comprehending an object in the outside world. The diffuse and extended original, found largely impenetrable and hence neglected in most modern discourse, is here revisited and presented in an updated contemporary idiom, with the aim of showing some structure in the mental world that may serve as a counterpart to definable states of the real world when attempts are made to find correlations between the two.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"471-477"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12188017/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144259224","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}
PerceptionPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-04-16DOI: 10.1177/03010066251332097
Jiaying Shi, Ting Wu, Lei Chen, Zhe Wang, Linlin Yan, Yu-Hao P Sun, Haiyang Jin
{"title":"Eye configuration influences the detection advantage of direct gaze.","authors":"Jiaying Shi, Ting Wu, Lei Chen, Zhe Wang, Linlin Yan, Yu-Hao P Sun, Haiyang Jin","doi":"10.1177/03010066251332097","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251332097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research has shown that individuals detect direct eyes (those directed to the observer) more quickly and accurately than averted eyes (those directed elsewhere), a phenomenon known as the direct-gaze advantage. However, the underlying mechanisms of this advantage remain poorly understood. The current study employed a visual search task to investigate whether the direct-gaze advantage in capturing attention is contingent upon a specific configuration (face configuration or eyes configuration). In two experiments, participants were presented with four images and asked to judge whether there was a target with a direct or averted gaze. Experiment 1 revealed that participants showed the direct-gaze advantage across three image types: intact faces (maintaining both two-eye and face configuration), scrambled faces with intact eyes (disrupting the face configuration while preserving the two-eye configuration), and fully scrambled faces (preserving only the single-eye configuration). Experiment 2 further demonstrated that participants showed the direct-gaze advantage for scrambled faces with intact eyes and fully scrambled faces under the upright condition. Interestingly, under the inverted condition, participants only showed the direct-gaze advantage for scrambled faces with intact eyes. These findings indicate that the direct-gaze advantage is influenced by the configuration of two eyes and the configuration of a single eye, but it is not dependent on facial contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"503-517"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144056830","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}
PerceptionPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-04-22DOI: 10.1177/03010066251333727
Meiping Guo, Zhaohua Zhang
{"title":"Effect of fabric-skin frictional force and temperature on surface roughness and wetness perception.","authors":"Meiping Guo, Zhaohua Zhang","doi":"10.1177/03010066251333727","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251333727","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Preliminary studies have demonstrated that reducing material temperature enhances the wetness perception and decreases the friction coefficient during skin-material interactions. However, the effects of changes in frictional force due to temperature variations on wetness perception, and the effects of contact temperature on surface roughness perception during active dynamic interactions between skin and fabrics remain poorly investigated. This study recruited 12 participants (6 females and 6 males) to touch dry fabrics at different contact temperatures (8, 16, and 24 °C) to obtain frictional force, surface roughness, and wetness perception scores. Each participant was asked to complete 45 assessments: 3 contact temperatures (8, 16, and 24 °C) × 5 fabric types (cotton, silk, wool, flax, and jute) × 3 repetitions. The results suggested that the surface roughness perception decreased while the wetness perception increased with lower contact temperatures, the fabric type significantly influenced the perception, but there is no significant correlation between frictional force and wetness perception. This study enhances the understanding of thermal modulation in perception, providing valuable insights for designing healthcare textile products that minimize skin damage and improve comfort during prolonged contact.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"518-533"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144045902","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}
PerceptionPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1177/03010066251345871
Matteo Toscani, Tao Chen, Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera
{"title":"Evaluation of classic colour constancy algorithms on spectrally rendered ground-truth.","authors":"Matteo Toscani, Tao Chen, Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera","doi":"10.1177/03010066251345871","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251345871","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The limited availability of spectral images poses a significant challenge to the field of colour science. To address this issue, we spectrally rendered naturalistic images, enabling us to investigate the performance of classic colour constancy algorithms, including <i>Grey-World</i>, <i>White-Patch</i>, <i>Grey-Edge</i>, <i>Shades-of-Grey</i>, and <i>Gamut-Mapping</i>. We generated 4,096 physically based rendered scenes under different coloured illuminations, including a spectrally neutral illumination. We evaluated each algorithm by (1) comparing the illuminant estimated by the algorithm with the actual illuminant used for rendering and (2) assessing the performance based on the entire scene rendered under the neutral illuminant. The <i>White-Patch</i> algorithm consistently performed relatively well, while <i>Gamut-Mapping</i> emerged as the top-performing algorithm when evaluating the whole scene. However, it exhibited poor performance in estimating the ground-truth illuminant. We conducted a perceptual experiment to measure human colour constancy across a representative selection of scenes from our database using an asymmetric colour matching task. The results indicated that predictions from the algorithms that performed best when evaluated on the whole scene - <i>white patch</i> and <i>gamut mapping</i> - best approximate human performance. Indeed, the function of colour constancy is to stabilise the colour of all surfaces in a scene, rather than to estimate the colour of the illumination.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"478-502"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144303387","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}
PerceptionPub Date : 2025-06-24DOI: 10.1177/03010066251345677
Emil Skog, Andrew J Schofield, Timothy S Meese
{"title":"Performance and confusion effects for gist perception of scenes: An investigation of expertise, viewpoint and image categories.","authors":"Emil Skog, Andrew J Schofield, Timothy S Meese","doi":"10.1177/03010066251345677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066251345677","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human object recognition often exhibits viewpoint invariance. However, unfamiliar aerial viewpoints pose challenges because diagnostic features are often obscured. Here, we investigated the gist perception of scenes when viewed from above and at the ground level, comparing novices against remote sensing surveyors with expertise in aerial photogrammetry. In a randomly interleaved single-interval, 14-choice design, briefly presented target images were followed by a backward white-noise mask. The targets and choices were selected from seven natural and seven man-made categories. Performance across expertise and viewpoint was between 46.0% and 82.6% correct and confusions were sparsely distributed across the 728 (2 × 2 × 14 × 13) possibilities. Both groups performed better with ground views than with aerial views and different confusions were made across viewpoints, but experts outperformed novices only for aerial views, displaying no transfer of expertise to ground views. Where novices underperformed by comparison, this tended to involve mistaking natural for man-made scenes in aerial views. There was also an overall effect for categorisation to be better for the man-made categories than the natural categories. These, and a few other notable exceptions aside, the main result was that detailed sub-category patterns of successes and confusions were very similar across participant groups: the experimental effects related more to viewpoint than expertise. This contrasts with our recent finding for perception of 3D relief, where comparable groups of experts and novices used very different strategies. It seems that expertise in gist perception (for aerial images at least) is largely a matter of degree rather than kind.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"3010066251345677"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144477576","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}
PerceptionPub Date : 2025-06-17DOI: 10.1177/03010066251345778
Martin Teunisse, Damian Koevoet, Ydo Baarda, Chris L E Paffen, Stefan Van der Stigchel, Christoph Strauch
{"title":"Pupil size tracks attentional breadth in the Navon task.","authors":"Martin Teunisse, Damian Koevoet, Ydo Baarda, Chris L E Paffen, Stefan Van der Stigchel, Christoph Strauch","doi":"10.1177/03010066251345778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066251345778","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Processing limitations necessitate the selection and prioritization of parts of the visual input-that is visual attention. Visual attention cannot just shift in space, but also changes in size, so-called attentional breadth. A common paradigm to assess attentional breadth is the Navon task wherein participants are instructed to attend global or local features in ambiguous figures. Differences in response times and accuracy then allow inferences about attentional breadth. Here we tested an alternative, overt-behavior free marker of attentional breadth in the Navon task: pupil size changes. Participants were asked to report the parity of either the global or the local number making up an adjusted Navon stimulus. Global and local numbers differed in luminance. We found no differences in pupil size when either a bright or dark feature was attended. However, we did find a larger pupil size when the global compared with when the local number was attended. This effect could be attributed to multiple factors. First, as accuracy was lower when reporting global compared with local features, task difficulty likely affected pupil size. Second, the observed effect possibly reflects higher effort necessary for a wide compared with a narrow attentional breadth-in our specific task layout. Third, we speculate that attentional breadth may effort-independently contribute to this difference in pupil size. Future work could tease apart these factors by changing task layout and stimulus sizes. Together, our data show that pupil size may serve as a physiological marker of attentional breadth in the Navon task.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"3010066251345778"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318514","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}
PerceptionPub Date : 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1177/03010066251344509
Sumie Yamada, Satoshi Nakakoga, Yuya Kinzuka, Yoshiro Nakagawa, Tetsuto Minami
{"title":"Discriminating between facial expressions of anger and fear by individuals with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder.","authors":"Sumie Yamada, Satoshi Nakakoga, Yuya Kinzuka, Yoshiro Nakagawa, Tetsuto Minami","doi":"10.1177/03010066251344509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066251344509","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the effects of facial color on emotion recognition in individuals with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder compared to typically developing individuals. A total of 34 participants with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder and 39 typically developing individuals underwent two cognitive facial expression tasks using images altered to have a reddish color representing anger. Task 1 required participants to categorize images as either fear or anger as the emotion corresponding to the image, while Task 2 required ranking the images along a continuum from anger to fear. Results showed that individuals with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder exhibited a facial color effect similar to typically developing participants but had lower accuracy in recognizing facial emotions. Interestingly, the color effect was less pronounced in Japanese individuals with autism spectrum disorder when viewing faces of the same race, but more pronounced for unfamiliar European faces. This suggests that individuals with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder may develop compensatory strategies for recognizing facial expressions, and that cultural and racial factors influence emotion perception in individuals with autism spectrum disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"3010066251344509"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144303386","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}
PerceptionPub Date : 2025-06-16DOI: 10.1177/03010066251350245
Dennis M Shaffer, Montse Juarez, Brooke Hill
{"title":"Angle of regard influences slant perception independent of distance.","authors":"Dennis M Shaffer, Montse Juarez, Brooke Hill","doi":"10.1177/03010066251350245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066251350245","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is well established that observers overestimate the surface orientation of geographical, virtual, and man-made hills. We investigated whether the <i>v'</i> theory-that observers use the angle of regard-or the relationship between the direction of gaze and the slope of the hill, to make their slope estimates. We tested whether the perceived steepness of hills changes across dramatic differences in eye heights across a wide range of surface orientations, while controlling for distance of the surface from the observer. We found that people use the angle of regard to make their slope estimates across a wide range of surface orientations and eye heights while controlling for distance, standing on the surface, and posture. The dramatic manipulation in eye height caused corresponding changes in slope perception as predicted by the angle of regard. The angle of regard seems to be a perceptual regularity that is constant across changes of position of the observer and surface slope, and also predicts observed changes in eye height and distance of the surface from the viewer.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"3010066251350245"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144303385","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}