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Perception Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1177/03010066251355391

Hüseyin O Elmas, Sena Er, Ada D Rezaki, Aysesu Izgi, Buse M Urgen, Huseyin Boyaci, Burcu A Urgen

{"title":"Predictive processing in biological motion perception: Evidence from human behavior.","authors":"Hüseyin O Elmas, Sena Er, Ada D Rezaki, Aysesu Izgi, Buse M Urgen, Huseyin Boyaci, Burcu A Urgen","doi":"10.1177/03010066251355391","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251355391","url":null,"abstract":"Biological motion perception plays a crucial role in understanding the actions of other animals, facilitating effective social interactions. Although traditionally viewed as a bottom-up driven process, recent research suggests that top-down mechanisms, including attention and expectation, significantly influence biological motion perception at all levels, particularly highlighted under complex or ambiguous conditions. In this study, we investigated the effect of expectation on biological motion perception using a cued individuation task with point-light display (PLD) stimuli. We conducted three experiments investigating how prior information regarding action, emotion, and gender of PLD stimuli modulates perceptual processing. We observed a statistically significant congruency effect when preceding cues informed about action of the upcoming biological motion stimulus; participants performed slower in incongruent trials compared to congruent trials. This effect seems to be mainly driven from the 75% congruency condition compared to the non-informative 50% (chance level) validity condition. The congruency effect that was observed in the action experiment was absent in the emotion and gender experiments. These findings highlight the nuanced role of prior information in biological motion perception, particularly emphasizing that action-related cues, when moderately reliable, can influence biological motion perception. Our results are in line with the predictive processing framework, suggesting that the integration of top-down and bottom-up processes is context-dependent and influenced by the nature of prior information. Our results also emphasize the need to develop more comprehensive frameworks that incorporate naturalistic, complex and dynamic, stimuli to build better models of biological motion perception.","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"844-862"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144638498","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}

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Performance and confusion effects for gist perception of scenes: An investigation of expertise, viewpoint and image categories. 场景主旨感知的表现和混淆效应：专业知识、视点和图像类别的调查。

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Perception Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-24 DOI: 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":"10.1177/03010066251345677","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"817-843"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12497919/pdf/","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":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Expansion of perceived size of visual stimuli: Objects look wider than equivalent empty spaces. 视觉刺激感知尺寸的扩大：物体看起来比等效的空白空间更宽。

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Perception Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1177/03010066251359214

Algis Bertulis, Arunas Bielevicius

{"title":"Expansion of perceived size of visual stimuli: Objects look wider than equivalent empty spaces.","authors":"Algis Bertulis, Arunas Bielevicius","doi":"10.1177/03010066251359214","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251359214","url":null,"abstract":"The study builds upon previous research on the perceived size of visual objects of various shapes compared to an empty spatial interval. In psychophysical experiments using the size-matching procedure, the effect of overestimating the relative size of an object (relative to an equivalent empty space) was consistently observed when testing visual objects, such as rectangles, circles, ellipses, rhombuses, and triangles, in both filled and empty formats. The strength of the illusion did not depend on whether the shapes were filled or not, but rather it varied with the shape itself. Objects with open contours, such as angles of different orientations and narrow stimuli like straight, tangled, defocused, and divided lines, all produced the expansion effect. The overestimation manifested during testing stimuli of various contour types, including spatial contrast of luminance, colour, and texture, as well as those determined by perceptual grouping and illusory outlines of Kanizsa and Oppel-Kundt versions. Finally, the expansion effect was found to be more pronounced with increasing length and height of the stimuli. The data supported the assumption that the object contour is the primary inducer of perceived size expansion and that the overestimation effect is a regular phenomenon rather than an incidental event.","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"863-887"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12497920/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144734944","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}

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A bridge between collinear inhibition and visual crowding: Hints from perceptual learning. 共线抑制与视觉拥挤之间的桥梁：来自知觉学习的暗示。

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Perception Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1177/03010066251360131

Marcello Maniglia, Russell Cohen Hoffing

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Task-Specific Effects of Looming Audio: Influences on Visual Contrast and Orientation Sensitivity. 隐现音频的任务特定效应：对视觉对比和方向敏感性的影响。

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Perception Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1177/03010066251384790

Patrick Seebold, Yingchen He

{"title":"Task-Specific Effects of Looming Audio: Influences on Visual Contrast and Orientation Sensitivity.","authors":"Patrick Seebold, Yingchen He","doi":"10.1177/03010066251384790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066251384790","url":null,"abstract":"Looming sounds are known to influence visual processing in various ways. Prior work suggests that performance on an orientation sensitivity task may be improved if visual presentation is preceded by looming audio, but not by non-looming audio. However, our recent work revealed that looming and non-looming alert sounds have a similar impact on performance in contrast sensitivity tasks. In the current study, we aim to reconcile these findings by comparing the effects of looming and non-looming sounds on contrast and orientation discrimination tasks within participants. Participants viewed tilted sinusoidal gratings and made judgments about their orientation (left/right). The gratings for the contrast discrimination task had low contrast and high deviation from vertical (±45°), whereas for the orientation discrimination task, they had a low deviation (less than ±2° from vertical) and full contrast. Immediately before visual stimulus presentation, there could be no sound, stationary sound, or looming sound. Sensitivity was measured as d' and compared across tasks and sound types. Our results indicate that neither task benefited more from looming sounds over stationary sounds, yielding no evidence for a looming bias in this domain. However, we found a differential effect between tasks, indicating that contrast discrimination was improved more by alert sounds than orientation discrimination, likely reflecting perceptual differences in the task types. Factors that may influence the effectiveness of looming sounds are discussed.","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"3010066251384790"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145259469","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}

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Visual expertise for aerial- and ground-views of houses: No evidence for mental rotation, but experts were more diligent than novices. 对房屋的空中和地面视图的视觉专业知识：没有证据表明心理旋转，但专家比新手更勤奋。

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Perception Pub Date : 2025-10-07 DOI: 10.1177/03010066251378983

Emil Skog, Andrew J Schofield, Timothy S Meese

{"title":"Visual expertise for aerial- and ground-views of houses: No evidence for mental rotation, but experts were more diligent than novices.","authors":"Emil Skog, Andrew J Schofield, Timothy S Meese","doi":"10.1177/03010066251378983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066251378983","url":null,"abstract":"Ordnance Survey (OS) remote sensing surveyors have extensive experience with aerial views of scenes and objects. Building on our previous work with this group, we investigated whether their expertise influenced performance on a same/different object recognition task involving houses. In an online study, these stimuli were shown from both familiar ground-level viewpoints and from what is for most people, unfamiliar aerial viewpoints. OS experts and novices compared achromatic, disparity-free images with aerial perspectives rotated around the clock against canonical ground-views; we measured response times (RTs) and sensitivities (d'). In two 'grounding' tasks using rotated letters, we found conventional outcomes for both groups, validating the online approach. Experiment 1 (non-matching letters) yielded ceiling-level performance with no signs of mental rotation, consistent with a feature-based recognition strategy. In Experiment 2 (mirror reversed letters), both groups showed orientation-dependent performance, but experts exhibited a speed-accuracy trade-off, responding more cautiously than novices. In the main house task (Experiment 3), we found (a) the same speed-accuracy trade-off observed in Experiment 2, (b) substantially longer RTs overall, and (c) no evidence for mental rotation in either group, mirroring Experiment 1. Contrary to our earlier findings on aerial depth perception, expertise in remote sensing did not yield a distinctive recognition strategy for the experiments here. However, experts displayed more diligent tactics in Experiments 2 and 3. We suggest that all participants in Experiment 3 engaged in cognitively challenging feature comparisons across viewpoints, presumably supported by volumetric or surface-connected prototypes of houses as the basis for feature comparisons.","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"3010066251378983"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145245652","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}

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Are you a perception scientist? 你是感知科学家吗？

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Perception Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-03 DOI: 10.1177/03010066251362056

Frans A J Verstraten, Pascal Mamassian, Isabelle Mareschal, Tim Meese, Annabelle S Redfern

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Discriminating between facial expressions of anger and fear by individuals with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. 辨别高功能自闭症谱系障碍患者愤怒和恐惧的面部表情。

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Perception Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-16 DOI: 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":"10.1177/03010066251344509","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"734-752"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","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}

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Pupil size tracks attentional breadth in the Navon task. 在纳文任务中，瞳孔大小与注意力广度有关。

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Perception Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-17 DOI: 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":"10.1177/03010066251345778","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"753-767"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12417611/pdf/","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":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Saccadic eye movements differentiate functional cognitive disorder from mild cognitive impairment. 跳眼运动可区分功能性认知障碍与轻度认知障碍。

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Perception Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1177/03010066251359215

Thomas D W Wilcockson, Sankanika Roy, Trevor J Crawford

{"title":"Saccadic eye movements differentiate functional cognitive disorder from mild cognitive impairment.","authors":"Thomas D W Wilcockson, Sankanika Roy, Trevor J Crawford","doi":"10.1177/03010066251359215","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251359215","url":null,"abstract":"Functional Cognitive Disorder (\"FCD\") is a type of Functional Neurological Disorder characterised by subjective cognitive complaints not fully attributable to brain injury, disease, or other neuropathological or psychiatric conditions. FCD is a cognitive impairment but does not necessarily \"convert\" to cognitive decline. However, FCD is common in Memory Clinics worldwide, and currently there is a lack of tests to objectively assess FCD. Establishing whether memory complaints are functional or not is vital for clinicians and objective tests are required. Previous research indicates that early-stage Alzheimer's disease can be differentiated from healthy individuals by antisaccade eye-movement. Therefore, eye movements may be able to objectively ascertain whether self-reported memory complaints are functional in nature. In this study, FCD participants were Memory Clinic patients who self-reported memory complaints but showed internal inconsistency regarding memory issues on memory tests. Participants with FCD were compared to Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) patients and healthy controls (HC) on antisaccadic and prosaccade eye movement tasks. The parameters obtained were reaction-time (RT) mean and SD and antisaccade error rate. MCI differed significantly from HC in antisaccade RT-mean, RT-SD, error-rate, and from FCD antisaccade RT-mean, RT-SD, and error-rate. FCD did not differ significantly from HC for antisaccade parameters. However, FCD differed significantly from HC for prosaccade RT-mean and RT-SD. MCI did not differ significantly from HC or FCD in prosaccade parameters. These results indicate that eye movement tasks could ultimately aid clinicians in the diagnosis of FCD. With additional research into sensitivity and specificity, eye movement tasks could become an important feature of memory clinics.","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"768-779"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12417601/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144734945","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}

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