PerceptionPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1177/03010066251326828
Xin Yan, Baoyi Zhu, Ce Mo
{"title":"Effects of feature-based attention on numerosity perception.","authors":"Xin Yan, Baoyi Zhu, Ce Mo","doi":"10.1177/03010066251326828","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251326828","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the most remarkable human cognitive abilities is the \"sense of number,\" that is, the almost instantaneous perception of numerosity information in the visual environment. While numerosity perception mirrors primary sensory processing in many aspects, little is known whether and how numerosity perception is influenced by selective attention to numerosity. Here, we investigated the effects of feature-based attention on numerosity perception using the visual search paradigm and the adaptation paradigm, respectively. In the visual search experiment, participants identified the presence of a numerosity-defined outlier among an array of distractors, while in the numerosity adaptation experiment, participants attended to a random dot field whose numerosity either matched or differed from the adaptor. We found a \"semiparallel\" search pattern in which attention was captured by the numerosity-defined outliers in a time-consuming, rather than an instantaneous manner. Interestingly, reduced numerosity adaptation aftereffects were observed when the attended numerosity matched the numerosity of the adaptor, indicating weakened perceptual representation of numerosity induced by feature-based attention. Our findings show, for the first time, that numerosity serves as a unique unit of nonspatial feature-based attention and that numerosity perception was modulated by feature-based attention via a distinctive mechanism that differed from other primary visual features.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"362-374"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659053","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}
{"title":"Affective reactions evoked by masks with an implied mouth.","authors":"Taiki Tachibana, Tsubasa Ozaki, Kaoru Hashimoto, Kyoshiro Sasaki","doi":"10.1177/03010066251315831","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251315831","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wearing a mask often disrupts social interactions because it covers parts of the face. Hence, masks with a printed smiling mouth (smiling masks) were designed to overcome this problem. In this study, we examine how wearing a smiling mask evokes affective impressions. The results show that people wearing a smiling mask are evaluated more eerily than those with a typical cloth mask or without any masks (Experiments 1). Moreover, people wearing a transparent mask (i.e., a mask whose area around the mouth is transparent) are evaluated less eerily than those with a smiling mask (Experiments 2). Our findings suggest that the realism inconsistency between facial features in the upper area and the printed mouth causes devaluation effects for people with a smiling mask. Our findings can be used as a reference for future mask designs that can promote healthy social interactions in a mask-wearing society, considering the potential return of infectious diseases and pandemics in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"309-317"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143543652","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-03-17DOI: 10.1177/03010066251326817
Fuminori Ono
{"title":"Retrospective kappa effect: Attention can retrospectively distort the perception of time interval.","authors":"Fuminori Ono","doi":"10.1177/03010066251326817","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251326817","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Time perception is influenced by the spatial factors of visual stimuli. When observing a moving visual stimulus, a longer moving distance is judged to be longer than a shorter moving distance, even if the moving time is the same (the kappa effect). In the present study, to examine the effect of retrospective attention on the kappa effect, two visual stimuli with different moving distances were presented simultaneously. Immediately after these stimuli disappeared, the stimulus to which attention should be directed was specified. Participants judged the time interval to be longer when the stimulus to which they directed retrospective attention moved a longer distance than when it moved a shorter one. This finding indicates that stimulus features (distance moved) affect time perception by directing attention to a specific object in the memory after the disappearance of visual stimuli.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"375-382"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12044203/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143651648","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1177/03010066251323778
Valeria Azevedo de Almeida, Alessandra Geraci, Fabricio Lima Brasil, Ingrid Guerra Azevedo, Luana Dantas da Silva, Francesca Simion, Silvana Alves Pereira
{"title":"Effects of early visual deprivation on face detection in premature newborns.","authors":"Valeria Azevedo de Almeida, Alessandra Geraci, Fabricio Lima Brasil, Ingrid Guerra Azevedo, Luana Dantas da Silva, Francesca Simion, Silvana Alves Pereira","doi":"10.1177/03010066251323778","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251323778","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined whether preterm infants possess a predisposition to follow face-like patterns and investigated the potential consequences of limited visual exposure to faces during the first weeks of life in preterm infants who experienced temporary visual deprivation due to phototherapy. The orienting responses (i.e., eyes and head movements toward two types of stimuli [face-like vs. scrambled]) of preterm infants were compared using a visual tracking paradigm. They were divided into two groups: preterm infants who underwent phototherapy for hyperbilirubinemia (experimental group) were compared with those who did not receive phototherapy and had no hyperbilirubinemia (control group). Both groups were assessed at 7 and 14 days of life (i.e., before and after phototherapy for the experimental group). Results demonstrated that both groups presented a preference for face-like stimuli at 7 days of life, which decreased in the experimental group at 14 days. This decrease may be due to the lack of visual experience with faces from wearing safety glasses during phototherapy. The findings supported theoretical views on how visual experiences mediate changes in face preferences.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"349-361"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755524","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-03-26DOI: 10.1177/03010066251322631
Marko Chi-Wei Tien, Andrea Albonico, Jason J S Barton
{"title":"Face and word superiority effects: Parallel effects of visual expertise.","authors":"Marko Chi-Wei Tien, Andrea Albonico, Jason J S Barton","doi":"10.1177/03010066251322631","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251322631","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are several studies that compare perception for written words and faces. However, many draw conclusions from different experimental paradigms, complicating direct comparison between these stimuli. Such comparisons are of interest because of hypotheses based on neuroimaging and neuropsychological data that face and word processing may have common underlying mechanisms and neural substrates. To facilitate such comparisons, we created a novel paradigm studying face recognition that closely resembles the word-superiority test, in which a letter is more easily identified when it is embedded in a whole word than when seen in isolation or in an unpronounceable random string of letters. Forty subjects each completed both of our tests. In the traditional word-superiority test, they briefly saw a word, a pseudoword, or a nonword, then a single test letter, and were asked if the letter had been part of the initial stimulus. In the face-superiority test, they briefly saw a learned, new, or scrambled face initially, then a test facial feature in isolation, and were asked to respond whether the feature had been part of the initial stimulus. For both categories of stimuli, there were similar differences between real, pseudo-, and non-stimuli. Accuracy was lower for non-stimuli compared to pseudo- and real stimuli, which in turn did not differ from each other. Response latency was greater for non-stimuli compared to pseudo-stimuli, which in turn was greater than real stimuli. Bivariate analyses revealed significant correlations between interstimulus trials for reaction times. Our study replicated a face superiority effect utilizing a similar methodology to the word-superiority test. Additionally, response latencies follows similar patterns in the recognition of written words and faces.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"333-348"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732567","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}
{"title":"Trait judgments of medieval Japanese illustrated portraits.","authors":"Ryuhei Ueda, Atsunobu Suzuki, Akira Takagishi, Chikahiko Suzuki, Kumiko Nagai","doi":"10.1177/03010066251322632","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251322632","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychological studies have revealed that people can easily draw inferences regarding others' personal traits from their faces, which has a considerable impact on social decisions. Impressions from faces can be summarized into two orthogonal dimensions: valence and dominance. Owing to their prominence in social relationships, faces appear in paintings across all ages and cultures. These observations lead to the question of whether the structure of trait impressions from illustrated portraits is similar to that of real faces. To examine this issue, we collected trait ratings of illustrated portraits of historical individuals from old Japanese artwork. In the Study 1 section, we applied a principal component analysis to 13 traits by Japanese raters and observed two orthogonal dimensions consistent with the valence and dominance model; the first component was correlated with trustworthiness but not with dominance, while the second component was correlated with dominance but not with trustworthiness. In the Study 2 section, we collected the trait ratings of real faces by Japanese raters and directly assessed the similarity between the two components. Highly similar structures were observed for the illustrated and real faces. Our findings provide evidence that portraits of historical individuals were painted to convey distinctive impressions of trustworthiness and dominance. This suggests that these traits were fundamental dimensions of people's perception in medieval Japan similar to today's society.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"318-332"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143651651","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 : 2025-04-30DOI: 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":"https://doi.org/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":"3010066251337355"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","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 : 2025-04-22DOI: 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":"https://doi.org/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":"3010066251333727"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","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 : 2025-04-16DOI: 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":"https://doi.org/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":"3010066251332097"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1177/03010066251322720
Frans A J Verstraten
{"title":"The coffee room and the future of perception research.","authors":"Frans A J Verstraten","doi":"10.1177/03010066251322720","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066251322720","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"223-225"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143517128","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}