PerceptionPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-05DOI: 10.1177/03010066241295992
Robin S S Kramer
{"title":"Face to face: Comparing ChatGPT with human performance on face matching.","authors":"Robin S S Kramer","doi":"10.1177/03010066241295992","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241295992","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>ChatGPT's large language model, GPT-4V, has been trained on vast numbers of image-text pairs and is therefore capable of processing visual input. This model operates very differently from current state-of-the-art neural networks designed specifically for face perception and so I chose to investigate whether ChatGPT could also be applied to this domain. With this aim, I focussed on the task of face matching, that is, deciding whether two photographs showed the same person or not. Across six different tests, ChatGPT demonstrated performance that was comparable with human accuracies despite being a domain-general 'virtual assistant' rather than a specialised tool for face processing. This perhaps surprising result identifies a new avenue for exploration in this field, while further research should explore the boundaries of ChatGPT's ability, along with how its errors may relate to those made by humans.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"65-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11646356/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142577127","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 : 2024-12-09DOI: 10.1177/03010066241303705
Robin S S Kramer, Natália Javorková
{"title":"Face matching as a majority: Getting the best from a crowd.","authors":"Robin S S Kramer, Natália Javorková","doi":"10.1177/03010066241303705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066241303705","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For unfamiliar faces, deciding whether two photographs depict the same person or not can be difficult. One way to substantially improve accuracy is to defer to the 'wisdom of crowds' by aggregating responses across multiple individuals. However, there are several methods available for doing this. Here, we investigated performance in three tests of unfamiliar face matching. In all cases, we found that going with the option chosen by the majority of people provided the best approach. No benefit was found by weighting an option's popularity using average confidence, while choosing the 'surprisingly popular' option resulted in a sizeable decrease in accuracy. Therefore, rather than incorporating metacognitive judgements, we endorse a simple majority vote for this particular task.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"3010066241303705"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142796496","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 : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-09-17DOI: 10.1177/03010066241279932
Paulo Ventura, Francisco Cruz, Alexandre Pereira
{"title":"The role of transitional probabilities in word holistic processing.","authors":"Paulo Ventura, Francisco Cruz, Alexandre Pereira","doi":"10.1177/03010066241279932","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241279932","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, increased attention has been devoted to visual word recognition under a perceptual expertise framework. Because the information required to identify words is distributed across the word, a holistic attentional strategy is optimal and develops with experience. It is, however, an open question the extent to which other information embedded in a word may contribute to word holistic processing, namely sublexical word properties. In the present research, we therefore explore the role of sublexical properties-specifically bigram transition probabilities-in this processing strategy. We used a common task in the holistic processing literature (i.e., composite task) and four-letter disyllabic words, where two of the bigrams reinforce the cohesiveness of each syllable and one of the bigrams reinforces the cohesiveness between the syllables. We found preliminary evidence of a role of these sublexical properties in word holistic processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"775-786"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11568652/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142299571","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 : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-10-14DOI: 10.1177/03010066241288766
Nicholas J Wade
{"title":"Undercover story.","authors":"Nicholas J Wade","doi":"10.1177/03010066241288766","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241288766","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The covers for <i>Perception</i> and for <i>i-Perception</i> display enigmatic portraits. That for <i>Perception</i> carries a face, the origins of which remain mysterious whereas <i>i-Perception</i> contains a portrait of Gustav Theodor Fechner which hovers around the threshold for detection.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"749-752"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142479102","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 : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1177/03010066241288839
Morton A Heller, Nelson Adams
{"title":"Illusions exist in everyday life with natural stimuli: The banana-bisection Illusion.","authors":"Morton A Heller, Nelson Adams","doi":"10.1177/03010066241288839","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241288839","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report a novel visual illusion that is present in the natural environment. In attempting to cut a banana in half, many people make the side adjacent to the stem shorter, because they see it as longer than it is. This study tested the presence of the banana bisection illusion with outline drawings and a 3D realistic-looking plastic banana. According to Gibson (1966) illusions are the consequence of artificial and impoverished stimuli, such as line drawings. However, the banana bisection illusion was found with naturalistic-looking 3D stimuli. A second experiment with solid 3D plastic bananas found the illusion with and without the stem, but the illusion was larger with the stem present.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":"53 11-12","pages":"812-816"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142639936","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":"Crossmodal to unimodal transfer of temporal perceptual learning.","authors":"Xing-Nan Zhao, Shu-Chen Guan, Ying-Zi Xiong, Cong Yu","doi":"10.1177/03010066241270271","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241270271","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Subsecond temporal processing is crucial for activities requiring precise timing. Here, we investigated perceptual learning of crossmodal (auditory-visual or visual-auditory) temporal interval discrimination (TID) and its impacts on unimodal (visual or auditory) TID performance. The research purpose was to test whether learning is based on a more abstract and conceptual representation of subsecond time, which would predict crossmodal to unimodal learning transfer. The experiments revealed that learning to discriminate a 200-ms crossmodal temporal interval, defined by a pair of visual and auditory stimuli, significantly reduced crossmodal TID thresholds. Moreover, the crossmodal TID training also minimized unimodal TID thresholds with a pair of visual or auditory stimuli at the same interval, even if crossmodal TID thresholds are multiple times higher than unimodal TID thresholds. Subsequent training on unimodal TID failed to reduce unimodal TID thresholds further. These results indicate that learning of high-threshold crossmodal TID tasks can benefit low-threshold unimodal temporal processing, which may be achieved through training-induced improvement of a conceptual representation of subsecond time in the brain.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"753-762"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141917906","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 : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1177/03010066241284956
Robin S S Kramer, Yaren Koca, Michael O Mireku, Chris Oriet
{"title":"Anchoring has little effect when forming first impressions of facial attractiveness.","authors":"Robin S S Kramer, Yaren Koca, Michael O Mireku, Chris Oriet","doi":"10.1177/03010066241284956","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241284956","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>First impressions based on facial appearance affect our behaviour towards others. Since the same face will appear different across images, over time, and so on, our impressions may not be equally weighted across exposures but are instead disproportionately influenced by earlier or later instances. Here, we followed up on previous work which identified an anchoring effect, whereby higher attractiveness ratings were given to a person after viewing naturally varying images of their face presented in descending (high-to-low), rather than ascending (low-to-high), order of attractiveness of these images. In Experiment 1 (<i>n </i>= 301), we compared these 'descending' and 'ascending' conditions for unfamiliar identities by presenting six-image sequences. Although we found higher attractiveness ratings for the 'descending' condition, this small effect equated to only 0.22 points on a 1-7 response scale. In Experiment 2 (<i>n </i>= 307), we presented these six-image sequences in a random order and found no difference in attractiveness ratings given to these randomly ordered sequences when compared with those resulting from both our 'descending' and 'ascending' conditions. Further, we failed to detect an influence of the earlier images in these random sequences on attractiveness ratings. Taken together, we found no compelling evidence that anchoring could have an effect on real-world impression formation.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"787-802"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11568655/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142331079","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 : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1177/03010066241272260
Ekaterina Koshmanova, Maria Dvoeglazova, Vladislav Myrov, Elena Gorina, Kristina Vodorezova, Elena S Gorbunova, Tadamasa Sawada
{"title":"The Ames room and the misunderstood versions and depictions.","authors":"Ekaterina Koshmanova, Maria Dvoeglazova, Vladislav Myrov, Elena Gorina, Kristina Vodorezova, Elena S Gorbunova, Tadamasa Sawada","doi":"10.1177/03010066241272260","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241272260","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Ames room illusion is one of the best-known geometrical illusions but its geometrical properties are often misunderstood. This study discusses the differences in the geometrical properties between the original Ames room and what have been often referred to as \"Ames rooms\" in recent studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"817-820"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142086393","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 : 2024-11-01Epub Date: 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1177/03010066241280653
Yasuhiro Takeshima
{"title":"The influence of spatial frequency information on temporal synchrony perception on audiovisual stimuli.","authors":"Yasuhiro Takeshima","doi":"10.1177/03010066241280653","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241280653","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous studies have shown that the spatial frequency (SF) of visual stimuli alters the perceived timing of subjective simultaneity. However, these studies have been limited to the effects of a single SF component. In this study, I measured and compared the points of subjective simultaneity (PSS) for audiovisual stimuli among low, high, and composited SF components. This experiment comprised a dual-presentation timing task and a ternary response format to eliminate response bias. The results indicated that the PSS value of the composition-SF stimuli was more toward visual-lead timing than the low-SF stimuli and did not differ significantly from that of the high-SF stimuli. The correlation coefficients showed that the PSS in composition-SF stimuli marginally approximated that of high-SF stimuli higher than that of low-SF stimuli. Future studies are needed to confirm these findings using visual stimuli with a wider range of SF components and with a modulated contrast.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"803-811"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142331081","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}