PerceptionPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1177/03010066241234037
Chloe Rafferty, Jamie Ward
{"title":"Fibromyalgia is linked to increased subjective sensory sensitivity across multiple senses.","authors":"Chloe Rafferty, Jamie Ward","doi":"10.1177/03010066241234037","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241234037","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Changes in subjective sensory sensitivity - reporting sensory stimuli as being atypically intense or weak - are a transdiagnostic symptom of several disorders. The present study documents for the first time the sensory sensitivity profile of fibromyalgia, taking a questionnaire measure that asks about different sensory modalities and both hyper- and hyposensitivity (the Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire, GSQ). The fibromyalgia group had higher overall scores on this measure. This was linked more strongly to sensory hypersensitivity and was pervasive across all senses that were surveyed. Although differences in hyposensitivity were found, these were sporadic (perhaps linked to the symptoms of fibromyalgia itself) and did not resemble the pattern documented for autism (e.g., self-stimulating and repetitive behaviours were not a feature of fibromyalgia). We suggest that individual differences in subjective sensory hypersensitivity may be a multisensory dispositional trait linked to fibromyalgia which ultimately becomes most pronounced for pain.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"276-286"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10960319/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139974220","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 : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-01-03DOI: 10.1177/03010066231223440
Alan Kingstone, Esther Walker, Shahrazad Amin, Walter F Bischof
{"title":"Eyes meet, hands greet: The art of timing in social interactions.","authors":"Alan Kingstone, Esther Walker, Shahrazad Amin, Walter F Bischof","doi":"10.1177/03010066231223440","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066231223440","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Shaking hands is a fundamental form of social interaction. The current study used high-definition cameras during a university graduation ceremony to examine the temporal sequencing of eye contact and shaking hands. Analyses revealed that mutual gaze always preceded shaking hands. A follow up investigation manipulated gaze when shaking hands, and found that participants take significantly longer to accept a handshake when an outstretched hand precedes eye contact. These findings demonstrate that the timing between a person's gaze and their offer to shake hands is critical to how their action is interpreted.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"287-290"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10960310/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139089185","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 : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-03-11DOI: 10.1177/03010066241232573
Qasim Zaidi
{"title":"Memories of Sophie Wuerger (1960-2024).","authors":"Qasim Zaidi","doi":"10.1177/03010066241232573","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241232573","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"294-296"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140095009","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 : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1177/03010066231224557
Vanalata Bulusu, Leslee Lazar
{"title":"Crossmodal associations between naturally occurring tactile and sound textures.","authors":"Vanalata Bulusu, Leslee Lazar","doi":"10.1177/03010066231224557","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066231224557","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates the crossmodal associations between naturally occurring sound textures and tactile textures. Previous research has demonstrated the association between low-level sensory features of sound and touch, as well as higher-level, cognitively mediated associations involving language, emotions, and metaphors. However, stimuli like textures, which are found in both modalities have received less attention. In this study, we conducted two experiments: a free association task and a two alternate forced choice task using everyday tactile textures and sound textures selected from natural sound categories. The results revealed consistent crossmodal associations reported by participants between the textures of the two modalities. They tended to associate more sound textures (e.g., wood shavings and sandpaper) with tactile surfaces that were rated as harder, rougher, and intermediate on the sticky-slippery scale. While some participants based the auditory-tactile association on sensory features, others made the associations based on semantic relationships, co-occurrence in nature, and emotional mediation. Interestingly, the statistical features of the sound textures (mean, variance, kurtosis, power, autocorrelation, and correlation) did not show significant correlations with the crossmodal associations, indicating a higher-level association. This study provides insights into auditory-tactile associations by highlighting the role of sensory and emotional (or cognitive) factors in prompting these associations.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"219-239"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139673426","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 : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-02-08DOI: 10.1177/03010066241229269
Yutian Qin
{"title":"Spice up the moment: The influence of spicy taste on people's metaphorical perspectives on time.","authors":"Yutian Qin","doi":"10.1177/03010066241229269","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241229269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Embodied cognition contends that sensorimotor experiences undergird cognitive processes. Three embodied cross-domain metaphorical mappings constitute quintessential illustrations: spatial navigation and orientation underpin the conceptualization of time and emotion and gustatory sensation underlies the formulation of emotion. Threading together these strands of insights, the present research consisted of three studies explored the potential influence of spicy taste on people's metaphorical perspectives on time. The results revealed a positive correlation between spicy taste and the ego-moving metaphor for time such that individuals who enjoyed spicy taste (Study 1) and who consumed spicy (vs. salty) snack (Study 2) exhibited a predilection for the ego-moving perspective when cognizing a temporally ambiguous event. Because both spicy taste and the ego-moving metaphor are associated with anger and approach motivation, the latter two were postulated to be related to the novel taste-time relationship. Corroborative evidence for the hypothesis was found, which indicated that spicy (vs. salty) intake elicited significantly stronger anger toward and significantly greater approach-motivated perception of a rescheduled temporal event (Study 3). Taken together, the current findings demonstrate that spicy taste may play a role in people's perspectives on the movement of events in time and highlight the involved embodied interrelation between language, emotion, and cognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"240-262"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139708322","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 : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-01-10DOI: 10.1177/03010066231223825
Ed R Hope, Keval Patel, James Feist, Oliver R Runswick, Jamie S North
{"title":"Examining the importance of local and global patterns for familiarity detection in soccer action sequences.","authors":"Ed R Hope, Keval Patel, James Feist, Oliver R Runswick, Jamie S North","doi":"10.1177/03010066231223825","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066231223825","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pattern recognition is a defining characteristic of expertise across multiple domains. Given the dynamic interactions at local and global levels, team sports can provide a vehicle for investigating skilled pattern recognition. The aims of this study were to investigate whether global patterns could be recognised on the basis of localised relational information and if relations between certain display features were more important than others for successful pattern recognition. Elite (<i>n</i> = 20), skilled (<i>n</i> = 34) and less-skilled (<i>n</i> = 37) soccer players completed three recognition paradigms of stimuli presented in point-light format across three counterbalanced conditions: 'whole-part'; 'part-whole'; and 'whole-whole'. 'Whole' clips represented a 11 vs. 11 soccer match and 'part' clips presented the same passages of play with only two central attacking players or two peripheral players shown. Elite players recognised significantly more accurately than the skilled and less-skilled groups. Participants were significantly more accurate in the 'whole-whole' condition compared to others, and recognised stimuli featuring the two central attacking players significantly more accurately than those featuring peripheral players. Findings provide evidence that elite players can encode localised relations and then extrapolate this information to recognise more global macro patterns.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"149-162"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10858626/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139418453","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 : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1177/03010066231218911
Jamie Ward
{"title":"When small effect sizes become huge: Synaesthesia is linked to very large differences in cognition.","authors":"Jamie Ward","doi":"10.1177/03010066231218911","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066231218911","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The replication crisis has taught us to expect small-to-medium effects in psychological research. But this is based on effect sizes calculated over single variables. Mahalanobis <i>D</i>, the multivariate equivalent of Cohen's <i>d</i>, can enable very large group differences to emerge from a collection of small-to-medium effects (here, reanalysing multivariate datasets from synaesthetes and controls). The use of multivariate effect sizes is not a slight of hand but may instead be a truer reflection of the degree of psychological differences between people that has been largely underappreciated.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"208-210"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10858618/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138499974","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 : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2023-12-21DOI: 10.1177/03010066231222526
Dietrich S Schwarzkopf, Annelise Kolf, Cathy Lai, Tina Huang, Shuji Kinoshita
{"title":"The everchanging Sky-Tower - an apparent giant.","authors":"Dietrich S Schwarzkopf, Annelise Kolf, Cathy Lai, Tina Huang, Shuji Kinoshita","doi":"10.1177/03010066231222526","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066231222526","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For over a quarter-century, the Sky-Tower has dominated the skyline of Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. Despite its imposing height, observers anecdotally report odd fluctuations in how big it appears. From certain angles, it can look positively stumpy. Such misperceptions can be bewildering and perilous when it happens whilst driving. Here, we characterise this strange illusion in the hopes of better understanding its cause.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"211-214"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10858621/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138832638","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 : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-01-12DOI: 10.1177/03010066231222473
Camille Ferdenzi, Arnaud Fournel, Nicolas Baldovini, Daphnée Poupon, Déborah Ligout, Marc Thévenet, Romain Bouet, Moustafa Bensafi
{"title":"Influence of the human body odor compound HMHA on face perception.","authors":"Camille Ferdenzi, Arnaud Fournel, Nicolas Baldovini, Daphnée Poupon, Déborah Ligout, Marc Thévenet, Romain Bouet, Moustafa Bensafi","doi":"10.1177/03010066231222473","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066231222473","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Body odors convey information about the individuals, but the mechanisms are not fully understood yet. As far as human reproduction is concerned, molecules that are produced in sexually dimorphic amounts could be possible chemosignals. 3-hydroxy-3-methylhexanoic acid (HMHA) is one of them-more typical of men. Here, we investigated the possibility that the perception of gender and attractiveness in human faces could be implicitly influenced by this compound. Clearly feminine, ambiguous and clearly masculine faces were primed with an odor of HMHA, a control odor or air. Based on 100-ms face presentation, 40 raters had to identify the face's gender as quickly as possible and provide attractiveness evaluations. 3-hydroxy-3-methylhexanoic acid tended to be perceived as less pleasant and induced lower sniff duration in women compared with men. As to the effects of HMHA on face perception (vs. control conditions), we found that gender identification and the associated response time were unaffected by HMHA. Attractiveness of the faces, however, increased in presence of HMHA, but not in a sex-specific manner and only for unattractive faces with ambiguous gender. In sum, this study found no evidence in favor of a possible role of this sexually dimorphic compound in intrasexual competition nor in intersexual attraction.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"180-196"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139433054","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 : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1177/03010066241228681
Mai Huong Phan, Björn Jörges, Laurence R Harris, Frederick A A Kingdom
{"title":"A visual bias for falling objects.","authors":"Mai Huong Phan, Björn Jörges, Laurence R Harris, Frederick A A Kingdom","doi":"10.1177/03010066241228681","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241228681","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aristotle believed that objects fell at a constant velocity. However, Galileo Galilei showed that when an object falls, gravity causes it to accelerate. Regardless, Aristotle's claim raises the possibility that people's visual perception of falling motion might be biased away from acceleration towards constant velocity. We tested this idea by requiring participants to judge whether a ball moving in a simulated naturalistic setting appeared to accelerate or decelerate as a function of its motion direction and the amount of acceleration/deceleration. We found that the point of subjective constant velocity (PSCV) differed between up and down but not between left and right motion directions. The PSCV difference between up and down indicated that more acceleration was needed for a downward-falling object to appear at constant velocity than for an upward \"falling\" object. We found no significant differences in sensitivity to acceleration for the different motion directions. Generalized linear mixed modeling determined that participants relied predominantly on acceleration when making these judgments. Our results support the idea that Aristotle's belief may in part be due to a bias that reduces the perceived magnitude of acceleration for falling objects, a bias not revealed in previous studies of the perception of visual motion.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"197-207"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10858620/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139673425","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}