PerceptionPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1177/03010066241270493
Bruno Laeng, Shoaib Nabil, Akiyoshi Kitaoka
{"title":"Tunnel motion: Pupil dilations to optic flow within illusory dark holes.","authors":"Bruno Laeng, Shoaib Nabil, Akiyoshi Kitaoka","doi":"10.1177/03010066241270493","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241270493","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We showed to the same observers both dynamic and static 2D patterns that can both evoke distinctive perceptions of motion or optic flow, as if moving in a tunnel or into a dark hole. At all times pupil diameters were monitored with an infrared eye tracker. We found a converging set of results indicating stronger pupil dilations to expansive growth of shapes or optic flows evoking a forward motion into a dark tunnel. Multiple regression analyses showed that the pupil responses to the illusory expanding black holes of static patterns were predicted by the individuals' pupil response to optic flows showing spiraling motion or \"free fall\" into a black hole. Also, individuals' pupil responses to spiraling motion into dark tunnels predicted the individuals' sense of illusory expansion with the static, illusory expanding, dark holes. This correspondence across individuals between their pupil responses to both dynamic and static, illusory expanding, holes suggests that these percepts reflect a common perceptual mechanism, deriving motion from 2D scenes, and that the observers' pupil adjustments reflect the direction and strength of motion they perceive and the expected outcome of an increase in darkness.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"730-745"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11451077/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142082424","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1177/03010066241261772
Fatma Kılıç, Dicle Dövencioğlu
{"title":"Visual softness perception can be manipulated through exploratory procedures.","authors":"Fatma Kılıç, Dicle Dövencioğlu","doi":"10.1177/03010066241261772","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241261772","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Both visual and haptic softness perception have recently been shown to have multiple dimensions, such as deformability, granularity, fluidity, surface softness, and roughness. During haptic exploration, people adjust their hand motions (exploratory procedures, EPs) based on the material qualities of the object and the particular information they intend to acquire. Some of these EPs are also shown to be associated with perceived softness dimensions, for example, stroking a silk blouse or applying pressure to a pillow. Here, we aimed to investigate whether we can manipulate observers' judgments about softness attributes through exposure to videos of others performing various EPs on everyday soft materials. In two experiments, participants watched two videos of the same material: one with a corresponding EP and the other without correspondence; then, they judged these materials based on 12 softness-related adjectives (semantic differentiation method). The results of the second experiment suggested that when the EP is congruent with the dimension from which the material is chosen, the ratings for the adjectives from the same dimension are higher than the incongruent EP. This study provides evidence that participants can assess material properties from optic and mechanical cues without needing haptic signals. Additionally, our findings indicate that manipulating the hand motion can selectively facilitate material-related judgments.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"674-687"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141762076","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1177/03010066241270627
Kasia A Myga, Elena Azañón, Klaudia B Ambroziak, Elisa R Ferrè, Matthew R Longo
{"title":"Haptic experience of bodies alters body perception.","authors":"Kasia A Myga, Elena Azañón, Klaudia B Ambroziak, Elisa R Ferrè, Matthew R Longo","doi":"10.1177/03010066241270627","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241270627","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on media's effects on body perception has mainly focused on the role of vision of extreme body types. However, haptics is a major part of the way children experience bodies. Playing with unrealistically thin dolls has been linked to the emergence of body image concerns, but the perceptual mechanisms remain unknown. We explore the effects of haptic experience of extreme body types on body perception, using adaptation aftereffects. Blindfolded participants judged whether the doll-like stimuli explored haptically were thinner or fatter than the average body before and after adaptation to an underweight or overweight doll. In a second experiment, participants underwent a traditional visual adaptation paradigm to extreme bodies, using stimuli matched to those in Experiment 1. For both modalities, after adaptation to an underweight body test bodies were judged as fatter. Adaptation to an overweight body produced opposite results. For the first time, we show adiposity aftereffects in haptic modality, analogous to those established in vision, using matched stimuli across visual and haptic paradigms.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"716-729"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142331080","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1177/03010066241263052
Simon Pratt, Benedict M Wand, Dana A Hince, Mervyn J Travers, Lee Schneider, Sara Kelly, William Gibson
{"title":"Body image at the trunk: An investigation into externally referenced width perception and picture mapping.","authors":"Simon Pratt, Benedict M Wand, Dana A Hince, Mervyn J Travers, Lee Schneider, Sara Kelly, William Gibson","doi":"10.1177/03010066241263052","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241263052","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Body image is a conscious representation of the body, encompassing how our body feels to us. Body image can be measured in a variety of ways, including metric and depictive measures. This study sought to assess body image at the trunk by investigating, and comparing, a metric and depictive measure. Sixty-nine healthy participants estimated their thorax, waist, and hip width by externally referencing mechanical calipers. Participants were also asked to select the true image of their trunk from a random display of nine images containing the true image and incrementally shrunken or enlarged images. Participants demonstrated evidence of thorax and waist width overestimation in the width perception task, with no evidence for hip misestimation. For the picture mapping task, the majority of participants were inaccurate. In participants who were inaccurate, approximately equal proportions underestimated and overestimated their trunk width. The two tasks were found to be independent of each other. Distortions, or inaccuracies, were apparent in a metric measure, and inaccuracies also present in a depictive measure, of body image at the trunk for healthy participants. An overestimation bias was apparent in the metric, but not depictive, task. No relationship was found between tasks..</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"688-703"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11453033/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141876509","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1177/03010066241270209
Alexander W J Freemantle, Lorenzo Dante Stafford
{"title":"The relationship between social odour awareness and emotional contagion susceptibility in females.","authors":"Alexander W J Freemantle, Lorenzo Dante Stafford","doi":"10.1177/03010066241270209","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241270209","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research has shown a strong link between our sense of smell and emotion. More recently, the importance we attach to olfaction has been found to relate to our susceptibility to 'catch' the emotions of others. We explore this further by examining the relation between a newly developed measure of olfaction (social odour scale, SOS), which measures awareness of social odours, and emotional contagion susceptibility in female participants. The study therefore aimed to test the strength of this relationship and also help validate the English language version of the SOS. Female (n = 148) participants completed an online study that measured odour awareness [SOS; important of odour questionnaire, IOQ] and emotional contagion (EC). We found that the English version of the SOS yielded high reliability and supported the previous factor structure of the scale; additionally, we demonstrated a strong association between the SOS and IOQ which provides criterion validity for its usage. The study also revealed that whilst both the SOS and IOQ were positively associated with EC, the SOS was the more accurate predictor. These findings provide further validation for the use of the SOS and suggest that our subjective awareness of olfaction, especially concerning 'social odours' is an accurate predictor of emotional contagion.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"704-715"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11457436/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141972190","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 : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1177/03010066241274439
Frans Verstraten
{"title":"Obituary: Wim van de Grind (23 April 1936-14 July 2024).","authors":"Frans Verstraten","doi":"10.1177/03010066241274439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066241274439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":"53 9","pages":"664-667"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142057084","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 : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1177/03010066241258204
Ao Wang, Bartholomew P A Quinn, Hannah Gofton, Timothy J Andrews
{"title":"No evidence for an other-race effect in dominance and trustworthy judgements from faces.","authors":"Ao Wang, Bartholomew P A Quinn, Hannah Gofton, Timothy J Andrews","doi":"10.1177/03010066241258204","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241258204","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A variety of evidence shows that social categorization of people based on their race can lead to stereotypical judgements and prejudicial behaviour. Here, we explore the extent to which trait judgements of faces are influenced by race. To address this issue, we measured the reliability of first impressions for own-race and other-race faces in Asian and White participants. Participants viewed pairs of faces and were asked to indicate which of the two faces was more dominant or which of the two faces was more trustworthy. We measured the consistency (or reliability) of these judgements across participants for own-race and other-races faces. We found that judgements of dominance or trustworthiness showed similar levels of reliability for own-race and other-race faces. Moreover, an item analysis showed that the judgements on individual trials were very similar across participants from different races. Next, participants made overall ratings of dominance and trustworthiness from own-race and other-race faces. Again, we found that there was no evidence for an ORE. Together, these results provide a new approach to measuring trait judgements of faces and show that in these conditions there is no ORE for the perception of dominance and trustworthiness.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"632-644"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11348627/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141332360","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 : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-05-23DOI: 10.1177/03010066241256221
Robin S S Kramer, Kay L Ritchie, Tessa R Flack, Michael O Mireku, Alex L Jones
{"title":"The psychometrics of rating facial attractiveness using different response scales.","authors":"Robin S S Kramer, Kay L Ritchie, Tessa R Flack, Michael O Mireku, Alex L Jones","doi":"10.1177/03010066241256221","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241256221","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Perceiving facial attractiveness is an important behaviour across psychological science due to these judgments having real-world consequences. However, there is little consensus on the measurement of this behaviour, and practices differ widely. Research typically asks participants to provide ratings of attractiveness across a multitude of different response scales, with little consideration of the psychometric properties of these scales. Here, we make psychometric comparisons across nine different response scales. Specifically, we analysed the psychometric properties of a binary response, a 0-100 scale, a visual analogue scale, and a set of Likert scales (1-3, 1-5, 1-7, 1-8, 1-9, 1-10) as tools to measure attractiveness, calculating a range of commonly used statistics for each. While certain properties suggested researchers might choose to favour the 1-5, 1-7 and 1-8 scales, we generally found little evidence of an advantage for one scale over any other. Taken together, our investigation provides consideration of currently used techniques for measuring facial attractiveness and makes recommendations for researchers in this field.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"645-660"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11348630/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141080830","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 : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-06-11DOI: 10.1177/03010066241258969
Myrthe A Plaisier, Cahelle S J M Vleeshouwers, Nynke Boonstra, Yueying Shi, Sam J I van der Velden, Wouter K Vos, Astrid M L Kappers
{"title":"Vibrotactile spatial acuity on the back.","authors":"Myrthe A Plaisier, Cahelle S J M Vleeshouwers, Nynke Boonstra, Yueying Shi, Sam J I van der Velden, Wouter K Vos, Astrid M L Kappers","doi":"10.1177/03010066241258969","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241258969","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vibrotactile feedback can be built into clothing such as vests. This means that often vibrotactile information is presented to the back. It is known that the back has a relatively low spatial acuity. Spatial acuity varies across different limbs and sometimes with different locations on a limb. These known anisotropies suggest that there might be systematic variations in vibrotactile spatial acuity for different areas of the back and also for different orientations (i.e. horizontal vs. vertical). Here we systematically measured spatial acuity in four areas of the back for both horizontal and vertical orientations. The results show no significant differences in spatial acuity for the back areas that were tested. Spatial acuity was, however, higher in the horizontal direction than in the vertical direction by roughly a factor of two. This means that when designing vibrotactile displays for the back the tactor density can be lower in the vertical direction than in the horizontal direction and density should be constant for different areas of the back.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"619-631"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11348621/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141307203","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 : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1177/03010066241259729
Ayako Kaneko, Takeshi Atsumi, Masakazu Ide
{"title":"Temporal resolution relates to sensory hyperreactivity independently of stimulus detection sensitivity in individuals with autism spectrum disorder.","authors":"Ayako Kaneko, Takeshi Atsumi, Masakazu Ide","doi":"10.1177/03010066241259729","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03010066241259729","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers have been focusing on perceptual characteristics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in terms of sensory hyperreactivity. Previously, we demonstrated that temporal resolution, which is the accuracy to differentiate the order of two successive vibrotactile stimuli, is associated with the severity of sensory hyperreactivity. We currently examined whether an increase in the perceptual intensity of a tactile stimulus, despite its short duration, is derived from high temporal resolution and high frequency of sensory temporal summation. Twenty ASD and 22 typically developing (TD) participants conducted two psychophysical experimental tasks to evaluate <i>detectable duration</i> of vibrotactile stimulus with same amplitude and to evaluate temporal resolution. The sensory hyperreactivity was estimated using self-reported questionnaire. There was no relationship between the temporal resolution and the duration of detectable stimuli in both groups. However, the ASD group showed severe sensory hyperreactivity in daily life than TD group, and the ASD participants with severe sensory hyperreactivity tended to have high temporal resolution, not high sensitivity of detectable duration. Contrary to the hypothesis, there might be different processing between temporal resolution and sensitivity for stimulus detection. We suggested that the atypical temporal processing would affect to sensory reactivity in ASD.</p>","PeriodicalId":49708,"journal":{"name":"Perception","volume":" ","pages":"585-596"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141307202","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}