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Subtle to significant: Enhancing heaviness perception with stochastic resonance. 从细微到显著：通过随机共振增强重感。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-05-07 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001423

Alli A Grunkemeyer, Damian G Kelty-Stephen, Aaron D Likens

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Working memory capacity predicts sensitivity to prosodic structure. 工作记忆容量预测对韵律结构的敏感性。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001412

Constantijn L van der Burght, Antje S Meyer

{"title":"Working memory capacity predicts sensitivity to prosodic structure.","authors":"Constantijn L van der Burght, Antje S Meyer","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001412","url":null,"abstract":"Listeners vary in the perception and interpretation of speech prosody (the variations in intonation, loudness, and rhythm of spoken language). The source of this variability is unknown. We investigated whether the ability to recognize and classify prosodic structure is related to working memory capacity. This hypothesis stems from the tight connection between prosodic and syntactic (grammatical) structure, and because processing syntax is known to relate to working memory capacity. Healthy adult speakers of Dutch judged prosodic structures in a gating paradigm. The phrases contained early and late intonational cues that signaled whether the phrases contained an internal grouping. Listeners also took part in tasks tapping into verbal working memory (digit span) and processing speed (letter comparison). There was an interaction between performance in the prosody judgment and working memory tasks: High-working memory listeners were better at classifying prosodic structure and required less prosodic information to detect the correct structure. There was no interaction between prosody processing and processing speed. The results demonstrate a close relationship between prosody processing and working memory abilities, implying that working memory is an important component of prosody processing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147822936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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A perceptual grouping model for auditory kappa effects. 听觉卡帕效应的知觉分组模型。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001433

Carolyn Kroger, Deborah R Fu, Renee M Banakis Hartl, Anahita H Mehta

{"title":"A perceptual grouping model for auditory kappa effects.","authors":"Carolyn Kroger, Deborah R Fu, Renee M Banakis Hartl, Anahita H Mehta","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001433","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001433","url":null,"abstract":"Current models suggest that perceptual time dilation between sequential auditory events with greater pitch separation, known as \"auditory kappa effects,\" arises from auditory motion percepts. The prevailing explanation attributes this effect to violations of expected pitch trajectories, as the perceptual system imputes a constant pitch velocity across events. We tested this auditory motion hypothesis against an alternative auditory grouping hypothesis, which proposes that pitch-timing interactions promote the grouping or segregation of auditory events, leading to subjectively shorter or longer perceived intervals between tones. We conducted two experiments to compare kappa effects across sequences with varying pitch separations (velocities) and sequences with inconsistent pitch trajectories, which precluded stable pitch-velocity references. Experiment 1 results showed larger kappa effects for sequences with slower pitch velocities, contradicting the motion hypothesis, and Experiment 2 showed robust kappa effects based on pitch proximity, regardless of unpredictable pitch motion. Phenomenological models associated with each hypothesis demonstrated that the auditory grouping model provided a better fit to our behavioral data in Experiment 2. These findings support perceptual grouping and segregation as fundamental processes underlying timing judgments and challenge our current understanding of feature interactions in auditory perception. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13143343/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147822931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Automatic integration of emotion from faces and hands. 自动整合面部和手部的情感。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001429

Matthew R Longo, Robert Mackenzie

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Revisiting the retro-cue benefit: Why does focusing attention result in improved memory performance? 回顾回溯线索的好处：为什么集中注意力能提高记忆力？

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-04-23 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001428

Caro Hautekiet, Klaus Oberauer

{"title":"Revisiting the retro-cue benefit: Why does focusing attention result in improved memory performance?","authors":"Caro Hautekiet, Klaus Oberauer","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001428","url":null,"abstract":"To investigate focused attention, most researchers have relied on the retro-cue paradigm, in which encoding of a memory set is followed by a retro-cue indicating the item to be tested. In this paradigm, it is typically observed that memory performance is enhanced for cued items compared with a no-cue control. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the retro-cue benefit; here we revisit 2 of them. To investigate whether the retro-cue protects from memory decay, we varied the time between encoding and the memory test using verbal (Experiments 1, 2, and 4) and visual memory materials (Experiment 3). To test whether the retro-cue protects from perceptual interference, we manipulated the presence of test-display interference using verbal (Experiment 5) and visual memory materials (Experiment 6). The retro-cue benefit was observed when test-display interference was present, or when there was time for decay after the onset time of the retro-cue in the cue and the control condition. When both were taken away or strongly minimized, the retro-cue benefit disappeared. Therefore, memory performance benefits from focused attention because focusing attention protects information from memory decay and from perceptual interference at test. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147787746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Monetary incentives modulate serial dependences from memories and responses. 金钱激励调节来自记忆和反应的序列依赖性。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-04-23 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001424

Liwen Qian, Yurong Sun, Yixuan Ku

{"title":"Monetary incentives modulate serial dependences from memories and responses.","authors":"Liwen Qian, Yurong Sun, Yixuan Ku","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001424","url":null,"abstract":"Reward and punishment play pivotal roles in cognition. This study investigates how monetary incentives affect serial biases of subsequent responses toward prior targets and responses in an orientation reproduction task. Experiment 1 (n = 20) revealed the attractive impacts of prior target orientations with good memory performance, whereas biases toward prior response angles were more significant regardless of response quality. Experiment 2 (n = 36), introducing a condition without incentives, highlighted the pronounced distinction between biases toward prior target orientations and response angles only in the presence of incentives. Interestingly, subsequent responses exhibited greater biases toward angles of poor prior responses that resulted in nonreward or loss, compared with rewarded or unpunished responses. These findings demonstrate that prior responses accompanied by incentives, especially those associated with nonreward and loss, have a stronger attraction to subsequent responses, shedding new light on the impact of reward and punishment on cognition. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147787681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Is value perceived? Evidence from perceptual grouping in value-based choice. 价值是被感知的吗？基于价值选择的知觉分组证据。

IF 2.3 3区心理学

Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-04-16 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001418

Christina Deuschle, Emily J Ineson, Dale J Cohen

{"title":"Is value perceived? Evidence from perceptual grouping in value-based choice.","authors":"Christina Deuschle, Emily J Ineson, Dale J Cohen","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001418","url":null,"abstract":"There is robust evidence that the revealed preference between two options changes when a third, nonpreferred option is made available. This is referred to as a context effect. Here, we assess whether context effects result from the automatic processing of value information and whether they obey the laws of perceptual organization. To do so, we ask participants to choose between two options while ignoring task-irrelevant distractors. On each trial, a high-value distractor is placed near one option, and a low-value distractor is placed near the other. If value is automatically processed (and the options and distractors are nonindependent), then the distractors will have a predictable influence on choice. This is exactly what we found in two experiments. In two follow-up experiments, we show that the context effect disappears when priming and perceptual grouping are inhibited. In a final experiment, we demonstrate that perceptual grouping influences context effects in the absence of priming. These findings are consistent with the conclusion that value is a perceptual, rather than a conceptual, event. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147700582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Body movement perception is shaped by both generic and actor-specific models of human bodies. 身体运动感知是由人体的一般模型和演员特定模型塑造的。

IF 2.3 3区心理学

Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-04-16 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001393

Antoine Vandenberghe, Gilles Vannuscorps

{"title":"Body movement perception is shaped by both generic and actor-specific models of human bodies.","authors":"Antoine Vandenberghe, Gilles Vannuscorps","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001393","url":null,"abstract":"Body movement perception is shaped by knowledge of the human body biomechanics. Apparent motion from rapidly alternating pictures follows the shortest path between two body postures only if it is biomechanically plausible. And although we tend to perceive a moving body part as slightly shifted forward along its trajectory, this extrapolation is absent (or reduced) when the biomechanical constraints make continued movement unlikely. The received view is that perception is shaped by a model of the observer's own body. Here, we present three lines of evidence challenging this view. First, we report the typical influence of knowledge of the upper-limb biomechanics on apparent movement perception and perceptual extrapolation in two individuals born without limbs (Experiments 1 and 2). Second, we report that these effects are independent of the observers' own flexibility (Experiment 3). Third, we show that perception is influenced by knowledge of actor-specific biomechanics (Experiments 4-8). We conclude that body movement perception relies on visually acquired models of both generic and actor-specific body biomechanics. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147700635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Not worth my time! Understanding factors that make speech socially engaging. 不值得我浪费时间！理解使讲话具有社会吸引力的因素。

IF 2.3 3区心理学

Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-04-13 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001410

Marcos E Domínguez-Arriola, Marc D Pell

{"title":"Not worth my time! Understanding factors that make speech socially engaging.","authors":"Marcos E Domínguez-Arriola, Marc D Pell","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001410","url":null,"abstract":"What determines how much time people are willing to spend in a conversation? Here, we investigated how the topic of conversation-like anecdotes and the speaker's relational stance shape listeners' social impressions and value perception of speech, indexed by their willingness to continue a hypothetical interaction. In Experiment 1, speakers told boring and interesting anecdotes using a neutral or an engaging tone designed to foster positive interpersonal outcomes. Acoustic analyses showed that engaging speakers raised their pitch, spoke louder and with greater variability, used a \"brighter\" voice, and their anecdotes sounded positive, energetic, and authentic to listeners. In Experiment 2, listeners indicated how long they would be willing to continue a conversation for each anecdote (\"time bidding\") and rated speakers on key social traits. Engaging speakers were perceived as friendlier, more competent, and more attractive, demonstrating the impact of vocal stance on social appeal. Although the topic had the strongest influence on time-bidding responses, willingness to continue a hypothetical interaction was also influenced by relational stance (engaging > neutral voice), mediated by social impressions of the speaker. Results demonstrate that both what is said and how speakers present themselves shape the subjective value of social anecdotes, potentially contributing to perceived interaction quality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147678182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Change detection is biased to listeners' known languages in complex auditory scenes. 变化检测偏向于复杂听觉场景中听者的已知语言。

IF 2.3 3区心理学

Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-04-13 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001425

Anna Y Liu, Christina M Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden

{"title":"Change detection is biased to listeners' known languages in complex auditory scenes.","authors":"Anna Y Liu, Christina M Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001425","url":null,"abstract":"When we cross a busy street, we may hear traffic sounds, strangers' conversations, birds chirping, and music all at once. Despite the presence of many possible sounds, we are biased to detect changes to speech over other real-world sounds in our environments. Yet, it is unclear what factors are responsible for listeners' biases toward speech: Is there a processing bias toward all speech or is this bias sensitive to the learned acoustic patterns of listeners' known languages? Here, we examined whether listeners' language backgrounds influenced change detection of speech in auditory scenes. Adult listeners from three language backgrounds (English monolingual, English-Mandarin bilingual, and English-other language/non-Mandarin bilingual) completed a change detection task in which they determined whether pairs of auditory scenes consisting of speech (nonsemantic English and Mandarin sentences), music, environmental, and animal sounds were the same or different from each other. We replicated the attentional bias toward speech and showed that only English-Mandarin bilinguals detected Mandarin speech changes as well as English speech changes. Beyond a general bias toward all human speech, listeners are biased toward speech in their known language(s). Our work suggests that linguistic experiences contribute to encoding and remembering communicative sounds in busy sound environments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147678222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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