{"title":"Attentional capture by abrupt onsets: Foundations and emerging issues.","authors":"Han Zhang, A Kane York, John Jonides","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001275","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001275","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study of attentional allocation due to external stimulation has a long history in psychology. Early research by Yantis and Jonides suggested that abrupt onsets constitute a unique class of stimuli that captures attention in a stimulus-driven fashion unless attention is proactively directed elsewhere. Since then, the study of visual attention has evolved significantly. This article revisits the core conclusions by Yantis and Jonides in light of subsequent findings and highlights emerging issues for future investigation. These issues include clarifying key concepts of visual attention, adopting measures with greater spatiotemporal precision, exploring how past experiences modulate the effects of abrupt onsets, and understanding individual differences in attentional allocation. Addressing these issues is challenging but crucial, and we offer some perspectives on how one might choose to study these issues going forward. Finally, we call for more investigation into abrupt onsets. Perhaps due to their strong potential to capture attention, abrupt onsets are often set aside in pursuit of other conditions that show attenuation of distractor interference. However, given their real-world relevance, abrupt onsets represent the exact type of stimuli that we need to study more to connect laboratory attention research to real life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":"51 3","pages":"283-299"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11908675/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544298","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}
{"title":"Adaptation to invisible motion impairs the understanding of verb phrases.","authors":"Shuyue Huang, Chen Huang, Yanliang Sun, Shena Lu","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001304","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001304","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The question of whether low-level perceptual processes are involved in language comprehension remains unclear. Here, we introduce a promising paradigm in which the role of motion perception in phrase understanding may be causally inferred without interpretational ambiguity. After participants had been adapted to either leftward or rightward drifting motion, resulting in the reduced responsiveness of motion neurons coding for the adapted direction, they were asked to indicate whether a subsequent verb phrase denoted leftward or rightward motion. When the adapting stimulus was blocked from visual awareness under continuous flash suppression, wherein only the influence of low-level perceptual processes existed, we found the response inhibition in the adapted direction across diverse verb phrases, indicating that desensitization of motion perception impaired the understanding of verb phrases. Our findings provide evidence for the functional relevance of motion perception to phrase understanding. However, when the adapting stimulus was consciously perceived, wherein both the influence of low-level perceptual processes and high-level cognitive processes coexisted but counteracted each other, we found different results for diverse verb phrases. Our findings highlight the importance of considering the influence of conscious awareness on how visual perception affects language comprehension. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":"51 3","pages":"303-313"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544295","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}
Maura Nevejans, Jan R Wiersema, Jan De Houwer, Emiel Cracco
{"title":"The impact of model eyesight and social reward on automatic imitation in virtual reality.","authors":"Maura Nevejans, Jan R Wiersema, Jan De Houwer, Emiel Cracco","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001271","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001271","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Motivational theories of imitation state that we imitate because this led to positive social consequences in the past. Because movement imitation typically only leads to these consequences when perceived by the imitated person, it should increase when the interaction partner sees the imitator. Current evidence for this hypothesis is mixed, potentially due to the low ecological validity in previous studies. We conducted two experiments (<i>N</i><sub>Experiment 1</sub> = 94, <i>N</i><sub>Experiment 2</sub> = 110) in which we resolved this limitation by placing participants in a virtual environment with a seeing and a blindfolded virtual agent, where they reacted to auditory cues with a head movement to the left or right, while the agent(s) also made a left or right head movement. We tested the effect of model eyesight (Experiments 1 and 2) and social reward on imitation (Experiment 2). Data were collected in 2023 and 2024. As expected, participants tended to imitate the agents. However, we found only limited evidence for the effect of model eyesight on automatic imitation in Experiment 1 and no evidence for the effect of model eyesight or social reward in Experiment 2. These findings challenge claims made by motivational theories. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"370-385"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025655","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}
{"title":"Perceptual learning of modulation filtered speech.","authors":"James M Webb, Ediz Sohoglu","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001274","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001274","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human listeners have a remarkable capacity to adapt to severe distortions of the speech signal. Previous work indicates that perceptual learning of degraded speech reflects changes to sublexical representations, though the precise format of these representations has not yet been established. Inspired by the neurophysiology of auditory cortex, we hypothesized that perceptual learning involves changes to perceptual representations that are tuned to acoustic modulations of the speech signal. We systematically filtered speech to control modulation content during training and test blocks. Perceptual learning was highly specific to the modulation filter heard during training, consistent with the hypothesis that learning involves changes to representations of speech modulations. In further experiments, we used modulation filtering and different feedback regimes (clear speech vs. written feedback) to investigate the role of talker-specific cues for cross-talker generalization of learning. Our results suggest that learning partially generalizes to speech from novel (untrained) talkers but that talker-specific cues can enhance generalization. These findings are consistent with the proposal that perceptual learning entails the adjustment of internal models that map acoustic features to phonological categories. These models can be applied to degraded speech from novel talkers, particularly when listeners can account for talker-specific variability in the acoustic signal. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"314-340"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025651","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}
Margherita Adelaide Musco, Eraldo Paulesu, Lucia Maria Sacheli
{"title":"Social and goal-related foundations of interpersonal adaptation during joint action.","authors":"Margherita Adelaide Musco, Eraldo Paulesu, Lucia Maria Sacheli","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001273","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001273","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Collaborative motor interactions (joint actions) require relating to another person (social dimension) whose contribution is needed to achieve a shared goal (goal-related dimension). We explored if and how these dimensions modulate interactive behavior by exploring posterror interpersonal adaptations. In two experiments carried out in 2022 (<i>N</i>₁ = 23; <i>N</i>₂ = 24, preregistered), participants played sequences of notes in turn-taking with a coactor either described as another participant or the computer (human vs. nonhuman coactor, social manipulation) while pursuing shared or individual goals (goal-related manipulation). The coactor was programmed to make a mistake in 50% of the trials. We found that, only in the shared goal condition, participants were slower when interacting with a human than a nonhuman coactor depending on how strongly they believed the human coactor was a real participant. Moreover, the general slowdown following a partner's error was absent when the action required from the participant corresponded to what the coactor should have done (correction tendency effect). This effect was found only in the shared goal condition without differences between coactors, suggesting it was driven by goal-related representations. The social and goal-related dimensions thus independently but significantly shape interpersonal adaptations during joint action. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"341-356"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143015329","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}
{"title":"The long-lasting legacy of early experimental studies in visual mental imagery.","authors":"Corinna S Martarelli, Fred W Mast","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001276","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001276","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual mental imagery is a core topic of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Several early behavioral contributions were published in the <i>Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance</i>, and they continue to influence the field despite the advent of new technologies and statistical models that are used in contemporary research on mental imagery. Future research will lead to new discoveries showing a broader importance of mental imagery, ranging from consciousness, problem-solving, expectations, perception, and reality monitoring. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":"51 3","pages":"300-302"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544242","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}
Matthew Paul O'Donohue, Philippe Lacherez, Naohide Yamamoto
{"title":"Effects of short- and long-term experience on two classical measures of the multisensory temporal integration window.","authors":"Matthew Paul O'Donohue, Philippe Lacherez, Naohide Yamamoto","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001278","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001278","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The relative timing between sensory signals strongly determines whether they are integrated in the brain. Two classical measures of temporal integration are provided by simultaneity judgments, where one judges whether cross-modal stimuli are synchronous, and violations of the race model inequality (RMI) due to faster responses to cross-modal than unimodal stimuli. While simultaneity judgments are subject to trial history effects (rapid temporal recalibration) and long-term experience (musical training), it is unknown whether RMI violations are similarly affected. Musicians and nonmusicians made simultaneity judgments and speeded responses to brief auditory-visual stimuli with varying onset asynchronies. We derived a so-called temporal integration window for both measures, via an observer model for simultaneity judgments and a nonparametric test for detecting observer-level RMI violations. Simultaneity judgments were subject to rapid recalibration and musicians were less likely than nonmusicians to perceive stimuli as synchronous. Proportionally, twice as many musicians as nonmusicians exhibited RMI violations within a temporal window spanning -33 to 100 ms. Response times (and RMI violations) were unaffected by rapid recalibration and modality shift costs, suggesting that rapid recalibration is not caused by changes in early sensory latency. Our findings show that perception- and action-based measures of multisensory temporal processing are affected differently by experience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":"51 3","pages":"386-404"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544301","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}
{"title":"Meaning composition in the processing of transposed-constituent compound nonwords.","authors":"Sachiko Kinoshita, Valentina Perica, Lili Yu","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001301","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001301","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Motivated by the compositional semantics perspective (Marelli, 2023), which regards the meaning-combination process as playing an important role in the recognition of polymorphemic words, the present study revisited a study by Crepaldi et al. (2013, Experiment 1) to reevaluate the role of semantic transparency in the processing of nonwords comprising existing morphemes. We replicated the transposed compound interference effect, namely, the greater difficulty in rejecting a nonword generated by reversing the order of the morpheme constituents (e.g., SIDELAKE from lakeside). Contrary to the claim of the original study, here we found evidence that this interference effect is greater if the original compound word was semantically transparent (e.g., lakeside) than opaque (e.g., hallmark). Importantly, we also show that this effect of baseword semantic transparency is in fact an effect of compositionality (the ease of generating a meaningful compound from the constituents). We discuss the implication of this finding for the processing of polymorphemic words, with particular regard to the experimental conditions that are favorable for finding a role for semantics. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":"51 3","pages":"357-369"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544306","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}
{"title":"How do people perceive the variability of multifeature objects?","authors":"Jinhyeok Jeong, Sang Chul Chong","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001269","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humans can judge the summary statistics of various feature dimensions from multiple objects, but it remains unclear whether and how ensemble perception occurs for multifeature objects. The present study investigates how people perceive the overall variability of multifeature objects. Participants estimated the overall variability of a set of stimuli having various orientations and colors, with each feature's variability randomly determined in each trial. Across three experiments, we found that most people considered both dimensions when estimating variability. To explore how people consider both features, we manipulated the interfeature correlation to examine whether perceived variability relies on the combination of marginal distributions or a joint distribution. The interfeature correlation does not influence the marginal variability of each feature but does reduce the overall variability of a multidimensional joint distribution. Our results showed that the interfeature correlation did not influence the perceived variability, consistent with the prediction based on marginal distributions. When similar features were spatially adjacent, however, interfeature correlation reduced perceived variability, and the contribution of orientation diminished, suggesting that spatial regularity modulates how different features are combined for variability judgments. These results indicate that multiple feature information contributes to variability perception, supporting the idea of a domain-general variance processor. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":"51 2","pages":"202-216"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366623","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}
{"title":"The contribution of motor identity prediction to temporal binding.","authors":"Victoria K E Bart, Dorit Wenke, Martina Rieger","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001265","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001265","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Temporal binding describes an illusory compression of time between voluntary actions and their effects. In two experiments, using stable, preexisting action-effect associations, we investigated whether motor identity prediction (prediction of the effect's identity) enhances temporal binding. Touch-typists performed keystrokes and were presented with congruent (corresponding letter) or incongruent (noncorresponding letter) effects after different intervals. Touch-typists estimated the interval between keystrokes and effects. In both experiments, interval estimates were shorter with congruent than with incongruent effects, indicating that motor identity prediction contributes to temporal binding when using stable, preexisting action-effect associations. The congruency effect disappeared over the time course of Experiment 1 (in which incongruent effects were three times more likely than congruent effects), whereas it remained stable in Experiment 2 (in which congruent and incongruent effects were equally likely). Thus, the impact of motor identity prediction on temporal binding is context-sensitive. Even with highly overlearned action-effect associations, participants seem very flexible in adapting their internal predictions about an effect's identity. They may cease to use previously acquired action-effect associations in contexts in which their predictions are less reliable, thereby diminishing the influence of motor identity prediction on temporal binding. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"189-201"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933302","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}