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Perceptual grouping by proximity principle in dot lattices adheres to Weber's law in the presence of orientation biases. 在存在取向偏差的情况下，点阵中基于接近原理的知觉分组符合韦伯定律。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001404

Hamze Moazzen, Fatemeh Bakouie, Shahriar Gharibzadeh

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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。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub 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":"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":"631-652"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","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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Beyond mixed alerting signals: Disentangling phasic from tonic influences on visual attention and cognitive control. 超越混合警报信号：对视觉注意和认知控制的相位和张力影响的分离。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-16 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001401

Dawa Dupont, Signe Vangkilde, Anders Petersen

{"title":"Beyond mixed alerting signals: Disentangling phasic from tonic influences on visual attention and cognitive control.","authors":"Dawa Dupont, Signe Vangkilde, Anders Petersen","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001401","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001401","url":null,"abstract":"Alertness plays a critical role in sensory processing, yet the extent to which phasic (transient) and tonic (sustained) alertness interact in shaping attention and cognitive control of attention (top-down control) remains unclear. We report two preregistered experiments, designed to disentangle and examine the specific effects of phasic and tonic alerting on distinct attentional processes, independent of motor responses. Using a phasic/tonic/no-alerting design with a purely accuracy-based letter recognition task, we apply computational modeling to analyze whether alerting influences perceptual thresholds, processing speed, visual short-term memory, spatial weighting, and top-down control. Results show that phasic alerting significantly enhances visual processing speed without affecting other attentional parameters, including top-down control. These results suggest that, in the absence of motor confounds, the interaction between alerting and cognitive control may be more limited than previously assumed in Posner and colleagues' attention network theory. In addition, results show that exposure to phasic alerting does not influence tonic alertness levels. This dissociation establishes a novel, methodological framework for isolating phasic alerting effects in attentional tasks, free from tonic confounds. Our findings highlight the distinct role of phasic alerting in accelerating visual processing globally rather than selectively, thus advancing our understanding of attentional dynamics in complex environments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"539-552"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147476112","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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The role of speech perception gradiency in L1 versus L2 spoken-word recognition. 语音感知梯度在第一语言和第二语言口语识别中的作用。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-19 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001399

Brian W L Wong, Arthur G Samuel, Efthymia C Kapnoula

{"title":"The role of speech perception gradiency in L1 versus L2 spoken-word recognition.","authors":"Brian W L Wong, Arthur G Samuel, Efthymia C Kapnoula","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001399","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001399","url":null,"abstract":"Speech perception gradiency reflects sensitivity to subphonemic differences. Prior research has shown that gradiency facilitates recovery from misperceptions (i.e., speech perception flexibility) in L1 (Kapnoula et al., 2021), but whether and how gradiency contributes to speech perception flexibility in L2 remains unknown. This study investigated the role of gradiency in spoken-word recognition among Spanish (L1)-English (L2) bilinguals. Gradiency was assessed using a Visual Analogue Scale with stop consonants (/b/-/p/), and initial activation of a lexical competitor and speech perception flexibility were assessed using an eye-tracking Visual World Paradigm task. Seventy Spanish-English bilinguals completed these tasks in both languages. Following previous results in L1 English, gradiency facilitated speech perception flexibility in L1 Spanish. In contrast, gradiency did not facilitate L2 speech perception; instead, a different pattern emerged: participants relied more heavily on lexical (top-down) than subphonemic (bottom-up) information, as would be expected given the less robust category representations in L2. In addition, a positive correlation between L1 and L2 gradiency was observed only among higher-proficiency listeners. Overall, these findings suggest that the functional role of gradiency in L1 versus L2 speech perception is modulated by the differential reliance on bottom-up versus top-down information. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"553-572"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147488049","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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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。

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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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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。

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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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Variable feedback timing influences motor learning strategy. 可变反馈时间影响运动学习策略。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-04-13 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001426

Tri Nguyen, Joo-Hyun Song

{"title":"Variable feedback timing influences motor learning strategy.","authors":"Tri Nguyen, Joo-Hyun Song","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001426","url":null,"abstract":"Learning a new motor skill requires a delicate balance between exploring new motor control solutions and exploiting known solutions. A commonly observed learning strategy that may reflect the interplay between exploration and exploitation involves holding a joint or a motor parameter constant while varying other degrees of freedom. By examining the relative variability between two deciding parameters of a novel single-joint motor learning task, we quantify usage of this strategy and relate it to motor learning and performance. In addition, we ask how experimentally induced motor variability, in the form of a persistent, variable visual feedback delay, affects the exploration and exploitation trade-off and usage of this strategy. The results showed participants alternated between periods where one motor control parameter was suppressed while the other varied. The transition away from this strategy is linked to motor performance. Furthermore, variable visual feedback delay slowed down this transition, thus hurting motor performance. We suggest that uncertainty from the variable feedback delay interferes with the effectiveness of the exploration of potential control solutions, resulting in a shift to a more systematic strategy. (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":"147678239","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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The plus polar "we": Polarity correspondence as a component of in-group related prioritization processes. 正极性“我们”：极性对应作为群体内相关优先排序过程的一个组成部分。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance Pub Date : 2026-04-13 DOI: 10.1037/xhp0001415

Marcel Pauly, Emre Gurbuz, Dirk Wentura

{"title":"The plus polar \"we\": Polarity correspondence as a component of in-group related prioritization processes.","authors":"Marcel Pauly, Emre Gurbuz, Dirk Wentura","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001415","url":null,"abstract":"We investigated whether the prioritization effect for an in-group, also called the we-prioritization effect (WPE), depends on the coding of stimulus and response alternatives on positive and negative poles in accordance with the polarity correspondence principle (PCP; Proctor & Cho, 2006). Pauly and Wentura (2025) showed that a significant part of the self-prioritization effect can be explained by the PCP. One half of the participants reacted with a (positively coded) \"yes\"-response to self-matching trials (in those trials, a positively coded label and shape are shown) and the other half with a negatively coded \"no\"-response. The self-prioritization effect was significantly reduced for the second half, which was attributed to the lack of polarity correspondence in self-matching trials. If WPEs can also be explained by polarity correspondence, a similar manipulation should lead to a significant reduction in the WPE. In a first experiment, we used a minimal group approach to induce group membership and replicated the WPE. In the second experiment, we varied task instructions between participants. Half of the participants reacted to matching trials with a positively coded response, the other half with a negatively coded response. The first half of the participants showed a significant WPE. For the second half, the WPE was significantly reduced but still existed. We conclude that the PCP can also be applied to the WPE and that a significant amount of this effect can be explained by the encoding of stimulus and response alternatives in general. However, a small genuine WPE remains. (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":"147678170","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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