{"title":"Diversifying studies of human perception and performance.","authors":"Flora Oswald","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001262","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001262","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this 50th anniversary special commentary, I reflect on my journey as an early career researcher moving from skepticism about cognitive psychology to embracing its importance in understanding embodied social behavior and downstream outcomes for marginalized group members. I describe how the work published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (JEP:HPP) has contributed to the diversification of social cognition research both directly and indirectly and highlight opportunities for JEP:HPP to play a key role in diversifying the literature on human perception in the coming 50 years. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":"51 4","pages":"421-423"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143671651","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":"From tusk till horn: Modulating feature boundaries in action control.","authors":"Nicolas D Münster, Christian Frings","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001280","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001280","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the literature on action control, it is assumed that all stimulus features that occur in an action episode are integrated together with the response features into an event file. Any ensuing repetition of a feature stored in this event file leads to the retrieval of the entire event file, causing stimulus-response (S-R) binding effects because of the relation between repeated and changed features. However, the retrieval depends on the extent to which a particular feature is actually repeated and thus touches the question of what constitutes a feature. Since not only perceptual but also conceptual features are assumed to be bound, the boundaries between feature representations might not only be fluid but also modulable. In this study, we evaluated whether a direct manipulation of feature boundaries is possible. In three experiments (cumulative <i>n</i> = 217), by adding additional counting tasks to a distractor-response binding task, we either merged or separated feature categories, causing a significant difference in S-R binding effects-merged feature categories caused weaker S-R binding effects compared to separated feature categories. The results indicate that merged features were actively brought to be processed as more similar to each other. We interpret our data under the broader and old question of what a feature actually is and suggest that feature boundaries are task dependent. Human agents are highly flexible in controlling the internal representation of objects they interact with. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"507-525"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143441974","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":"Balance and mechanisms of shared and individual aesthetic values.","authors":"Norberto M Grzywacz","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001286","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001286","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a seminal article, Hönekopp set up rigorous criteria to understand when aesthetic values had individual versus shared bases. Using these criteria, he showed that the dichotomy between private and shared values was in balance. With this result, he gave a scientific answer to a debate that raged on for millennia. Unsurprisingly, therefore, his methods and results influenced scholars across a variety of fields, including psychology, cognitive and computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence, arts, fashion, and architecture. Later studies revealed that shared values were in part genetic. Their other components included, among others, social biases and interpersonal relations. Interestingly, the social basis of shared values extended even to social polarization, something that our sense of beauty had in common with other domains of society. In turn, individual aesthetic values also had genetic components. Similarly, learning played a role in the individuation of aesthetic values in part by using signals from our bodies, which are so different across individuals. Another source of individuation stemmed from natural learning being stochastic and chaotic, and having a high-dimensional space of values, allowing for multiple outcomes. Thus, Hönekopp's influential results of balance between individual versus shared values extended to the similarity of their underlying mechanisms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":"51 4","pages":"424-427"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143671646","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":"When irrelevant-feature priming fails: Encoding failure or failure to guide attention?","authors":"Daniel Toledano, Nitzan Micher, Dominique Lamy","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001279","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001279","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We tend to prioritize features and locations that have recently received our attention. Surprisingly, even irrelevant features of recently attended targets enjoy increased priority. However, such irrelevant-feature priming was found for some features and not for others. Here, we inquired whether the fact that irrelevant-feature priming is sometimes absent results from a failure of encoding or from a failure of attentional guidance. To answer this question, we relied on a finding common to the visual search and attentional-control literature: when a stimulus is responded to, the features and motor response associated with the action event are bound in a common representation and can be later retrieved. In two experiments, some participants searched for a color target and others for a shape target-with shape and color serving as the target's irrelevant feature for the former and for the latter, respectively. Responding to the target required an easy discrimination (Experiment 1) or a difficult one (Experiment 2). Repeating the target's irrelevant color speeded search, but repeating its irrelevant shape did not. However, the irrelevant feature-response binding effect was similar for the two search dimensions. These findings invalidate the no-encoding account. Additional findings indicate that irrelevant-feature priming shares the main characteristics of other intertrial priming phenomena. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"428-444"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442480","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":"Template-based and saliency-driven attentional control converge to coactivate on a common, spatially organized priority map.","authors":"Zexuan Niu, J Toby Mordkoff, Andrew Hollingworth","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001287","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001287","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual attention can be controlled both by a match to known target attributes (template-based guidance) and by physical salience (saliency-driven guidance). However, it remains unclear how these mechanisms interact to determine attentional priority. Here, we contrasted two accounts of this interaction. Under a <i>coactive</i> mechanism, template-based and saliency-driven guidance are simultaneously integrated in a common priority signal. Under a <i>noncoactive</i> mechanism, the two sources of control do not converge on a common priority signal, either because they are separated architecturally (separate-activations model) or temporally (sequential model). In a redundancy-gain paradigm, search targets were defined either as a match to a shape cue (template-based), the presence of a singleton-colored item (saliency-driven), or both (redundant). We assessed whether the response time distribution in the redundant condition contained a substantial proportion of trials that were faster than could have been generated by the faster of the two individual guidance processes operating independently in parallel, that is, violation of the race model inequality (RMI). This effect can be generated only by a coactive mechanism. The results showed robust violations of the RMI when both features appeared at the same location, consistent with a coactive model. In addition, violations of the RMI were eliminated when redundant features were displayed at different locations, indicating that guidance signals combine on a spatially organized priority map. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"492-506"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442242","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}
Siyi Chen, Fredrik Allenmark, Nika Merkuš, Hermann J Müller, Zhuanghua Shi
{"title":"Context-based guidance versus context suppression in contextual learning: Role of un-/certainty in the target-context relations in visual search.","authors":"Siyi Chen, Fredrik Allenmark, Nika Merkuš, Hermann J Müller, Zhuanghua Shi","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001321","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001321","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Standard investigations of contextual facilitation typically use invariant distractor arrangements predicting a fixed target location. In the real world, however, invariant spatial contexts are not always predictive. We examined how facilitation is influenced by uncertainty in target location prediction: comparing conditions where old contexts were 100% versus minimally (3%) predictive (Experiment 1), 80% predictive (20% nonpredictive) versus 20% predictive (Experiment 2), or a trial-wise mixed condition where 80% predicted a fixed location and 20% a random location (Experiment 3). New-context displays with matching target-location probabilities served as baselines. The results revealed both fully predictive and minimally predictive old contexts to expedite the search, but facilitation was larger for the former (Experiment 1). This held even when the display types were randomly intermixed at an 80:20 cross-trial uncertainty ratio (Experiment 3). However, when old displays predicted the target location in 80% of trials (Experiment 2), facilitation dropped to the level of minimally predictive displays. This indicates only fully predictive old displays support acquiring contextual cues that guide attention. The facilitation seen with 80% predictive contexts likely involves a less efficient process: singling out the target by context suppression. These findings can be incorporated into a neural-network model of context effects: When distractor representations are suppressed, the formation of facilitative links between distractor representations and the target location on the priority map becomes unlikely. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143694300","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":"Running after two hares in visual working memory: Exploring retrospective attention to multiple items using simulation, behavioral outcomes, and eye tracking.","authors":"Taiji Ueno, Richard J Allen","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001270","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001270","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multi-item retro-cueing effects refer to better working memory performance for multiple items when they are cued after their offset compared to a neutral condition in which all items are cued. However, several studies have reported boundary conditions, and findings have also sometimes failed to replicate. We hypothesized that a strategy to focus on only one of the cued items could possibly yield these inconsistent patterns. In Study 1, a Monte Carlo simulation showed that randomly selecting one of the cued items as the focus in each trial increased the chance of obtaining significant \"multi-item retro-cueing effects\" on the mean accuracy over the trials, providing an incorrect conclusion if interpreted as evidence for attending all the cued items. These high rates to obtain such data fit with inconsistent patterns in the literature. To try and circumvent this situation, we conducted two new experiments (Studies 2A and 2B) where participants were explicitly instructed to fixate their gaze on all the cued positions, verified through eye tracking (Study 2B). These produced robust multi-item retro-cueing effects regardless of previously identified boundary conditions. Notably, gazes were clearly fixated to multiple cued positions within each trial. Nevertheless, simulation revealed that our accuracy patterns could also in principle be produced by single-item enhancement on each trial. The present study forms the first step to disentangle overt gaze-based allocation of attention from single-item focusing strategies while also highlighting the need for improved methodologies to probe genuine multiplicity in working memory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"405-420"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142973080","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":"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":2.1,"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":2.1,"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":2.1,"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}