{"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":2.1,"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":2.1,"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":2.1,"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":2.1,"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":"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":2.1,"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}
{"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":2.1,"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 effect of distance on the overestimation of gaze direction.","authors":"Gernot Horstmann, Linda Linke","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001295","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001295","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A widely known result from gaze perception research is the overestimation effect where gaze direction-or more precisely gaze endpoints-is seen farther to the side than they actually are. A common gain factor reported in the literature is 1.5, that is, an overestimation of gaze endpoint by 50%. Gaze endpoint, however, must be a joint function of gaze angle and distance. Results from data collected between 2022 and 2024 show that a strong overestimation for photographed models at short distances turns into almost perfect perception at larger distances. This was equally true when gazing was done with the eyes only (head straight relative to observer) and with the head only (eyes straight relative to head). A new method measures gaze angle by triangulation from fixation points at varying distances and separates two components: (a) a slope and (b) an intercept. This triangulation indicates that the overestimation of gaze angle (slope) is very moderate and that the strong effects in gaze endpoints are mainly due to the intercept. Further experiments indicate that the intercept effects are confined to two-dimensional pictures of lookers and are not observed in physical three-dimensional lookers. The results are interpreted with reference to the distinction between picture space and physical space. Moreover, the present results do not fully comply with the classic partial-occlusion explanation for the overestimation effect. (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":"260-281"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366688","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}
Kriti Bhatia, Angela Osenberg, Markus Janczyk, Volker H Franz
{"title":"Reviewing evidence for the perception-action model from Garner interference.","authors":"Kriti Bhatia, Angela Osenberg, Markus Janczyk, Volker H Franz","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001260","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001260","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is a widely accepted notion that visual information in the brain is processed via two parallel but separate cortical pathways, the ventral stream for visual perception and the dorsal stream for visuomotor actions. Perception-action dissociations from behavioral experiments are often cited as supportive evidence and one such example is Garner interference: It is assumed that perceptual/ventrally processed tasks suffer Garner interference, while visuomotor/dorsally processed tasks are immune to it (Ganel & Goodale, 2003). Ideally, this dissociation is demonstrated by comparing manual size estimation (assumed ventrally processed) with grasping (assumed dorsally processed). However, few studies actually made this comparison. We addressed this empirical shortage with two improved replications, yielding smaller effects of Garner interference in manual estimation than previous studies reported. In two subsequent experiments, we attempted to modulate Garner interference by manipulating the temporal profile of participants' responses, building on previous work (Hesse & Schenk, 2013) and extending it to manual estimation. We conclude with a literature review covering all relevant studies on Garner interference. Contrary to previous claims, the currently available evidence for a perception-action dissociation from Garner interference is insufficient to support a ventral-dorsal dissociation. (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":"217-242"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366633","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}
Adrianna Wielgopolan, Kamil K Imbir, Magdalena Walkowiak
{"title":"The influence of origin and valence of words on the social judgments of unknown people.","authors":"Adrianna Wielgopolan, Kamil K Imbir, Magdalena Walkowiak","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001255","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001255","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When we assess unknown people, we tend to be positively biased: we give them rather good assessments. However, can this positivity bias be limited or moderated? How would emotions of different origins (i.e., type of mechanisms involved in the formation of emotion: automatic vs. reflective) influence social judgments? We predicted that automatic emotions (of fast and effortless origin) would enhance the presence of positivity bias compared to reflective emotions (slow and effortful). Participants were asked to read and react to emotional words (differing in their origin: automatic, mixed, or reflective and in valence: positive and negative), process them in tasks (eliciting automatic or reflective processing), and assess the personality traits of unknown people in pictures. Participants tended to assess negative traits as less intense than positive traits; they assessed all traits as less intense in the automatic manipulation compared to the reflective task. Our results further explore the role of different emotional dimensions in the diffusion of incidental affect and show the role of the origin of emotion and the mode of processing in this phenomenon. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"178-188"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933308","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}