Hamza Sabek, Loïc P Heurley, Lionel Brunel, Hélène Vanborren, Thibaut Brouillet, Vincent Dru
{"title":"Visuotactile correlation increases the integration of visual body-related effects into action representation.","authors":"Hamza Sabek, Loïc P Heurley, Lionel Brunel, Hélène Vanborren, Thibaut Brouillet, Vincent Dru","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001285","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001285","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding how individuals represent their bodies in action is crucial for cognitive sciences. The theory of event coding suggests actions are coded by their perceptual effects. Yet the spatial representation of actions during simultaneous body-related effects is less understood. This study aimed to explore whether a correlation between visual and tactile effects could integrate visual information into action representations. Indeed, spatiotemporal correlation among sensory signals coming from various modalities is known to be a critical factor, especially in studies on body representations. We manipulated visual feedback by inverting it on the horizontal plane. The first group performed an induction task involving stroking a surface with a time lag between tactile and visual feedback (asynchronous group), while the second experienced no time lag (synchronous group). Participants then rated their subjective feeling of referral of touch (RoT) which corresponds to the perceived location of their index finger's tactile sensations. Subsequently, both groups completed the Simon task to assess spatial action coding. Results indicated no significant differences in RoT ratings between groups; however, the Simon task showed that the synchronous group coded responses based on the visual effects' locations, unlike the asynchronous group. Additionally, a correlation was observed between RoT ratings and the Simon task. These findings suggest that when multiple body-related action effects compete, visual effects may prevail if there is a temporal correlation between visual and tactile effects. These findings underscore the importance of spatiotemporal correlations in coding actions and support the linkage between action and body representation processes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"445-456"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442472","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}
Victor Galvez, Jesus Calderon-Villalon, Rosinna Gómez-Moya, Juan Fernandez-Ruiz
{"title":"Influences on the emergence of strategic visuomotor learning mechanisms in school-aged children.","authors":"Victor Galvez, Jesus Calderon-Villalon, Rosinna Gómez-Moya, Juan Fernandez-Ruiz","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001291","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001291","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visuomotor development is based on implicit procedural and explicit strategic learning mechanisms. Given that both of these mechanisms are associated with child maturation, we sought to explore the effect of three related variables on adaptation rates: chronological age, intelligence quotient, and motor skills. In our study, 86 healthy school-aged children (grouped in 6-7, 8-9, and 10-11 years) with no reported visual or developmental disorders participated in a prism-throwing task under two different conditions. In the first condition, we introduced a wedge prism that displaces the visual field laterally. Adapting to this kind of visual perturbation relies mainly on procedural mechanisms. In the second condition, we introduced a dove prism, which reverses the visual field horizontally, allowing us to evaluate explicit strategic learning mechanisms. Most of the children managed to adapt to the use of implicit procedures based on the error feedback, regardless of age. However, older children were able to adopt explicit strategies to counteract the optical disturbance generated by the dove prism in greater proportions, irrespective of motor ability scores or intelligence quotient. Our results suggest that adopting strategic mechanisms depends more on chronological development than on intelligence or motor skills. In contrast, implicit error-based visuomotor learning consolidates from an early age. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"526-533"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143469835","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":"Random rewards reduce task-switch costs.","authors":"Chiu Yu-Chin, Corey Allen Nack","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001288","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001288","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Task switching is effortful as it requires overcoming habitual task sets and reconfiguring new ones. Smaller switch costs can facilitate productivity and efficiency in modern work environments, where multitasking is crucial. However, the mechanisms to reduce switch costs are not fully understood, limiting reliable enhancement of this skill through interventions. While recent perspectives have hypothesized that noncontingent, or random, rewards could reduce switch costs, this has yet to be demonstrated. This study documented four experiments investigating the impact of random rewards on switch costs using a cued task-switching paradigm. Specifically, participants received rewards unrelated to the task, presented as gifts randomly at the end of some trials but not others. Results from all four experiments consistently showed that random rewards led to smaller switch costs compared to no rewards. However, this reduction was due to significant slowing after random reward presentations on both subsequent switch and repeat trials. Experiment 2 demonstrated that contingency played a role, with smaller switch costs observed only in the random reward condition, not in the performance-contingent reward condition. Experiments 3a and 3b further showed that reduced switch costs occurred only in the random reward condition, not in the oddball condition, despite both involving unexpected visual events, suggesting that the value of random rewards is critical. These findings provide initial evidence that random rewards can reduce switch costs, manifesting as post-reward slowing on both switch and repeat trials. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"475-491"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442177","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":"Disentangling the contributions of spatiotopic, retinotopic, and configural frames of reference to the filtering of probable distractor locations.","authors":"Ryan S Williams, Susanne Ferber, Jay Pratt","doi":"10.1037/xhp0001293","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xhp0001293","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human observers can allocate their attention to locations likely to contain a target and can also learn to avoid locations likely to contain a salient distractor during visual search. However, it is unclear which spatial frame of reference such learning is applied to. As such, our aim was to systematically disentangle the contributions of spatiotopic, retinotopic, and configural frames of reference to provide a comprehensive account of how the probabilistic distractor filtering effect comes about. We first demonstrate that the filtering effect is better determined by the probability of a salient distractor appearing at a relative location (i.e., in relation to one's eye position or an item's position in relation to other items within a display) rather than a fixed (spatiotopic) location, by varying the position of visual search arrays (along with fixation) across spatial contexts. We then separate retinotopic and configural reference frames by varying the configural but not retinotopic properties of biased (i.e., displays containing a probable distractor location) and unbiased visual search arrays and vice versa. In doing so, we find the filtering effect to be restricted to biased contexts when retinotopic positions are maintained, but configural properties are varied. In contrast, when the configural properties of visual search arrays are maintained, we show the transfer of the filtering effect across retinotopic positions. Thus, we demonstrate that probabilistic distractor filtering primarily emerges via a configural representation that codes the relative positions of items within search displays independent of spatiotopic and retinotopic coordinates. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":50195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance","volume":" ","pages":"457-474"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143441902","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":"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":2.3,"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":"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":2.3,"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":"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":2.3,"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":"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":2.3,"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}
{"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":2.3,"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":"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":2.3,"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}