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The influence of active suppression on stimulus-response binding and retrieval 主动抑制对刺激-反应结合和恢复的影响

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2026-05-07 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-026-03277-w

Ruyi Qiu, Yanzhi Mo

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The effects of intelligibility on conflict resolution and monitoring during speech recognition in noise 噪声环境下语音识别中可理解性对冲突解决和监测的影响

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-026-03271-2

Susan Teubner-Rhodes, Anna Pusser, Rebecca Dunterman

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Neither the number of feature dimensions nor their task relevance necessarily affect interocular grouping in binocular rivalry 在双目竞争中，特征维度的数量及其任务相关性并不一定影响眼间分组

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-026-03265-0

Marek A. Pedziwiatr, Monika Derda, Weronika Bator, Michał Wierzchoń, Christoph Teufel

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When can working memory consolidation be interrupted? 什么时候工作记忆巩固会被打断？

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2026-05-05 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-026-03269-w

Brandon J. Carlos, Lindsay A. Santacroce, Benjamin J. Tamber-Rosenau

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The sound of silence: Binding and retrieval of silence in distractor-response binding 沉默之声：干扰-反应结合中沉默的结合与恢复

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2026-05-05 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-026-03261-4

Maria Nemeth, Christian Frings, Philip Schmalbrock, Birte Moeller

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Category specificity in holistic processing: Reciprocal face–word interference does not extend to body stimuli 整体加工中的类别特异性：脸字交互干扰不扩展到身体刺激

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2026-04-30 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-026-03270-3

Paulo Ventura, Alexandre Pereira, Tina T. Liu

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Exploring the effect of cognitive factors in lipreading: The roles of auditory–verbal learning, inhibition, verbal fluency, and visuospatial working memory 探讨认知因素对唇读的影响：听觉-言语学习、抑制、言语流畅性和视觉空间工作记忆的作用。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-026-03266-z

Hale Hancer, Nilgun Ulger

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Things are looking (farther) up: Upward gaze orientation is overestimated 事情正在向上看（更远）：向上的凝视方向被高估了。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-026-03268-x

Dennis M. Shaffer, Montse Juarez, Alexis Shaver, Carissa Brown, Brooke Hill, Ryanne E. Shaffer

{"title":"Things are looking (farther) up: Upward gaze orientation is overestimated","authors":"Dennis M. Shaffer, Montse Juarez, Alexis Shaver, Carissa Brown, Brooke Hill, Ryanne E. Shaffer","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03268-x","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03268-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the current work, we examine upward head orientation. Previous work has shown that downward gaze orientation is overestimated by a factor of ~1.5, while azimuth gaze orientation is overestimated by a factor of ~1.2. In Experiment 1, we compared head orientation in the upward, downward, and azimuth (leftward and rightward) directions. The factor by which observers overestimated upward head orientation was 1.56, similar to overestimates in downward head orientation in this and downward gaze orientation in previous work. Azimuth gaze orientation was overestimated by ~1.26, similar to previous work. In Experiment 2, we examined upward head orientation with a smaller range of angles and found that the factor increased slightly (1.7) but not statistically so from Experiment 1 or from previous work. We also examined the perceptual head orientation boundaries for upward and downward gaze orientation. These indicate a far more limited range than 90° up and down. In Experiment 3, participants gave head orientation estimates while blindfolded. Their estimates of upward, downward, and azimuth head orientation matched our current and others’ previous work. Independent of gaze, head orientation is overestimated by the same factor as is gaze orientation. The upward head orientation overestimates predict well observers’ estimates of heights of familiar suspended objects and fits with why some familiar suspended objects appear smaller than actual. The common scale expansion for upward and downward head and gaze orientation is a useful perceptual regularity that reliably predicts how we spatially map the environment and how we perceive the world.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13414-026-03268-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147790062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How background music rhythm modulates time perception: Evidence from the estimation of collision time 背景音乐节奏如何调节时间感知：来自碰撞时间估计的证据。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-026-03260-5

Chang Lu, Linxin Zhang, Li Li, Hanbin Sang, Yulin Gao, Jie Huang, Aijun Wang

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35+ years of the additional singleton task: Design features and guidelines 超过35年的额外单例任务：设计功能和指导方针。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-026-03259-y

Jan Theeuwes

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