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Space-time interference between the length and duration of static lines. 静态线的长度和持续时间之间的时空干扰。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03093-8

Daniel Bratzke, Rolf Ulrich

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Comparing object lifting kinematics and the size-weight illusion between physical reality and virtual reality. 物理现实与虚拟现实中物体升降运动学及尺寸-重量错觉的比较。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03091-w

David John Harris, Callum Aaron O'Malley, Tom Arthur, Jack Evans, Gavin Buckingham

{"title":"Comparing object lifting kinematics and the size-weight illusion between physical reality and virtual reality.","authors":"David John Harris, Callum Aaron O'Malley, Tom Arthur, Jack Evans, Gavin Buckingham","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03091-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03091-w","url":null,"abstract":"This study compared the size-weight illusion (SWI) and object lifting kinematics between physical and virtual conditions, shedding light on the nuanced disparities in perception and action across different environmental mediums. We examined whether prior expectations about object weight based on size cues, which affect the experience of real-world object interactions, are different in virtual reality (VR). Employing a highly realistic virtual environment with precisely matched visual size and haptic cues, we tested the hypothesis that VR, which may be experienced as uncertain, unfamiliar, or unpredictable, would induce a smaller SWI due to a diminished effect of prior expectations. Participants (N = 25) reported the felt heaviness of lifted objects that varied in both volume and mass in physical reality and a VR environment. Reach and lift kinematics, and self-reported presence, were also recorded. Our findings showed no differences between how participants perceived the SWI between real and virtual environments, although there was a trend towards a smaller illusion in VR. Contrary to our predictions, participants who experienced more presence in VR did not experience a larger SWI-instead, the inverse relationship was observed. Notably, differences in reach velocities between physical and virtual conditions suggested a more controlled approach in VR. These findings highlight the intricate relationship between immersion and sensorimotor processes in virtual environments, emphasising the need for deeper exploration into the underlying mechanisms that shape human interactions with immersive technologies, particularly the prior expectations associated with virtual environments.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144163981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Visual short-term memory, culture, and image structure. 视觉短期记忆、文化和图像结构。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03094-7

Huilin Li, Jessie Chien, Angela Gutchess, Robert Sekuler

{"title":"Visual short-term memory, culture, and image structure.","authors":"Huilin Li, Jessie Chien, Angela Gutchess, Robert Sekuler","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03094-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03094-7","url":null,"abstract":"Cultural differences in cognition, including visual perception and long-term memory, may arise because typical visual environments differ across cultures, particularly in their spatial scale. Consequently, the influence of culture on cognitive processing depends on whether stimuli are presented at a large or small spatial scale. We tested North American and East Asian young adults to determine whether such cultural differences extend to short-term memory-testing, for the first time, whether spatial frequency information contributes to cross-cultural differences in memory. Test materials were images of natural and constructed scenes whose spatial structure was manipulated by low-pass filtering. Several seconds after briefly viewing a target scene, a subject saw three versions of that scene: the target itself and two variants whose low-pass filtering differed from the target. From these three, the subject selected the image identical to the target. The two groups did not differ in overall recognition accuracy but did in the way they mistook nonmatching images for certain targets. Specifically, North American subjects made reliably fewer errors in matching images whose high-frequency content was intact, providing evidence that cultural differences in prioritization of high spatial frequency information extend to short-term memory. Across both groups, subjects were highly accurate at recognizing images that retained all or most of their high-spatial frequency content and were highly sensitive to different levels of spatial filtering. These findings show that visual memory has sufficient fidelity to support fine discrimination of variation in spatial frequency.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144164076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Expectations don't protect us from emotional distractions. 期望并不能保护我们不受情绪干扰。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03085-8

André Botes, Imogen A Moore, Gina M Grimshaw

{"title":"Expectations don't protect us from emotional distractions.","authors":"André Botes, Imogen A Moore, Gina M Grimshaw","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03085-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03085-8","url":null,"abstract":"We often attend to irrelevant information to the detriment of our goals. Emotional stimuli, in particular, capture attention effectively. Usually, this capture is adaptive - alerting us to possible threats or rewards - but can be costly when attention is required elsewhere. Previous studies show that we are less distracted by emotional stimuli when they appear frequently, consistent with the claim that expectation of upcoming conflict encourages the use of effective proactive attentional control. An alternative explanation, however, is that better attentional control arises through greater experience with frequent distractors. To distinguish between these alternatives, we conducted three experiments that tested the effects of expectation on attentional control of emotional distractors while holding experience constant. Participants performed a simple letter identification task while emotionally neutral or negative task-irrelevant images also appeared on 25% of trials, either predictably (on every fourth trial) or unpredictably. As expected, emotional images were more distracting than neutral ones. However, predictability of upcoming emotional distractors did not improve participants' ability to ignore them; indeed, it sometimes made distraction significantly worse. Similar findings were observed even when participants received incentives to use the sequential presentation of distractors to improve performance. Our findings imply that simply expecting distraction to occur does not help to prevent it.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144133169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Distinct states in visual working memory support memory benefits from extending encoding time. 视觉工作记忆的不同状态支持延长编码时间对记忆的好处。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03089-4

Ziyuan Li, Yuexin Mao, Na Zhao, Chaoxiong Ye, Penglan Liu, Qiang Liu

{"title":"Distinct states in visual working memory support memory benefits from extending encoding time.","authors":"Ziyuan Li, Yuexin Mao, Na Zhao, Chaoxiong Ye, Penglan Liu, Qiang Liu","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03089-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03089-4","url":null,"abstract":"Visual working memory (VWM) is a fundamental cognitive mechanism with limited capacity. Recent research has highlighted the effectiveness of extending the encoding items to enhance VWM capacity. However, the mechanisms responsible for such enhancement remain unclear. Our hypothesis is that the presence of distinct states within VWM (active vs. passive) may contribute to this enhancement. Extending the encoding time allows items that surpass the active storage capacity to temporally transition into the passive state, thus freeing up resources for active storage. To test this, participants were asked to memorize two arrays sequentially, with the first array held in the passive state while they actively maintained the second. We systematically extended the encoding time for the second (active) array and observed memory benefits. These benefits came at the expense of the storage of the first (passive) array, suggesting that items exceeding the active memory capacity are temporarily stored in the passive state. Overall, the presence of distinct states in VWM allows for storing more items. The employment of the passive state contributes to the benefits of extended-encoding time in VWM.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144112680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Beating stress: Evidence for recalibration of word stress perception. 跳动的重音：重新校准单词重音知觉的证据。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03088-5

Ronny Bujok, David Peeters, Antje S Meyer, Hans Rutger Bosker

{"title":"Beating stress: Evidence for recalibration of word stress perception.","authors":"Ronny Bujok, David Peeters, Antje S Meyer, Hans Rutger Bosker","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03088-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03088-5","url":null,"abstract":"Speech is inherently variable, requiring listeners to apply adaptation mechanisms to deal with the variability. A proposed perceptual adaptation mechanism is recalibration, whereby listeners learn to adjust cognitive representations of speech sounds based on disambiguating contextual information. Most studies on the role of recalibration in speech perception have focused on variability in particular speech segments (e.g., consonants/vowels), and speech has mostly been studied with a focus on talking heads. However, speech is often accompanied by visual bodily signals like hand gestures, and is thus multimodal. Moreover, variability in speech extends beyond segmental aspects alone and also affects prosodic aspects, like lexical stress. We currently do not understand well how listeners adjust their representations of lexical stress patterns to different speakers. In four experiments, we investigated recalibration of lexical stress perception, driven by lexico-orthographical information (Experiment 1) and by manual beat gestures (Experiments 2-4). Across experiments, we observed that these two types of disambiguating information (presented in an audiovisual exposure phase) led listeners to adjust their representations of lexical stress, with lasting consequences for subsequent spoken word recognition (in an audio-only test phase). However, evidence for generalization of this recalibration to new words was only found in the third experiment, suggesting that generalization may be limited. These results highlight that recalibration is a plausible mechanism for suprasegmental speech adaption in everyday communication and show that even the timing of simple hand gestures can have a lasting effect on auditory speech perception.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144112531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Adding meaningful distal action effects in feature binding. 在特征绑定中添加有意义的远端动作效果。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03092-9

Nicolas D Münster, Philip Schmalbrock, Christian Beste, Alexander Münchau, Christian Frings

{"title":"Adding meaningful distal action effects in feature binding.","authors":"Nicolas D Münster, Philip Schmalbrock, Christian Beste, Alexander Münchau, Christian Frings","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03092-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03092-9","url":null,"abstract":"Event files that bind features of stimuli, responses, and action effects figure prominently in contemporary views of action control. When a feature repeats, the previous event file including this feature is retrieved and can then influence current performance. It is still unclear, however, what terminates an event file. A tacit assumption is that registering the distal (e.g., visual, or auditory) sensory consequences of an action (i.e., the \"action effect\") terminates the event file, thereby making it available for retrieval. Yet recently Frings et al. (2023) tested different distal action-effect conditions in standard stimulus-response (S-R) binding tasks and observed no modulation of S-R binding effects. It is conceivable though that the impact of distal action effects on feature binding hinges on the action mode of agents with intention-based mode (as compared to a stimulus-based mode) of action particularly emphasizing the possible impact of a meaningful distal action effect. Thus, we analyzed semantically meaningful distal action effects (participants switched simulated light bulbs on and off) in three experiments (Ntotal = 181). We found no clear impact of meaningful additional action effect presence or contingency on feature binding effects. The present study thus corroborates the notion that especially S-R binding tasks induce a stimulus-based action mode, in which proximal action effects are used for event file termination.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144112525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Can voluntary attention control be elicited and detected in the lab? Preliminary evidence for a dual-path model linking intention to agency. 能否在实验室中诱导和检测到自愿注意控制？意向与代理的双重路径模型的初步证据。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03087-6

Bradley S Gibson, Jamie M Trost, Lijuan Wang

{"title":"Can voluntary attention control be elicited and detected in the lab? Preliminary evidence for a dual-path model linking intention to agency.","authors":"Bradley S Gibson, Jamie M Trost, Lijuan Wang","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03087-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03087-6","url":null,"abstract":"Individuals orient their attention in a voluntary fashion when they willfully shift their attention in the visual field. Volitional actions can only be elicited in the lab, however, when experimental paradigms allow sufficient expression of agential capacity. Unfortunately, the standard paradigm for eliciting voluntary attention control (VAC) does not appear to allow such expression. The present study therefore attempted to increase the elicitation of VAC by using a modified spatial cueing paradigm that granted participants greater freedom in choosing the direction of the cue. It also attempted to improve the detection of VAC by using statistical mediation analyses to examine the relations between measures of intention, agency, and performance, as well as how the magnitude of these relations might be moderated by three cue validity contexts (100%, 70%, and 25%). Based on a total sample of 720 participants, the present findings showed that the \"total effect\" of intention on agency can be decomposed into two paths. The \"direct effect\" of intention on agency generally reflects VAC in that increases in intention were associated with increases in agency, but only in the 100%-valid cue context. However, the \"indirect effect\" of intention on agency passes through performance, and it reflects a process that appears to be more experience based and less volitional. Altogether, the present study recommends new methods for eliciting and detecting VAC in the lab while also exposing some shortcomings in more traditional measures of VAC based on performance.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144112602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Binaural-cue reweighting induced by discrimination training. 辨别训练诱导的双耳线索重加权。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03082-x

Maike Klingel, Udbhav Singhal, Aaron R Seitz, Norbert Kopčo

{"title":"Binaural-cue reweighting induced by discrimination training.","authors":"Maike Klingel, Udbhav Singhal, Aaron R Seitz, Norbert Kopčo","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03082-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03082-x","url":null,"abstract":"When localizing sounds, listeners combine the two binaural cues interaural time and level difference (ITD and ILD). The relative weight assigned to each cue is frequency dependent, with ITDs dominating at low and ILDs at high frequencies. However, this weighting changes (e.g., depending on room reverberation or cue reliability). To achieve better spatial hearing in various listener populations, changing the weighting might be advantageous. Previous studies showed that such changes can be induced (e.g., using a lateralization training with visual reinforcement in virtual reality). Here, a new training procedure is introduced, based on a simple auditory-only discrimination task. An experiment evaluated the procedure, consisting of a pretest, three training sessions, and a posttest. Subjects were divided into three groups-one trained by reinforcing the ILDs, one by reinforcing the ITDs, and one no-training control. The training consisted of an adaptive staircase of relative discrimination trials. Stimuli were two consecutive narrow-band noise bursts (2-4 kHz), each presented with a different combination of ITD and ILD. Participants' task was to indicate the perceived location of the second noise burst versus the first. During training, feedback was provided requiring the subject to imagine the sound moving in the trained cue's direction. We observed an increase in reinforced-cue weight for both training groups, but not in the control group, that continued during all three training sessions. Thus, this training method is effective for reweighting in both directions. Moreover, it is individualized, and, since it does not rely on sophisticated equipment, it can be easily accessible for a range of listeners.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144082265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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Reducing the low prevalence effect: Does similarity search translate to binary decisions? 降低低流行率效应：相似性搜索是否转化为二元决策？

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03084-9

Greer Gillies, Anna Kosovicheva

{"title":"Reducing the low prevalence effect: Does similarity search translate to binary decisions?","authors":"Greer Gillies, Anna Kosovicheva","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03084-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03084-9","url":null,"abstract":"In visual search, observers often miss rare targets. This low prevalence effect (LPE) is resistant to many cognitive interventions. However, a recent study showed that having participants identify the item that was most similar to the target (similarity search) eliminated the LPE. As real-world searches often require binary decisions (e.g., is there a threat in this bag?) we tested whether the benefits of similarity search generalize to binary decisions and to more naturalistic stimuli. Participants searched for T shapes amongst near-T distractors and the prevalence of true Ts was manipulated. In the similarity-search-only condition, participants clicked on the \"most T-like object.\" In the similarity search & binary decision condition, participants additionally reported whether the chosen item was a true T (yes/no). We found that in some circumstances, similarity search can be used to attenuate the LPE. However, there was an LPE for the binary decision task. Participants were less likely to classify the target as a true T during low prevalence compared with high. We replicated this result in an additional experiment using more naturalistic stimuli. Participants watched clips of road videos and clicked on the \"most hazardous location\" in the video, followed by a binary decision (\"would you need to respond to that hazard? yes/no\"). Though participants located the hazards regardless of prevalence, there was an LPE for the binary decision task. Together, these results indicate potential limitations in applying similarity search outside the laboratory; the LPE is still seen in these searches if a binary decision is involved.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144010369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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