Attention Perception & Psychophysics最新文献

Unit of attentional refreshing in multiple identity tracking: object and Boolean map.

IF 1.7 4区心理学

Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03039-0

Huadong Yu, Juntian Lin, Shujie Wu, Yu Zhang, Jianrong Jia, Jie Li

{"title":"Unit of attentional refreshing in multiple identity tracking: object and Boolean map.","authors":"Huadong Yu, Juntian Lin, Shujie Wu, Yu Zhang, Jianrong Jia, Jie Li","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03039-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03039-0","url":null,"abstract":"Tracking multiple distinct moving objects requires periodically refreshing the objects' identity-location bindings. Classic theories assume that individual objects are the units involved in refreshing. Considering that features and locations can be represented as Boolean maps, here we investigated whether Boolean maps can also serve as the units of refreshing in multiple identity tracking (MIT). We used an adapted MIT paradigm, in which every two targets shared the same identity and thus could be represented in one Boolean map. We examined whether only the cued target was refreshed (i.e., object-based refreshing) or the other target sharing the same identity was also refreshed (i.e., Boolean map-based refreshing). In Experiment 1, where objects moved randomly, results showed that while the cued target was tracked better than uncued targets, no significant advantage was observed for the same-identity target, indicating no Boolean map-based refreshing. In Experiment 2, same-identity targets moved in parallel, maintaining a stable spatial relationship within each Boolean map. Both same-identity and cued targets were tracked better than other targets, demonstrating a same-Boolean-map advantage. In Experiment 3, where different-identities targets moved in parallel, no significant advantage was found for either the target moved parallel to or sharing the same identity as the cued target. Taken together, the results indicate that a Boolean map can serve as the unit for attentional refreshing in MIT, but only when targets with the same identity are moving in parallel, so that the spatial relationship within each Boolean map remains the same while the objects are moving; otherwise the refreshing is based on individual objects.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143574697","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}

引用次数: 0

Does object-to-scene binding depend on object and scene consistency?

IF 1.7 4区心理学

Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03037-2

Andrew L Plano, Carrick C Williams

{"title":"Does object-to-scene binding depend on object and scene consistency?","authors":"Andrew L Plano, Carrick C Williams","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03037-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03037-2","url":null,"abstract":"Memory for semantically inconsistent objects in scenes is greater than that for semantically consistent objects - a phenomenon known as the inconsistent object advantage (Hollingworth & Henderson, Visual Cognition, 7(1-3), 213-235, 2000). Semantically inconsistent objects are also fixated longer and more often than consistent objects (Henderson et al., Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25(1), 210-228, 1999), potentially leaving less time for encoding the rest of the scene in which the objects occur. To determine whether semantically inconsistent objects are stored in memory with fewer of their scene's visual details, participants studied scenes that contained either semantically consistent or inconsistent target objects. After study, target objects were presented at test either in their original scene from the study phase or in a different scene of the same category. Recognition of semantically consistent objects, but not inconsistent objects, was more difficult when placed in a different scene. A disruption in object-scene semantics in the inconsistent condition may: (1) reduce memory for the visual features of the scene, (2) result in looser object-to-scene binding in memory, or both. This disruption may be due to the attentional and cognitive demands of processing the inconsistent object, leading to fewer visual details of the scene being encoded, but leaving unaffected the memory representation of the inconsistent object. This observation provides a new perspective on the inconsistent object advantage and poses interesting questions for future research, such as the impact of attentional deployment on encoding of scenes of inconsistent objects and the specific levels of scene information affected.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143558580","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}

引用次数: 0

Effects of perceptual and decisional uncertainty on serial dependence in orientation perception.

IF 1.7 4区心理学

Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03034-5

Zoë Little, Colin W G Clifford

{"title":"Effects of perceptual and decisional uncertainty on serial dependence in orientation perception.","authors":"Zoë Little, Colin W G Clifford","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03034-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03034-5","url":null,"abstract":"Where assimilative serial dependence occurs in perception, responses to visual attributes such as orientation are typically biased towards the attributes of visual stimuli seen in the recent past. Serial dependence is thought to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of visual representations and is reliably increased by uncertainty in the target stimulus. However, the amount of uncertainty in the preceding inducer stimulus does not seem to modulate serial dependence. Here, we consider whether uncertainty in the decision made about the inducer stimulus modulates serial dependence instead by using stimuli with high positive evidence (high-contrast signal plus high-contrast noise) and low positive evidence (low-contrast signal and low-contrast noise). Such stimuli are matched in their signal-to-noise ratio but differ in overall contrast, and have been found to modulate response confidence but not response accuracy. Thirty-three participants viewed oriented Gabor patches presented under different levels of signal-to-noise ratio and positive evidence and reported their orientation, as well as their response confidence. We found that serial dependence was greatest for target stimuli that had low signal-to-noise ratio, low positive evidence, or were responded to with low subjective confidence. We find no modulation of serial dependence by uncertainty of any kind in the inducer trial. This finding suggests that serial dependence may not reflect a bias towards previous decisions, and has implications for wider theoretical accounts of serial dependence. The data and materials for this experiment are available via the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/kvy4c/.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544626","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}

引用次数: 0

Assessing individual differences in grouping strategy in visual working memory.

IF 1.7 4区心理学

Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03013-w

Yin-Ting Lin, Andrew B Leber

{"title":"Assessing individual differences in grouping strategy in visual working memory.","authors":"Yin-Ting Lin, Andrew B Leber","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03013-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03013-w","url":null,"abstract":"Visual working memory is highly limited. Fortunately, we can use various strategies to improve performance. For example, we can make use of grouping cues, such as an illusory shape (Kanizsa figure), to optimize encoding and storage of information. However, it remains unclear how strategy use varies across individuals. In the current study, we examined whether working memory ability is related to individual differences in the use of grouping strategy. We manipulated whether the items formed Kanizsa figures or were randomly oriented in an orientation change detection task. We explicitly informed participants of the manipulation. Moreover, we independently assessed visual working memory capacity in a colour change detection task. In Experiment 1, there was better memory performance for Kanizsa figures versus randomly oriented items. Importantly, we found that individuals with higher working memory capacity showed a larger Kanizsa benefit. In Experiment 2, we still found a memory benefit for Kanizsa figures when we sequentially presented the inducers. This suggests that participants are able to use more abstract rules to strategically encode items. Furthermore, we again found that high working memory capacity corresponds to a larger Kanizsa benefit, although this finding was less robust across multiple analysis methods. Taken together, these findings show that individual differences in working memory ability predict effective use of grouping strategy. Moreover, these individual differences may partly reflect grouping based on high-level knowledge.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143517487","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}

引用次数: 0

Unpredictable singleton distractors in visual search can be subject to second-order suppression.

IF 1.7 4区心理学

Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03028-3

Brandi Lee Drisdelle, Alon Zivony, Martin Eimer

{"title":"Unpredictable singleton distractors in visual search can be subject to second-order suppression.","authors":"Brandi Lee Drisdelle, Alon Zivony, Martin Eimer","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03028-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03028-3","url":null,"abstract":"Recent evidence suggests that attentional capture by salient-but-irrelevant distractions can be avoided via suppression, thereby improving performance in visual search. Initial evidence suggested it is only possible to suppress salient distractors with constant and predictable features (first-order suppression). We show that previous failures to find evidence for second-order suppression of unpredictable feature singletons may have been due to low feature variability: If it is probable that the salient distractor colour is the target colour on another trial, suppressing this item might hinder performance. We first validated a new multiframe letter-probe paradigm, where observers counted the search displays with a target shape and always reported as many letter probes as possible from the final display. When target and singleton colours were constant (Experiment 1), a singleton suppression effect was observed, with probe letters at the singleton distractor location reported less frequently than those at non-singleton distractor locations. When two randomly swapped target/singleton colours were employed (Experiment 2), no suppression effect was observed, replicating previous findings. Critically, when target-colour items and the singleton could have one of eight different random colours (Experiment 3), a robust suppression effect reappeared. These observations demonstrate that first-order suppression is not universal, and that second-order suppression can be applied to singleton distractors under some circumstances. Suppression effects were observed for displays with and without targets, suggesting that they are not a product of direct target-singleton competition.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143517491","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}

引用次数: 0

The interaction of study sequence presentation mode and response assignment reveals the effects of multiple computational systems on an immediate visual recognition task.

IF 1.7 4区心理学

Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03032-7

Arnold L Glass, Tingtao Wang, Allyson Fu

{"title":"The interaction of study sequence presentation mode and response assignment reveals the effects of multiple computational systems on an immediate visual recognition task.","authors":"Arnold L Glass, Tingtao Wang, Allyson Fu","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03032-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03032-7","url":null,"abstract":"Participants responded whether a single digit was in the immediately preceding digit sequence by pressing one of two keys as rapidly as possible while trying to avoid errors. Each participant performed four different kinds of sessions: Either all of the digits of the study sequence were presented in the same position or the digits were presented in successive positions from left to right. Either the same response was assigned to the right key and the different response to the left key or vice versa. Response time (RT) was an increasing function of the length of the study sequence. RT was an increasing function of the target's position in the study sequence when the different response was assigned to the right key. When the same response was assigned to the right key, RT was a decreasing function of the target's position in the study sequence when the study sequence had been presented in one location but there was no effect of target position on RT when the study sequence had been presented from left to right. The effects of study sequence length and target position were independent in the three conditions in which there was an effect of target position. Also, RT decreased for targets that had previously appeared as test items but RT increased for lures that had previously appeared as test items. The results confirm a dual-system hypothesis of recognition involving both the perceived recency of the target and the retrieval of the previous context of the target.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143517489","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}

引用次数: 0

A gaze into the void: Anticipatory saccades toward prevented events.

IF 1.7 4区心理学

Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03019-4

Solveig Tonn, Janna Teigeler, Roland Pfister, Matthias Gamer

引用次数: 0

Adaptation to sentences and melodies when making judgments along a voice-nonvoice continuum.

IF 1.7 4区心理学

Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03030-9

Zi Gao, Andrew J Oxenham

{"title":"Adaptation to sentences and melodies when making judgments along a voice-nonvoice continuum.","authors":"Zi Gao, Andrew J Oxenham","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03030-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03030-9","url":null,"abstract":"Adaptation to constant or repetitive sensory signals serves to improve detection of novel events in the environment and to encode incoming information more efficiently. Within the auditory modality, contrastive adaptation effects have been observed within a number of categories, including voice and musical instrument type. A recent study found contrastive perceptual shifts between voice and instrument categories following repetitive presentation of adaptors consisting of either vowels or instrument tones. The current study tested the generalizability of adaptation along a voice-instrument continuum, using more ecologically valid adaptors. Participants were presented with an adaptor followed by an ambiguous voice-instrument target, created by generating a 10-step morphed continuum between pairs of vowel and instrument sounds. Listeners' categorization of the target sounds was shifted contrastively by a spoken sentence or instrumental melody adaptor, regardless of whether the adaptor and the target shared the same speaker gender or similar pitch range (Experiment 1). However, no significant contrastive adaptation was observed when nonspeech vocalizations or nonpitched percussion sounds were used as the adaptors (Experiment 2). The results suggest that adaptation between voice and nonvoice categories does not rely on exact repetition of simple stimuli, nor does it solely reflect the result of a sound being categorized as being human or nonhuman sourced. The outcomes suggest future directions for determining the precise spectro-temporal properties of sounds that induce these voice-instrument contrastive adaptation effects.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143506064","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}

引用次数: 0

Practice makes perfect, especially when doing what we like.

IF 1.7 4区心理学

Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03031-8

Irene Reppa, Siné McDougall

{"title":"Practice makes perfect, especially when doing what we like.","authors":"Irene Reppa, Siné McDougall","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03031-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03031-8","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has found that aesthetic appeal can facilitate visual search performance. One avenue of enquiry is that appealing icons are processed better than unappealing icons. If appealing stimuli are better processed, then it may be expected that they will benefit from practice more than their unappealing counterparts. In the current study (N = 100) we examined the effect of stimulus appeal on visual search performance. Half of the participants searched for appealing icons first, followed by unappealing icons, and the order was reversed for the other half. First, visual search performance benefited from stimulus appeal, and specifically the interaction of stimulus appeal and complexity - visual stimulus appeal led to better search performance but only for stimuli that were visually complex, with no effect of appeal for visually simple stimuli. Second, task experience benefited appealing icons more than unappealing icons. These results extend current knowledge of the status of visual aesthetic appeal on performance. They provide new evidence that appealing stimuli benefit from practice and are easier to learn compared to their unappealing counterparts.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494629","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}

引用次数: 0

An event-related potential study of onset primacy in visual change detection.

IF 1.7 4区心理学

Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03027-4

Jennifer Van Pelt, Benjamin G Lowe, Jonathan E Robinson, Maria J Donaldson, Patrick Johnston, Naohide Yamamoto

{"title":"An event-related potential study of onset primacy in visual change detection.","authors":"Jennifer Van Pelt, Benjamin G Lowe, Jonathan E Robinson, Maria J Donaldson, Patrick Johnston, Naohide Yamamoto","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03027-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03027-4","url":null,"abstract":"Onset primacy is a behavioural phenomenon whereby humans identify the appearance of an object (onset) with greater efficiency than other kinds of visual change, such as the disappearance of an object (offset). The default mode hypothesis explains this phenomenon by postulating that the attentional system is optimised for onset detection in its initial state. The present study extended this hypothesis by combining a change-detection task and measurement of the P300 event-related potential, which was thought to index the amount of processing resources available to detecting onsets and offsets. In an experiment, while brain activity was monitored by electroencephalography, participants indicated the locations of onsets and offsets under the condition in which they occurred equally often in the same locations across trials. Although there was no reason to prioritise detecting one type of change over the other, onsets were detected more quickly, and they evoked a larger P300 than offsets. These results suggest that processing resources are preferentially allocated to onset detection. This biased allocation may be a basis on which the attentional system defaults to the 'onset detection' mode.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143473175","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}

引用次数: 0