{"title":"Perceived intent drives gaze interpretation.","authors":"D Jacob Gerlofs, Kevin H Roberts, Alan Kingstone","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03149-9","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-025-03149-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Important social information can be extracted from the eyes and gaze of others, such as intentions, states of mind, and the locus of attention. Research investigating people's ability to interpret social signals has largely focused on the featural properties of the stimuli (e.g., where or how someone looks) and not on the social intent behind those eye movements. To explore this gap, participants were shown eye movement recordings of individuals (\"hiders\") selecting hiding locations on a 3 × 3 computer grid. One group of participants was told that these eye movements were from a foe who did not want participants to discover their hiding location (Group Foe). A second group was told that the eye movements were from a friend who wanted participants to discover their hiding location (Group Friend). In fact, both groups saw deceptive (foe) and cooperative (friend) eye movements. When the intent of the hider aligned with participants' beliefs about that hider-for instance, the hider was acting for a friend and the participants believed the hider was friendly-participants were more likely to correctly select hiders' locations. Further, participants' belief of the hider's intent had a greater impact on interpretation than featural differences in deceptive and cooperative eye movements. The present study reveals that beliefs about someone's gaze can play a greater role in performance outcomes than any actual changes in the gaze itself. It provides a rigorous and novel paradigm to investigate the complex interaction between the intent of social signals and how those signals are interpreted.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144884337","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}
Zeguo Qiu, Benjamin G Lowe, Yasmin Allen-Davidian, Naohide Yamamoto
{"title":"Behavioural and electrophysiological modulations of onset primacy in visual change detection.","authors":"Zeguo Qiu, Benjamin G Lowe, Yasmin Allen-Davidian, Naohide Yamamoto","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03142-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03142-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Generally, newly appearing objects attract observers' attention more effectively than other types of change in an environment. While there is consensus about the existence of this phenomenon, it has been debated whether the new objects attain their primacy in an endogenous or an exogenous fashion. To contribute to this debate, the current study measured participants' behavioural performance in detecting object appearance (onset) and disappearance (offset) while recording their electroencephalography. Some participants were trained to give priority to detecting offsets, and their data were compared against those of neutral (i.e., untrained) participants. This comparison revealed that the difference in behavioural response times between onset and offset detection was reduced after training, reflecting the degree to which onsets had attentional advantage over offsets in each group of participants. At the same time, amplitudes of the P100 event-related potential component were more differentiated between onset and offset detection in the trained participants than in the neutral participants. Critically, the modulations of the response times and the P100 amplitudes were not attributed to stimulus-driven effects because all participants were exposed to the same set of stimuli when the post-training results were obtained. Thus, these findings offer evidence that the relative efficacy of object onset in visual change detection is not purely a bottom-up phenomenon but is instead modulated by top-down processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144859965","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}
{"title":"Search strategy modulates memory-driven capture.","authors":"Bo-Yeong Won, Weiwei Zhang","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03147-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03147-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explores how different search strategies impact memory-driven attentional capture, utilizing two experiments. In the first experiment, participants performed a feature search, concentrating on a specific shape during visual search. Results showed that a distractor matching the color in working memory significantly captured attention, demonstrating a strong memory-driven capture effect. The second experiment involved a singleton detection mode, focusing primarily on the bottom-up processing of shape singletons during visual search. This mode resulted in less memory-driven attentional capture compared to the feature search, indicating that top-down processes such as working memory enhance memory-driven capture. These findings suggest that internal attentional settings, like the reliance on top-down versus bottom-up processing during searches, can influence the degree of memory-driven capture. The study offers new insights into the intricate interplay between attention, memory, and search strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144859927","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}
{"title":"Ensemble perception of duration and size.","authors":"Daniel Bratzke, Ruben Ellinghaus","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03125-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03125-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated ensemble perception of temporal (duration) as well as spatial (size) information with simultaneously and sequentially presented ensembles of different set size. The results showed that summary statistics can be extracted from temporal ensembles as well as from size ensembles, irrespective of whether the ensembles are presented simultaneously or sequentially, demonstrating the domain generality of ensemble perception. Nevertheless, the results also indicate clear domain-specific differences between the two dimensions. For simultaneous ensembles, mean estimates increased with set size for duration ensembles and decreased with set size for size ensembles, suggesting a possible bias by dimension-specific features; in the case of duration by the interoffset intervals, and in the case of size by the overall ensemble size. For sequential ensembles, there was a recency effect for size stimuli but not for duration stimuli, suggesting that the information is integrated for the two dimensions differently. For example, participants might rely on an internal prior formed by memory mixing more strongly in the case of relatively noisy representations of temporal information.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144838623","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}
{"title":"Visual short-term memory is modulated by 3D depth in stereopsis.","authors":"Hang Liu, Bruno Laeng, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03052-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03052-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual short-term memory (VSTM) is a memory mechanism temporarily holding visual information for later use. In the real world, objects are located in spatial depth and such depth information may be processed when objects are remembered. The present study investigated how VSTM is modulated by three-dimensional (3D) depth. Previous work used the color of objects to measure memory and provided mixed results, and the impact of separability in depth on memory is unclear. In Experiment 1a, we employed color feature and examined the effect of 3D depth across Stereo (stereoscopic vs. monoscopic) and Plane (one plane vs. multiple planes). VSTM was not found to be influenced by depth information. In Experiments 1b and 1c, the color was respectively replaced with two distinct spatial features, orientation and direction-of-rotation. We found similar results that the performance on VSTM was superior in the stereoscopic multi-plane condition compared to the monoscopic multi-plane condition or stereoscopic single-plane condition. These findings confirm, also via Bayesian statistical analyses, that the VSTM can benefit from 3D depth information in stereopsis, while the benefit is severely limited when the task is non-spatial.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144805282","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}
{"title":"Serial processing of stimulus identity and shift readiness predictions.","authors":"Anthony W Sali, Emily E Oor","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03137-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03137-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As an individual's goals change, they must flexibly shift the focus of attention. In real-world scenarios, multiple stimuli, each with different likelihoods, can signal that it is appropriate to shift or to hold attention on a moment-by-moment basis. In the current study, we independently manipulated the likelihood of shifting attention and the likelihood of receiving particular cue stimuli by presenting multiple shift- and hold-attention cues to dissociate the behavioral costs associated with violations of shift readiness from stimulus identity predictions. After excluding trials with exact cue stimulus repetitions-where response times were significantly shorter than for other trials-we observed additive updating costs for shift and stimulus identity likelihood prediction errors across two experiments. Together, our results suggest that when cue stimuli do not consecutively repeat, the processes of updating attention-shifting readiness and stimulus identity are best explained by a serial processing architecture. The data, materials, and analysis code for this experiment are available online ( https://osf.io/zdtvc/ ).</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790748","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}
Wei Liu, Xiaoke Zhao, Yating Li, Chunhui Wang, Jingguang Li
{"title":"Connectedness effects in enumeration of small numbers.","authors":"Wei Liu, Xiaoke Zhao, Yating Li, Chunhui Wang, Jingguang Li","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03138-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03138-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The connectedness effect is the tendency to perceive connected items as fewer units, such as two connected dots seen as one. It commonly occurs with intermediate numerosity perception alongside the activity of the approximate number system (ANS), indicating that intermediate quantities are perceived as discrete units rather than continuous magnitudes. The present study explored how this effect influences the enumeration of small numerosities (fewer than 5), which are accurately assessed through a mechanism known as subitizing under normal conditions. In the single enumeration task, where participants enumerated 2-4 dots solely from the indicated target patch prior to stimulus presentation, connectivity did not induce underestimation, indicating that subitizing is impervious to the connectedness effect. Conversely, connectivity led to significant underestimation in the dual enumeration task, where participants had to simultaneously estimate dots in both patches and respond upon cueing of the target patch. Furthermore, the connectedness effect is more pronounced in the simultaneous comparison task compared with the sequential task. Weber fractions for small numerosities correlate with those for intermediate numerosities in the simultaneous comparison task, whereas no such correlation is observed in the sequential task. This suggests that subitizing prevails in single/sequential tasks, while estimation takes precedence in dual/simultaneous tasks under attentional load. The connectedness effect does not impact the subitizing mechanism in single tasks, but it occurs alongside estimation regardless of the number regime, leading to significant underestimation in dual tasks. Approximate estimation relies on segmented objects, rather than continuous magnitude, even for very small numerosities.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144786010","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}
Nicholas Menghi, Giorgio Coricelli, Clayton Hickey
{"title":"Correction to: How visual and proprioceptive feedback mediate the effect of monetary incentive on motor precision.","authors":"Nicholas Menghi, Giorgio Coricelli, Clayton Hickey","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03143-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03143-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144786011","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}
{"title":"Mixed hybrid visual foraging is near optimal.","authors":"Injae Hong, Jeremy M Wolfe","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03127-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03127-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated patch-leaving strategies in mixed hybrid visual foraging scenarios, focusing on how target specificity and the number of target sets influence overall outcomes. In mixed hybrid foraging, participants collect targets from patches with varying types (specific and categorical) and numbers (three or six) of targets. Despite the complexity introduced by having multiple target types, participants' patch-leaving behavior remained broadly consistent with the predictions of the marginal value theorem (MVT), suggesting that quitting strategies are based on similar rules across different conditions. While overall foraging performance varied with target specificity and the number of sets, patch-leaving decisions consistently adhered to a simple, rule-based approach. This study highlights the robustness of visual foraging strategies and suggests that effective patch-leaving behavior is maintained even in complex visual environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144786012","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}
{"title":"Scene inversion impairs activation of scene-object semantic bias.","authors":"Alan Z Lu, John M Henderson","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03139-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03139-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inferences on semantic scene content enable the visual system to efficiently parse complex naturalistic scenes. In the early stages of scene perception, conceptual scene gist activates semantic expectations and relevant scene-object associations that bias the viewer to affirm the presence of semantically consistent objects and to reject the presence of semantically inconsistent objects within the overall scene context. This contextual scene-object bias is crucial to various visual cognitive functions, from object recognition to attentional guidance. Despite its top-down influence, however, few studies have directly investigated the factors that drive the activation of scene-object bias. Here, we tested the role of global scene semantics in the activation of scene-object bias by comparing response bias on briefly presented upright versus inverted scenes. We found that scene inversion not only significantly delayed overall bias activation, but also differentially impacted superordinate-level versus basic-level bias. Hierarchical differences were also highlighted by earlier and more robust activation of superordinate-level bias than basic-level bias. Taken together, the present work provides important characterization to gist-activated scene-object bias, which is an essential and influential top-down mechanism in scene perception and visual cognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144786014","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}