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Psychophysics over the counter: The effect of food preference on the perception of food quantity.

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03018-5

Hofit Bar, Martin H Fischer, Daniel Algom

{"title":"Psychophysics over the counter: The effect of food preference on the perception of food quantity.","authors":"Hofit Bar, Martin H Fischer, Daniel Algom","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03018-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03018-5","url":null,"abstract":"Much research in food psychology has examined the influence of perceptual features - color, texture, packaging - on preference for that food. Here, we addressed the reverse question of the influence of food preference on the perception of its quantity. Does a portion of a loved food appear different than the same portion of a hated food? We probed this question by employing state-of-the-art tools of psychophysics, which allowed us the parallel examination of several long-standing issues of psychophysics. The latter included the difference between symbolic and non-symbolic number, the difference between the methods of Magnitude Estimation and Magnitude Production, the difference between under- or over-estimation and rate of growth measured by the (slope of) psychophysical function as well as the derivation of the Difference Threshold by the method of Constant Stimuli. We addressed the question of an effect on perception of food valence with four distinct experiments. Presenting real food items, we found that perceived quantity is a compressive function of objective quantity regardless of valence; both loved- and hated-food dynamics are governed by Stevens' power function with an exponent of 0.8. In absolute terms, applying Magnitude Estimation, we witnessed a gross underestimation for loved and hated food alike. In contrast, applying Magnitude Production, participants underproduced loved food, but overproduced hated food. For discrimination of food quantity, we found better resolving power for hated food. Collectively, our results show that, across diverse psychophysical evaluations, food valence affects its perception, especially when people actively regulate the to-be-consumed portion.","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":"143473183","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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Don't look there: Assessing the suppression of cued-to-be-ignored locations.

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03033-6

Mei-Ching Lien, Eric Ruthruff, Dominick A Tolomeo, Kristina-Maria Reitan

{"title":"Don't look there: Assessing the suppression of cued-to-be-ignored locations.","authors":"Mei-Ching Lien, Eric Ruthruff, Dominick A Tolomeo, Kristina-Maria Reitan","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03033-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03033-6","url":null,"abstract":"Do people avoid visual distraction by suppressing locations expected to contain potent distractors? To address this issue, we combined a spatial cueing paradigm with a capture-probe paradigm. Each search display contained six shapes, two of which had the target shape. To know which target shape to respond to, participants had to use a spatial cue indicating the to-be-ignored locations for that trial. There were also two neutral locations that never contained distractors and so did not need to be suppressed, which served as a baseline. To assess spatial suppression below baseline, participants performed a probe letter recall task on 30% of trials. If people proactively suppress the threatening to-be-ignored locations below baseline, then probe recall for these cued-to-be-ignored distractor locations should be lower than that for the neutral locations (a probe suppression effect). However, we found no such probe suppression effect. It was absent both when the cued-to-be-ignored distractor locations changed randomly from trial-by-trial (Experiment 1) and when they were fixed (Experiments 2-4). It was absent even when the cued-to-be-ignored locations contained a salient color singleton to further incentivize suppression at those locations (Experiment 3) and when only a single distractor location was cued (Experiment 4). We propose that people accomplish selectivity either by blanketing suppression across all irrelevant locations (e.g., both threatening and non-threatening distractor locations), or by mainly boosting target locations.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143470041","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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Dynamic modulation of spatial selection: Online and anticipatory adjustments in the flanker task.

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03026-5

Mercedes B Villalonga, Abigail L Noyce, Robert Sekuler

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Information-driven attentional capture.

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-024-03008-z

Alenka Doyle, Kamilla Volkova, Nicholas Crotty, Nicole Massa, Michael A Grubb

{"title":"Information-driven attentional capture.","authors":"Alenka Doyle, Kamilla Volkova, Nicholas Crotty, Nicole Massa, Michael A Grubb","doi":"10.3758/s13414-024-03008-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-024-03008-z","url":null,"abstract":"Visual attention, the selective prioritization of sensory information, is crucial in dynamic, information-rich environments. That both internal goals and external salience modulate the allocation of attention is well established. However, recent empirical work has found instances of experience-driven attention, wherein task-irrelevant, physically non-salient stimuli reflexively capture attention in ways that are contingent on an observer's unique history. The prototypical example of experience-driven attention relies on a history of reward associations, with evidence attributing the phenomenon to reward-prediction errors. However, a mechanistic account, differing from the reward-prediction error hypothesis, is needed to explain how, in the absence of monetary reward, a history of target-seeking leads to attentional capture. Here we propose that what drives attentional capture in such cases is not target-seeking, but an association with instrumental information. To test this hypothesis, we used pre-cues to render the information provided by a search target either instrumental or redundant. We found that task-irrelevant, physically non-salient distractors associated with instrumental information were more likely to draw eye movements (a sensitive metric of information sampling) than were distractors associated with redundant information. Furthermore, saccading to an instrumental-information-associated distractor led to a greater behavioral cost: response times were slowed more severely. Crucially, the distractors had equivalent histories as sought targets, so any attentional differences between them must be due to different information histories resulting from our experimental manipulation. These findings provide strong evidence for the information history hypothesis and offer a method for exploring the neural signature of information-driven attentional capture.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460794","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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The impact of alcohol intoxication on extended vigilance and rest-break recovery.

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03029-2

Runhan Yang, Trisha N Patel, Catharine E Fairbairn, Aaron S Benjamin

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Inhibition in large set sizes depends on search mode, not salience.

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03020-x

Zachary Hamblin-Frohman, Jay Pratt, Stefanie I Becker

{"title":"Inhibition in large set sizes depends on search mode, not salience.","authors":"Zachary Hamblin-Frohman, Jay Pratt, Stefanie I Becker","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03020-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03020-x","url":null,"abstract":"Attention can be attracted to salient items in a visual scene. Recent studies have shown that when the feature of an irrelevant salient item is known, it can be suppressed below baseline leading to facilitated search. Wang and Theeuwes (Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(10), 1051-1057, 2020) criticised previous inhibition studies by claiming that the sparse displays attenuated the salience of the distractors. In their study they increased the number of display items (i.e., set size), and found that an irrelevant salient distractor captured attention. The current paper argues that the displays used by Wang and Theeuwes encouraged participants to use a singleton search mode, in which participants actively look for salient regions to find the target and consequently do not inhibit salient items. Specifically, their displays included multiple repeated non-target shapes, so that the target became a singleton. We used two search displays with ten items, one with repeated non-targets (R-NT displays), allowing a singleton search mode, and one with heterogeneous non-targets, encouraging a feature search mode. In Experiment 1 the singleton distractor was inhibited in the heterogeneous condition, but not in the R-NT condition. Experiment 2 intermixed the two display types in unbalanced blocks. When the majority of trials had heterogeneous non-targets, inhibition was observed for both the heterogeneous displays and the R-NT displays. Conversely, when R-NT displays were the majority, inhibition was attenuated for both display types. These results show that distractor features can be suppressed at large set sizes dependant on the search strategy promoted by the displays.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460800","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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Spatial attention modulates time perception on the human torso.

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03025-6

Bora Celebi, Müge Cavdan, Knut Drewing

{"title":"Spatial attention modulates time perception on the human torso.","authors":"Bora Celebi, Müge Cavdan, Knut Drewing","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03025-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03025-6","url":null,"abstract":"Time perception is a fundamental aspect of human life, and is influenced and regulated by cognitive and sensory processes. For instance, spatial attention is found to modulate temporal judgments when resources are allocated to a specific stimulus location in vision and audition. However, it is unclear to what extent the attentional effects observed in vision and audition can be generalized to the tactile modality. Here, we study the effects of attentional cues on the time perception of tactile stimuli presented on the human torso. Across four experiments, we examined (1) the impact of visual versus tactile spatial cues, (2) the modulation of time perception by dynamic versus static tactile cues, (3) the role of spatial congruency between cue and target locations (front vs. back of the torso), and (4) the influence of cue-target intervals. Participants performed temporal bisection tasks, judging whether the vibrations following the cues were closer to short or long anchor durations. Tactile cues expanded the perceived duration of subsequent stimuli, with dynamic cues having a greater effect than static ones. While no congruency effects were observed for left and right torso locations, front-back congruency enhanced time expansion. The attentional effect peaked at a 100-ms cue-target interval. We conclude that the time-expanding effects of spatial attention extend to tactile stimuli on the human torso given that time expansion follows principles known from spatial attention.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460801","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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Getting a grip on visual search: Relating effort exertion to the control of attention

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03024-7

Brian A. Anderson, David S. Lee, Molly R. McKinney, Andrew Clement

{"title":"Getting a grip on visual search: Relating effort exertion to the control of attention","authors":"Brian A. Anderson, David S. Lee, Molly R. McKinney, Andrew Clement","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03024-7","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-025-03024-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div>Humans are generally biased to conserve energy, limiting the exertion of physical and mental effort. The need for attention to selectively process perceptual information is a ubiquitous part of mental life, but how mentally effortful is the process of finding the target of a visual search, and how much mental effort is required to focus attention in the face of potentially distracting stimuli? Does learning from demands on physical effort shape the control of attention, much like rewards and punishments? In this tutorial review, we provide an overview of a novel approach to probing the mental effort involved in visual search and the control of attention more generally. Situations are created in which exerting physical effort, via a hand dynamometer, can modify the demands of a visual search task. More specifically, participants can exert physical effort to reduce the putative mental effort required to find a target. When comparing across search conditions, this approach can reveal the conditions that participants are willing to physically work to achieve, with implications for the mental effort associated with these conditions. We also introduce a reciprocal approach in which demands on physical effort, and their association with the visual search task, are manipulated, providing an opportunity to examine how the control of attention is shaped by these effort demands. Some practical considerations for the implementation of these novel approaches are discussed, as are potential new research directions for which these approaches are well suited.</div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"87 2","pages":"670 - 684"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143392245","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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Type of feedback affects formation of prototype or exemplar representations. 反馈类型会影响原型或范例表征的形成。

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-07 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03010-z

Peijuan Li, Fang Chen, Jianru Feng, Carol A Seger, Zhiya Liu

{"title":"Type of feedback affects formation of prototype or exemplar representations.","authors":"Peijuan Li, Fang Chen, Jianru Feng, Carol A Seger, Zhiya Liu","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03010-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03010-z","url":null,"abstract":"Category learning theories have typically focused on how the underlying category structure affects the category representations acquired by learners. However, other factors such as type of feedback may also affect what representations are learned and utilized, but have received little attention. We used a novel \"5/5\" categorization task developed from the well-studied 5/4 task and held category structure constant while varying type of feedback: verbal correct/incorrect feedback in Experiment 1, and rewarded differential point-valued feedback in Experiment 2. We used behavioral measures and computational modeling to identify whether participants learned to categorize using exemplar or prototype categorization representations. Correct/incorrect feedback resulted in greater use of exemplar representations and better performance by participants who used exemplar representations, whereas in comparison, rewarded point-valued feedback resulted in relatively greater use of prototype representations. These results indicate that differential reward increased abstraction during category learning. The importance of feedback type in guiding what is learned during category learning should be incorporated into future experimental work and theoretical development.","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143371356","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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How eccentricity modulates attention capture by direct face/gaze and sudden onset motion

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03015-8

Jens Kürten, Christina Breil, Roxana Pittig, Lynn Huestegge, Anne Böckler

{"title":"How eccentricity modulates attention capture by direct face/gaze and sudden onset motion","authors":"Jens Kürten, Christina Breil, Roxana Pittig, Lynn Huestegge, Anne Böckler","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03015-8","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-025-03015-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div>We investigated how processing benefits for direct face/gaze and sudden onset motion depend on stimulus presentation location, specifically eccentricity from fixation. Participants responded to targets that were presented on one of four stimuli that displayed a direct or averted face and gaze either statically or suddenly. Between participants, stimuli were presented at different eccentricities relative to central fixation, spanning 3.3°, 4.3°, 5.5° or 6.5° of the visual field. Replicating previous studies, we found processing advantages for direct (vs. averted) face/gaze and motion onset (vs. static stimuli). Critically, while the motion-onset advantage increased with increasing distance to the center, the face/gaze direction advantage was not significantly modulated by target eccentricity. Results from a control experiment with eye tracking indicate that face/gaze direction could be accurately discriminated even at the largest eccentricity. These findings demonstrate a distinction between the processing of basic facial and gaze signals and exogenous motion cues, which may be based on functional differences between central and peripheral retinal regions. Moreover, the results highlight the importance of taking specific stimulus properties into account when studying perception and attention in the periphery.</div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"87 2","pages":"354 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13414-025-03015-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366221","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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