Sophie Dufour, Jonathan Mirault, Jonathan Grainger
{"title":"On lexical and sublexical contributions to transposed-phoneme priming effects.","authors":"Sophie Dufour, Jonathan Mirault, Jonathan Grainger","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03074-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03074-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Speech input like [byt] has been shown to facilitate not only the subsequent processing of an identical target word /byt/ but also that of a target word /tyb/ that contains the same phonemes in a different order. In the TISK model of spoken word recognition (Hannagan et al., Frontiers in psychology, 4, 563, 2013), this transposed-phoneme priming effect could result from the activation of shared position-independent phonemes (i.e., a sublexical effect) or pre-activation of the lexical representation corresponding to the transposed-phoneme target word by the prime (i.e., a lexical effect). In this study, we aimed to distinguish sublexical and lexical contributions to transposed-phoneme priming effects by (1) manipulating the lexical status of primes, and (2) examining if transposed-phoneme effects occur when targets are nonwords. An inhibitory transposed-phoneme priming effect was observed when target nonwords (e.g., /tad/) were preceded by transposed-phoneme word primes (e.g., /dat/). In contrast, there was a small non-significant facilitatory priming effect when target nonwords (e.g., /nuk/) were preceded by transposed-phoneme nonword primes (/kun/). These findings point to a greater contribution of lexical representations than sublexical representations in driving transposed-phoneme priming effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144023132","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":"Effect of auditory cues to lexical stress on the visual perception of gestural timing.","authors":"Chengjia Ye, James M McQueen, Hans Rutger Bosker","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03072-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03072-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Speech is often accompanied by gestures. Since beat gestures-simple nonreferential up-and-down hand movements-frequently co-occur with prosodic prominence, they can indicate stress in a word and hence influence spoken-word recognition. However, little is known about the reverse influence of auditory speech on visual perception. The current study investigated whether lexical stress has an effect on the perceived timing of hand beats. We used videos in which a disyllabic word, embedded in a carrier sentence (Experiment 1) or in isolation (Experiment 2), was coupled with an up-and-down hand beat, while varying their degrees of asynchrony. Results from Experiment 1, a novel beat timing estimation task, revealed that gestures were estimated to occur closer in time to the pitch peak in a stressed syllable than their actual timing, hence reducing the perceived temporal distance between gestures and stress by around 60%. Using a forced-choice task, Experiment 2 further demonstrated that listeners tended to perceive a gesture, falling midway between two syllables, on the syllable receiving stronger cues to stress than the other, and this auditory effect was greater when gestural timing was most ambiguous. Our findings suggest that f0 and intensity are the driving force behind the temporal attraction effect of stress on perceived gestural timing. This study provides new evidence for auditory influences on visual perception, supporting bidirectionality in audiovisual interaction between speech-related signals that occur in everyday face-to-face communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144042921","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}
Elisabeth Van der Hulst, Eline Van Geert, Johan Wagemans
{"title":"Multistable grouping beyond the dot lattice: Individual and contextual differences in interactions of global orientation and local shape.","authors":"Elisabeth Van der Hulst, Eline Van Geert, Johan Wagemans","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03053-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03053-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research on perceptual grouping has focussed on discovering and understanding grouping principles and their interactions on both a group and an individual level. However, the studied set of grouping principles does not consider the complexity of interactions between the local and global level. In this study, dot lattices were adjusted to have various oriented shapes as elements. In addition to proximity between the elements, the use of triangles as elements provided a direct (i.e., alignment of the shape's side and the global orientation promoting good continuation) as well as an indirect grouping cue (i.e., perceived pointing in local triangles as a result of its global reference frame) promoting global groupings. We replicated the well-studied proximity effect. In addition, the introduction of shapes as elements resulted in a dampening of the proximity effect, regardless of the nature of the shape. The grouping effect of triangles, however, was dependent on the grid characteristics and differed between individuals. In a grid with small elements, most participants adhered to grouping by pointing. When the size of the elements was increased, there was a shift towards grouping by base-alignment. In both grid types, a relatively large group of participants did not exhibit consistent grouping by alignment nor pointing. These results confirm that oriented shapes can function as grouping cues in both a direct (i.e., alignment) and an indirect (i.e., pointing) manner. Moreover, they emphasize the importance of studying individual differences in perceptual grouping.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144000169","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}
Yiwen Wang, Simona Buetti, Andrea Yaoyun Cui, Alejandro Lleras
{"title":"Color-color feature guidance in visual search.","authors":"Yiwen Wang, Simona Buetti, Andrea Yaoyun Cui, Alejandro Lleras","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03055-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03055-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous work has demonstrated that when the target and distractors differ in two features across different dimensions (e.g., red and square), search can unfold in parallel in either a simultaneous or a sequential feature-guidance manner. However, the underlying mechanism of how two features within a single feature dimension guide search remains elusive. This study specifically aims to explore how two colors, arranged in a center-surround configuration (e.g., red center/green surround), guide search. Our investigation encompasses homogeneous (Experiments 1-3) and heterogeneous (Experiment 4) search displays. Experiment 1 demonstrated a parallel search mechanism with a two-color location-bound search template by using a search display containing distractors that have inverse color relation with the target. Experiments 2 revealed a strategic preference for using a single color to guide search without location binding when distractor types were intermixed across trials, and this preference persisted even when the template was emphasized by presenting it before each trial. Furthermore, Experiment 3 illustrated that, with fixed-distractor practice, participants can acquire a two-color location-bound search strategy. Once in place, this strategy persists, even when the distractor types become intermixed in subsequent blocks of trials. Experiments 4A-D used a computational modeling approach and found that two-color guidance search works in a parallel sequential manner in heterogeneous displays. Participants utilize one of the two target colors first in a location-bound manner to filter out one subset of distractors and then attended to the second target color (location bound) to reject the remaining distractors.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144051003","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":"Acoustic estimation of voice roughness.","authors":"Andrey Anikin","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03060-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03060-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Roughness is a perceptual characteristic of sound that was first applied to musical consonance and dissonance, but it is increasingly recognized as a central aspect of voice quality in human and animal communication. It may be particularly important for asserting social dominance or attracting attention in urgent signals such as screams. To ensure that the results of roughness research are valid and consistent across studies, we need standard methodology for measuring it. I review the literature on roughness estimation, from classic psychoacoustics to more recent approaches, and present two collections of 602 human vocal samples whose roughness was rated by 162 listeners in perceptual experiments. Two algorithms for estimating roughness acoustically from modulation spectra are then presented and optimized to match the human ratings. One uses a bank of gammatone or Butterworth filters to obtain an auditory spectrogram, and a faster algorithm begins with a conventional spectrogram obtained with Short-Time Fourier transform; both explain ~ 50% of variance in average human ratings per stimulus. The range of modulation frequencies most relevant to roughness perception is [50, 200] Hz; this range can be selected with simple cutoff points or with a lognormal weighting function. Modulation and roughness spectrograms are proposed as visual aids for studying the dynamics of roughness in longer recordings. The described algorithms are implemented in the function modulationSpectrum() from the open-source R library soundgen. The audio recordings and their ratings are freely available from https://osf.io/gvcpx/ and can be used for benchmarking other algorithms.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144027292","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}
Ascensión Pagán, Federica Degno, Sara V Milledge, Richard D Kirkden, Sarah J White, Simon P Liversedge, Kevin B Paterson
{"title":"Correction to: Aging and word predictability during reading: Evidence from eye movements and fixation-related potentials.","authors":"Ascensión Pagán, Federica Degno, Sara V Milledge, Richard D Kirkden, Sarah J White, Simon P Liversedge, Kevin B Paterson","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03070-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03070-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144023130","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":"Perceiving temporal structure within and between the senses: A multisensory/crossmodal perspective.","authors":"Nicola Di Stefano, Charles Spence","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03045-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03045-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The literature demonstrates that people perceive temporal structure in sequences of auditory, tactile, or visual stimuli. However, to date, much less attention has been devoted to studying the perception of temporal structure that results from the presentation of stimuli to the chemical senses and/or crossmodally. In this review, we examine the literature on the perception of temporal features in the unisensory, multisensory and crossmodal domains in an attempt to answer, among others, the following foundational questions: Is the ability to perceive the temporal structure of stimuli demonstrated beyond the spatial senses (i.e., in the chemical senses)? Is the intriguing idea of an amodal, or supramodal, temporal processor in the human brain empirically grounded? Is the perception of temporal structure in crossmodal patterns (even) possible? Does the ability to perceive temporal patterns convey any biological advantage to humans? Overall, the reviewed literature suggests that humans perceive rhythmic structures, such as beat and metre, across audition, vision and touch, exhibiting similar behavioural traits. In contrast, only a limited number of studies have demonstrated this ability in crossmodal contexts (e.g., audiotactile interactions). Similar evidence within the chemical senses remains scarce and unconvincing, posing challenges to the concept of an amodal temporal processor and raising questions about its potential biological advantages. These limitations highlight the need for further investigation. To address these gaps, we propose several directions for future research, which may provide valuable insights into the nature and mechanisms of temporal processing across sensory modalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144027293","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":"The influence of vocal expertise on the perception of microrhythm in song and speech.","authors":"Justin London, Thea S Paulsrud, Anne Danielsen","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03057-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03057-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Musical expertise affects the perception of the temporal location of a musical sound, often to a significant degree. In a study involving jazz musicians, electronic dance music (EDM) music producers, and Norwegian folk musicians, Danielsen et al. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 84, 599-615, (2022) found significant between-group differences regarding the mean location as well as the variability around that mean for a set of control and genre-specific musical sounds. The present study extends these findings to singers who are experts in jazz versus classical music genres. In two experiments participants were presented with sung (Exp. 1) and sung and spoken (Exp. 2) syllables. In both the task was to synchronize either taps or a click track with a looped target sound. In both experiments, we found that classical participants tended to place the mean location later (relative to the acoustic onset) than jazz participants, and likewise had greater variability. Interestingly, and contra to our hypothesis, this between-group difference persisted even when the stimuli were spoken rather than sung. The current study gives further insights into how musical expertise impacts the low-level processing of musical sounds and provides a window into the interaction between top-down and bottom-up aspects of music and auditory perception more generally. In addition, it provides insight into how musicians approach musical and quasi-musical tasks, as well as the way they perceive the acoustic aspects of sound both as a musical object in its own right as well as a cue for perception-action coupling with their fellow musicians.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144063320","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}
Camille Bordeau, Florian Scalvini, Cyrille Migniot, Julien Dubois, Maxime Ambard
{"title":"Localization abilities with a visual-to-auditory substitution device are modulated by the spatial arrangement of the scene.","authors":"Camille Bordeau, Florian Scalvini, Cyrille Migniot, Julien Dubois, Maxime Ambard","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03065-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03065-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual-to-auditory substitution devices convert visual images into soundscapes. They are intended for use by blind people in everyday situations with various obstacles that need to be localized simultaneously, as well as irrelevant objects that must be ignored. It is therefore important to establish the extent to which substitution devices make it possible to localize obstacles in complex scenes. In this study, we used a substitution device that combines spatial acoustic cues and pitch modulation to convey spatial information. Nineteen blindfolded sighted participants had to point at a virtual target that was displayed alone or among distractors to evaluate their ability to perform a localization task in minimalist and complex virtual scenes. The spatial configuration of the scene was manipulated by varying the number of distractors and their spatial arrangement relative to the target. While elevation localization abilities were not impaired by the presence of distractors, the ability to localize the azimuth of the target was modulated when a large number of distractors were displayed at the same elevation as the target. The elevation localization performance tends to confirm that pitch modulation is effective to convey elevation information with the device in various spatial configurations. Conversely, the impairment to azimuth localization seems to result from segregation difficulties that arise when the spatial configuration of the objects does not allow pitch segregation. This must be considered in the design of substitution devices in order to help blind people correctly evaluate the risks posed by different situations.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144040968","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}
Nicolas D Münster, Philip Schmalbrock, Christian Frings
{"title":"It's about location, location, location: Absolute and relative stimulus positions in action control.","authors":"Nicolas D Münster, Philip Schmalbrock, Christian Frings","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03062-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03062-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In action control research, stimulus features are assumed to get bound to response features and integrated into an event file. Repetition of any feature leads to retrieval of this event file, causing interference with the current action, depending on whether features repeat or change. It is known that the location of a stimulus works as a feature in these processes. Location is usually operationalized as the absolute position of the stimulus; however, the significance of a particular stimulus location is often only revealed when its position relative to other context stimuli is considered as well. In two experiments (N<sub>total</sub> = 100), we investigated under which conditions which form of location-absolute or relative-is used for binding and retrieval processes. It was shown that solely absolute stimulus location is used when there is a unique absolute target stimulus position for each possible relative target stimulus location. As soon as the target stimulus' locations can no longer be conclusively defined by its absolute position, relative stimulus locations are used in binding and retrieval processes as well. Results are discussed in terms of prioritization processes and the idea of context-dependent processing of position deviances. Taken together, this reveals a flexible use of location as a feature in action control processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144046775","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}