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How expectations alter search performance

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03022-9

Natalie A. Paquette, Joseph Schmidt

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Interference from semantically distracting sounds in action scene search

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03023-8

Tomoki Maezawa, Miho Kiyosawa, Jun I. Kawahara

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Characterizing the neural underpinnings of attention in the real world via co-registration of eye movements and EEG/MEG: An introduction to the special issue

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03017-6

Elizabeth Schotter, Brennan Payne, David Melcher

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Distractor-response binding influences visual search

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03016-7

Fredrik Allenmark, Hao Yu, Hermann J. Müller, Zhuanghua Shi, Christian Frings

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The haptic cues humans use to sense small numbers of objects in a box

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03011-y

Ilja Frissen, Shuangshuang Xiao, Nurlan Kabdyshev, Moldir Zabirova, Mounia Ziat

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A SNARC-like effect for visual speed.

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03012-x

Michele Vicovaro, Riccardo Boscariol, Mario Dalmaso

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Aging and word predictability during reading: Evidence from eye movements and fixation-related potentials

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-024-02981-9

Ascensión Pagán, Federica Degno, Sara V. Milledge, Richard D. Kirkden, Sarah J. White, Simon P. Liversedge, Kevin B. Paterson

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The near-miss to cross-modal commutativity

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03014-9

Jürgen Heller

{"title":"The near-miss to cross-modal commutativity","authors":"Jürgen Heller","doi":"10.3758/s13414-025-03014-9","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-025-03014-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper is a follow-up to Ellermeier, Kattner, and Raum (2021, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 2955–2967), and provides a reanalysis of their data on cross-modal commutativity from a Bayesian perspective, and a theory-based analysis grounded on a recently suggested extension of a global psychophysical approach to cross-modal judgments (Heller, 2021, Psychological Review, 128, 509-524). This theory assumes that stimuli are judged against respondent-generated internal references that are modality-specific and potentially role-dependent (i.e., sensitive to whether they pertain to the standard or the variable stimulus in the performed cross-modal magnitude production task). While the Bayesian tests turn out to be inconclusive, the theory-based analysis reveals a massive and systematic role-dependence of internal references. This leads to predicting small but systematic deviations from cross-modal commutativity, which are in line with the observed data. In analogy to a term coined in the context of Weber’s law, this phenomenon is referred to as near-miss to cross-modal commutativity. The presented theory offers a psychological rationale explaining this phenomenon, and opens up an innovative approach to studying cross-modal perception.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"87 2","pages":"619 - 636"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143060973","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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Experience-driven suppression of irrelevant distractor locations is context dependent

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-024-03009-y

Ayala S. Allon, Andrew B. Leber

{"title":"Experience-driven suppression of irrelevant distractor locations is context dependent","authors":"Ayala S. Allon, Andrew B. Leber","doi":"10.3758/s13414-024-03009-y","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-024-03009-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Humans can learn to attentionally suppress salient, irrelevant information when it consistently appears at a predictable location. While this ability confers behavioral benefits by reducing distraction, the full scope of its utility is unknown. As people locomote and/or shift between task contexts, known-to-be-irrelevant locations may change from moment to moment. Here we assessed a context-dependent account of learned suppression: can individuals flexibly update the locations they suppress, from trial to trial, as a function of task context? Participants searched for a shape target in displays that sometimes contained a salient, irrelevant color singleton distractor. When one scene category was presented in the background (e.g., forests), the distractor had a greater probability of appearing in one display location than the others; for another scene category (e.g., cities), we used a different high-probability location. Results in Experiments 1 and 2 (and in the Online Supplementary Material) failed to show any context-dependent suppression effects, consistent with earlier work. However, in Experiments 3 and 4, we reinforced the separation between task contexts by using distinct sets of shape and color stimuli as well as distinct kinds of reported features (line orientation vs. gap judgment). Results now showed robust task-dependent signatures of learned spatial suppression and did not appear to be tied to explicit awareness of the relationship between context and high-probability distractor location. Overall, these results reveal a mechanism of learned spatial suppression that is flexible and sensitive to task contexts, albeit one that requires sufficient processing of these contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"87 2","pages":"285 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143054315","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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Correction to: Temporal dynamics of activation and suppression in a spatial Stroop task: A distribution analysis on gaze and arrow targets

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Attention Perception & Psychophysics Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03021-w

Yoshihiko Tanaka, Takato Oyama, Kenta Ishikawa, Matia Okubo

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