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{"title":"The lightness/pitch crossmodal correspondence modulates reported dominance in binocular rivalry","authors":"Mick Zeljko,&nbsp;Rhianna Eather,&nbsp;Bryan Sim,&nbsp;Philip M. Grove,&nbsp;Ada Kritikos","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03320-w","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03320-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Crossmodal correspondences (CMCs: systematic associations between feature dimensions across sensory modalities) are known to facilitate performance in simple detection and discrimination tasks and can bias reports of ambiguous figures. The present study tested whether a lightness/pitch CMC biases reported dominance in binocular rivalry. Across three experiments, participants viewed dichoptically presented black and white circles accompanied by relatively high- or low-pitched tones. Dominance reports were coded as congruent when they matched the lightness/pitch correspondence (white/high, black/low) and incongruent when they did not (white/low, black/high). In two experiments, participants reported whether the dominant percept was black or white (direct task); in a third, they judged line orientation while lightness was irrelevant (indirect task). Congruency effects were observed only in the direct task, and only at longer timescales: in intermittent presentation, at 5-s and 8-s exposures; and in continuous presentation, for 5-s sound alternations with responses following tone changes by 1.6–3.2 s, peaking at about 2.6 s. No reliable effects were found in the indirect task. Dominance response durations averaged approximately 2.5 s in the direct task but were significantly longer, approximately 3.5 s, in the indirect task. These results suggest that a pre-existing, untrained lightness/pitch correspondence can bias reported rivalry dominance, but only when the relevant feature is attended and during temporal windows aligned with natural rivalry dynamics. Because dominance was measured by report, the findings are best interpreted as effects on reported dominance rather than as definitive evidence for purely perceptual modulation; nevertheless, they are consistent with subtle crossmodal influences during phases of rivalry instability.</p><p>The data for this study are publicly available on the Open Science Framework (OSF) at https://osf.io/u3ycm/overview?view_only=9fc10ddf4d6c4af8a7d70f2e06c2aef6. The study was not preregistered.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13414-026-03320-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148723372","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}

{"title":"Octave equivalence and the incidental learning of absolute pitch","authors":"Williams Henry,&nbsp;James R. Schmidt","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03321-9","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03321-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Absolute pitch is the ability to label the pitch chroma of isolated tones. Recent work has demonstrated rapid improvements in pitch identification using an incidental contingency learning task. In the present work, we used a similar approach to assess whether knowledge about the pitch chroma (rather than pitch heights) of tones is possible in our task. In Experiment 1 with nonmusicians, seven notes in two octaves were played most often with their corresponding written note names and less often with the others. Tones from a third octave were played equally often with all note names (i.e., no contingency manipulation) to test for chroma-based generalization. We found significant but very small learning and generalization effects, revealing the relative difficulty of focusing on the pitch chroma during learning. The same task was used again in a sample of musicians in Experiment 2 with the thinking that musicians would have enhanced pitch chroma perception. As expected, we found more compelling evidence for learning and generalization, albeit only in explicit identification performance. In Experiment 3, we assessed whether it is fundamentally impossible to acquire knowledge based on pitch chroma by training participants with Shepard tones, which are largely devoid of pitch height cues. Interestingly, we found robust learning effects for these tones. However, we did not find evidence for transfer toward piano tones. We conclude that the major reason why absolute pitch is difficult to learn in adulthood is due to difficulty in perceiving pitch chroma due to the saliency of pitch height cues.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148708502","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":"Limited effects of action on ensemble processing","authors":"Shinhae Ahn,&nbsp;Richard A. Abrams","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03319-3","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03319-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous research has shown that production of an action toward a visual stimulus may prioritize features of that stimulus for a brief period of time. One recent report has suggested that such an <i>action effect</i> specifically influences ensemble processing – the extraction of summary statistics from a display of multiple items. In the present study we replicate the results that led to that conclusion by having participants assess the mean size of elements in an ensemble after having made an action to either a small or large object. The size of the acted-on object biased the ensemble judgment, but merely viewing the same object produced no such bias. In two subsequent experiments we found the same pattern of results when participants were asked to judge the size of an individual object – not an ensemble. Because the same pattern occurred even when ensemble processing was not required, the action appears to affect some aspect of the task other than ensemble processing (such as perception of visual stimuli in general, or processes related to memory, decision making or response selection), limiting the conclusions that are possible about ensemble processing, but revealing an important new effect of action.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13414-026-03319-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148690233","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}

{"title":"Distractor avoidance is achieved by active control rather than passive exclusion","authors":"Xiaojin Ma,&nbsp;Richard A. Abrams","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03317-5","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03317-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When navigating the visual world, we have considerable control over what stimuli to select for deeper processing, and we can often resist capture by physically salient but task-irrelevant distractors. A debate has emerged regarding whether distractor avoidance is accomplished by active goal-driven attentional control, or by passive exclusion of distractors from the narrow attentional focus of a highly serial search, as the <i>attentional window account</i> claims. In the present study, in order to explore the issue, we measured the extent to which attentional avoidance of salient distractors is affected by the seriality of the search. In three experiments, we invoked different levels of seriality by separately manipulating the similarity among search elements, the stimulus pattern complexity, and the conjunctive features that defined the target. To assess attentional allocation, probe trials were interleaved with the search trials. While the results showed significant avoidance of color singleton distractors in all experiments, the strength of the avoidance effect, as measured by both search latency and probe report, did not differ as a function of the seriality of the search. An additional control experiment verified the item-by-item serial search processes invoked by most of our methods. The results are inconsistent with the passive filtering proposed by the attentional window account and instead imply that active top-down control is a more likely explanation for distractor avoidance.</p><p>Trial-level data and analysis code for all experiments have been made publicly available online (https://osf.io/njvu2), and none of the experiments was preregistered.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13433576/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148671388","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}

{"title":"The influence of spatial frequencies, orientation, and familiarity on face stimuli integration","authors":"Maria Cuomo,&nbsp;Giovanni Federico,&nbsp;Giovanni Mario Capolongo,&nbsp;Alessio Fracasso,&nbsp;Antimo Buonocore","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03312-w","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03312-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>When we observe an object, our visual system extracts both coarse and fine information to build a coherent percept. This process is often described as a coarse-to-fine integration, in which low spatial frequency (LSF) information provides an initial scaffold for interpreting high spatial frequency (HSF) detail. Here, we examined how this integration unfolds in face perception across two experiments. We leveraged the face inversion effect—where inverted faces are harder to recognize than upright ones—as a tool to probe processing flexibility. In Experiment 1, ten participants matched two familiar faces presented in rapid succession (template and probe), which were either spatial frequency-congruent (both LSF or both HSF) or incongruent (LSF–HSF or HSF–LSF). Accuracy was higher for HSF templates in congruent conditions, but in incongruent conditions, performance improved when matching LSF probes onto HSF templates—an effect limited to upright faces. In Experiment 2, twelve participants completed the same task with both familiar and unfamiliar faces. The pattern for familiar faces replicated that of Experiment 1; however, for unfamiliar faces, accuracy was generally higher in congruent conditions and was unaffected by template SF. These findings suggest that coarse-to-fine dynamics do not rigidly constrain spatial frequency integration in face recognition but instead reflect flexible processing strategies that adapt to stimulus familiarity, orientation, and task context.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148671406","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":"Guidance of attention by statistical learning when multiple guidance mechanisms compete","authors":"Mark W. Becker,&nbsp;Morgan Dodd,&nbsp;Tristan Janisse","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03313-9","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03313-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous research has shown that people are sensitive to statistical regularities and will implicitly learn to bias attention toward locations and features frequently associated with search targets. However, most prior work has involved a single biasing contingency. In Experiment 1, we investigate whether individuals can simultaneously learn and implement two distinct contingencies: one based on location and another based on color. The results suggest that both contingencies are learned implicitly and exert independent effects on attentional allocation. Experiments 2 and 3 examine whether shifting one feature to the volitional system via endogenous cues affects the implicit learning and implementation of contingencies for the other feature. The findings indicate that endogenous cues for one feature do not block implicit learning of contingencies in the other. However, the influence of implicit contingencies on attentional allocation depends on the validity of the volitional cues: they are effective when cues are neutral or valid, but not when invalid. This pattern suggests that the implicit and volitional systems operate hierarchically, with the volitional system taking precedence.</p><p>Efficient attentional guidance is key to effective visual search. While both volitional control and statistical learning can guide attention, little is known about how attention is influenced when multiple guidance mechanisms compete. Using a task with competing statistical regularities, one for target location and one for color, we show that both statistical learning biases independently influence attention. Shifting a feature to the volitional control system does not disrupt the statistical learning of the other, but invalid volitional cues eliminate statistical learning effects, suggesting a hierarchical relationship. These findings offer new insight into how multiple guidance systems shape attentional allocation.</p><p>Subject level data and SPSS analysis syntax available on the Open Science Framework at: \u0000https://osf.io/5vt74/overview. The experiments were not preregistered, but the data, and analysis syntax are publicly available at \u0000https://osf.io/5vt74/overview.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13429549/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148665276","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}

{"title":"Auditory scene analysis in music: A synthetic review","authors":"Kai Siedenburg,&nbsp;Robin Hake,&nbsp;Simon Jacobsen,&nbsp;Michel Bürgel","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03310-y","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03310-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Music is the synthesis of a multitude of components: the combination of spectrotemporal structures emerging from different acoustic or electronic instruments, carefully orchestrated to form a connected whole. From these complex textures, our auditory system groups components through a process called musical scene analysis (MSA). In this review, we aim to address several questions about MSA. What are the perceptual principles underpinning musical scene perception? How are these principles being probed with different experimental paradigms? What stimulus and listener factors shape MSA? And what are future perspectives that further drive this field of research? We will find that Gestalt principles from psychology help us organize a musical scene through primitive and schema-based grouping cues. Such principles are being investigated through both minimalist and ecological experimental designs that give rise to several factors affecting MSA. We will present studies that have investigated blend and segregation, salience, and complexity, as stimulus-based aspects, and both peripheral and cognitive factors, which explain inter-individual differences among listeners. We conclude by exploring different perspectives on how music is attuned to MSA and the aesthetic affordances of multi-source music – perspectives that might inform future research in the field.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13429554/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148665290","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}

{"title":"Parallel or clump-wise serial? A reinterpretation of feature-search mode","authors":"Dock H. Duncan,&nbsp;Jan Theeuwes","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03315-7","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03315-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A central debate in visual attention concerns whether selection is guided primarily by top- down control or by bottom-up salience. In the additional singleton task, the absence of attentional capture by a distractor is often attributed to the adoption of feature-search mode. An alternative account proposes that these displays instead partly induce serial search, which naturally limits distractor interference. The present study tested this by linking two diagnostics of search dynamics, set size effects and two target compatibility, within the same paradigm. Participants searched for a predefined target among heterogeneous non-targets while set size and the presence of a salient color singleton distractor were manipulated. Across two experiments, search showed reliable display size effects and responses were faster when two targets were present than when only one target was present. At larger display sizes no target compatibility effect was observed. At the same time the distractor did not capture attention and instead produced a distractor benefit. Together, these findings indicate that displays commonly assumed to induce the feature-search mode partly require serial selection. The absence of attentional capture therefore reflects sequential serial processing rather than top-down suppression.</p><p>All experiment code, analysis code, and anonymized trial-level participant data are available via the Open Science Framework at: osf.io/g6avc. None of the experiments herein were preregistered.</p>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13414-026-03315-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148614934","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}

{"title":"Duration, but not intensity cues, facilitate synchronization to complex rhythms","authors":"Andrea Cecilia Chavez,&nbsp;Juan Manuel Toro","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03316-6","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03316-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rhythm emerges from the temporal patterning of sounds and the expectations that shape how we hear them. Rather than passively listening to incoming events, listeners organize timing information through internal predictions and external acoustic cues. In speech, louder sounds tend to mark the start of a group, whereas longer sounds mark its end, a pattern described by the Iambic–Trochaic Law (ITL) that supports segmentation and word learning. We asked whether this perceptual grouping principle in speech could also facilitate synchronization to musical rhythms. Thirty-six adults with minimal musical training tapped along to tone sequences in simple (4/4) or complex (7/8) meters, each presented with neutral, ITL-aligned, or reverse (ITL-reversed) contours. Synchronization accuracy showed no contour effects for simple meter, but contour effects emerged in complex meter, where reverse contours produced the most accurate tapping. Error analyses indicated that prosodic contours encouraged cautious timing relative to reverse, whereas reverse contours yielded more consistent beat tracking with fewer missed taps and fewer extra taps. These findings suggest that a long initial note provided an attentional anchor that stabilized timing, and that under the conditions tested here, duration cues yielded larger and more reliable synchronization benefits than intensity cues<i>.</i> Thus, intensity and duration cues may guide musical timing through distinct, attention-based mechanisms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13414-026-03316-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615139","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}

{"title":"Correction to: Imagery: interference, facilitation, and theory","authors":"Adam Reeves","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03304-w","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03304-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13414-026-03304-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148609822","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}