Maria Nemeth, Klaus Rothermund, Christian Frings, Birte Moeller
{"title":"Binding and retrieval of omitted responses in complex response sequences","authors":"Maria Nemeth, Klaus Rothermund, Christian Frings, Birte Moeller","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03282-z","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03282-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Human action control relies on the close interconnection of action and perception. This is possible through a binding mechanism that integrates distributed features of perceptual and action-related events within sensorimotor representations (event files). Encountering any one of these features later on can retrieve previously integrated features from memory and influence current action. Since actions are represented as their sensory consequences rather than their motor pattern, previous studies suggest that actions can be integrated into and retrieved from event representations even without being executed. However, it is still unclear whether binding and retrieval processes for omitted actions are highly automatic processes or if they can be influenced by higher-order strategies. Here we used sequential tasks to investigate whether binding and retrieval regarding omitted responses is affected by the time to prepare a response and by the likelihood of response omissions. Results indicate that binding and retrieval are highly adaptive processes that rely on the action planning of responses but operate beyond immediate action contingencies, facilitating efficient action control in future behavior.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13183720/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147965747","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}
Mahmoud M. Elsherif, Richard D. Kirkden, Jonathan Catling
{"title":"Age-of-acquisition affects object recognition and compound word identification: Evidence from visual duration thresholds and progressive demasking","authors":"Mahmoud M. Elsherif, Richard D. Kirkden, Jonathan Catling","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03267-y","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03267-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Items acquired during childhood are processed more quickly and accurately than those acquired during adulthood, a phenomenon known as the age of acquisition (AoA) effect. One explanation is that the AoA effect results from the arbitrary nature of the input–output mapping during the development of a lexical-semantic representation. However, previous behavioural studies have not directly compared the AoA effects in pictures and word processing. To investigate this, 48 British English students completed a visual duration threshold task and four variations of progressive demasking experiments. In these tasks, participants were shown 150 compound words, either unspaced or spaced, while attempting to identify the modifier, head, or the full compound word. In addition, in Experiment 4, we used a visual duration threshold task (VDT) for 150 objects that represented 150 compound words to assess the mapping theory. We observed that early-acquired items were identified more quickly than late-acquired items across all tasks, including the VDT. The AoA effect was strongest for a progressive demasking task (PDT) with unspaced and spaced compound words, followed by the VDT for pictures and PDT with component identification for spaced compound words. The only exception was the PDT with component identification of unspaced compound words, where the effect was not present. These results align with the integrated account, as the AoA effect is rooted in semantic representation during word identification but is also influenced by the connection between perception and semantics in the VDT.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13414-026-03267-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147935712","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 impact of case changes on transposed-word effects","authors":"Yun Wen, Jonathan Mirault, Jonathan Grainger","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03273-0","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03273-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present study provides a test of the influence of bottom-up visual cues on transposed-word effects. In a speeded grammatical decision task, two adjacent transposed words in an ungrammatical sequence of words were presented either in the same case (e.g., the white was cat big) or in different cases (e.g., the white WAS cat big). By comparing transposed-word sequences with the corresponding ungrammatical control sequences (e.g., the white was/WAS cat slowly), a significantly smaller transposed-word effect was found in the different-case condition. We take this result as further evidence for the role played by bottom-up positional noise in driving transposed-word effects. Changing case across the transposed-words provides additional bottom-up cues for word-order, hence diminishing transposed-word effects.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147876629","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 active suppression on stimulus-response binding and retrieval","authors":"Ruyi Qiu, Yanzhi Mo","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03277-w","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03277-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Feature integration across perception and action is a crucial aspect of cognitive processing, creating retrievable episodic representations known as <i>stimulus-response episodes</i> or <i>event files</i>. While some studies suggest that attention is unnecessary for stimulus-response binding and retrieval, others argue its importance in these processes. To reconcile this contradiction, the current study proposed an attentional threshold for feature integration in event files and tentatively tested this assumption. Since active suppression has been documented to down-regulate attention allocation toward certain stimuli, the current study set out to test the influence of active suppression on stimulus-response binding and retrieval. More specifically, we employed a modified distractor-response binding (DRB) paradigm with a search-and-identification task. Participants searched for targets defined by either a positive feature (Experiment 1, e.g., red when the target is a red letter) or a negative feature (Experiment 2, e.g., blue when the target is a non-blue letter). Distractors were unattended in Experiment 1 but were actively suppressed in Experiment 2, when they carried negative features. Significant DRB effects were observed in Experiment 1 but not in Experiment 2, suggesting that active suppression may reduce attention allocation toward distractors below a critical threshold for feature integration in event files. The current findings support the notion of an attentional threshold which determines what can be involved in the stimulus-response binding and retrieval processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147830094","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}
Susan Teubner-Rhodes, Anna Pusser, Rebecca Dunterman
{"title":"The effects of intelligibility on conflict resolution and monitoring during speech recognition in noise","authors":"Susan Teubner-Rhodes, Anna Pusser, Rebecca Dunterman","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03271-2","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03271-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Listeners have difficulty understanding speech in noisy environments, confusing similar sounding words. Cognitive control may be important for segregating the speech signal from background noise and/or selecting between phonological competitors in the mental lexicon. Although cognitive control abilities may be related to speech recognition in noise, the extent to which engaging cognitive control causally improves speech recognition in background noise is unclear. The present study presented pictures that matched (congruent trials) or were phonological neighbors (incongruent trials) of the spoken word to manipulate cognitive control during speech recognition in multitalker babble at + 6 and + 8 dB signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). As conflict increases cognitive control levels, performance following incongruent trials indexes the effect of cognitive control on recognizing speech in noise. Following conflict, participants became faster and more accurate at repeating back speech at + 6 dB SNR and more accurate at + 8 dB SNR. When comparing across SNRs (including a + 4 dB SNR from a previous study), higher SNRs reduced the interference effect, predicting better recognition on incongruent trials; however, SNR did not significantly modulate postconflict improvements in word recognition. Results suggest engaging cognitive control improves speech recognition in noise across SNR levels where recognition is challenging but possible.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13414-026-03271-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829456","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}
Marek A. Pedziwiatr, Monika Derda, Weronika Bator, Michał Wierzchoń, Christoph Teufel
{"title":"Neither the number of feature dimensions nor their task relevance necessarily affect interocular grouping in binocular rivalry","authors":"Marek A. Pedziwiatr, Monika Derda, Weronika Bator, Michał Wierzchoń, Christoph Teufel","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03265-0","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03265-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>When one eye views half of stimulus A and half of stimulus B, and the other eye views the respective other halves, perception fluctuates. Among percepts reflecting monocular inputs (indicating typical binocular rivalry), percepts of undivided stimuli A and B occur. They indicate the grouping of parts of inputs from both eyes together, a process called “interocular grouping”. Our study investigated if, similar to binocular rivalry, this process is affected by attentional modulation stemming from manipulating the task relevance of the stimulus features driving it. We used stimuli in which form (object identity), motion (motion direction), or both could drive interocular grouping. Contrary to our hypothesis, the grouping was not affected by designating either of these dimensions as task relevant. Moreover, unlike in previous studies, we did not observe stronger grouping when two features, instead of one, drove it. However, we found that our manipulation of task relevance influenced observers’ eye movements, which, in turn, was related to the number of perceptual changes the observers reported. We interpret this pattern of results as suggesting that the dynamics of perceptual fluctuations differed depending on the task. Overall, we show that the factors influencing interocular grouping strength are more complex than previously thought and not necessarily aligned with the factors influencing binocular rivalry. The data from this study can be accessed via the following link: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18924437.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13414-026-03265-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829490","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}
Brandon J. Carlos, Lindsay A. Santacroce, Benjamin J. Tamber-Rosenau
{"title":"When can working memory consolidation be interrupted?","authors":"Brandon J. Carlos, Lindsay A. Santacroce, Benjamin J. Tamber-Rosenau","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03269-w","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03269-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The process of making perceptual information resistant to distraction in working memory (WM) is known as WM consolidation. The nature of WM consolidation is poorly understood, including basic aspects such as its speed and what can or cannot interrupt it. To evaluate the speed of consolidation, studies often use a dual-task approach with a WM sample (T1) preceding a sensorimotor decision (T2) by a variable interval. It is unclear what aspects of T1 and T2 lead to interference, particularly the retroactive interference that provides a cleaner measure of consolidation than proactive interference. These observations motivated the current goal of establishing the boundary conditions for the retroactive interference effect—that is, determining in what circumstances WM consolidation can be interrupted by a subsequent task. We investigated these boundary conditions via a series of modified versions of the dual-task consolidation interruption paradigm. The results demonstrate that retroactive interference is robust to changed WM probe demands. However, retroactive interference was less robust to modifications of the T2 task: it appears that a task switch (from WM encoding to another task) with an immediate speeded motor response is the most effective approach to evoke retroactive interference. These results are best understood in the context of central resource sharing models of dual-task interference.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829465","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}
Maria Nemeth, Christian Frings, Philip Schmalbrock, Birte Moeller
{"title":"The sound of silence: Binding and retrieval of silence in distractor-response binding","authors":"Maria Nemeth, Christian Frings, Philip Schmalbrock, Birte Moeller","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03261-4","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03261-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In human action control, executing a response is assumed to integrate features of the response and the stimulus into short-term episodic traces known as event files. Repeating any of the features comprised in the event file in a later episode leads to retrieval of other integrated features and can influence current behavior. Event files can include task-relevant features, and task-irrelevant features also can be bound to responses, termed distractor–response binding. Distractor–response binding effects have been shown in multimodal settings, such as for auditory distractors and visual targets. Recently, it has been suggested that silence can be perceived rather than just being cognitively inferred as the absence of sound. In the present study (combined <i>N</i> = 120), we used auditory distractors in a distractor–response binding task and investigated whether silence as a distractor (i.e., the absence of presented sound) can be bound to a response and subsequently retrieve this response from an event file. We found that silence as a distractor produced a typical distractor–response binding effect, which, furthermore, did not differ in size from the distractor–response binding effect when two sounds were used as distractors. The present findings indicate that silence operates similarly to sound as an auditory distractor in binding and retrieval in action control and support the notion that moments of absence can elicit perceptual event representations. </p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13414-026-03261-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147829298","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":"Category specificity in holistic processing: Reciprocal face–word interference does not extend to body stimuli","authors":"Paulo Ventura, Alexandre Pereira, Tina T. Liu","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03270-3","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03270-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined the category specificity of a previously reported reciprocal interference between holistic face and word processing by incorporating body stimuli as a control. Prior work has demonstrated that superimposed faces and words disrupt each other’s holistic processing: faces are processed less holistically when paired with aligned words, and vice versa. Here, we asked whether a similar pattern of interference extends to body stimuli. In Experiment 1, we assessed whether face alignment would influence holistic body processing. We found no difference in holistic body processing between face-aligned and face-misaligned conditions, suggesting that faces do not interfere with holistic body processing. In Experiment 2, we examined whether word alignment affected body processing and again found no evidence of interference. Together, these findings indicate that body processing is unaffected by the alignment of overlaid words or faces, highlighting both the specificity and the limits of shared holistic processing mechanisms across high-level visual categories.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13414-026-03270-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147797192","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":"Exploring the effect of cognitive factors in lipreading: The roles of auditory–verbal learning, inhibition, verbal fluency, and visuospatial working memory","authors":"Hale Hancer, Nilgun Ulger","doi":"10.3758/s13414-026-03266-z","DOIUrl":"10.3758/s13414-026-03266-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Lipreading is a critical component of communication; however, substantial individual differences in performance have been consistently observed. Although several cognitive factors have been proposed as potential determinants of lipreading ability, empirical evidence supporting these associations is limited. This study investigated the roles of auditory–verbal learning, verbal fluency, inhibition, and visuospatial working memory in adults’ lipreading. The study was conducted in two phases. First, the Lipreading Test (LRT) was developed through a literature review, expert evaluation, and a preliminary study. The LRT consists of 50 items across phoneme, word, sentence, and question–answer subtests. Item analysis showed balanced difficulty (<i>pj</i> = 0.30–0.90) and strong discrimination (<i>dj</i> = 0.30–0.83). Data from 420 participants were used to establish the construct validity, discriminant validity, and reliability of the scale. The item–total correlations ranged from .501 to .898. Exploratory factor analysis (<i>n</i> = 170) revealed a two-factor structure (eigenvalue = 2.92) explaining 56.18% of the variance, confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis (<i>n</i> = 200). Discriminant validity analysis (<i>n</i> = 100) indicated that performance on the LRT demonstrated significant differentiation by gender and hearing loss onset. Reliability was evaluated using internal consistency (α = .831), test–retest correlations (<i>r</i> = .404–.961), and interrater reliability (κ = .91–.99). In phase 2, hierarchical regression (<i>n</i> = 96) indicated that gender, auditory–verbal learning, verbal fluency, visuospatial memory, and inhibition together accounted for 21.8% of variance in lipreading performance (<i>p</i> < .05). Lipreading emerges from the combined influence of multiple cognitive processes, highlighting the importance of an integrated assessment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55433,"journal":{"name":"Attention Perception & Psychophysics","volume":"88 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147790108","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}