Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance最新文献

This study investigated whether lifelong bimodal bilingualism could enhance cognitive functioning in two nonlinguistic domains: executive control and visuospatial attention. Three groups participated in the study: bimodal bilinguals-hearing "children of deaf adults" (CODA) using Polish Sign Language and Polish spoken language, unimodal bilinguals (using two spoken languages), and monolinguals (using one spoken language). Participants performed two versions of the flanker task: a flanker task with different spatial gaps (stimulus eccentricities) between target and flanker stimuli, and an attention network test with different degrees of stimulus lateralization (relative to the central fixation). The two tasks assessed the behavioral efficiency of conflict resolution and spatial processing under different visuospatial demands. The results showed that bimodal and unimodal bilinguals did not differ significantly in the efficiency of conflict resolution, while both bilingual groups outperformed monolinguals. Secondly, bimodal bilinguals showed specific modulatory effects in visuospatial processing, compared to both unimodal bilinguals and monolinguals. In conclusion, contrary to previous claims, the current findings suggest that lifelong bimodal bilingualism might provide an effective "training" augmenting specific aspects of both executive control and visuospatial attention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

A long line of research has investigated vigilance decrement, the decline in the sustained attention performance over time. Overload perspectives suggest this decrement results from cognitive resource depletion because of task load, while underload perspectives attribute it to attention disengagement from tasks that are inherently underarousing and monotonous. Based on these two perspectives, this article investigates whether background music influences arousal and task load, thereby affecting vigilance performance. Across two experiments that were conducted in 2023 and 2024, we systematically examined the effects of music presence and different types of music (liked, disliked) on performance during an abbreviated and visually taxing vigilance task. We analyzed the roles of arousal, boredom, task load, task engagement, and personality traits (extraversion, boredom proneness). Our results did not fully align with either the overload or underload perspectives. We discuss these findings within alternative theoretical frameworks, offering new insights into the complex dynamics of vigilance and attention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Reports an error in "The best fitting of three contemporary observer models reveals how participants' strategy influences the window of subjective synchrony" by Kielan Yarrow, Joshua A. Solomon, Derek H. Arnold and Warrick Roseboom (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2023[Dec], Vol 49[12], 1534-1563; see record 2024-22272-001). In the article (https://doi.org/10.1037/ xhp0001154), "2" was missing before "l" in four equations. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2024-22272-001.) When experimenters vary the timing between two intersensory events, and participants judge their simultaneity, an inverse-U-shaped psychometric function is obtained. Typically, this simultaneity function is first fitted with a model for each participant separately, before best-fitting parameters are utilized (e.g., compared across conditions) in the second stage of a two-step inferential procedure. Often, simultaneity-function width is interpreted as representing sensitivity to asynchrony, and/or ascribed theoretical equivalence to a window of multisensory temporal binding. Here, we instead fit a single (principled) multilevel model to data from the entire group and across several conditions at once. By asking 20 participants to sometimes be more conservative in their judgments, we demonstrate how the width of the simultaneity function is prone to strategic change and thus questionable as a measure of either sensitivity to asynchrony or multisensory binding. By repeating our analysis with three different models (two implying a decision based directly on subjective asynchrony, and a third deriving this decision from the correlation between filtered responses to sensory inputs) we find that the first model, which hypothesizes, in particular, Gaussian latency noise and difficulty maintaining the stability of decision criteria across trials, is most plausible for these data. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

The year 2025 marked the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance (JEP:HPP). JEP:HPP started as a standalone journal in January 1975 under the editorship of Michael Posner. The semicentennial birthday is a special occasion and warrants a special recognition. To celebrate, the editorial team curated a series of articles that explored the impact, the reach, and the value of research published in JEP: HPP. The articles were published throughout 2025. While scientific journals are often evaluated through metrics like impact factor, our celebratory articles show that the influence of JEP:HPP extends far beyond such simple measures. The 27 articles that made up the celebratory series demonstrated the vast reach and diverse influence of research published in JEP:HPP, crossing millennia from Plato to modern feminism to address questions ranging from perception of beauty (Grzywacz, 2025), music (Prpic, 2025; Sears, 2025), human reasoning (Fischhoff, 2025), and language acquisition (Nazzi, 2025) to attention (Olivers et al., 2025; Sauter, 2025; Zhang et al., 2025), representation of space (Yamamoto & Phillbeck, 2025), mental imagery (Martarelli & Mast, 2025), working memory (Olivers et al., 2025), cognitive (Logan, 2025), and attentional control (Montakhaby Nodeh, 2025), as well as social perception and action (Ferier & Heurley, 2025; Hafri & Papeo, 2025; Oswald, 2025). The anniversary series of articles included seven invited literature reviews, three editorial perspectives, and 17 readers' perspectives. Each contribution gave a window into a finding, a researcher, and a time. We got a peek into research from 50 years ago-the ways in which "subjects" were tested, data were plotted, and graphs were physically printed. The authors shared the story of data, how they came about, and how they continued to "live" in the literature. This capture of time, from 1975 to today, was one of the motivating factors in planning the celebratory series. The idea was to honor not only the journal but also people connected to the journal over those 50 years- those who led the journal, those who published in the journal, and, of course, those who read the journal. Thus, as the series celebrated the contributions of research published in JEP:HPP, it also celebrated the community of researchers making JEP:HPP, the diversity of our research questions, opinions, methods, and data, as well as the unity with which we converge in our keen interest in understanding the human mind. The editorial team received enthusiastic contributions from both established and up-and-coming junior scientists who are just embarking on a career journey similar to that taken by their predecessors. And while the two groups may differ in their training and methodological affinities, they appear to share the same passion and fire for scientific discovery (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance is commemorating its 50th anniversary. To celebrate, this commentary examines the adoption of open science practices as a function of the editorial policies implemented in the journal over a period of 8 years (2016-2023). Between 2016 and 2017, no open science policy was in effect. Accordingly, the rates of materials/data/code sharing and preregistration were nearly zero in published articles. In 2018, policy changed requiring sample size justification and recommending the inclusion of open science practices. This produced almost 100% sample size justification compliance between 2019 and 2020 and an increase in the adoption of all open science practices. Finally, in 2021, the journal adopted the Transparency and Openness in Publishing guidelines. Between 2022 and 2023, the adoption of all open science practices further increased, with over 88% of articles sharing their data and about half sharing the analysis code. This analysis shows that editorial policies can have a pivotal role in driving authors toward more transparent and replicable practices in their published articles. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Are eye movements miscalibrated when the distance to be crossed is misperceived? The two-visual-stream hypothesis posits that while perception is influenced by visual context and thus prone to illusions, actions rely on context-independent metrics and are thus unaffected by such distortions. In contrast, empirical evidence consistently shows that saccadic eye movements are influenced by the Müller-Lyer illusion. However, this finding could be explained by saccades being attracted toward the figure's center of gravity, while perceptual distortion would result from distinct mechanisms. To disentangle these effects, we conducted four experiments (N = 114) between 2022 and 2025, measuring the amplitude of saccades performed along horizontal lines embedded in Müller-Lyer figures carefully designed to control for center-of-gravity biases. Results showed that both saccade amplitude and length judgment were systematically modulated by the illusion beyond what could be attributed to changes in the actual center of gravity, its saliency, or computation time. Additionally, the illusion's influence on saccade amplitude diminished after a longer previewing time (2,000 ms) compared to a shorter one (50 ms). These findings support the hypothesis that perception and oculomotor behavior rely on a shared visual representation that is influenced by contextual information but becomes more precise with increased processing time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

The production of a word is delayed by the recent production of one or more semantically related words. This phenomenon, known as semantic interference, has been observed in picture naming tasks involving either large sets of pictures named once (continuous naming) or small sets of pictures named repeatedly (blocked-cyclic naming). It has been attributed to an adaptive learning mechanism that operates after each naming episode. However, the interference develops differently in these tasks: It is cumulative in continuous naming and noncumulative in blocked-cyclic naming. It has been suggested that the small local response sets in blocked naming are easily identified and stored in working memory, which then introduces an additional process that constrains the interference. We reasoned that this process would be less effective as the local response sets increased in size, resulting in cumulative interference. In blocked naming experiments involving local response sets of 10 or 19 items, we found that the interference did not increase continuously; rather, it carried on across more presentations than for the typically used small sets. This finding lends support to the notion of a control mechanism that operates gradually and interacts with an adaptive learning mechanism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

How does the visual system achieve efficient information selection under limited processing capacity is a fundamental question in cognitive psychology. Through three experiments, the present study reveals a time-constrained two-stage visual selection mechanism. Experiment 1's color search tasks demonstrated bilinear Search Time × Set Size functions, with a clear kink point at 50-100 ms after stimulus onset, showing shallower slopes (2.7-10.4 ms/item) before versus steeper slopes (10.7-20.7 ms/item) after, indicating two distinct processing stages. Experiment 2 extended these findings to digit search: despite capacity differences (color = 7.6 vs. digit = 3.8 items), the critical kink point time remained stable (60-70 ms), suggesting cross-stimulus generalizability. Experiment 3 disrupted this bilinear pattern by delaying search onset, confirming its time dependence. Individual analyses showed unimodal kink point time distributions (peak 60-80 ms) but multimodal set-size distributions, indicating time-driven stage transitions. These findings establish that visual selection has a time-based parallel-to-serial transition, and the early parallel stage has a stimulus-dependent capacity. This two-stage selection model integrates the core tenets of the Guided Search model and attentional window theories, offering a new perspective for the architecture of visual information processing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Tucker and Ellis (1998) is a seminal work in perception-action binding research. By using manipulable objects in more realistic contexts, their study has offered profound insights into the neurocognitive processes involved in our daily interactions with tools. They were the first to highlight the action potentiation effect. Subsequent research has specified the conditions under which the effect can be observed, evolved the paradigm, and adapted response devices to address other types of questions related to the motor dimension of cognition. Over the past 25 years, their contribution has significantly advanced research and ignited extensive debates on embodied, plastic, and proactive models of cognition. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

The attentional blink (AB) refers to the outcome where in a rapidly presented stream of stimuli observers are unable to successfully report the second of two previously defined targets relative to an otherwise identical control condition where the first target does not require report. The first AB article was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance in 1992 and in the ensuing 32 years has garnered the interest of many researchers spanning multiple disciplines and experimental approaches, both basic and applied. Moreover, it has attracted the attention of a variety of social media whose authors have appropriately and in some cases inappropriately used the AB to account for human behavior. Perhaps one of the most important outcomes of this research has been to shift the focus from the study of spatial attention to include that of attention over time, or temporal attention. Given the upcoming 50th anniversary of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, the journal has asked the original authors to reflect on the history of attentional blink research. We wish to acknowledge that such reflection must be bounded by space and time (pun intended) limitations so apologies to those authors whose undoubtedly important research we were unable to cover. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).