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On the influence of implicit race attitudes on explicit trustworthiness judgments: An investigation of the perceivers and targets' race and gender intersection Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Alessia Valmori, Erdem O. Meral, Miriam-Linnea Hale, Patrice Rusconi, Marco Brambilla
People judge strangers’ trustworthiness based on their facial appearance, but these judgments are biased. Biases towards Black individuals may stem from implicit pro-White attitudes. However, previ...
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Spatial cognition in glaucoma: Constricted field of view weakens the perception of global configurations Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Pierre-Jean Bonnerre, Jean-François Rouland, Aude Warniez, Muriel Boucart
We tested whether the global precedence effect shifts towards local precedence when the visual field is reduced by glaucoma. Fifteen patients, 15 age-matched and 15 young controls were presented wi...
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Recognizing newly learned faces across changes in age Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Laura Sexton, Mila Mileva, Graham Hole, Ailsa Strathie, Sarah Laurence
We examined how well faces can be recognized despite substantial age-related changes, using three behavioural experiments plus Mileva et al.’s (2020, Facial identity across the lifespan. Cognitive ...
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A problem case set for teaching psychophysics and psychophysical modelling Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Igor S. Utochkin
Psychophysics can be considered a methodological core for quantitative studies of perception, as well as attention, memory, decision-making, etc. In typical introductory “Sensation and Perception” ...
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Investigating opposite direction motion reports in random dot kinematograms Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Pat Mc Keown, Elaine Corbett, Redmond G. O’Connell
Continuous outcome random dot kinematogram (RDK) tasks reveal that participants sometimes produce Opposite Direction Motion Reports (ODMRs), motion reports in the opposite direction to that present...
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Visual features drive attentional bias for threat Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Diána T. Pakai-Stecina, Botond Laszlo Kiss, Julia Basler, Andras N. Zsido
Past studies argued that the attentional capture by threats is hard to inhibit. When using threats as task-irrelevant stimuli, this effect can deteriorate performance on the primary task. Whether a...
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Engaging with neuroanatomy through creative projects Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Katherine Sledge Moore, Lindsey Smith, Denise Glick, Gavin Q. Fox, Aoife Samuelson, Jessica Kha, Yasmin I. Abuwi, Briana Delibashi, Grace Fenner, Emilie Garrison, Taylor L. Gubler, Jessica L. Hornig, Abaigeal C. Hunsberger, Delaney Jess, Wren Lugo, Jules Lutz, India McFarlane, Jayme McVeigh, Valerie Sems, Tatiana Svanidze
Students often struggle to learn material that requires extensive memorization (e.g., neuroanatomy) in courses like Sensation & Perception and Cognitive Neuroscience, though such foundational mater...
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A robust neural index of automatic generalization across variable natural views of familiar face identities Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Justine David, Laurent Koessler, Bruno Rossion
The ability to automatically and rapidly recognize a familiar face identity across different views is well documented but generally measured with explicit behavioural tasks involving many other pro...
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Action matters! Target report technique affects interference between visually guided touch and multiple-object tracking Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Mallory E. Terry, Vanessa Amelio, Lana M. Trick
When participants carry out concurrent tasks there can be overlap in action plans. This study shows the effects of action-plan overlap in a multiple-object tracking (MOT) task where participants tr...
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Association of idiosyncratic eye-movement patterns with holistic processing of faces as measured by the composite face effect and the face inversion effect Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Nianzeng Zhong, Janet H. Hsiao, Guomei Zhou, William G. Hayward
Faces are said to be processed holistically, with the composite face paradigm and the face inversion paradigm being two widely used tasks to demonstrate this mode of processing. However, recent stu...
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Self-monitoring hinders the ability to read affective facial expressions Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Manlu Liu, Veronica Dudarev, Jamie W. Kai, Noor Brar, James T. Enns
People frequently regulate their own behaviour in an effort to be socially appropriate. Here we ask how self-monitoring influences our accuracy when reading others’ facial expressions. We used webc...
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The role of the eye region for neural correlates of familiar face recognition: The N250r reveals no evidence for eye-centred face representations Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Bartholomew P. A. Quinn, Tsvetomila Popova, Poppy C. E. Green, Rupert Talfourd-Cook, Holger Wiese
Humans recognize familiar faces highly accurately. However, it is unclear precisely what information is stored in the underlying long-term face representations. While some have emphaszsed the impor...
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Object feature reinstatement into working-memory? Separating the direct and indirect effects of long-term memory on attentional selection Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Jessica M. Kespe, Niyatee Narkar, Naseem Al-Aidroos
During visual search, observers adopt an attentional template that guides attention towards stimuli with features that match the search-for object. This template can be bolstered by prior knowledge...
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Helping students see eye to eye: Diversifying teaching of sensation and perception in higher education Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Julie M. Harris, Anna E. Hughes, Valeria Occelli, Samantha L. Strong
There is current interest in diversifying teaching curricula across many disciplines in university teaching. Sensation and perception is often considered difficult to diversify. Current challenges ...
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Teaching sensation and perception in small groups: Eleven practical exercises Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Jan Philipp Röer, Tom Eisterhues, Lisa Kaupert, Alina Klute, Meret Maurer, Sofia Meißner, Fynn Leon Müller, Allegra Muthwill, Jette Protze, Sophia Schon, Alissa Teuber, Lara Treff
Here we present 11 short practical exercises complementing the lecture on sensation and perception. The exercises cover all the classic topics in the curriculum (vision, hearing, smell, taste, and ...
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Innovating Perception: A design-based learning group project for Sensation and Perception Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Laura Cacciamani
Sensation and Perception is an upper-division psychology course that typically focuses on foundational knowledge of sensory and perceptual systems. This study describes a design-based learning grou...
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“Experiencing perception”: A collection of class demonstrations and activities to engage students in sensation & perception courses Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 M. Pilar Aivar
Demonstrations have been used to illustrate perceptual phenomena for many years, since they are useful in increasing students’ interest. I have been teaching Perception and Attention for the past 1...
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Purple Perils redux: Open-ended, AI-resistant reasoning problems for introductory undergraduate sensation and perception instruction Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Daniel J. Graham
In terms of pedagogy, there is a need in introductory sensation and perception courses for practice problems that promote critical thinking and elaborate on course material, like those given in the...
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Casting shadows on the eye to reveal the inverted retinal image Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Benjamin Balas, Mark E. McCourt
We introduce and discuss an entoptic effect that helps to demonstrate that images on the retina are optically inverted and reversed. This simple consequence of geometric optics can seem somewhat ab...
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Correction Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-01-03
Published in Visual Cognition (Vol. 31, No. 6, 2023)
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Objects’ perceived meaningfulness predicts both subjective memorability judgments and actual memory performance Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Roy Shoval, Nurit Gronau, Yael Sidi, Tal Makovski
Memorability studies have revealed a limitation in our ability to accurately judge which images are memorable. Conversely, metacognitive research suggests that individuals can utilize cues to relia...
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Does threat familiarity and knowledge shape rapid visual attention? Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Anna Blumenthal, Isabelle Blanchette
The threat superiority effect is the finding that threatening stimuli capture attention more rapidly than neutral stimuli. Despite its well-established presence, it is unknown whether the response ...
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The other-race effect in face recognition: Do people shift criterion equally for own- and other-race faces? Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Daniel Guilbert, Sachiko Kinoshita, Kim M. Curby
People are better at recognizing own-race faces than other-race faces. This other-race effect in face recognition typically manifests in sensitivity (i.e., better discrimination). However, research...
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What makes a visual scene more memorable? A rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) study with dynamic visual scenes Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Ayşe Candan Şimşek, Nazif Karaca, Berk Can Kırmızı, Furkan Ekiz
The visual system has been characterized as having limited processing capacity. Research suggests that not all visual information is equal and that certain visual scenes are registered better than ...
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Understanding face detection with visual arrays and real-world scenes Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Alice Nevard, Graham J. Hole, Jonathan E. Prunty, Markus Bindemann
Face detection has been studied by presenting faces in blank displays, object arrays, and real-world scenes. This study investigated whether these display contexts differ in what they can reveal ab...
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When memory meets distraction: The role of unexpected stimulus-driven attentional capture on contextual cueing Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Danlei Chen, J. Benjamin Hutchinson
Visuospatial attention plays a critical role in prioritizing behaviourally-relevant information and can be guided by task goals, stimulus salience, and memory. Here, we examined the interaction bet...
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Memorable beginnings, but forgettable endings: Intrinsic memorability alters our subjective experience of time Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Madeline Gedvila, Joan Danielle K. Ongchoco, Wilma A. Bainbridge
Time is the fabric of experience – yet it is incredibly malleable in the mind of the observer: seeming to drag on, or fly right by at different moments. One of the most influential drivers of tempo...
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Investigating the automaticity of links between body perception and trait concepts Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Andrew Wildman, Richard Ramsey
Social cognition has been argued to rely on automatic mechanisms, but little is known about how automatically the processing of body shapes is linked to other social processes, such as trait infere...
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Correction Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-10-23
Published in Visual Cognition (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Are attentional momentum and representational momentum related? Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Timothy L. Hubbard, Susan E. Ruppel
In attentional momentum, detection of a target further ahead in the direction of an ongoing attention shift is faster than detection of a target an equal distance in an orthogonal direction. In rep...
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Serial and joint processing of conjunctive predictions Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Ru Qi Yu, Jiaying Zhao
When two jointly presented cues predict different outcomes, people respond faster to the conjunction/overlap of outcomes. Two explanations exist. In the joint account, people prioritize conjunction...
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How does exogenous alerting impact endogenous preparation on a temporal cueing task Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Colin R. McCormick, Ralph S. Redden, Raymond M. Klein
Temporal attention is a cognitive mechanism that allows individuals to prepare to respond to an anticipated event. Lawrence, M. A., & Klein, R. M. (2013. Isolating exogenous and endogenous modes of...
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Task-related gaze behaviour in face-to-face dyadic collaboration: Toward an interactive theory? Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Roy S. Hessels, Martin K. Teunisse, Diederick C. Niehorster, Marcus Nyström, Jeroen S. Benjamins, Atsushi Senju, Ignace T. C. Hooge
Visual routines theory posits that vision is critical for guiding sequential actions in the world. Most studies on the link between vision and sequential action have considered individual agents, w...
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Investigating the other race effect: Human and computer face matching and similarity judgements Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Kay L. Ritchie, Charlotte Cartledge, Robin S. S. Kramer
The other race effect (ORE) in part describes how people are poorer at identifying faces of other races compared to own-race faces. While well-established with face memory, more recent studies have...
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Is this a real 3D shape? An investigation of construct validity and item difficulty in the PSVT:R Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Kristin A. Bartlett, Jorge D. Camba
ABSTRACT The Purdue Test of Spatial Visualization (PSVT:R) is a widely used measure of spatial ability. Though the PSVT:R is considered to be a mental rotation test, degree of angular disparity between shapes does not correspond with degree of item difficulty. In the present study, we investigate the possibility that drawings that do not naturally look like 3D shapes could affect item difficulty in
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Banner blindness as the suppression process: No perceptual load effect on web advertising detection Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Ksenia Gorbatova, Grigoriy Anufriev, Elena Gorbunova
ABSTRACT The study represents an application of perceptual load theory to the real-world internet users’ behavior and contributes to the dispute whether banner blindness – a tendency to ignore the banners on web pages – is a special case of inattentional blindness or a separate phenomenon. Perceptual load theory claims that processing of task-irrelevant information can be predicted by the level of
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Novel scene understanding, from gist to elaboration Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 T. Sanocki, T. Nguyen, S. Shultz, J. Defant
ABSTRACT We examined the cognitive experience of novel pictorial scenes, using observers’ words. On each of two critical trials, a single novel scene (a photo) was presented briefly, after which observers described what they saw. The reports were highly valid, assessed against details of the stimuli. The most frequent concepts used by the observers defined scene gist empirically – there was wide agreement
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Too much information … The influence of target selection difficulty on binding processes Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Ruth Laub, Alexander Münchau, Christian Beste, Christian Frings
ABSTRACT The binding of stimuli and responses is an important mechanism in action control. Features of stimuli and responses are integrated into event files. A re-encounter with one or more of the stored features leads to automatic retrieval of the previous event file including the previously integrated response. The distractor-response binding effect evidenced that even irrelevant stimuli can be integrated
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Verbal instructions as selection bias that modulates visual selection Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Yevhen Damanskyy
ABSTRACT Research has shown that in addition to top-down and bottom-up processes, biases produced by the repetition priming effect and reward play a major role in visual selection. Action control research argues that bidirectional effect-response associations underlie the repetition priming effect and that such associations are also achievable through verbal instructions. This study evaluated whether
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Contrapposto posture captures visual attention: An online gaze tracking experiment Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Oliver Lee Eric Jacobs, Farid Pazhoohi, Alan Kingstone
ABSTRACT Goddesses of love and beauty are frequently depicted in artwork in a contrapposto posture with one leg relaxing while the other bears the weight. Previous research has indicated that compared to an upright standing pose, a contrapposto pose is considered more attractive with its curviness capturing greater visual attention. Yet, whether a body posed in contrapposto is generally more visually
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Global judgments of caloric information in younger and older adults Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Kosuke Motoki, Toshiki Saito
ABSTRACT Viewing sets of food products is common in consumer environments. Previous research on visual perception suggests the phenomena of global judgements (or summary statistical representation), which means that people often extract summary statistical information of multiple objects (e.g., average size, hue) at a glance. Consumers may form summary statistical representations of food products.
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Impaired visuo-spatial statistical learning with mathematical learning difficulties Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Sharon Levy, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, Liat Goldfarb
ABSTRACT Rapid extraction of temporal and spatial patterns from repeated experience is known as statistical learning (SL). Studies on SL show that after few minutes of exposure, observers exhibit knowledge of regularities hidden in a sequence or array of objects. Previous findings suggest that visuo-spatial statistical learning might relate to numerical processing mechanisms. Hence, the current study
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The influence of foveal load on parafoveal processing of N + 2 during Chinese reading Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Yingyue Lv, Lei Zhang, Wanying Chen, Fang Xie, Kayleigh L. Warrington
According to the foveal load hypothesis, parafoveal processing is influenced by the difficulty of current foveal processing. It remains unclear whether foveal load may affect the extent of parafove...
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Relating visual and pictorial space: Binocular disparity for distance, motion parallax for direction Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Xiaoye Michael Wang, Nikolaus F. Troje
ABSTRACT Interacting with people and three-dimensional objects depicted on a screen is perceptually different from interacting with them in real life. This difference resides in their corresponding perceptual spaces: The former involves pictorial space, and the latter, visual space. Studies have examined the perceptual geometry of pictorial or visual space, but rarely their connection. The current
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Navigating meaning in the spatial layouts of comics: A cross-cultural corpus analysis Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Bien Klomberg, Neil Cohn
ABSTRACT In visual narratives like comics, not only do comprehenders need to track shifts in characters, space, and time, but they do so across a spatial layout. While many scholars and comic artists have speculated about connections between meaning and layout in comics, few empirical studies have examined this relationship. We investigated whether situational changes between time, characters, or space
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Attention to the fine-grained aspect of words in the environment emerges in preschool children with high reading ability Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Licheng Xue, Ying Xiao, Tianying Qing, Urs Maurer, Wei Wang, Huidong Xue, Xuchu Weng, Jing Zhao
ABSTRACT Attention to words is closely related to the process of learning to read. However, it remains unclear how attention to words in environmental print (such as words on product labels) is changed with the growth of preschool children’s reading ability. We thus used eye tracking technique to compare attention to words in environmental print in children at low (32, 15 males, 5.12 years) and high
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How scene encoding affects memory discrimination: Analysing eye movements data using data driven methods Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 F. Doidy, P. Desaunay, C. Rebillard, P. Clochon, A. Lambrechts, P. Wantzen, F. Guénolé, J. M. Baleyte, F. Eustache, D. M. Bowler, K. Lebreton, B. Guillery-Girard
ABSTRACT Encoding of visual scenes remains under-explored due to methodological limitations. In this study, we evaluated the relationship between memory accuracy for visual scenes and eye movements at encoding. First, we used data-driven methods, a fixation density map (using iMap4) and a saliency map (using GBVS), to analyse the visual attention for items. Second, and in a more novel way, we conducted
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Gestalt formation promotes awareness of suppressed visual stimuli during binocular rivalry Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Mar S. Nikiforova, Rosemary A. Cowell, David E. Huber
ABSTRACT Continuous flash suppression leverages binocular rivalry to render observers unaware of a static image for several seconds. To achieve this effect, rapidly flashing noise masks are presented to the dominant eye while a static stimulus is presented to the non-dominant eye. Eventually “breakthrough” occurs, wherein awareness shifts to the static image shown to the non-dominant eye. We tested
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Moving to maintain perceptual and social constancy Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 James T. Enns, Rachel C. Lin-Yang, Veronica Dudarev
ABSTRACT Past research on object constancy has tended to treat the viewer as a passive observer. Here we examine viewers’ body and eye movements when they are asked to view photos of people in a gallery setting. Participants considered one individual in each photo, before indicating how socially connected they felt toward them and then moving to a spot in the gallery where they would be most comfortable
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Efficient tuning of attention to narrow and broad ranges of task-relevant feature values Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Angus F. Chapman, Viola S. Störmer
ABSTRACT Feature-based attention is the ability to select relevant information based on visual features, such as a particular colour or motion direction. In contrast to spatial attention, where the attentional focus has been shown to be flexibly adjustable to select small or large regions in space, it is unclear whether feature-based attention can be efficiently tuned to different feature ranges. Here
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Spatial biases in inhibition of return Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Paula Soballa, Lars-Michael Schöpper, Christian Frings, Simon Merz
ABSTRACT Inhibition of return (IOR) describes the phenomenon that reaction times (RT) to a target which appears at a previously cued location are slowed down. Spalek and Hammad ([2004]. Supporting the attentional momentum view of IOR: Is attention biased to go right? Perception & Psychophysics, 66(2), 219–233. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03194874) reported that IOR effects were smaller at a lower or
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Unfamiliar faces might as well be another species: Evidence from a face matching task with human and monkey faces Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Kay L. Ritchie, Tessa R. Flack, Laëtitia Maréchal
ABSTRACT Humans are good at recognizing familiar faces, but are more error-prone at recognizing an unfamiliar person across different images. It has been suggested that familiar and unfamiliar faces are processed qualitatively differently. But are unfamiliar faces at least processed differently from monkey faces? Here we tested 366 volunteers on a face matching test – two images presented side-by-side
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Degraded vision affects mental representations of the body Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Yasmine Giovaola, Viviana Rojo Martinez, Silvio Ionta
ABSTRACT The mental representations of the body depend on current perceptions, building on more reliable sensory inputs and decreasing the weight of less reliable afferences. While somatosensory manipulations have been repeatedly investigated, less is known about vision. We hypothesized that a decrease in visual input may result in an augmented relevance of somatosensation to mentally represent the
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Attentional strategy choice is not predicted by cognitive ability or academic performance Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Molly R. McKinney, Heather A. Hansen, Jessica L. Irons, Andrew B. Leber
ABSTRACT People exhibit vast individual variation in the degree to which they choose optimal attentional control strategies during visual search, although it is not well understood what predicts such variation. In the present study, we sought to determine whether markers of real-world achievement (assessed via undergraduate GPA) and cognitive ability (e.g., general fluid intelligence) could predict
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Time course of encoding and maintenance of stereoscopically induced size–distance scaling Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Wanyi Guan, Binglong Li, Jiehui Qian
ABSTRACT The mechanism of size constancy assures that an object is perceived to be constant in size despite that its retinal size varies with viewing distance. Conversely, an object can be perceived as illusorily larger if the perceived distance becomes greater, due to the size–distance scaling mechanism. The present study aimed at exploring how size–distance scaling is modulated by the encoding duration
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Inhibition of return (IOR) meets stimulus-response (S-R) binding: Manually responding to central arrow targets is driven by S-R binding, not IOR Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Lars-Michael Schöpper, Christian Frings
ABSTRACT Localizing targets repeating or changing their position typically leads to a benefit for location changes, that is, inhibition of return (IOR). Yet, IOR is mostly absent when sequentially responding to arrows pointing to the left or right. Previous research suggested that responding to central arrow targets resembles a discrimination response. For the latter, action control theories expect
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Sources and mechanisms of modality-specific distraction in visual short-term memory Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Tom Mercer, Raegan Shaw, Luke Fisher
ABSTRACT Visual short-term and working memory can be disrupted by irrelevant, distracting input occurring after encoding. Distractors similar to the original memory are known to be interfering, but it is unclear whether dissimilar distractors have the same disruptive effect. The presence of dissimilar distraction would be problematic for views of similarity-based interference, hence the present study
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Working memory for movement rhythms given spatial relevance: Effects of sequence length and maintenance delay Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Shiau-Chuen Chiou, Thomas Schack
ABSTRACT Temporal information is an essential component of human movements. However, it is still unclear how the temporal information is extracted from complex whole-body movements through observation and how it is encoded and retained in working memory. In the current study, we investigated how the sequence length and maintenance delay influence working memory for movement rhythms (i.e., temporal
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Gaze cues vs. arrow cues at short vs. long durations Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Tarini Singh, Lars-Michael Schöpper, Gregor Domes, Christian Frings
ABSTRACT Information processing is more efficient at cued relative to non-cued locations. A number of studies have examined whether non-predictive gaze cues are special due to their biological relevance. While most studies indicate that cueing effects of gaze cues and arrow cues are similar, one aspect remains to be examined – cue duration. Contrary to early findings, a number of studies have observed
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Does superior visual working memory capacity enable greater distractor suppression? Visual Cognition (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Christopher Hauck, Mei-Ching Lien, Eric Ruthruff
ABSTRACT We asked whether individuals high in working memory capacity have a superior ability to proactively suppress features. If so, it would help explain why these individuals are more resistant to attention capture. We tested this hypothesis using the capture-probe paradigm employed in Lien et al. (2022. On preventing attention capture: Is singleton suppression actually singleton suppression? Psychological