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Towards efficient human–machine collaboration: effects of gaze-driven feedback and engagement on performance

Referential success is crucial for collaborative task-solving in shared environments. In face-to-face interactions, humans, therefore, exploit speech, gesture, and gaze to identify a specific object. We invest...

Authors: Nikolina Mitev, Patrick Renner, Thies Pfeiffer and Maria Staudte

Forms of explanation and why they may matter

Explanations from neuroscience are threatening to replace those from psychology in the eyes and hands of journalists, university administrators, granting agencies, and research students. If replacement happens...

Authors: Jonathan Baron

Dynamic prediction during perception of everyday events

The ability to predict what is going to happen in the near future is integral for daily functioning. Previous research suggests that predictability varies over time, with increases in prediction error at those...

Authors: Michelle L. Eisenberg, Jeffrey M. Zacks and Shaney Flores

Mind-wandering rates fluctuate across the day: evidence from an experience-sampling study

Previous research has demonstrated reliable fluctuations in attentional processes during the course of the day. Everyday life experience sampling, during which participants respond to “probes” delivered at ran...

Authors: Gabriel King Smith, Caitlin Mills, Alexandra Paxton and Kalina Christoff

Are failures to look, to represent, or to learn associated with change blindness during screen-capture video learning?

Although phenomena such as change blindness and inattentional blindness are robust, it is not entirely clear how these failures of visual awareness are related to failures to attend to visual information, to r...

Authors: Daniel T. Levin, Adriane E. Seiffert, Sun-Joo Cho and Kelly E. Carter

The impact of an intervention program on students’ spatial reasoning: student engagement through mathematics-enhanced learning activities

Spatial reasoning skill has consistently been found to be malleable. However, there is little research to date on embedding spatial training within learning frameworks. This study evaluated the effects of a cl...

Authors: Tom Lowrie, Tracy Logan, Danielle Harris and Mary Hegarty

Statistical learning of anomalous regions in complex faux X-ray images does not transfer between detection and discrimination

The visual environment contains predictable information - “statistical regularities” - that can be used to aid perception and attentional allocation. Here we investigate the role of statistical learning in fac...

Authors: Li Z. Sha, Roger W. Remington and Yuhong V. Jiang

Does narrative drive dynamic attention to a prolonged stimulus?

Attention in the “real world” fluctuates over time, but these fluctuations are hard to examine using a timed trial-based experimental paradigm. Here we use film to study attention. To achieve short-term engage...

Authors: Stephen J. Hinde, Tim J. Smith and Iain D. Gilchrist

Schema-related cognitive load influences performance, speech, and physiology in a dual-task setting: A continuous multi-measure approach

Schema acquisition processes comprise an essential source of cognitive demands in learning situations. To shed light on related mechanisms and influencing factors, this study applied a continuous multi-measure...

Authors: Maria Wirzberger, Robert Herms, Shirin Esmaeili Bijarsari, Maximilian Eibl and Günter Daniel Rey

Audiovisual quality impacts assessments of job candidates in video interviews: Evidence for an AV quality bias

Video job interviews have become a common hiring practice, allowing employers to save money and recruit from a wider applicant pool. But differences in job candidates’ internet connections mean that some inter...

Authors: Joshua L. Fiechter, Caitlan Fealing, Rachel Gerrard and Nate Kornell

People’s explanatory preferences for scientific phenomena

Previous work has found that people are drawn to explanations of psychological phenomena when these explanations contain neuroscience information, even when that information is irrelevant. This preference may ...

Authors: Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Emily J. Hopkins and Jordan C. V. Taylor

In the lab and in the wild: How distraction and mind wandering affect attention and memory

The present study examined the impact that the environment has on the ability to remain attentive and retain information. Participants listened to an audiobook in either a controlled lab setting or in an uncon...

Authors: Trish L. Varao-Sousa, Daniel Smilek and Alan Kingstone

Neuroscientific explanations and the stigma of mental disorder: a meta-analytic study

Genetic and other biological explanations appear to have mixed blessings for the stigma of mental disorder. Meta-analytic evidence shows that these “biogenetic” explanations reduce the blame attached to suffer...

Authors: Amy Loughman and Nick Haslam

The relationship between confidence and accuracy with verbal and verbal + numeric confidence scales

Police departments often use verbal confidence measures (highly confident, somewhat confident) with a small number of values, whereas psychologists measuring the confidence–accuracy relationship typically use ...

Authors: Eylul Tekin, Wenbo Lin and Henry L. Roediger III

App icon similarity and its impact on visual search efficiency on mobile touch devices

Users of mobile touch devices are often confronted with a great number of apps, challenging an efficient access to single applications. Especially when looking for infrequently used apps, users have to perform...

Authors: Anna K. Trapp and Carolin Wienrich

The easy-to-hard training advantage with real-world medical images

Many medical professions require practitioners to perform visual categorizations in domains such as radiology, dermatology, and neurology. However, acquiring visual expertise is tedious and time-consuming and ...

Authors: Brett D. Roads, Buyun Xu, June K. Robinson and James W. Tanaka

How the stimulus influences mind wandering in semantically rich task contexts

What do we think about when we mind wander and where do these thoughts come from? We tested the idea that semantically rich stimuli yield patterns of mind wandering that are closely coupled with the stimuli co...

Authors: Myrthe Faber and Sidney K. D’Mello

When to look at maps in navigation: metacognitive control in environment learning

People learn environments through direct experience with the environment and/or through map study. Further, the different perspectives taken while learning an environment influence the knowledge acquired. Afte...

Authors: Ruizhi Dai, Ayanna K. Thomas and Holly A. Taylor

Search templates that incorporate within-face variation improve visual search for faces

Searching for unfamiliar faces in crowds is an important task in modern society. In surveillance and security settings, it is sometimes critical to locate a target individual quickly and accurately. In this st...

Authors: James D. Dunn, Richard I. Kemp and David White

Correction to: Decision making with visualizations: a cognitive framework across disciplines

The original article (Padilla et al., 2018) contained a formatting error in Table 2; this has now been corrected with the appropriate boxes marked clearly.

Authors: Lace M. Padilla, Sarah H. Creem-Regehr, Mary Hegarty and Jeanine K. Stefanucci

Postdictive confidence (but not predictive confidence) predicts eyewitness memory accuracy

If testing conditions are uncontaminated, confidence at test reliably predicts eyewitness memory accuracy. Unfortunately, information about eyewitness postdictive confidence (at the time of the identification ...

Authors: Thao B. Nguyen, Erica Abed and Kathy Pezdek

It is not good to talk: conversation has a fixed interference cost on attention regardless of difficulty

It is well-documented that telephone conversations lead to impaired driving performance. Kunar et al. (Psychon Bull Rev 15:1135–1140, 2008) showed that this deficit was, in part, due to a dual-task cost of con...

Authors: Melina A. Kunar, Louise Cole, Angeline Cox and Jessica Ocampo

Inversion effects in the expert classification of mammograms and faces

A hallmark of a perceptual expert is the ability to detect and categorize stimuli in their domain of expertise after brief exposure. For example, expert radiologists can differentiate between “abnormal” and “n...

Authors: Michael D. Chin, Karla K. Evans, Jeremy M. Wolfe, Jonathan Bowen and James W. Tanaka

Individual differences in eyewitness accuracy across multiple lineups of faces

Theories of face recognition in cognitive psychology stipulate that the hallmark of accurate identification is the ability to recognize a person consistently, across different encounters. In this study, we app...

Authors: Andrew J. Russ, Melanie Sauerland, Charlotte E. Lee and Markus Bindemann

Decision making with visualizations: a cognitive framework across disciplines

Visualizations—visual representations of information, depicted in graphics—are studied by researchers in numerous ways, ranging from the study of the basic principles of creating visualizations, to the cogniti...

Authors: Lace M. Padilla, Sarah H. Creem-Regehr, Mary Hegarty and Jeanine K. Stefanucci

The impact of speed and bias on the cognitive processes of experts and novices in medical image decision-making

Training individuals to make accurate decisions from medical images is a critical component of education in diagnostic pathology. We describe a joint experimental and computational modeling approach to examine...

Authors: Jennifer S. Trueblood, William R. Holmes, Adam C. Seegmiller, Jonathan Douds, Margaret Compton, Eszter Szentirmai, Megan Woodruff, Wenrui Huang, Charles Stratton and Quentin Eichbaum

Individual differences in the detection, matching and memory of faces

Previous research has explored relationships between individual performance in the detection, matching and memory of faces, but under limiting conditions. The current study sought to extend previous findings w...

Authors: Matthew C. Fysh

Individual differences in face identity processing

We investigated the relationships between individual differences in different aspects of face-identity processing, using the Glasgow Face Matching Test (GFMT) as a measure of unfamiliar face perception, the Ca...

Authors: Jennifer M. McCaffery, David J. Robertson, Andrew W. Young and A. Mike Burton

Face recognition ability does not predict person identification performance: using individual data in the interpretation of group results

There are large individual differences in people’s face recognition ability. These individual differences provide an opportunity to recruit the best face-recognisers into jobs that require accurate person iden...

Authors: Eilidh Noyes, Matthew Q. Hill and Alice J. O’Toole

Improving face identification with specialist teams

People vary in their ability to identify faces, and this variability is relatively stable across repeated testing. This suggests that recruiting high performers can improve identity verification accuracy in ap...

Authors: Tarryn Balsdon, Stephanie Summersby, Richard I. Kemp and David White

Photo ID verification remains challenging despite years of practice

Matching unfamiliar faces to photographic identification (ID) documents occurs across many domains, including financial transactions (e.g., mortgage documents), controlling the purchase of age-restricted goods...

Authors: Megan H. Papesh

Applied screening tests for the detection of superior face recognition

In recent years there has been growing interest in the identification of people with superior face recognition skills, for both theoretical and applied investigations. These individuals have mostly been identi...

Authors: Sarah Bate, Charlie Frowd, Rachel Bennetts, Nabil Hasshim, Ebony Murray, Anna K. Bobak, Harriet Wills and Sarah Richards

Detecting morphed passport photos: a training and individual differences approach

Our reliance on face photos for identity verification is at odds with extensive research which shows that matching pairs of unfamiliar faces is highly prone to error. This process can therefore be exploited by...

Authors: David J. Robertson, Andrew Mungall, Derrick G. Watson, Kimberley A. Wade, Sophie J. Nightingale and Stephen Butler

Use-inspired basic research on individual differences in face identification: implications for criminal investigation and security

This journal is dedicated to “use-inspired basic research” where a problem in the world shapes the hypotheses for study in the laboratory. This review considers the role of individual variation in face identif...

Authors: Karen Lander, Vicki Bruce and Markus Bindemann

Individual differences in face perception and person recognition

Authors: Vicki Bruce, Markus Bindemann and Karen Lander

Individual differences in hyper-realistic mask detection

Hyper-realistic masks present a new challenge to security and crime prevention. We have recently shown that people’s ability to differentiate these masks from real faces is extremely limited. Here we consider ...

Authors: Jet G. Sanders and Rob Jenkins

Mammography to tomosynthesis: examining the differences between two-dimensional and segmented-three-dimensional visual search

Radiological techniques for breast cancer detection are undergoing a massive technological shift—moving from mammography, a process that takes a two-dimensional (2D) image of breast tissue, to tomosynthesis, a...

Authors: Stephen H. Adamo, Justin M. Ericson, Joseph C. Nah, Rachel Brem and Stephen R. Mitroff

The impact of video speed on the decision-making process of sports officials

There is an increasing trend in association football (soccer) to assist referees in their decision-making with video technology. For decisions such as whether a goal has been scored or which player actually co...

Authors: Jochim Spitz, Pieter Moors, Johan Wagemans and Werner F. Helsen

Disgust and the rubber hand illusion: a registered replication report of Jalal, Krishnakumar, and Ramachandran (2015)

Heightened experience of disgust is a feature of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), particularly contamination-related OCD (C-OCD). Previous studies of the rubber hand illusion (RHI) reported that the sense ...

Authors: Hiroshi Nitta, Haruto Tomita, Yi Zhang, Xinxin Zhou and Yuki Yamada

Web pages: What can you see in a single fixation?

Research in human vision suggests that in a single fixation, humans can extract a significant amount of information from a natural scene, e.g. the semantic category, spatial layout, and object identities. This...

Authors: Ali Jahanian, Shaiyan Keshvari and Ruth Rosenholtz

Spatial decision dynamics during wayfinding: intersections prompt the decision-making process

Intersections are critical decision points for wayfinders, but it is unknown how decision dynamics unfold during pedestrian wayfinding. Some research implies that pedestrians leverage available visual cues to ...

Authors: Tad T. Brunyé, Aaron L. Gardony, Amanda Holmes and Holly A. Taylor

New approaches to the analysis of eye movement behaviour across expertise while viewing brain MRIs

Brain tumour detection and diagnosis requires clinicians to inspect and analyse brain magnetic resonance images. Eye-tracking is commonly used to examine observers’ gaze behaviour during such medical image int...

Authors: Emily M. Crowe, Iain D. Gilchrist and Christopher Kent

Finding cancer in mammograms: if you know it’s there, do you know where?

Humans can extract considerable information from scenes, even when these are presented extremely quickly. The ability of an experienced radiologist to rapidly detect an abnormality on a mammogram may build upo...

Authors: Ann J. Carrigan, Susan G. Wardle and Anina N. Rich

Musical training, bilingualism, and executive function: working memory and inhibitory control

The current study investigated whether long-term experience in music or a second language is associated with enhanced cognitive functioning. Early studies suggested the possibility of a cognitive advantage fro...

Authors: Annalise A. D’Souza, Linda Moradzadeh and Melody Wiseheart

Hand proximity effects are fragile: a useful null result

Placing one’s hands near an object has been reported to enhance visual processing in a number of ways. We explored whether hand proximity confers an advantage when applied to complex visual search. In one expe...

Authors: Ronald Andringa, Walter R. Boot, Nelson A. Roque and Sadhana Ponnaluri

Temporal fractals in movies and mind

Fractal patterns are seemingly everywhere. They can be analyzed through Fourier and power analyses, and other methods. Cutting, DeLong, and Nothelfer (2010) analyzed as time-series data the fluctuations of sho...

Authors: James E. Cutting, Jordan E. DeLong and Kaitlin L. Brunick

Theoretical vs. empirical discriminability: the application of ROC methods to eyewitness identification

Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was introduced to the field of eyewitness identification 5 years ago. Since that time, it has been both influential and controversial, and the debate has raised...

Authors: John T. Wixted and Laura Mickes

Embodied learning: introducing a taxonomy based on bodily engagement and task integration

Research on learning and education is increasingly influenced by theories of embodied cognition. Several embodiment-based interventions have been empirically investigated, including gesturing, interactive digi...

Authors: Alexander Skulmowski and Günter Daniel Rey

Redundant-target processing is robust against changes to task load

Monitoring visual displays while performing other tasks is commonplace in many operational environments. Although dividing attention between tasks can impair monitoring accuracy and response times, it is uncle...

Authors: Stephanie A. Morey, Nicole A. Thomas and Jason S. McCarley

Color inference in visual communication: the meaning of colors in recycling

People interpret abstract meanings from colors, which makes color a useful perceptual feature for visual communication. This process is complicated, however, because there is seldom a one-to-one correspondence...

Authors: Karen B. Schloss, Laurent Lessard, Charlotte S. Walmsley and Kathleen Foley