JEP: Human Perception and Performance

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Scientific journal of the American Psychological Association, publishing research relating to the functional understanding of perception and action. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/xhp

In the July JEPHPP volume: People judged facial emotions more slowly and less accurately when emotional cues from the body—or even just the hands—conflicted with the face, showing that emotion from hand posture is automatically integrated into face perception.
Editorial post about a psychology study showing that irrelevant but high- or low-value options can bias choices through perceptual grouping. When grouping is disrupted, the effect disappears, suggesting value may be processed perceptually.
Editorial post about a study showing baseball batting involves the interaction between prediction and online visual-motor correction within a 400 ms time window.
Describes a study showing that autistic and non-autistic people use eye contact and gaze cues similarly to identify communicative intent, challenging the view that autistic people have broad deficits in social gaze understanding.
Post from the editor of JEP:HPP. Describes a study showing that individuals born without arms still perceive arm movement using biomechanical constraints, suggesting the brain builds movement models from visual experience rather than from one's own body.
“… the currently available evidence for a perception–action dissociation from Garner interference is insufficient to support a ventral–dorsal dissociation.”
“…those who had no goals reported less self-efficacy after the task than those who had specific goals, and this was particularly true at lower task difficulty.
“…sensory-motor experiences in daily life as well as laws and regulations may be necessary to form a subjective feeling of object ownership.”
“Collectively, this evidence suggests that attention orienting accounts for spontaneous perspective-taking effects measured by the speed of responding to avatars and human figures.”
Portrait of Michael Posner