Why do we constantly glance at our phones? New research shows it’s not just habit or distraction. Objects with a history of giving us useful info capture our attention automatically. #psynomAPP by Doyle et al. and post by Alyssa Asmar buff.ly/skPd58L
April 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Why do we constantly glance at our phones? New research shows it’s not just habit or distraction. Objects with a history of giving us useful info capture our attention automatically. #psynomAPP by Doyle et al. and post by Alyssa Asmar buff.ly/skPd58L
A new study uses AI-generated stimuli to uncover attention to complex scene features. Read more in a post by @ankosov.bsky.social on a new #psynomAPP paper by @songaeun.bsky.social, @drmack.bsky.social, and @dirkbwalther.bsky.social buff.ly/2So7ndD
September 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A new study uses AI-generated stimuli to uncover attention to complex scene features. Read more in a post by @ankosov.bsky.social on a new #psynomAPP paper by @songaeun.bsky.social, @drmack.bsky.social, and @dirkbwalther.bsky.social buff.ly/2So7ndD
We are pleased to announce that Michael C. Hout, New Mexico State University, USA, will serve as the new Editor-in-Chief of AP&P. Please join us in extending our congratulations to Mike. bit.ly/45qjtCl #psynomAPP @michaelhout.bsky.social buff.ly/RVTq3mS
June 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We are pleased to announce that Michael C. Hout, New Mexico State University, USA, will serve as the new Editor-in-Chief of AP&P. Please join us in extending our congratulations to Mike. bit.ly/45qjtCl #psynomAPP @michaelhout.bsky.social buff.ly/RVTq3mS
The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that Matthew G. Evans has been honored with the 2025 Best Article Award for AP&P. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition. Read the paper here: bit.ly/3HnnZYC #psynomAPP linkedin.com/in/mattgilevans
August 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that Matthew G. Evans has been honored with the 2025 Best Article Award for AP&P. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition. Read the paper here: bit.ly/3HnnZYC #psynomAPP linkedin.com/in/mattgilevans
Deadline Alert: AP&P, a journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3AXZLk6 #psynomAPP
February 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Deadline Alert: AP&P, a journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3AXZLk6 #psynomAPP
AP&P, a journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3AXZLk6 #psynomAPP
December 18, 2024 at 9:00 PM
AP&P, a journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3AXZLk6 #psynomAPP
AP&P is accepting submissions to “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson” until July 1. Submission guidelines can be found here: bit.ly/3Tqc1Rq #psynomAPP
March 7, 2024 at 3:56 PM
AP&P is accepting submissions to “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson” until July 1. Submission guidelines can be found here: bit.ly/3Tqc1Rq #psynomAPP
AP&P is accepting submissions for a new special issue, “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson” until July 1. Submission guidelines can be found here: bit.ly/3Tqc1Rq #psynomAPP
April 18, 2024 at 3:32 PM
AP&P is accepting submissions for a new special issue, “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson” until July 1. Submission guidelines can be found here: bit.ly/3Tqc1Rq #psynomAPP
Deadline Alert: AP&P, a journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3AXZLk6 #psynomAPP
Cover of the PS journal AP&P on a blue graphic with the February 15 deadline.
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February 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Deadline Alert: AP&P, a journal of the Psychonomic Society, is seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief to begin January 1, 2026. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague by February 15, 2025. Learn more: https://buff.ly/3AXZLk6 #psynomAPP
We get better with practice, but when stimuli are appealing, we improve even more. Post by Caballero and #psynomAPP paper by Reppa & McDougall #Attention #VisualSearch #PracticeEffects.
Getting better and better with practice (if practicing is pleasant)
I hate going grocery shopping, so when I go to the supermarket, I usually have a shopping list and try to quickly find what I want in the sea of grocery objects on each aisle to finish as soon as p…
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April 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We get better with practice, but when stimuli are appealing, we improve even more. Post by Caballero and #psynomAPP paper by Reppa & McDougall #Attention #VisualSearch #PracticeEffects.
The remarkable pitch of earworms. New #AllThingsCognition podcast interview with Matt Evans and Nicolas Davidenko on their #psynomAPP paper
The mind’s Spotify: The remarkable pitch of earworms
In this All Things Cognition podcast, I interview Matt Evans and Nicolas Davidenko about their recent paper on the pitch of earworms. Let's get right into it! Interview Transcript Lai: You’re…
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October 9, 2024 at 8:00 PM
The remarkable pitch of earworms. New #AllThingsCognition podcast interview with Matt Evans and Nicolas Davidenko on their #psynomAPP paper
Sorry, #gamers 🎮! #Tetris doesn’t improve mental rotation skills according to a replication study investigating skill transfer from Tetris by Timm, Markus Huff Schwan, Papenmeier. Post by Daniel Pfaff #psynomAPP bit.ly/3UGqppk
Clearing lines and myths: Tetris does not improve mental rotation
How old were you when you first played Tetris? The famous puzzle game of fitting together block shapes has been ubiquitous in arcades, tablets, and smartphones for decades, earning its place as one of...
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April 30, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Sorry, #gamers 🎮! #Tetris doesn’t improve mental rotation skills according to a replication study investigating skill transfer from Tetris by Timm, Markus Huff Schwan, Papenmeier. Post by Daniel Pfaff #psynomAPP bit.ly/3UGqppk
Lab vs. real world. Turns out we can learn a lot from making observers look for the same thing over and over, even though we don’t do that at home! #psynomAPP by Jeremy Wolfe and colleagues; post by @benwolfevision.bsky.social
Do you look for your glasses 200 times in a row? Can we learn from blocked designs even though we don’t block search in the world?
Search in the lab doesn’t look like search in the world (mostly) Visual search is something that we do all the time – in the morning, pre-coffee, you might stumble into the washroom and look for yo…
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May 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Lab vs. real world. Turns out we can learn a lot from making observers look for the same thing over and over, even though we don’t do that at home! #psynomAPP by Jeremy Wolfe and colleagues; post by @benwolfevision.bsky.social
Deadline Extended: Make your submission for the AP&P new special issue, “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson” by December 1. Submission guidelines can be found here: https://buff.ly/43dOYwj #psynomAPP
October 21, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Deadline Extended: Make your submission for the AP&P new special issue, “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson” by December 1. Submission guidelines can be found here: https://buff.ly/43dOYwj #psynomAPP
Getting 21 scientists to agree on definitions of visual distraction? Inconceivable! Read more in a post by
@benwolfevision.bsky.social and @ankosov.bsky.social on a new #psynomapp paper by Heinrich Liesefeld, Dominique Lamy, and colleagues: buff.ly/3WQKTgr
@benwolfevision.bsky.social and @ankosov.bsky.social on a new #psynomapp paper by Heinrich Liesefeld, Dominique Lamy, and colleagues: buff.ly/3WQKTgr
June 20, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Getting 21 scientists to agree on definitions of visual distraction? Inconceivable! Read more in a post by
@benwolfevision.bsky.social and @ankosov.bsky.social on a new #psynomapp paper by Heinrich Liesefeld, Dominique Lamy, and colleagues: buff.ly/3WQKTgr
@benwolfevision.bsky.social and @ankosov.bsky.social on a new #psynomapp paper by Heinrich Liesefeld, Dominique Lamy, and colleagues: buff.ly/3WQKTgr
Congratulations to Heinrich R. Liesefeld for receiving the Psychonomic Society’s 2024 Best Article Award for AP&P! You can read his award-winning article online. Congratulations, Heinrich! https://buff.ly/46BlXfP #psynomAPP
August 8, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Congratulations to Heinrich R. Liesefeld for receiving the Psychonomic Society’s 2024 Best Article Award for AP&P! You can read his award-winning article online. Congratulations, Heinrich! https://buff.ly/46BlXfP #psynomAPP
When it comes to peripheral vision, we literally see less than meets the eye. Read more in a post by @ankosov.bsky.social on a new #psynomAPP paper by Fazilet Zeynep Yildirim-Keles, Daniel Coates, and Bilge Sayim on redundancy masking. bit.ly/3LIF9Pd
Seeing less than meets the eye: Why we underestimate numbers in peripheral vision
Many of us have collected things at some point in our lives, whether it’s coins, records, CDs, or stuffed animals. You might be surprised by the range of weird and wonderful things that people like to...
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July 31, 2024 at 2:15 PM
When it comes to peripheral vision, we literally see less than meets the eye. Read more in a post by @ankosov.bsky.social on a new #psynomAPP paper by Fazilet Zeynep Yildirim-Keles, Daniel Coates, and Bilge Sayim on redundancy masking. bit.ly/3LIF9Pd
Right meaning “same” differs from right meaning “different” so what's left? New post by Melinh Lai on #psynomAPP paper by Arnold Glass and colleagues. buff.ly/JKVy0bu
June 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Right meaning “same” differs from right meaning “different” so what's left? New post by Melinh Lai on #psynomAPP paper by Arnold Glass and colleagues. buff.ly/JKVy0bu
Deadline Alert: AP&P seeks paper submissions for “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson” by October 15. Submission guidelines can be found here: https://buff.ly/43dOYwj #psynomAPP
October 8, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Deadline Alert: AP&P seeks paper submissions for “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson” by October 15. Submission guidelines can be found here: https://buff.ly/43dOYwj #psynomAPP
Deadline Alert: AP&P seeks paper submissions for “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson” by September 1. Submission guidelines can be found here: https://buff.ly/43dOYwj #psynomAPP
August 9, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Deadline Alert: AP&P seeks paper submissions for “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson” by September 1. Submission guidelines can be found here: https://buff.ly/43dOYwj #psynomAPP
Same-different judgments may be processed by distinct neural networks. Glass’s lab shows it matters which side the same and different buttons are on! #psynomAPP Post by Brett Myers. buff.ly/4cMPjtk
“Same or different” controlled by distinct brain systems
The “same or different” concept is something we all learned as a child. We were shown two images and asked if they were the same or different. This activity teaches us to compare objects in the world;...
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July 2, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Same-different judgments may be processed by distinct neural networks. Glass’s lab shows it matters which side the same and different buttons are on! #psynomAPP Post by Brett Myers. buff.ly/4cMPjtk
Deadline Extended: AP&P is accepting submissions for “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson” until September 1. Submission guidelines can be found here: bit.ly/3Tqc1Rq #psynomAPP
June 26, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Deadline Extended: AP&P is accepting submissions for “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson” until September 1. Submission guidelines can be found here: bit.ly/3Tqc1Rq #psynomAPP