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Would you buy a used car from Sulpizio and Avanzi (2019)?
No full textCertainly yes. But I’d love to check the status of the engine, the status of the body of the car and the car’s documents as well. Sulpizio and Avanzi (2019) replied to my recent paper on Open Science and Open Science practices (Grassi, 2018). Authors discuss whether the «crisis of confidence» is real or not, whether the crisis is due to the current evaluation system in academia as well as to the current editorial policies of scientific journals. In addition, the authors discuss whether the adoption of the Open Science practices may help (or not) to improve the discipline. In this article I reply to the three points raised by the authors. Open Science means transparency. The current «crisis» (regardless of whether it’s real or not) has revealed that increasing transparency can only be beneficial for research and the research’s community
Sex difference in subjective duration of looming and receding sounds.
No full textLooming sounds (sounds increasing in intensity over time) are more salient than receding
sounds (a looming sound reversed in time). For example, they are estimated as being longer, louder,
and more changing in loudness than receding sounds. Some authors interpret the looming salience
as evolutionarily adaptive, because it increases the margins of safety of the perceiver in the case
of preparatory behaviours (eg a motor reaction to an approaching sound source). Recently, Neuhoff
et al (2009, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 35 225 ^ 234)
found that females more than males show overestimation of the spatiotemporal properties of
virtually simulated looming sound sources. Here, I investigated whether the sex difference could
be observed for the subjective duration of looming and receding sounds, and found that females
more than males overestimate the duration of looming sounds in comparison to receding sounds
Do we hear size or sound: balls dropped on plates.
Full text linkThe aim of this study is to examine whether it is possible to recover directly the size of an object from
the sound of an impact. Specifically, the study is designed to investigate whether listeners can tell the
size of a ball from the sound when it is dropped on plates of different diameters (on one, two, or three
plates in Experiments 1, 2, and 3, respectively). In this paradigm, most of the sound produced is from
the plate rather than the ball. Listeners were told neither how many different balls or plates were used
nor the materials of the balls and plates. Although listeners provided reasonable ball size estimates,
their judgments were influenced by the size of the plate: Balls were judged to be larger when dropped
on larger plates. Moreover, listeners were generally unable to recognize either ball and plate materials
or the number of plates used in Experiments 2 and 3. Finally, various acoustic properties of the sounds
are shown to be correlated with listeners’ judgments
Audiovisual bounce-inducing effect: attention alone does not explain why the discs are bouncing.
No full textTwo disks moving from opposite points in space, overlapping, and stopping at one another’s starting point
can be seen as either bouncing off one another or streaming through one another. With silent displays, observers
report streaming, whereas, if a sound is played when the disks are in the overlap region, observers report bouncing.
The change in perception is thought to be modulated by a lack of attention that inhibits the integration of
the motion signal when disks overlap and by the sound that increases the congruence of the display, in comparison
with a real elastic bounce. Here, we accompanied the disks’ motion with either a bounce-congruent sound (
a billiard ball) or with bounce-incongruent sounds (a water drop, a firework). When the sound was switched
on 200 msec before the disks’ overlap, (1) all the audiovisual displays induced more bounce responses than did
the silent display, but (2) the bounce-congruent sound induced more bounce responses than did the bounceincongruent
sounds. However, when the sound was switched on at the disks’ overlap, only the first result was
observed. These results highlight both the role of attention and that of sound congruence
Audiovisual bounce-inducing effect: when sound congruence affects grouping in vision.
No full textTwo disks moving from opposite points in space, overlapping, and stopping at one another’s starting point
can be seen as either bouncing off one another or streaming through one another. With silent displays, observers
report streaming, whereas, if a sound is played when the disks are in the overlap region, observers report bouncing.
The change in perception is thought to be modulated by a lack of attention that inhibits the integration of
the motion signal when disks overlap and by the sound that increases the congruence of the display, in comparison
with a real elastic bounce. Here, we accompanied the disks’ motion with either a bounce-congruent sound (
a billiard ball) or with bounce-incongruent sounds (a water drop, a firework). When the sound was switched
on 200 msec before the disks’ overlap, (1) all the audiovisual displays induced more bounce responses than did
the silent display, but (2) the bounce-congruent sound induced more bounce responses than did the bounceincongruent
sounds. However, when the sound was switched on at the disks’ overlap, only the first result was
observed. These results highlight both the role of attention and that of sound congruence
Streaming or bouncing? Attention does not explain the audiovisual bounce-inducing effect
No full textThe interaction between time and number in a temporal bisection task: A reply to Vicario (2011)
Full text linkAbstract.We discuss the results of Vicario (2011, Perception 2011, 40, 23-29), in the light of an experiment designed to bypass some of the limits of that study. There, participants were asked to perform a temporal bisection on numerical stimuli (small or large digits) presented either for 700/900 ms
or 2000/2200 ms. For the two longest durations only, bisections of larger digits occurred later than those of smaller digits. Here, subjects judged the temporal position of a flick occurring during the visual presentation of a digit (1, 5, or 9) which lasted on the screen for either 700 ms or 2000 ms. Results revealed no difference in the perceived temporal midpoints of large compared to small digits. In contrast, they showed a response bias: only with the shortest-duration stimuli the digit's magnitude affected the subject's response
LA TESI DI LAUREA IN PSICOLOGIA: BREVE GUIDA ALLA SCRITTURA E ALLA PREPARAZIONE DELLA DISCUSSIONE
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