Chetverikov Andrey, Filippova Margarita
Department of Psychology, Saint Petersburg State University, 6 Makarova emb., Saint Petersburg 191002, Russia.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2014 Sep;151:206-13. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.06.012. Epub 2014 Jul 19.
How do people understand that their perception is correct? In line with the recurring idea of perception as prediction, the affective feedback account of hypotheses testing suggests that correct perceptual predictions are reinforced with positive affect. In four experiments, we tested whether correct categorization of a degraded image will lead to more positive liking ratings. The obtained findings supported the proposed approach: subjects liked the images they were able to perceive correctly more than others. Importantly, these findings were independent of the initial affective valence of stimuli. A further investigation demonstrated that this effect exists only when answers are at least moderately confident. The obtained findings add to the growing amount of literature on the role of affect in basic cognitive processing.
人们如何知道自己的感知是正确的？与将感知视为预测的反复出现的观点一致，假设检验的情感反馈账户表明，正确的感知预测会因积极情感而得到强化。在四项实验中，我们测试了对退化图像的正确分类是否会导致更高的积极喜爱评分。获得的结果支持了所提出的方法：与其他图像相比，受试者更喜欢他们能够正确感知的图像。重要的是，这些结果与刺激的初始情感效价无关。进一步的调查表明，只有当答案至少有一定程度的信心时，这种效应才会存在。获得的结果增加了关于情感在基本认知加工中的作用的越来越多的文献。
