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Clarkson-Smith, Louise; Halpern, Diane F. – 1984
Earlier research (Thorson, et al., 1976) found that latencies increase for acoustically confusable letter pairs and decrease for visually confusable letter pairs as a positive function of interstimulus interval (ISI). To extend these findings to different age groups, 30 young adults (mean age, 21.4 years) and 30 older adults (mean age, 68.8 years)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Encoding (Psychology), Memory
Klopfer, Dale S. – 1983
The processing of mental structures in perception appears to be serial, in that viewers can fill in missing parts from an impoverished stimulus following a top down process. To investigate the effects of unfamiliarity, complexity, and legibility on object and layout perception of unfamiliar stimuli, ten subjects were shown one of four ribbon…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Eye Fixations, Pattern Recognition, Perception