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Chua, Kao-Wei; Bub, Daniel N.; Masson, Michael E. J.; Gauthier, Isabel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Seeing pictures of objects activates the motor cortex and can have an influence on subsequent grasping actions. However, the exact nature of the motor representations evoked by these pictures is unclear. For example, action plans engaged by pictures could be most affected by direct visual input and computed online based on object shape.…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Recognition (Psychology), Comprehension, Attention
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McKeeff, Thomas J.; McGugin, Rankin W.; Tong, Frank; Gauthier, Isabel – Cognition, 2010
Recent studies indicate that expertise with objects can interfere with face processing. Although competition occurs between faces and objects of expertise, it remains unclear whether this reflects an expertise-specific bottleneck or the fact that objects of expertise grab attention and thereby consume more central resources. We investigated the…
Descriptors: Motor Vehicles, Expertise, Cognitive Processes, Recognition (Psychology)
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Cheung, Olivia S.; Richler, Jennifer J.; Palmeri, Thomas J.; Gauthier, Isabel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
V. Goffaux and B. Rossion (2006) argued that holistic processing of faces is largely supported by low spatial frequencies (LSFs) but less so by high spatial frequencies (HSFs). We addressed this claim using a sequential matching task with face composites. Observers judged whether the top halves of aligned or misaligned composites were identical.…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Response Style (Tests)