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Jacoby, Oscar; Kamke, Marc R.; Mattingley, Jason B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
We have a remarkable ability to accurately estimate average featural information across groups of objects, such as their average size or orientation. It has been suggested that, unlike individual object processing, this process of "feature averaging" occurs automatically and relatively early in the course of perceptual processing,…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Orientation
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Rhodes, Gillian; Jeffery, Linda; Boeing, Alexandra; Calder, Andrew J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Despite the discovery of body-selective neural areas in occipitotemporal cortex, little is known about how bodies are visually coded. We used perceptual adaptation to determine how body identity is coded. Brief exposure to a body (e.g., anti-Rose) biased perception toward an identity with opposite properties (Rose). Moreover, the size of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Body, Color, Photography
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Arnold, Derek H.; Wegener, Signy V.; Brown, Francesca; Mattingley, Jason B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Grapheme-color synesthesia is an atypical condition in which individuals experience sensations of color when reading printed graphemes such as letters and digits. For some grapheme-color synesthetes, seeing a printed grapheme triggers a sensation of color, but "hearing" the name of a grapheme does not. This dissociation allowed us to…
Descriptors: Memory, Color, Experimental Psychology, Graphemes
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Becker, Stefanie I.; Horstmann, Gernot; Remington, Roger W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Several different explanations have been proposed to account for the search asymmetry (SA) for angry schematic faces (i.e., the fact that an angry face target among friendly faces can be found faster than vice versa). The present study critically tested the perceptual grouping account, (a) that the SA is not due to emotional factors, but to…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Human Body, Visual Stimuli, Classification
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Liu, Charles C.; Wolfgang, Bradley J.; Smith, Philip L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Recent spatial cuing studies have shown that detection sensitivity can be increased by the allocation of attention. This increase has been attributed to one of two mechanisms: signal enhancement or uncertainty reduction. Signal enhancement is an increase in the signal-to-noise ratio at the cued location; uncertainty reduction is a reduction in the…
Descriptors: Cues, Visual Perception, Experiments, College Students
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McKone, Elinor – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
Configural/holistic processing, a key property of face recognition, has previously been examined only for front views of faces. Here, 6 experiments tested front (0 degree), three-quarter (45 degree), and profile views (90 degree), using composite and peripheral inversion tasks. Results showed an overall disadvantage in identifying profiles. This…
Descriptors: Human Body, Recognition (Psychology), Visual Stimuli, Visual Perception