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Foley, Nicholas C.; Grossberg, Stephen; Mingolla, Ennio – Cognitive Psychology, 2012
How are spatial and object attention coordinated to achieve rapid object learning and recognition during eye movement search? How do prefrontal priming and parietal spatial mechanisms interact to determine the reaction time costs of intra-object attention shifts, inter-object attention shifts, and shifts between visible objects and covertly cued…
Descriptors: Priming, Cues, Reaction Time, Eye Movements
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Browning, N. Andrew; Grossberg, Stephen; Mingolla, Ennio – Cognitive Psychology, 2009
Visually-based navigation is a key competence during spatial cognition. Animals avoid obstacles and approach goals in novel cluttered environments using optic flow to compute heading with respect to the environment. Most navigation models try either explain data, or to demonstrate navigational competence in real-world environments without regard…
Descriptors: Optics, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Schemata (Cognition)
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Baguley, Thom; Lansdale, Mark W.; Lines, Lorna K.; Parkin, Jennifer K. – Cognitive Psychology, 2006
This paper studies the dynamics of attempting to access two spatial memories simultaneously and its implications for the accuracy of recall. Experiment 1 demonstrates in a range of conditions that two cues pointing to different experiences of the same object location produce little or no higher recall than that observed with a single cue.…
Descriptors: Cues, Experiments, Recall (Psychology), Models
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Pani, John R.; Chariker, Julia H.; Dawson, Thomas E.; Johnson, Nathan – Cognitive Psychology, 2005
There are certain simple rotations of objects that most people cannot reason about accurately. Reliable gaps in the understanding of a fundamental physical domain raise the question of how learning to reason in that domain might proceed. Using virtual reality techniques, this project investigated the nature of learning to reason across the domain…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Motion, Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills
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Sanocki, Thomas – Cognitive Psychology, 2003
This paper presents a cognitive approach to on-line spatial perception within scenes. A theoretical framework is developed, based on the idea that experience with a scene can activate a complex representation of layout that facilitates subsequent processing of spatial relations within the scene. The representations integrate significant, relevant…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visual Stimuli, Visual Perception, Cognitive Processes
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Cave, Kyle R.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1994
Three experiments involving 107 adults who performed mental rotation tasks explored how location information is incorporated into image representation. Results suggest that image is coded retinotopically in image representations and that there is no spatiotropic transform in the early stages of visual processing. (SLD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Coding, Cognitive Processes
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Chun, Marvin M.; Jiang, Yuhong – Cognitive Psychology, 1998
Six experiments involving a total of 112 college students demonstrate that a robust memory for visual context exists to guide spatial attention. Results show how implicit learning and memory of visual context can guide spatial attention toward task-relevant aspects of a scene. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Context Effect, Cues, Higher Education
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Rock, Irvin; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1989
Several experiments were undertaken with a total of 111 undergraduates. Subjects attempted to imagine how three-dimensional novel wire objects would appear from viewpoints other than that of the subject. Subjects were unable to perform this task without making use of strategies that circumvent the process of visualization. (TJH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Pattern Recognition, Spatial Ability
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Needham, Amy; Cantlon, Jessica F.; Ormsbee Holley, Susan M. – Cognitive Psychology, 2006
The current research investigates infants' perception of a novel object from a category that is familiar to young infants: key rings. We ask whether experiences obtained outside the lab would allow young infants to parse the visible portions of a partly occluded key ring display into one single unit, presumably as a result of having categorized it…
Descriptors: Infants, Investigations, Visual Perception, Classification