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Sewell, David K.; Lewandowsky, Stephan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2012
The concept of attention is central to theorizing in learning as well as in working memory. However, research to date has yet to establish how attention as construed in one domain maps onto the other. We investigate two manifestations of attention in category- and cue-learning to examine whether they might provide common ground between learning…
Descriptors: Attention, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Structures, Associative Learning
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Konkle, Talia; Brady, Timothy F.; Alvarez, George A.; Oliva, Aude – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
Humans have a massive capacity to store detailed information in visual long-term memory. The present studies explored the fidelity of these visual long-term memory representations and examined how conceptual and perceptual features of object categories support this capacity. Observers viewed 2,800 object images with a different number of exemplars…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Memorization, Visual Stimuli, Observation
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Smith, J. David; Redford, Joshua S.; Haas, Sarah M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008
The authors analyze the shape categorization of rhesus monkeys ("Macaca mulatta") and the role of prototype- and exemplar-based comparison processes in monkeys' category learning. Prototype and exemplar theories make contrasting predictions regarding performance on the Posner-Homa dot-distortion categorization task. Prototype theory--which…
Descriptors: Classification, Animals, Role, Comparative Analysis
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Lupyan, Gary – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008
What are the consequences of calling things by their names? Six experiments investigated how classifying familiar objects with basic-level names (chairs, tables, and lamps) affected recognition memory. Memory was found to be worse for items that were overtly classified with the category name--as reflected by lower hit rates--compared with items…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Recognition (Psychology), Classification, Cognitive Processes
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Sauer, James D.; Brewer, Neil; Weber, Nathan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008
Eyewitness identification decisions are vulnerable to various influences on witnesses' decision criteria that contribute to false identifications of innocent suspects and failures to choose perpetrators. An alternative procedure using confidence estimates to assess the degree of match between novel and previously viewed faces was investigated.…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Recognition (Psychology), Classification, Memory
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Kosslyn, Stephen M.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1977
Compared five distinct classes of models of how people judge the relative sizes of named objects. Four basic experiments were all concerned with the amount of time necessary to decide which of two named things is larger. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Measurement, Experimental Psychology, Experiments