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Zdravkovic, Suncica; Economou, Elias; Gilchrist, Alan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
According to Koffka (1935), the lightness of a target surface is determined by the relationship between the target and the illumination frame of reference to which it belongs. However, each scene contains numerous illumination frames, and judging each one separately would lead to an enormous amount of computing. Grouping those frames that are in…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Light, Undergraduate Students
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Schreij, Daniel; Olivers, Christian N. L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
For stable perception, we maintain mental representations of objects across space and time. What information is linked to such a representation? In this study, we extended our work showing that the spatiotemporal history of an object affects the way the object is attended the next time it is encountered. Observers conducted a visual search for a…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Attention, Selection, Repetition
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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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Jingling, Li; Tseng, Chia-Huei – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
In visual searches, stimuli following the law of good continuity attract attention to the global structure and receive attentional priority. Also, targets that have unique features are of high feature contrast and capture attention in visual search. We report on a salient global structure combined with a high orientation contrast to the…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Attention, Orientation, Accuracy
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Fitousi, Daniel; Wenger, Michael J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
A prominent theory in the face perception literature--the parallel-route hypothesis (Bruce & Young, 1986)--assumes a dedicated channel for the processing of identity that is separate and independent from the channel(s) in which nonidentity information is processed (e.g., expression, eye gaze). The current work subjected this assumption to…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Identification, Nonverbal Communication, Classification
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Mavica, Lauren W.; Barenholtz, Elan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Previous research has suggested that people are unable to correctly choose which unfamiliar voice and static image of a face belong to the same person. Here, we present evidence that people can perform this task with greater than chance accuracy. In Experiment 1, participants saw photographs of two, same-gender models, while simultaneously…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Auditory Stimuli, Visual Stimuli, Infants
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Jiang, Yuhong V.; Swallow, Khena M.; Rosenbaum, Gail M.; Herzig, Chelsey – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Substantial research has focused on the allocation of spatial attention based on goals or perceptual salience. In everyday life, however, people also direct attention using their previous experience. Here we investigate the pace at which people incidentally learn to prioritize specific locations. Participants searched for a T among Ls in a visual…
Descriptors: Attention, Bias, Spatial Ability, Experience
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Ortega, Laura; Guzman-Martinez, Emmanuel; Grabowecky, Marcia; Suzuki, Satoru – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Several seconds of adaptation to a flickered stimulus causes a subsequent brief static stimulus to appear longer in duration. Nonsensory factors, such as increased arousal and attention, have been thought to mediate this flicker-based temporal-dilation aftereffect. In this study, we provide evidence that adaptation of low-level cortical visual…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Time, Adjustment (to Environment), Neurological Organization
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Huang, Liqiang; Pashler, Harold – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Selective attention in multidimensional displays has usually been examined using search tasks requiring the detection of a single target. We examined the ability to perceive a spatial structure in multi-item subsets of a display that were defined either conjunctively or disjunctively. Observers saw two adjacent displays and indicated whether the…
Descriptors: Attention, Selection, Spatial Ability, Visual Stimuli
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Kerzel, Dirk; Born, Sabine; Schonhammer, Josef – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
A salient stimulus may interrupt visual search because of attentional capture. It has been shown that attentional capture occurs with a wide, but not with a small attentional window. We tested the hypothesis that capture depends more strongly on the shape of the attentional window than on its size. Search elements were arranged in two nested…
Descriptors: Attention, Visual Perception, Classification, Color
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Stevenson, Ryan A.; Zemtsov, Raquel K.; Wallace, Mark T. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Human multisensory systems are known to bind inputs from the different sensory modalities into a unified percept, a process that leads to measurable behavioral benefits. This integrative process can be observed through multisensory illusions, including the McGurk effect and the sound-induced flash illusion, both of which demonstrate the ability of…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Sensory Integration, Visual Perception, Auditory Perception
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Thomson, David R.; Milliken, Bruce – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Maljkovic and Nakayama have demonstrated memory influences in singleton search from one trial to the next, an effect they termed "priming of pop-out" (PoP). This effect was described as resulting from the persistence of an implicit memory trace, the influence of which could be observed for around 5-8 subsequent trials. Thomson and…
Descriptors: Priming, Memory, Visual Perception, Context Effect
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Crookes, Kate; Hayward, William G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Presenting a face inverted (upside down) disrupts perceptual sensitivity to the spacing between the features. Recently, it has been shown that this disruption is greater for vertical than horizontal changes in eye position. One explanation for this effect proposed that inversion disrupts the processing of long-range (e.g., eye-to-mouth distance)…
Descriptors: Human Body, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Change
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Frings, Christian; Wentura, Dirk; Wuhr, Peter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Research on the topic of distractor inhibition has used different empirical approaches to study how the human mind selects relevant information from the environment, and the results are controversially discussed. One key question that typically arises is how selection deals with the irrelevant information. We used a new selection task, in which…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Attention, Visual Perception, Inhibition
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Al-Aidroos, Naseem; Emrich, Stephen M.; Ferber, Susanne; Pratt, Jay – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
In four experiments we assessed whether visual working memory (VWM) maintains a record of previously processed visual information, allowing old information to be inhibited, and new information to be prioritized. Specifically, we evaluated whether VWM contributes to the inhibition (i.e., visual marking) of previewed distractors in a preview search.…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Visual Perception, Short Term Memory, Individual Differences
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