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Longo, Matthew R.; Haggard, Patrick – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
The perceived distance between touches on a single skin surface is larger on regions of high tactile sensitivity than those with lower acuity, an effect known as "Weber's illusion". This illusion suggests that tactile size perception involves a representation of the perceived size of body parts preserving characteristics of the somatosensory…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Human Body, Tactual Perception, Stimuli
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Gellatly, Angus; Pilling, Michael; Carter, Wakefield; Guest, Duncan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Object substitution masking (OSM) is typically studied using a brief search display. The target item may be indicated by a cue/mask surrounding but not overlapping it. Report of the target is reduced when mask offset trails target offset rather than being simultaneous with it. We report 5 experiments investigating whether OSM can be obtained if…
Descriptors: Experiments, Cues, Adults, College Students
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Beisert, Miriam; Massen, Cristina; Prinz, Wolfgang – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
In tool use, a transformation rule defines the relation between an operating movement and its distal effect. This rule is determined by the tool structure and requires no explicit definition. The present study investigates how humans represent and apply compatible and incompatible transformation rules in tool use. In Experiment 1, participants had…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Experiments, Models, Motion
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Burnham, Bryan R.; Neely, James H.; Naginsky, Yelena; Thomas, Matthew – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
After C. L. Folk, R. W. Remington, and J. C. Johnston (1992) proposed their contingent-orienting hypothesis, there has been an ongoing debate over whether purely stimulus-driven attentional capture can occur for visual events that are salient by virtue of a distinctive static property (as opposed to a dynamic property such as abrupt onset). The…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Criteria, Experiments, Evaluation Methods
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Giordano, Bruno L.; Rocchesso, Davide; McAdams, Stephen – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Sound sources are perceived by integrating information from multiple acoustical features. The factors influencing the integration of information are largely unknown. We measured how the perceptual weighting of different features varies with the accuracy of information and with a listener's ability to exploit it. Participants judged the hardness of…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Experiments, Experimental Psychology, Adults
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Cabe, Patrick A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Many studies invoke moment of inertia (I[subscript ii]) as necessary and sufficient information to perceive cylinder length via wielding, yet some assert that I[subscript ii] is neither necessary (weight, "m", or static moment, M, are sufficient) nor sufficient for length judgments ("m" or M is necessary). Mathematical expressions for I[subscript…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Scientific Concepts, Tactual Perception, Experiments
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Vo, Melissa L. -H.; Wolfe, Jeremy M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
One might assume that familiarity with a scene or previous encounters with objects embedded in a scene would benefit subsequent search for those items. However, in a series of experiments we show that this is not the case: When participants were asked to subsequently search for multiple objects in the same scene, search performance remained…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Memory, Spatial Ability, Guidance
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Donk, Mieke; Soesman, Leroy – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Salient objects in the visual field tend to capture attention. The present study aimed to examine the time-course of salience effects using a probe-detection task. Eight experiments investigated how the salience of different orientation singletons affected probe reaction time as a function of stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) between the…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Experiments, Investigations, Attention Control
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Chao, Hsuan-Fu – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
This study investigated the active inhibition of precued distractor locations. In this study, the distractor location was precued by an arrow. Experiment 1 indicated that a valid precue could facilitate target localization. Experiment 2 demonstrated that when conflict trials were included, the distractor precue benefit was eliminated. Experiment 3…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Inhibition, Experiments, Cues
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Dosher, Barbara Anne; Han, Songmei; Lu, Zhong-Lin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Difficult visual search is often attributed to time-limited serial attention operations, although neural computations in the early visual system are parallel. Using probabilistic search models (Dosher, Han, & Lu, 2004) and a full time-course analysis of the dynamics of covert visual search, we distinguish unlimited capacity parallel versus serial…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Human Body, Search Strategies, Attention
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Steinhauser, Marco; Maier, Martin; Hubner, Ronald – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
The present study investigated the mechanisms underlying error detection in the error signaling response. The authors tested between a response monitoring account and a conflict monitoring account. By implementing each account within the neural network model of N. Yeung, M. M. Botvinick, and J. D. Cohen (2004), they demonstrated that both accounts…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Prediction, Responses, Experiments
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Cho, Dongbin; Proctor, Robert W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Reaction time is often shorter when the irrelevant graspable handle of an object corresponds with the location of a keypress response to the relevant attribute than when it does not. This object-based Simon effect has been attributed to an affordance for grasping the handle with the hand to the same side. Because a grasping affordance should…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Stimuli, Reaction Time, Feedback (Response)
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Keller, Peter E.; Dalla Bella, Simone; Koch, Iring – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
The role of anticipatory auditory imagery in music-like sequential action was investigated by examining timing accuracy and kinematics using a motion capture system. Musicians responded to metronomic pacing signals by producing three unpaced taps on three vertically aligned keys at the given tempo. Taps triggered tones in two out of three blocked…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Music, Musicians, Task Analysis
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Magen, Hagit; Cohen, Asher – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
The Dimension Action (DA) model asserts that the visual system is modular, and that each task involves multiple-response mechanisms rather than a unitary-response selection mechanism. The model has been supported by evidence from single-task interference paradigms. We use the psychological refractory period paradigm and show that dual-task…
Descriptors: Models, Visual Perception, Task Analysis, Experiments
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Ogden, Ruth S.; Wearden, J. H.; Jones, Luke A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
Six experiments examined human performance on a modified temporal generalization task when either 1 or 2 standard durations were encoded. In most conditions, participants were presented with a 1st standard duration (A), then judged whether a number of comparison stimuli had the same duration as A. They were then presented with a 2nd standard (B)…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Memory, Generalization, Experiments
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