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Chisholm, Joseph D.; Risko, Evan F.; Kingstone, Alan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
The emerging literature on embodied cognition highlights the role that the body plays in cognitive and affective processes. We investigated whether different body postures, specifically leaning postures thought to reflect different states of cognitive focus, can impact cognitive focus and task performance. In three experiments we confirmed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Human Body
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Lee, Hyunkyu; Mozer, Michael C.; Kramer, Arthur F.; Vecera, Shaun P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
How is attention guided by past experience? In visual search, numerous studies have shown that recent trials influence responses to the current trial. Repeating features such as color, shape, or location of a target facilitates performance. Here we examine whether recent experience also modulates a more abstract dimension of attentional control,…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Cognitive Development, Attention Control, Experience
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Houtkamp, Roos; Roelfsema, Pieter R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
The visual system groups image elements that belong to an object and segregates them from other objects and the background. Important cues for this grouping process are the Gestalt criteria, and most theories propose that these are applied in parallel across the visual scene. Here, we find that Gestalt grouping can indeed occur in parallel in some…
Descriptors: Cues, Visual Perception, Cognitive Development, Attention