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Sweeny, Timothy D.; Haroz, Steve; Whitney, David – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Many species, including humans, display group behavior. Thus, perceiving crowds may be important for social interaction and survival. Here, we provide the first evidence that humans use ensemble-coding mechanisms to perceive the behavior of a crowd of people with surprisingly high sensitivity. Observers estimated the headings of briefly presented…
Descriptors: Group Behavior, Perception, Cognitive Processes, Motion
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Hartmann, Matthias; Grabherr, Luzia; Mast, Fred W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Active head turns to the left and right have recently been shown to influence numerical cognition by shifting attention along the mental number line. In the present study, we found that passive whole-body motion influences numerical cognition. In a random-number generation task (Experiment 1), leftward and downward displacement of participants…
Descriptors: Numbers, Motion, Cognitive Processes, Attention
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Poom, Leo – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
The delayed discrimination methodology has been used to demonstrate a high-fidelity nondecaying visual short-term memory (VSTM) for so-called preattentive basic features. In the current Study, I show that the nondecaying high VSTM precision is not restricted to basic features by using the same method to measure memory precision for gait direction…
Descriptors: Vision, Fidelity, Short Term Memory, Motion
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Raw, Rachael K.; Kountouriotis, Georgios K.; Mon-Williams, Mark; Wilkie, Richard M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Old age is associated with poorer movement skill, as indexed by reduced speed and accuracy. Nevertheless, reductions in speed and accuracy can also reflect compensation as well as deficit. We used a manual tracing and a driving task to identify generalized spatial and temporal compensations and deficits associated with old age. In Experiment 1,…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Psychomotor Skills, Computer Simulation, Cognitive Processes
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Prasad, Sapna; Shiffrar, Maggie – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Observers can recognize other people from their movements. What is interesting is that observers are best able to recognize their own movements. Enhanced visual sensitivity to self-generated movement may reflect the contribution of motor planning processes to the visual analysis of human action. An alternative view is that enhanced visual…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Observation, Motion, Identification
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Elder, David M.; Grossberg, Stephen; Mingolla, Ennio – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
A neural model is developed to explain how humans can approach a goal object on foot while steering around obstacles to avoid collisions in a cluttered environment. The model uses optic flow from a 3-dimensional virtual reality environment to determine the position of objects on the basis of motion discontinuities and computes heading direction,…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Eye Movements, Optics, Infants
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Bruggeman, Hugo; Piuneu, Vadzim S.; Rieser, John J.; Pick, Herbert L., Jr. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
When turning without vision or audition, people tend to perceive their locomotion as a change in heading relative to objects in the remembered surroundings. Such perception of self-rotation depends on sensitivity to information for movement from biomechanical activity of the locomotor system or from inertial activation of the vestibular and…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Psychomotor Skills, Cognitive Processes, Biomechanics
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Stanley, James; Gowen, Emma; Miall, R. Chris – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
Human movement performance is subject to interference if the performer simultaneously observes an incongruent action. It has been proposed that this phenomenon is due to motor contagion during simultaneous movement performance-observation, with coactivation of shared action performance and action observation circuitry in the premotor cortex. The…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Observation, Human Body, Motion
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Kallie, Christopher S.; Schrater, Paul R.; Legge, Gordon E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
Walking without vision results in veering, an inability to maintain a straight path that has important consequences for blind pedestrians. In this study, the authors addressed whether the source of veering in the absence of visual and auditory feedback is better attributed to errors in perceptual encoding or undetected motor error. Three…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Cues, Blindness, Orientation
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Osman, Allen; Albert, Robert; Ridderinkhof, K. Richard; Band, Guido; van der Molen, Maurits – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
A frequency analysis was used to tag cortical activity from imagined rhythmic movements. Participants synchronized overt and imagined taps with brief visual stimuli presented at a constant rate, alternating between left and right index fingers. Brain potentials were recorded from across the scalp and topographic maps made of their power at the…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Processes, Visual Stimuli, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Pinto, Yair; Olivers, Christian N. L.; Theeuwes, Jan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
Intuitively, dynamic visual stimuli, such as moving objects or flashing lights, attract attention. Visual search tasks have revealed that dynamic targets among static distractors can indeed efficiently guide attention. The present study shows that the reverse case, a static target among dynamic distractors, allows for relatively efficient…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Visual Stimuli, Motion, Attention Control
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Johnston, Heather Moynihan; Jones, Mari Riess – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
Representational momentum refers to the phenomenon that observers tend to incorrectly remember an event undergoing real or implied motion as shifted beyond its actual final position. This has been demonstrated in both visual and auditory domains. In 5 pitch discrimination experiments, listeners heard tone sequences that implied either linear,…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Experimental Psychology, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli
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Flombaum, Jonathan I.; Scholl, Brian J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
Meaningful visual experience requires computations that identify objects as the same persisting individuals over time, motion, occlusion, and featural change. This article explores these computations in the tunnel effect: When an object moves behind an occluder, and then an object later emerges following a consistent trajectory, observers…
Descriptors: Computation, Color, Motion, Memory
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Hay, Julia L.; Milders, Maarten M.; Sahraie, Arash; Niedeggen, Michael – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
Recent visual marking studies have shown that the carry-over of distractor inhibition can impair the ability of singletons to capture attention if the singleton and distractors share features. The current study extends this finding to first-order motion targets and distractors, clearly separated in time by a visual cue (the letter X). Target…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Motion, Attention, Visual Perception
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Ivanoff, Jason; Klein, Raymond M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
Inhibition of return (IOR) refers to a mechanism that results in a performance disadvantage typically observed when targets are presented at a location once occupied by a cue. Although the time course of the phenomenon--from the cue to the target--has been well studied, the time course of the effect--from target to response--is unknown. In 2…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Reaction Time, Cues, Cognitive Processes
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