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Wyble, Brad; Folk, Charles; Potter, Mary C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Attentional capture is an unintentional shift of visuospatial attention to the location of a distractor that is either highly salient, or relevant to the current task set. The latter situation is referred to as contingent capture, in that the effect is contingent on a match between characteristics of the stimuli and the task-defined…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Classification, Coding, Attention
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Andrews, Lucy S.; Watson, Derrick G.; Humphreys, Glyn W.; Braithwaite, Jason J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Evidence for inhibitory processes in visual search comes from studies using preview conditions, where responses to new targets are delayed if they carry a featural attribute belonging to the old distractor items that are currently being ignored--the negative carry-over effect (Braithwaite, Humphreys, & Hodsoll, 2003). We examined whether…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Inhibition, Visual Stimuli, Motion
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Hollingworth, Andrew; Rasmussen, Ian P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
The relationship between object files and visual working memory (VWM) was investigated in a new paradigm combining features of traditional VWM experiments (color change detection) and object-file experiments (memory for the properties of moving objects). Object-file theory was found to account for a key component of object-position binding in VWM:…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Spatial Ability, Models, Experiments
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Makovski, Tal; Jiang, Yuhong V. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
When tracking moving objects in space humans usually attend to the objects' spatial locations and update this information over time. To what extent do surface features assist attentive tracking? In this study we asked participants to track identical or uniquely colored objects. Tracking was enhanced when objects were unique in color. The benefit…
Descriptors: College Students, Short Term Memory, Eye Movements, Visual Perception
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Kyllingsbaek, Soren; Bundesen, Claus – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
Observers given brief exposures of pairs of colored bars and asked to report both the color and the orientation of each bar showed evidence of stochastic independence between reports of the 4 features (2 colors and 2 orientations). The authors also found virtually perfect stochastic independence between reports of colors and directions of motion…
Descriptors: Motion, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Probability
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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