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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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Hayden, Angela; Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Kangas, Ashley; Zieber, Nicole – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Part representation is not only critical to object perception but also plays a key role in a number of basic visual cognition functions, such as figure-ground segregation, allocation of attention, and memory for shapes. Yet, virtually nothing is known about the development of part representation. If parts are fundamental components of object shape…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Perception, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
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Adolph, Karen E.; Joh, Amy S.; Eppler, Marion A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Three experiments investigated whether 14- and 15-month-old infants use information for both friction and slant for prospective control of locomotion down slopes. In Experiment 1, high- and low-friction conditions were interleaved on a range of shallow and steep slopes. In Experiment 2, friction conditions were blocked. In Experiment 3, the…
Descriptors: Infants, Experimental Psychology, Investigations, Identification
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Hock, Howard S.; Nichols, David F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
A version of the line motion illusion (LMI) occurs when one of two adjacent surfaces changes in luminance; a new surface is perceived sliding in front of the initially presented surface. Previous research has implicated high-level mechanisms that can create or modulate LMI motion via feedback to lower-level motion detectors. It is shown here that…
Descriptors: Infants, Motion, Perception, Visual Stimuli
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Harris, Irina M.; Benito, Claire T.; Dux, Paul E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
We investigated distractor processing in a dual-target rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task containing familiar objects, by measuring repetition priming from a priming distractor (PD) to Target 2 (T2). Priming from a visually identical PD was contrasted with priming from a PD in a different orientation from T2. We also tested the effect of…
Descriptors: Priming, Language Processing, Infants, Investigations
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Gilden, David L.; Thornton, Thomas L.; Marusich, Laura R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
The conditions for serial search are described. A multiple target search methodology (Thornton & Gilden, 2007) is used to home in on the simplest target/distractor contrast that effectively mandates a serial scheduling of attentional resources. It is found that serial search is required when (a) targets and distractors are mirror twins, and…
Descriptors: Infants, Attention, Theories, Perception
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Bindemann, Markus; Scheepers, Christoph; Ferguson, Heather J.; Burton, A. Mike – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Person detection is an important prerequisite of social interaction, but is not well understood. Following suggestions that people in the visual field can capture a viewer's attention, this study examines the role of the face and the body for person detection in natural scenes. We observed that viewers tend first to look at the center of a scene,…
Descriptors: Cues, Infants, Social Cognition, Interpersonal Relationship
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Bertamini, Marco – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
Sensitivity to shape changes was measured, in particular detection of convexity and concavity changes. The available data are contradictory. The author used a change detection task and simple polygons to systematically manipulate convexity/concavity. Performance was high for detecting a change of sign (a new concave vertex along a convex contour…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Perception, College Students, Visual Stimuli
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Granrud, Carl E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
This study tested whether 4-month-old infants respond primarily to objects' physical or retinal image sizes. In the study's main experiment, infants were habituated to either a 6-cm-diameter disk at a distance of 18 cm or a 10-cm disk at 50 cm. They were then given 2 test trials in which the 6- and 10-cm disks were presented side by side at a…
Descriptors: Infants, Familiarity, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli