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Cosman, Joshua D.; Vecera, Shaun P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
A number of studies have demonstrated that the likelihood of a salient item capturing attention is dependent on the "attentional set" an individual employs in a given situation. The instantiation of an attentional set is often viewed as a strategic, voluntary process, relying on working memory systems that represent immediate task…
Descriptors: Attention, Memory, Learning, Context Effect
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Anderson, Brian A.; Yantis, Steven – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Stimuli that have previously been associated with the delivery of reward involuntarily capture attention when presented as unrewarded and task-irrelevant distractors in a subsequent visual search task. It is unknown how long such effects of reward learning on attention persist. One possibility is that value-driven attentional biases are plastic…
Descriptors: Attention, Bias, Stimuli, Rewards
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Schreij, Daniel; Olivers, Christian N. L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
For stable perception, we maintain mental representations of objects across space and time. What information is linked to such a representation? In this study, we extended our work showing that the spatiotemporal history of an object affects the way the object is attended the next time it is encountered. Observers conducted a visual search for a…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Attention, Selection, Repetition
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Hollingworth, Andrew – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Recent results from Vo and Wolfe (2012b) suggest that the application of memory to visual search may be task specific: Previous experience searching for an object facilitated later search for that object, but object information acquired during a different task did not appear to transfer to search. The latter inference depended on evidence that a…
Descriptors: Memory, Visual Perception, Attention, Eye Movements
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Green, Collin; Johnston, James C.; Ruthruff, Eric – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Carrier and Pashler (1995) concluded--based on locus-of-slack dual-task methodology--that memory retrieval was subject to a central bottleneck. However, this conclusion conflicts with evidence from other lines of research suggesting that memory retrieval proceeds autonomously, in parallel with many other mental processes. In the present…
Descriptors: Memory, Attention, Recognition (Psychology), Cognitive Processes
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Goujon, Annabelle; Brockmole, James R.; Ehinger, Krista A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Previous research using the contextual cuing paradigm has revealed both quantitative and qualitative differences in learning depending on whether repeated contexts are defined by letter arrays or real-world scenes. To clarify the relative contributions of visual features and semantic information likely to account for such differences, the typical…
Descriptors: Semantics, Reaction Time, Prompting, Eye Movements
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Tsal, Yehoshua; Benoni, Hanna – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
The substantial distractor interference obtained for small displays when the target appears alone is reduced in large displays when the target is embedded among neutral letters. This finding has been interpreted as reflecting low-load and high-load processing, respectively, thereby supporting the theory of perceptual load (Lavie & Tsal, 1994).…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Perception, Memory
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Jimenez, Luis; Vazquez, Gustavo A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Sequence learning and contextual cueing explore different forms of implicit learning, arising from practice with a structured serial task, or with a search task with informative contexts. We assess whether these two learning effects arise simultaneously when both remain implicit. Experiments 1 and 2 confirm that a cueing effect can be observed…
Descriptors: Memory, Cues, Experiments, Attention
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Jannati, Ali; Spalek, Thomas M.; Di Lollo, Vincent – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Report of a second target (T2) is impaired when presented within 500 ms of the first (T1). This attentional blink (AB) is known to cause a delay in T2 processing during which T2 must be stored in a labile memory buffer. We explored the buffer's characteristics using different types of masks after T2. These characteristics were inferred by…
Descriptors: Memory, Attention, Visual Stimuli, Visual Perception
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Ward, Robert; Ward, Ronnie – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
This study examined the selective attention abilities of a simple, artificial, evolved agent and considered implications of the agent's performance for theories of selective attention and action. The agent processed two targets in continuous time, catching one and then the other. This task required many cognitive operations, including prioritizing…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Inhibition, Memory
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Potter, Mary C.; Wyble, Brad; Olejarczyk, Jennifer – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
In whole report, a sentence presented sequentially at the rate of about 10 words/s can be recalled accurately, whereas if the task is to report only two target words (e.g., red words), the second target suffers an attentional blink if it appears shortly after the first target. If these two tasks are carried out simultaneously, is there an…
Descriptors: Sentences, Memory, Vocabulary Development, Experiments
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Lien, Mei-Ching; Ruthruff, Eric; Johnston, James C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
The classic theory of spatial attention hypothesized 2 modes, voluntary and involuntary. Folk, Remington, and Johnston (1992) reported that even involuntary attention capture by stimuli requires a match between stimulus properties and what the observer is looking for. This surprising conclusion has been confirmed by many subsequent studies. In…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Attention Control, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception
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Soto, David; Humphreys, Glyn W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
Previous studies have shown that visual attention can be captured by stimuli matching the contents of working memory (WM). Here, the authors assessed the nature of the representation that mediates the guidance of visual attention from WM. Observers were presented with either verbal or visual primes (to hold in memory, Experiment 1; to verbalize,…
Descriptors: Memory, Guidance, Attention
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Wong, Kin Fai Ellick; Chen, Hsuan-Chih – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Repetition blindness (RB) was investigated in a new paradigm in which effects could stem from items preceding or following a target. Speeded-response tasks in which 3 critical items (C1, C2, and C3) were sequentially presented on each trial. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants were asked to judge whether C2 (the target) was present on each trial.…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Blindness, Semantics, Models
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Hunt, Amelia R.; Chapman, Craig S.; Kingstone, Alan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
Everyone has probably experienced chronostasis, an illusion of time that can cause a clock's second hand to appear to stand still during an eye movement. Though the illusion was initially thought to reflect a mechanism for preserving perceptual continuity during eye movements, an alternative hypothesis has been advanced that overestimation of time…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Time Management, Human Body, Experiments
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