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Kosslyn, Stephen Michael – Cognitive Psychology, 1975
How information is represented in visual images was explored in five experiments where subjects judged whether or not various properties were appropriate for given animals. The results support a constructivist notion of imagery, and the idea that images may act as analogues to percepts. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, College Students, Figural Aftereffects, Freehand Drawing
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Peressotti, Francesca; Cubelli, Roberto; Job, Remo – Cognitive Psychology, 2003
Five experiments investigated the recognition of proper names and common nouns using the lexical decision paradigm. In Experiments 1-3 the case of the initial letter of written stimuli was systematically varied. An advantage was consistently found for proper names written with the first letter in capital. Crucially, response times to proper names…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Word Recognition, Cues