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Eidels, Ami; Townsend, James T.; Pomerantz, James R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
People are especially efficient in processing certain visual stimuli such as human faces or good configurations. It has been suggested that topology and geometry play important roles in configural perception. Visual search is one area in which configurality seems to matter. When either of 2 target features leads to a correct response and the…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Topology, Reaction Time, Attention
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Hampton, James A.; Estes, Zachary; Simmons, Claire L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
People categorized pairs of perceptual stimuli that varied in both category membership and pairwise similarity. Experiments 1 and 2 showed categorization of 1 color of a pair to be reliably contrasted from that of the other. This similarity-based contrast effect occurred only when the context stimulus was relevant for the categorization of the…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Visual Perception, Classification, Color