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Peer reviewedEllis, H. D.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1987
Seventeen visually impaired children, aged 7-11 years, were compared with sighted children on a test of facial recognition and a test of expression identification. The visually impaired children were less able to recognize faces successfully but showed no disadvantage in discerning facial expressions such as happiness, anger, surprise, or fear.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Elementary Education, Facial Expressions, Identification
Direct linkEvans, Karla K.; Treisman, Anne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
Studies have suggested attention-free semantic processing of natural scenes in which concurrent tasks leave category detection unimpaired (e.g., F. Li, R. VanRullen, C. Koch, & P. Perona, 2002). Could this ability reflect detection of disjunctive feature sets rather than high-level binding? Participants detected an animal target in a rapid serial…
Descriptors: Perception, Attention, Semantics, Language Processing
