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Kramer, Robin S. S.; Hardy, Sarah C.; Ritchie, Kay L. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
Investigations of face identification have typically focussed on matching faces to photographic IDs. Few researchers have considered the task of searching for a face in a crowd. In Experiment 1, we created the Chokepoint Search Test to simulate real-time search for a target. Performance on this test was poor (39% accuracy) and showed moderate…
Descriptors: Identification, Recognition (Psychology), Human Body, Visual Discrimination
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Ostarek, Markus; Vigliocco, Gabriella – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Previous research has shown that processing words with an up/down association (e.g., bird, foot) can influence the subsequent identification of visual targets in congruent location (at the top/bottom of the screen). However, as facilitation and interference were found under similar conditions, the nature of the underlying mechanisms remained…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Association (Psychology), Perception, Simulation