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Age-Related Differences in Face Recognition: Neural Correlates of Repetition and Semantic Priming in Young and Older Adults
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Wiese, Holger; Komes, Jessica; Tüttenberg, Simone; Leidinger, Jana; Schweinberger, Stefan R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Difficulties in person recognition are among the common complaints associated with cognitive ageing. The present series of experiments therefore investigated face and person recognition in young and older adults. The authors examined how within-domain and cross-domain repetition as well as semantic priming affect familiar face recognition and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Young Adults, Older Adults, Cognitive Ability
The Role of Clarity and Blur in Guiding Visual Attention in Photographs
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Enns, James T.; MacDonald, Sarah C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Visual artists and photographers believe that a viewer's gaze can be guided by selective use of image clarity and blur, but there is little systematic research. In this study, participants performed several eye-tracking tasks with the same naturalistic photographs, including recognition memory for the entire photo, as well as recognition memory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Eye Movements, Photography, Visual Stimuli
Hearing Loss Is Negatively Related to Episodic and Semantic Long-Term Memory but Not to Short-Term Memory
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Ronnberg, Jerker; Danielsson, Henrik; Rudner, Mary; Arlinger, Stig; Sternang, Ola; Wahlin, Ake; Nilsson, Lars-Goran – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2011
Purpose: To test the relationship between degree of hearing loss and different memory systems in hearing aid users. Method: Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to study the relationship between auditory and visual acuity and different cognitive and memory functions in an age-hetereogenous subsample of 160 hearing aid users without…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory
Perception of Objects in Natural Scenes: Is It Really Attention Free?
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Evans, 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
A Search for New Reading Tests.
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Upshur, John A. – 1972
In contemporary reading comprehension tests, abilities which may have little to do with reading ability can have a great effect on test scores. Reading tests are not constructed so that they maximize abilities unique to reading. On the other hand, tests on other language skills do not minimize what is unique to reading. Comprehension is the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comprehension, English (Second Language), Eye Movements
Factors of Visual Perception and Their Relation to the Language Proficiency of Children. Final Report.
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Wood, Nancy E. – 1970
This report describes an experiment concerned with a possible relationship between the inability to learn basic educational skills, such as reading and writing, and the inability to organize incoming stimuli for communication purposes, in spite of adequate intellectual potential. The study had three main tasks. The first problem was to develop a…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Educational Experiments