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Menneer, Tamaryn; Stroud, Michael J.; Cave, Kyle R.; Li, Xingshan; Godwin, Hayward J.; Liversedge, Simon P.; Donnelly, Nick – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2012
Searching simultaneously for metal threats (guns and knives) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in X-ray images is less effective than 2 independent single-target searches, 1 for metal threats and 1 for IEDs. The goals of this study were to (a) replicate this dual-target cost for categorical targets and to determine whether the cost remains…
Descriptors: National Security, Visual Perception, Eye Movements, Reaction Time
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Rummer, Ralf; Schweppe, Judith; Furstenberg, Anne; Scheiter, Katharina; Zindler, Antje – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2011
Various studies have demonstrated an advantage of auditory over visual text modality when learning with texts and pictures. To explain this modality effect, two complementary assumptions are proposed by cognitive theories of multimedia learning: first, the visuospatial load hypothesis, which explains the modality effect in terms of visuospatial…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Auditory Perception, Learning Modalities, Visual Perception
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Johnson, Cheryl I.; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2012
In three studies, eye movements of participants were recorded while they viewed a single-slide multimedia presentation about how car brakes work. Some of the participants saw an integrated presentation in which each segment of words was presented near its corresponding area of the diagram (integrated group, Experiments 1 and 3) or an integrated…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Literary Genres, Human Body, Scores
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Dong, Xiao; Yoshida, Ken; Stoffregen, Thomas A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2011
Everyday experience suggests that drivers are less susceptible to motion sickness than passengers. In the context of inertial motion (i.e., physical displacement), this effect has been confirmed in laboratory research using whole body motion devices. We asked whether a similar effect would occur in the context of simulated vehicles in a visual…
Descriptors: Video Games, Diseases, Motion, Visual Perception
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Yamani, Yusuke; McCarley, Jason S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2010
Color and intensity coding provide perceptual cues to segregate categories of objects within a visual display, allowing operators to search more efficiently for needed information. Even within a perceptually distinct subset of display elements, however, it may often be useful to prioritize items representing urgent or task-critical information.…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Cues, Experimental Psychology, Experiments
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Koh, Ranieri Y. I.; Park, Taezoon; Wickens, Christopher D.; Ong, Lay Teng; Chia, Soon Noi – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2011
This study investigated the effect of nursing experience on attention allocation and task performance during surgery. The prevention of cases of retained foreign bodies after surgery typically depends on scrub nurses, who are responsible for performing multiple tasks that impose heavy demands on the nurses' cognitive resources. However, the…
Descriptors: Surgery, Eye Movements, Nurses, Attention
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Francis, Gregory; Bias, Keri; Shive, Joshua – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2010
Mathematicians have proven that four colors are sufficient to color 2-D maps so that no neighboring regions share the same color. Here we consider the psychological 4-color problem: Identifying which 4 colors should be used to make a map easy to use. We build a model of visual search for this design task and demonstrate how to apply it to the task…
Descriptors: Maps, Search Strategies, Counties, Psychology
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Marquard, Jenna L.; Henneman, Philip L.; He, Ze; Jo, Junghee; Fisher, Donald L.; Henneman, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2011
Patient identification (ID) errors occurring during the medication administration process can be fatal. The aim of this study is to determine whether differences in nurses' behaviors and visual scanning patterns during the medication administration process influence their capacities to identify patient ID errors. Nurse participants (n = 20)…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Eye Movements, Nurses, Identification
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Peebles, David – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2008
Two experiments investigated effects of emergent features on perceptual judgments of comparative magnitude in three diagrammatic representations: kiviat charts, bar graphs, and line graphs. Experiment 1 required participants to compare individual values; whereas in Experiment 2 participants had to integrate several values to produce a global…
Descriptors: Graphs, Charts, Evaluative Thinking, Comparative Analysis
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Wedel, Michel; Pieters, Rik; Liechty, John – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2008
Eye movements across advertisements express a temporal pattern of bursts of respectively relatively short and long saccades, and this pattern is systematically influenced by activated scene perception goals. This was revealed by a continuous-time hidden Markov model applied to eye movements of 220 participants exposed to 17 ads under a…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Eye Movements, Human Body, Attention
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Ratwani, Raj M.; Trafton, J. Gregory; Boehm-Davis, Deborah A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2008
Task analytic theories of graph comprehension account for the perceptual and conceptual processes required to extract specific information from graphs. Comparatively, the processes underlying information integration have received less attention. We propose a new framework for information integration that highlights visual integration and cognitive…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Graphs, Pattern Recognition, Cognitive Processes
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Palmisano, Stephen; Favelle, Simone; Sachtler, W. L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2008
This study examined three visual strategies for timing the initiation of the landing flare based on perceptions of either: (a) a critical height above ground level; (b) a critical runway width angle ([psi]); or (c) a critical time-to-contact (TTC) with the runway. Visual displays simulated landing approaches with trial-to-trial variations in…
Descriptors: Lighting, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Experiments
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Horrey, William J.; Wickens, Christopher D.; Consalus, Kyle P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2006
In 2 experiments, the authors examined how characteristics of a simulated traffic environment and in-vehicle tasks impact driver performance and visual scanning and the extent to which a computational model of visual attention (SEEV model) could predict scanning behavior. In Experiment 1, the authors manipulated task-relevant information bandwidth…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Traffic Safety
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Ratcliff, Jennifer J.; Lassiter, G. Daniel; Schmidt, Heather C.; Snyder, Celeste J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2006
The camera perspective from which a criminal confession is videotaped influences later assessments of its voluntariness and the suspect's guilt. Previous research has suggested that this camera perspective bias is rooted in perceptual rather than conceptual processes, but these data are strictly correlational. In 3 experiments, the authors…
Descriptors: Photography, Visual Perception, Visual Aids, Bias