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Hout, Michael C.; Goldinger, Stephen D.; Ferguson, Ryan W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2013
Although traditional methods to collect similarity data (for multidimensional scaling [MDS]) are robust, they share a key shortcoming. Specifically, the possible pairwise comparisons in any set of objects grow rapidly as a function of set size. This leads to lengthy experimental protocols, or procedures that involve scaling stimulus subsets. We…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Research Methodology, Problem Solving, Multidimensional Scaling
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Becker, D. Vaughn; Anderson, Uriah S.; Mortensen, Chad R.; Neufeld, Samantha L.; Neel, Rebecca – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
Is it easier to detect angry or happy facial expressions in crowds of faces? The present studies used several variations of the visual search task to assess whether people selectively attend to expressive faces. Contrary to widely cited studies (e.g., Ohman, Lundqvist, & Esteves, 2001) that suggest angry faces "pop out" of crowds, our review of…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Psychological Patterns, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli
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Kolinsky, Regine; Verhaeghe, Arlette; Fernandes, Tania; Mengarda, Elias Jose; Grimm-Cabral, Loni; Morais, Jose – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
To examine whether enantiomorphy (i.e., the ability to discriminate lateral mirror images) is influenced by the acquisition of a written system that incorporates mirrored letters (e.g., b and d), unschooled illiterate adults were compared with people reading the Latin alphabet, namely, both schooled literate adults and unschooled adults…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Illiteracy, Latin, Visual Discrimination
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Forster, Jens – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009
Nine studies showed a bidirectional link (a) between a global processing style and generation of similarities and (b) between a local processing style and generation of dissimilarities. In Experiments 1-4, participants were primed with global versus local perception styles and then asked to work on an allegedly unrelated generation task. Across…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Correlation, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology
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Friedman, Alinda; Spetch, Marcia L.; Ferrey, Anne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2005
Humans and pigeons were trained to discriminate between 2 views of actual 3-D objects or their photographs. They were tested on novel views that were either within the closest rotational distance between the training views (interpolated) or outside of that range (extrapolated). When training views were 60? apart, pigeons, but not humans,…
Descriptors: Photography, Perception Tests, Visual Perception, Animals
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Dalgleish, Tim – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2005
D. Algom, E. Chajut, and S. Lev presented a series of definitional, conceptual, and empirical arguments in support of their conclusion that the classic and emotional Stroop effects are, in their words, "unrelated phenomena" (p. 336), such that the term emotional Stroop effect is a misnomer in reference to the relatively greater interference in ink…
Descriptors: Visual Discrimination, Color, Concept Formation, Experimental Psychology
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Carr, Thomas H.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1979
The effects of orthographic regularity and visual familiarity on internal coding and processing of visual stimuli were investigated in four experiments using college student subjects. Consistent effects of orthography on the activation of all codes were found. Familiarity influenced semantic more than phonetic codes. Implications for reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education, Language Processing
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Fiser, Jozsef; Aslin, Richard N. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2005
The authors investigated how human adults encode and remember parts of multielement scenes composed of recursively embedded visual shape combinations. The authors found that shape combinations that are parts of larger configurations are less well remembered than shape combinations of the same kind that are not embedded. Combined with basic…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Visual Learning, Adults, Visual Stimuli