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Keane, Brian P.; Mettler, Everett; Tsoi, Vicky; Kellman, Philip J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Multiple object tracking (MOT) is an attentional task wherein observers attempt to track multiple targets among moving distractors. Contour interpolation is a perceptual process that fills-in nonvisible edges on the basis of how surrounding edges (inducers) are spatiotemporally related. In five experiments, we explored the automaticity of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Visual Stimuli, Visual Perception, Cognitive Processes
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Kail, Robert V., Jr.; Schroll, John T. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Investigates the development of evaluative and taxonomic encoding in 7-, to 8-, and 11-year-old children's memories, and related experimental findings to recent work on the development of encoding in memory. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology, Elementary School Students
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Sambeth, A.; Maes, J. H. R. – Learning and Motivation, 2006
The purpose of this experiment was to compare components of the human and rat auditory event-related potential (ERP) in a serial feature-positive discrimination task. Subjects learned to respond to an auditory target stimulus when it followed a visual feature (X [right arrow] A+), but to not respond when it was presented alone (A-). Upon solving…
Descriptors: Animals, Auditory Discrimination, Inhibition, Associative Learning