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Yang, Ying; Hu, Qingfen; Wu, Di; Yang, Shuqi – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
This current study examined human children's and adults' automatic processing of proportion using a Stroop-like paradigm. Preschool children and university students compared the areas of two sectors that varied not only in absolute areas but also in the proportions they occupied in their original rounds. A congruity effect was found in both age…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Preschool Children, Mathematical Concepts
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Kalanthroff, Eyal; Goldfarb, Liat; Henik, Avishai – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Performance of the Stroop task reflects two conflicts--informational (between the incongruent word and ink color) and task (between relevant color naming and irrelevant word reading). The task conflict is usually not visible, and is only seen when task control is damaged. Using the stop-signal paradigm, a few studies demonstrated longer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Color, Naming, Word Recognition
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Rae, Babette; Heathcote, Andrew; Donkin, Chris; Averell, Lee; Brown, Scott – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Decision-makers effortlessly balance the need for urgency against the need for caution. Theoretical and neurophysiological accounts have explained this tradeoff solely in terms of the "quantity" of evidence required to trigger a decision (the "threshold"). This explanation has also been used as a benchmark test for evaluating…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Reaction Time, Evidence, Accuracy
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Harel, Assaf; Bentin, Shlomo – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
The type of visual information needed for categorizing faces and nonface objects was investigated by manipulating spatial frequency scales available in the image during a category verification task addressing basic and subordinate levels. Spatial filtering had opposite effects on faces and airplanes that were modulated by categorization level. The…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception
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Reid, David; Broadbridge, Jane – British Educational Research Journal, 1988
Examines the effect of perspective and color on the ability of 192 secondary school children in England to observe danger points in a typical kitchen scene. Reports that more able children perform significantly better than their peers, and that the type of color employed contributes significantly to the scores but gender does not. (GEA)
Descriptors: Color, Depth Perception, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
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Elias, Lorin J.; Robinson, Brent; Saucier, Deborah M. – Brain and Cognition, 2005
Neurologically normal individuals exhibit strong leftward response biases during free-viewing perceptual judgments of brightness, quantity, and size. When participants view two mirror-reversed objects and they are forced to choose which object appears darker, more numerous, or larger, the stimulus with the relevant feature on the left side is…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Perception Tests, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli
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Schwartz, Steven; And Others – Intelligence, 1983
A correlation exists between verbal ability test scores and name identity minus physical identity reaction times in a letter matching task. The present results support Carroll's (1981) suggestion that the reaction time difference is related more to speed than power component of standardized tests and is not optimum for prediction. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Letters (Alphabet)