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The contribution of covert attention to the set-size and eccentricity effects in visual searchM Carrasco
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York 10003 6634, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 24:673-92. 1998..The conjunction set-size effect was reduced but not eliminated. This questions serial-search models that attribute a major role to covert attention in visual search...
Neural mechanisms of visual object priming: evidence for perceptual and semantic distinctions in fusiform cortexJon S Simons
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Neuroimage 19:613-26. 2003..The results are consistent with the view that the right fusiform plays a greater role in processing specific visual form information about objects, whereas the left fusiform is also involved in lexical/semantic processing...
Relations between perceptual and conceptual scope: how global versus local processing fits a focus on similarity versus dissimilarityJens Förster
Department of Social Psychology, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Exp Psychol Gen 138:88-111. 2009..PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)...
Rubber hand illusions and size-weight illusions: self-representation modulates representation of external objectsPatrick Haggard
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
Perception 38:1796-803. 2009..Self-representation thus influenced exteroception. The sense of one's own body provides a fundamental reference for perception in general...
Attention-dependent representation of a size illusion in human V1Fang Fang
Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People s Republic of China
Curr Biol 18:1707-12. 2008..We reason that focusing attention on the fixation task resulted in reduced activity in--and therefore reduced feedback from--higher visual areas that process the 3D depth cues...
The role of feedback information for calibration and attunement in perceiving length by dynamic touchRob Withagen
Institute for Fundamental and Clinical Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 31:1379-90. 2005..The observed change in variable use has implications also for research on what mechanical variables underlie length perception by dynamic touch...
Attentional persistence for features of hierarchical patternsL C Robertson
Neurology Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Martinez, California 94553, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 125:227-49. 1996..The effects last for up to 3 s without diminution and are not affected by changes in color, polarity, or contrast. These findings are discussed as they relate to spatial attention, object perception, and memory...
Local or global? Attentional selection of spatial frequencies binds shapes to hierarchical levelsAnastasia V Flevaris
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 3210 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
Psychol Sci 21:424-31. 2010....
Temporal limitation of Navon effect on face recognitionPeter J Hills
School of Psychology, Tower Building, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Percept Mot Skills 104:501-9. 2007..In Exp. 2 analysis of undergraduates' responses (9 men, 20 women, M age =19, selected by convenience) showed the decrease in the Navon effect could be prevented by alternating the Navon task with the face recognition task...
Number-space mapping in human infantsMaria Dolores de Hevia
Laboratory for Developmental Studies, William James Hall, 11th Floor, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Sci 21:653-60. 2010..A central foundation of mathematics, science, and technology therefore emerges prior to experience with language, symbol systems, or measurement devices...
On the dominance of unidimensional rules in unsupervised categorizationF G Ashby
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106, USA
Percept Psychophys 61:1178-99. 1999..These results contrast with those for supervised category learning; they support the hypothesis that in the absence of feedback, people are constrained to use unidimensional rules...
Experience can change distinct size-weight priors engaged in lifting objects and judging their weightsJ Randall Flanagan
Department of Psychology and Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
Curr Biol 18:1742-7. 2008..Size-weight priors supporting action are more flexible, and adapt more rapidly, because they are tuned to specific objects and their current state...
The effects of precedence on Navon-induced processing bias in face recognitionTimothy J Perfect
School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 61:1479-86. 2008..These data raise important questions as to what is transferred between the Navon orientation task and the face-processing tasks that follow...
Understanding bias in proportion productionJ G Hollands
Defence R and D Canada Toronto, Ontario
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 28:563-74. 2002..The model's predictions were generally supported. An extension of the model using reference points can account for multicycle patterns shown by some participants...
Response processes in information-integration category learningBrian J Spiering
Department of Psychology, University of California, 551 University Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 90:330-8. 2008..In these experiments, a consistent association between a category and a response feature was sufficient. The implication of these results for the neurobiology of information-integration category learning is discussed...
Size perception is less context-sensitive in malesWilliam A Phillips
Centre for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
Perception 33:79-86. 2004Context sensitivity of size perception has previously been used to study individual differences related to the distinction between local, analytic, or field-independent and global, holistic, or field-dependent perceptual styles...
Perceptual behavior: recurrence analysis of a haptic exploratory procedureMichael A Riley
Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221 0376, USA
Perception 31:481-510. 2002..Analyses of the subtle recurrent patterns in the phase space of the hand motions revealed differences in wielding across the different perceptual intentions. Haptic exploratory procedures may exhibit distinct exploratory dynamics...
Direct learning in dynamic touchClaire F Michaels
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:944-57. 2008..Whereas previous applications of the theory posit the existence of information-for-learning without identifying a candidate variable, such a candidate is identified...
Navon letters affect face learning and face retrievalMichael B Lewis
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK
Exp Psychol 56:258-64. 2009..These results provide support for the TIPS explanation of the Navon effect...
Sufficiency of longitudinal moment of inertia for haptic cylinder length judgmentsPatrick A Cabe
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 36:373-94. 2010..Contrary to proposals in the literature, Iii is sufficient information for cylinder length judgments, absent m or M information, even when Iii is of minimal magnitude and the task quite novel...
Removing the frontal lobes: the effects of engaging executive functions on perceptual category learningJ Vincent Filoteo
Research Service, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California 92161, USA
Psychol Sci 21:415-23. 2010..These findings demonstrate the paradoxical situation in which learning can be improved under sequential-task conditions and have important implications for training, decision making, and understanding interactive memory systems...
Independence of perceptual and sensorimotor predictions in the size-weight illusionJ R Flanagan
Department of Psychology, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
Nat Neurosci 3:737-41. 2000....
Viewing geometry determines how vision and haptics combine in size perceptionSergei Gepshtein
University of California, Berkeley, Vision Science Program, School of Optometry, Berkeley, CA 94720 2020, USA
Curr Biol 13:483-8. 2003..As a result, combined size estimates are finer than is possible with either vision or haptics alone; indeed, they approach statistical optimality...
Seeing trees OR seeing forests in simultanagnosia: attentional capture can be local or globalKirsten A Dalrymple
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Neuropsychologia 45:871-5. 2007..Capture likely occurs because of a pathological restriction and/or rigidity of attention, but the type of capture depends upon the competitive balance between global and local salience...
Preverbal infants' sensitivity to synaesthetic cross-modality correspondencesPeter Walker
Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YF, United Kingdom
Psychol Sci 21:21-5. 2010..This is the strongest indication to date that synaesthetic cross-modality correspondences are an unlearned aspect of perception...
Influence of object size on baseline identification, priming, and explicit memoryBob Uttl
Brain Science Research Center, University of Tamagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Scand J Psychol 48:281-8. 2007..We discuss implications of our findings for theories of object perception, memory, and eyewitness identification accuracy for objects...
Salience of central figure in the Ebbinghaus illusion: the Oreo cookie effectJ G Muise
Departement de Psychologie, Universite de Moncton, NB, Canada
Percept Mot Skills 85:1203-8. 1997..This Oreo effect is not predicted by a strict version of the token-value hypothesis and differs from explanations based on contrast and conceptual similarity...
The effect of repetition lag on electrophysiological and haemodynamic correlates of visual object primingR N Henson
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
Neuroimage 21:1674-89. 2004....
Social categorization and perceptual judgment of size: when perception is socialD A Stapel
Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Pers Soc Psychol 73:1177-90. 1997..Implications of these findings for theories of social knowledge effects are discussed...
Monocular vision leads to a dissociation between grip force and grip aperture scaling during reach-to-grasp movementsStephen R Jackson
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
Curr Biol 12:237-40. 2002..These results are related to differences in visual processing required for calibrating grip aperture and grip force during reaching...
Size constancy in infants: 4-month-olds' responses to physical versus retinal image sizeCarl E Granrud
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 32:1398-404. 2006..Given this finding, the results suggest that 4-month-old infants attend and respond primarily to physical size, not to retinal image size...
The interaction of binocular disparity and motion parallax in determining perceived depth and perceived sizeM F Bradshaw
Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Perception 27:1317-31. 1998..In addition, given this assumption, the same estimate of viewing distance was used to scale size and depth estimates...
The effects of concurrent task interference on category learning: evidence for multiple category learning systemsE M Waldron
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 8:168-76. 2001..These results support the hypothesis that category learning is mediated by multiple learning systems...
Human listeners attend to size information in domestic dog growlsAnna M Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9QH United Kingdom
J Acoust Soc Am 123:2903-9. 2008..Taken together, this suggests that participants relied more heavily on Deltaf, in accordance with the fact that formants are better predictors of body size than F0...
Multisensory synesthetic interactions in the speeded classification of visual sizeAlberto Gallace
Room B121, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, England
Percept Psychophys 68:1191-203. 2006..The possible cognitive bases for this synesthetic association are also discussed...
Dynamic touchM T Turvey
Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269 1020, USA
Am Psychol 51:1134-52. 1996..A variety of recent experiments are reported, showing that in this kind of touching, which is closely connected with the states of muscles, the nervous system cleverly exploits the physics of rotations...
Size perception in hemianopia and neglectS Ferber
Department of Cognitive Neurology, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
Brain 124:527-36. 2001..The issue is unclear because size perception may be influenced by factors other than neglect, e.g. visual field defects such as hemianopia...
Comparison of digital photography to weighed and visual estimation of portion sizesDonald A Williamson
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 103:1139-45. 2003..The primary goal was to test the validity of digital photography for measuring food portion sizes compared with weighed foods and with direct visual estimation...
Why is it easier to identify someone close than far away?Geoffrey R Loftus
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 1525, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 12:43-65. 2005..g., legal) settings to demonstrate the loss of face information that occurs when a person is seen at a particular distance...
Visual memory for moving scenesPatricia R DeLucia
Department of Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 2051, USA
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 59:340-60. 2006....
Effect of short and long exposure duration and dual-tasking on a global-local taskAllison J D Andres
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue W, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1
Acta Psychol (Amst) 122:247-66. 2006..Results are in line with a perceptual account of the global advantage, and suggest that facilitation requires consciously-mediated processes, whereas interference does not...
Attention and the subjective expansion of timePeter Ulric Tse
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
Percept Psychophys 66:1171-89. 2004..Overall, the results support the view that attentional orienting underlies distortions in perceived duration...
Implicit identification of irrelevant local objects interacts with global/local processing of hierarchical stimuliN Poirel
Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle (GIN) UMR 6194, CNRS, CEA, Univ. Caen and Univ. Paris V, France
Acta Psychol (Amst) 122:321-36. 2006..This interaction is compatible with the existence of two distinct processes working in parallel, namely automatic identification and structural analysis, that could either interfere or act together for the detection of differences...
Temporal production and visuospatial processingFrancesca Benuzzi
, Italy
Percept Mot Skills 101:737-58. 2005..It appears that memory and perceptual set size, rather than nonspecific attentional or short-term memory load, can influence prospective timing...
What does the nature of the stimuli tell us about the Global Precedence Effect?Nicolas Poirel
Groupe d Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle GIN UMR 6194, CNRS, CEA, University of Caen and University of Paris V, France
Acta Psychol (Amst) 127:1-11. 2008..These results suggest that the GPE involves both "sensory mechanisms" (responsible for the global advantage) and "cognitive mechanisms" (responsible for the interference effect)...
How perception impacts on drawingsPeter Mitchell
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 31:996-1003. 2005..Collectively, the results suggest that perceptual distortion is linked with errors in drawing the table stimuli...
Time-frequency analysis of target detection reveals an early interface between bottom-up and top-down processes in the gamma-bandNiko A Busch
Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Institute of Psychology, Department of Biological Psychology, PO Box 4120, 39016 Magdeburg, Germany
Neuroimage 29:1106-16. 2006..This interaction, however, may be only detectable in scalp-recorded EEG if it affects a sufficient number of neural assemblies...
Eyetracking and selective attention in category learningBob Rehder
Department of Psychology, 6 Washington Place, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Cogn Psychol 51:1-41. 2005....
The lengthening effect revisited: a reply to Prinzmetal and Wilson (1997) and Masin (1999)Yehoshua Tsal
Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Psychon Bull Rev 12:185-90. 2005..In the present study, the lengthening effect was highly reliable, occurring for each participant for a variety of line lengths...
Attentional spread in the statistical processing of visual displaysSang Chul Chong
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Percept Psychophys 67:1-13. 2005....
Microgenesis and ontogenesis of perceptual organization: evidence from global and local processing of hierarchical patternsRuth Kimchi
Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel
Psychol Sci 16:282-90. 2005..These findings support the view that perceptual organization involves multiple processes that vary in time course, attentional demands, and developmental trajectories...
Do new objects capture attention?Steven L Franconeri
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirland St, 7th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Psychol Sci 16:275-81. 2005....
The relationship between perceived length and egocentric location in Müller-Lyer figures with one versus two chevronsRobert B Welch
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, USA
Percept Psychophys 66:1095-104. 2004..We speculated that the presence of two opposing chevrons suppresses the mislocalizing effects of a single chevron, especially for figures with relatively short shafts...
Size congruity effects with two-digit numbers: expanding the number line?Daniel Fitousi
Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Mem Cognit 34:445-57. 2006..The results can be explained by a relative speed of processing account, but they are also compatible with an attention account that does not appeal to the notion of automaticity...
Aging and the perceptual organization of 3-D scenesZheng Bian
Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Psychol Aging 23:342-52. 2008..However, the magnitude of the effect decreased for older observers. These results suggest a decreased use of ground surface information by older observers for the perceptual organization of scene layout...
Grasp cueing shows obligatory attention to action goalsMartin H Fischer
School of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 61:860-8. 2008..These results might help to characterize the human mirror neuron system and reveal how joint attention tunes early perceptual processes toward action prediction...
Working memory costs of task switchingBaptist Liefooghe
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 34:478-94. 2008..These results indicate that task switching induces a cost on working memory functioning. Implications for theories of task switching, working memory, and resource sharing are addressed...
Precuing benefits for color and location in a visual search taskEsther Vierck
Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Percept Psychophys 70:365-73. 2008..Our results thus suggest that selection by color in a multiple-item display, where location and color information are independent from each other and equalized, is mediated by location information...
Visual short-term memory operates more efficiently on boundary features than on surface featuresGeorge A Alvarez
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Percept Psychophys 70:346-64. 2008..Instead, there appear to be different codes for the boundary and surface features of objects, and memory operates on boundary features more efficiently than it operates on surface features...
The role of memory and restricted context in repeated visual searchMelina A Kunar
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, England
Percept Psychophys 70:314-28. 2008..However, when the visual search task is given context, so that only a subset of the items are ever pertinent, participants can learn to restrict their attention to the relevant stimuli (Experiments 5 and 6)...
A further test of sequential-sampling models that account for payoff effects on response bias in perceptual decision tasksAdele Diederich
Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Percept Psychophys 70:229-56. 2008..Overall, the two-stage-processing hypothesis gave the best account, with respect both to choice probabilities and to observed mean RTs and mean RT patterns within a choice pair...
[Influence of typical size of objects in a categorization task]Laurent Ferrier
LaMéCo, Université Montpellier 3
Can J Exp Psychol 61:316-21. 2007..In that way, we propose that participants could automatically simulate the typical size as soon as they perceived the drawings of objects with homegenous sizes...
One or two dimensions in spontaneous classification: a simplicity approachEmmanuel M Pothos
Department of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, United Kingdom
Cognition 107:581-602. 2008..Empirical results supporting this proposal are reported. Implications for Goodman's paradox are discussed...
How do people apprehend large numerosities?Catherine Sophian
Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2430 Campus Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Cognition 107:460-78. 2008..The findings suggest that adults heuristically utilize non-numerical cues as well as numerical information in apprehending large numerosities...
Spatial accuracy demand in aiming movements: kinematic analysis of subtended angle and tolerance widthWan X Yao
Department of Health and Kinesiology, College of Education and Human Development, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA
Percept Mot Skills 104:611-20. 2007..Overall, the results indicate that the tolerance width of the target may impose more constraints on aiming movements than subtended angle...
Visual search performance on an lcd monitor: effects of color combination of figure and icon background, shape of icon, and line width of icon borderKuo Chen Huang
Department of Product Design, Ming Chuan University
Percept Mot Skills 104:562-74. 2007..Results have implications for graphics-based design of interfaces, such as for mobile phones, Web sites, and PDAs, as well as complex industrial processes...
Bottom-up guidance in visual search for conjunctionsMichael J Proulx
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 33:48-56. 2007....
Global and local processing in Williams syndrome, autism, and Down syndrome: perception, attention, and constructionMelanie A Porter
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Dev Neuropsychol 30:771-89. 2006..This study finds evidence of cognitive heterogeneity in WS, consistent with Porter and Coltheart (2005)...
Age-related deficits in guided search using cuesLawrence R Gottlob
University of Kentucky, Lexington, 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Aging 21:526-34. 2006..The results indicated that older observers had difficulty with interpreting the cue and setting search parameters when the target varied across trials...
Perception of the standard and the reversed Müller-Lyer figures in pigeons (Columba livia) and humans (Homo sapiens)Noriyuki Nakamura
Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo ku, Kyoto 606 8501, Japan
J Comp Psychol 120:252-61. 2006..Experiment 2 confirmed that humans perceived both types of the illusion. Pigeons and humans may perceive the same illusory figures in different ways...
Looking at perspective pictures from too far, too close, and just rightIgor Juricevic
Department of Life Sciences-Psychology, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada
J Exp Psychol Gen 135:448-61. 2006....
Local and global processing: observations from a remote cultureJules Davidoff
Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK
Cognition 108:702-9. 2008..The data are consistent with a cultural/experiential origin for population differences in local processing and suggest that attention to the local and global properties of stimuli may differ for hierarchical figures and faces...
The preparation effect in task switching: carryover of SOAErik M Altmann
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Mem Cognit 32:153-63. 2004..The results favor an encoding view of cognitive control, but show that any putative switching mechanism reacts lazily when exposed to only one SOA...
Repetition priming in visual search: episodic retrieval, not feature primingLiqiang Huang
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
Mem Cognit 32:12-20. 2004..Instead, we suggest that the priming pattern results from contact with an episodic memory representation of the previous trial...
More learned irrelevance than perseveration errors in rule shifting in healthy subjectsJ H R Maes
NICI Biological Psychology, University of Nijmegen, P O Box 9104, 6500 HE, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Brain Cogn 54:201-11. 2004..An associative-learning model incorporating feedback-induced changes in both associative strength and saliency of the elements comprising the stimuli can explain these results...
The PIG in sPrInG: evidence on letter grouping from the reading of buried wordsGlyn W Humphreys
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England
Psychon Bull Rev 10:939-46. 2003..The study provides evidence for letter grouping using size and case information...
Grouping with and without attentionWai Yen Chan
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Psychon Bull Rev 10:932-8. 2003..When the observers' attention was directed to the arrowheads but they nevertheless failed to discern the arrowheads' orientation, their line judgments were still influenced by the illusion...
Inhibition of return for the length of a line?Lori Francis
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Percept Psychophys 65:1208-21. 2003..The discussion centers on an opponent process approach to interpreting cuing effects, and consequent difficulties in distinguishing spatial and nonspatial cuing effects based on their time course...
Comparison is not just subtraction: effects of time- and space-order on subjective stimulus differenceAke Hellström
Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Percept Psychophys 65:1161-77. 2003..In comparisons of duration (auditory and visual), the second stimulus had the greater weight. For simultaneously presented line lengths, the left stimulus had the greater weight...
Selective reaching: evidence for multiple frames of referenceRon F Keulen
Department of Movement Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 28:515-26. 2002..Results support the hypothesis that the brain represents spatial information in multiple frames of reference, with the dominant frame of reference being dependent on the task demands...
Decision-bound theory and the influence of familiarityTom Verguts
University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Psychon Bull Rev 10:141-8. 2003..It is found that familiarity did have a strong impact on response time for at least half of our participants. We suggest that DBT is in itself incomplete and should be extended to account for the full range of available data...
Effect of background motion on line bisection performance in normal subjectsDuk L Na
Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Cortex 38:787-96. 2002....
Sequential modulations of stimulus-response correspondence effects depend on awareness of response conflictWilfried Kunde
University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
Psychon Bull Rev 10:198-205. 2003..This suggests that the suppression of automatic response priming is not an immediate consequence of response conflict, but an intention-mediated strategy...
Hemispheric asymmetries in categorical judgments of direction versus coordinate judgments of velocity of motionStephen D Christman
Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, OH 43606 3390, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 9:298-305. 2002..Results are interpreted in light of Kosslyn's (1987) model of hemispheric differences in the processing of categorical versus coordinate spatial relations...
Task shifting in dual-task settingsShulan Hsieh
Department of Psychology, National Chung Cheng University, Ming Hsuing, Chia Yi, Taiwan
Percept Mot Skills 94:407-14. 2002..We further suggest that such interference may arise from the competition between activations of various rules...
The classification of graphical elementsJ G Hollands
Defence R and D Canada Toronto, Ontario
Can J Exp Psychol 57:38-47. 2003..In general, the results showed that proportion and scaling had an asymmetric integral relation for stacked bar graphs, but were separable dimensions for pie charts...
Comparing supervised and unsupervised category learningBradley C Love
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 9:829-35. 2002..The acquisition and application of knowledge is also more laborious under intentional unsupervised learning...
Grasping what is graspable: evidence from visual form agnosiaRobert D McIntosh
Department of Psychology, University of Durham, UK
Cortex 40:695-702. 2004..We suggest that, whilst some simple objects offer themselves directly to the dorsal stream for grasping, an intact ventral stream is required to respond appropriately to more complex stimuli...
Objects look different sizes in the right and left eyesI C McManus
Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
Laterality 9:245-65. 2004....
The functional anatomy of inspection time: an event-related fMRI studyIan J Deary
Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
Neuroimage 22:1466-79. 2004..fMRI can thus reveal information about the neural correlates of mental events which occur over very short durations...
Interhemispheric integration during the menstrual cycle: failure to confirm progesterone-mediated interhemispheric decouplingRebecca J Compton
Department of Psychology, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA 19041, USA
Neuropsychologia 42:1496-503. 2004..In summary, despite a rigorous and valid test, the theory that progesterone leads to interhemispheric decoupling found no support...
Covert processing of visual form in the absence of area LOR W Kentridge
Department of Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
Neuropsychologia 42:1488-95. 2004..F., but we did find evidence for reverse-Stroop effects. This result may reflect a partial sparing of ventral stream areas specialised for letter-form processing...
Serial attention mechanisms in visual search: a direct behavioral demonstrationEmanuela Bricolo
University of Verona, Italy
J Cogn Neurosci 14:980-93. 2002....
Attentional capture with various distractor and target typesG Chastain
Boise State University, Idaho, USA
Percept Psychophys 63:979-90. 2001..Neither a singleton-detection mode, nor a contingent involuntary orienting hypothesis, nor creation of a new object seems to explain all of these data adequately. Rather, capture may depend on a number of factors in the task...
Interhemispheric interaction during global-local processing in mathematically gifted adolescents, average-ability youth, and college studentsHarnam Singh
U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Ft. Benning, GA, USA
Neuropsychology 18:371-7. 2004..These results suggest that enhanced interhemispheric interaction is a unique functional characteristic of the MG brain...
Effects of order of report and stimulus type on multidimensional identificationKong King Shieh
Department of Industrial Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, ROC
Percept Mot Skills 95:783-94. 2002..Otherwise, reporting color attribute later seemed to have an advantage because color is less vulnerable to memory deterioration...
Body image and dieting behavior in cystic fibrosisH Truby
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Pediatrics 107:E92. 2001..To examine the relationship between pulmonary function, nutritional status, body image, and eating attitudes in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) compared with healthy controls...
Horizontal and vertical micropsia following macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal-detachment surgical repairMarta Ugarte
Department of Ophthalmology, St Thomas Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK
Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 244:1545-8. 2006Dysmetropsia or distorted image size perception (smaller: micropsia; larger: macropsia) is known to occur after successful surgical re-attachment for macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment...
Specific body image pathology in acute schizophreniaS Priebe
Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, St Bartholomew s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College, East Ham Memorial Hospital, University of London, E7 8QR, London, UK
Psychiatry Res 101:289-301. 2001..Body size perception was also assessed in a sample of healthy subjects (N = 44)...
Ego-pathology, body experience, and body psychotherapy in chronic schizophreniaFrank Röhricht
Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University, London, UK
Psychol Psychother 82:19-30. 2009..We also looked at: (3) If these pathologies, and/or changes in them, or other characteristics are associated with specific clinical outcomes...
A motor signal and "visual" size perceptionD P Carey
School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK
Exp Brain Res 110:482-6. 1996....
Research Grants
- NEURAL MECHANISMS OF SIZE PERCEPTIONJohn Allman; Fiscal Year: 2001..We propose to investigate the mechanisms for the mediation of size perceptIon in the macular representations in cortical areas for object vision, V1, V2, V4, and IT in awake, behaving ..
- Blur, Accommodation, and VisionMartin S Banks; Fiscal Year: 2010..There is clear evidence that blur affects distance and size perception. A probabilistic model will be developed that incorporates the information in blur and other cues...
- MORPHOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION OF CUTANEOUS MECHANORECEPTORSSTANLEY BOLANOWSKI; Fiscal Year: 2001....
- POSTATTENTIVE VISIONJeremy Wolfe; Fiscal Year: 2001..These are studies of 1) basic properties of repeated search, 2) basic properties of repeated curve tracing, 3) the relationship of post-attentive vision and memory, and 4) the persistent effects of attention. ..
- The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Category LearningF Ashby; Fiscal Year: 2007..g., teaching radiologists to find tumors in x-rays). ..
- The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Category LearningF Ashby; Fiscal Year: 2004..abstract_text> ..
- Monocular distance Perception of reaching and graspingGeoffrey Bingham; Fiscal Year: 2004..Third, we test whether feedback might be effective for slant perception as a form of shape perception that allows feedback about shape to be provided in a single reach. ..
- TRAINING PROGRAM IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGYJanellen Huttenlocher; Fiscal Year: 2007..Postdoctoral trainees will have at least two mentors from the training faculty and will join a rich environment for postdoctoral investigations in the Department of Psychology. ..
- PSYCHOPHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN VISIONJeremy Wolfe; Fiscal Year: 2003..He will expand the Guided Search model to handle additional data (e.g. eye movements in visual search and the "attentional blink"). ..
- Tests of neurobiologically-inspired Model of the Motivation-Learning InterfaceW Maddox; Fiscal Year: 2007..This proposal reunites research on motivation and cognition to better understanding their effects on functioning in clinical populations. ..
- MONOCULAR DISTANCE PERCEPTION FOR REACHING AND GRASPINGGeoffrey Bingham; Fiscal Year: 1999..By studying the integrated function of vision and haptics and motor control the investigators hope to generate fundamental understanding of functionally effective spatial behaviors. ..
- Prevalence effects in visual search: Theoretical and practical implicationsJeremy M Wolfe; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- MONOCULAR DISTANCE PERCEPTION FOR REACHING AND GRASPINGGeoffrey P Bingham; Fiscal Year: 2010..The knowledge to be gained from this research is essential for formulating effective physical therapies for the elderly or children with DCD, or for learning to use visual aids and prosthetic limbs. ..
- Prevalence effects in visual search: Theoretical and practical implicationsJeremy Wolfe; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- PSYCHOPHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN VISIONJeremy Wolfe; Fiscal Year: 1993..g. Can the color module be asked simultaneously about "red" and "green" items?)...
- The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Category LearningF Ashby; Fiscal Year: 2009..g., teaching radiologists to find tumors in x-rays). ..
- TACTILE PICTURES AND THE VISUALLY IMPAIREDMORTON HELLER; Fiscal Year: 2001..A number of illusions which occur in vision will also be investigated when presented tactually. In addition, top down influences as well as context effects will also be studied. ..
- AGE AND SPECIFIC MECHANISMS OF VISUAL ATTENTIONLAWRENCE GOTTLOB; Fiscal Year: 2005..Experiments 7-8 will extend the current methods of analysis to a related attention paradigm. Analyses from the proposed project will allow us to understand better the mechanisms of age-related change in attentional facilitation. ..
- RECOGNIZING PHONOLOGICAL VARIANTS OF SPOKEN WORDSMARK PITT; Fiscal Year: 2006..User-friendly software to analyze and search the corpus, along with a host of supporting material (instruction manuals, tutorials, user forum) will also be provided to facilitate and encourage its use. ..
- Neurocognitive Risks & Consequences of SmokingJennifer Glass; Fiscal Year: 2009..Reduced neurocognitive function appears to be both a risk for and a consequence of smoking and the longitudinal design provides a unique opportunity to assess neurocognitive function before and after smoking onset. ..
- Neurocognitive Risks & Consequences of SmokingJennifer Glass; Fiscal Year: 2007..Reduced neurocognitive function appears to be both a risk for and a consequence of smoking and the longitudinal design provides a unique opportunity to assess neurocognitive function before and after smoking onset. ..
- Control of Dynamic AttentionTodd Horowitz; Fiscal Year: 2007..We propose to study how attention works in complex, dynamic environments, using a combination of cognitive and neuroscience approaches. ..
- Control of Dynamic AttentionTODD STEVEN HOROWITZ; Fiscal Year: 2010..We propose to study how attention works in complex, dynamic environments, using a combination of cognitive and neuroscience approaches. ..
- Spatial neglect and bias in near and far spaceAnna Barrett; Fiscal Year: 2007..However, this work may also advance understanding of safe and adaptive movement in complex environments by neurologically-impaired persons, improving their driving and functional independence. ..
- Neural time-integration underlying higher cognitive functionALEXANDER HUK; Fiscal Year: 2009..A thorough understanding of how the brain performs this "temporal integration" will benefit neurological treatments, as well as inform technical applications involved in the control and design of intelligent prosthetics and robotics. ..
- Mechanisms of Positive Energy Balance in PROP NontastersKathleen Keller; Fiscal Year: 2007..The long-term goal of this work is to train the candidate to become an independent investigator who will compete for future award programs (e.g., R01s, R03s) . ..
- TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION IN VISUAL SYSTEMDENIS PELLI; Fiscal Year: 2001....
- DEVELOPMENTAL FOUNDATIONS OF RATIO KNOWLEDGECatherine Sophian; Fiscal Year: 2002....
- The Role of Sensory Decline In Cognitive AgingJennifer Glass; Fiscal Year: 2002..This work would add to our understanding of the ways by which sensory function can affect cognitive function in older adults and has theoretical and applied implications. ..
- RECOGNIZING PHONOLOGICAL VARIANTS OF SPOKEN WORDSMARK PITT; Fiscal Year: 2002..The results from both lines of work should provide a solid foundation on which the recognition of phonological variants can be profitably studied in future work. ..
- DISTRACTIONAnna Barrett; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract not available..
