size perception

Summary

Summary: The sensory interpretation of the dimensions of objects.

Top Publications

  1. ncbi The contribution of covert attention to the set-size and eccentricity effects in visual search
    M Carrasco
    Department of Psychology, New York University, New York 10003 6634, USA
    J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 24:673-92. 1998
  2. ncbi Neural mechanisms of visual object priming: evidence for perceptual and semantic distinctions in fusiform cortex
    Jon S Simons
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Neuroimage 19:613-26. 2003
  3. ncbi Relations between perceptual and conceptual scope: how global versus local processing fits a focus on similarity versus dissimilarity
    Jens Förster
    Department of Social Psychology, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    J Exp Psychol Gen 138:88-111. 2009
  4. ncbi Rubber hand illusions and size-weight illusions: self-representation modulates representation of external objects
    Patrick Haggard
    Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
    Perception 38:1796-803. 2009
  5. ncbi Attention-dependent representation of a size illusion in human V1
    Fang Fang
    Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People s Republic of China
    Curr Biol 18:1707-12. 2008
  6. ncbi The role of feedback information for calibration and attunement in perceiving length by dynamic touch
    Rob Withagen
    Institute for Fundamental and Clinical Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 31:1379-90. 2005
  7. ncbi Attentional persistence for features of hierarchical patterns
    L C Robertson
    Neurology Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Martinez, California 94553, USA
    J Exp Psychol Gen 125:227-49. 1996
  8. ncbi Local or global? Attentional selection of spatial frequencies binds shapes to hierarchical levels
    Anastasia V Flevaris
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 3210 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
    Psychol Sci 21:424-31. 2010
  9. ncbi Temporal limitation of Navon effect on face recognition
    Peter J Hills
    School of Psychology, Tower Building, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, Wales, UK
    Percept Mot Skills 104:501-9. 2007
  10. ncbi Number-space mapping in human infants
    Maria 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

Research Grants

  1. NEURAL MECHANISMS OF SIZE PERCEPTION
    John Allman; Fiscal Year: 2001
  2. Blur, Accommodation, and Vision
    Martin S Banks; Fiscal Year: 2010
  3. MORPHOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION OF CUTANEOUS MECHANORECEPTORS
    STANLEY BOLANOWSKI; Fiscal Year: 2001
  4. POSTATTENTIVE VISION
    Jeremy Wolfe; Fiscal Year: 2001
  5. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Category Learning
    F Ashby; Fiscal Year: 2007
  6. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Category Learning
    F Ashby; Fiscal Year: 2004
  7. Monocular distance Perception of reaching and grasping
    Geoffrey Bingham; Fiscal Year: 2004
  8. TRAINING PROGRAM IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
    Janellen Huttenlocher; Fiscal Year: 2007
  9. PSYCHOPHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN VISION
    Jeremy Wolfe; Fiscal Year: 2003
  10. Tests of neurobiologically-inspired Model of the Motivation-Learning Interface
    W Maddox; Fiscal Year: 2007

Detail Information

Publications179 found, 100 shown here

  1. ncbi The contribution of covert attention to the set-size and eccentricity effects in visual search
    M 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...
  2. ncbi Neural mechanisms of visual object priming: evidence for perceptual and semantic distinctions in fusiform cortex
    Jon 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...
  3. ncbi Relations between perceptual and conceptual scope: how global versus local processing fits a focus on similarity versus dissimilarity
    Jens 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)...
  4. ncbi Rubber hand illusions and size-weight illusions: self-representation modulates representation of external objects
    Patrick 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...
  5. ncbi Attention-dependent representation of a size illusion in human V1
    Fang 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...
  6. ncbi The role of feedback information for calibration and attunement in perceiving length by dynamic touch
    Rob 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...
  7. ncbi Attentional persistence for features of hierarchical patterns
    L 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...
  8. ncbi Local or global? Attentional selection of spatial frequencies binds shapes to hierarchical levels
    Anastasia V Flevaris
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 3210 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
    Psychol Sci 21:424-31. 2010
    ....
  9. ncbi Temporal limitation of Navon effect on face recognition
    Peter 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...
  10. ncbi Number-space mapping in human infants
    Maria 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...
  11. ncbi On the dominance of unidimensional rules in unsupervised categorization
    F 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...
  12. ncbi Experience can change distinct size-weight priors engaged in lifting objects and judging their weights
    J 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...
  13. ncbi The effects of precedence on Navon-induced processing bias in face recognition
    Timothy 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...
  14. ncbi Understanding bias in proportion production
    J 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...
  15. ncbi Response processes in information-integration category learning
    Brian 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...
  16. ncbi Size perception is less context-sensitive in males
    William A Phillips
    Centre for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
    Perception 33:79-86. 2004
    Context 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...
  17. ncbi Perceptual behavior: recurrence analysis of a haptic exploratory procedure
    Michael 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...
  18. ncbi Direct learning in dynamic touch
    Claire 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...
  19. ncbi Navon letters affect face learning and face retrieval
    Michael 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...
  20. ncbi Sufficiency of longitudinal moment of inertia for haptic cylinder length judgments
    Patrick 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...
  21. ncbi Removing the frontal lobes: the effects of engaging executive functions on perceptual category learning
    J 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...
  22. ncbi Independence of perceptual and sensorimotor predictions in the size-weight illusion
    J R Flanagan
    Department of Psychology, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
    Nat Neurosci 3:737-41. 2000
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  23. ncbi Viewing geometry determines how vision and haptics combine in size perception
    Sergei 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...
  24. ncbi Seeing trees OR seeing forests in simultanagnosia: attentional capture can be local or global
    Kirsten 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...
  25. ncbi Preverbal infants' sensitivity to synaesthetic cross-modality correspondences
    Peter 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...
  26. ncbi Influence of object size on baseline identification, priming, and explicit memory
    Bob 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...
  27. ncbi Salience of central figure in the Ebbinghaus illusion: the Oreo cookie effect
    J 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...
  28. ncbi The effect of repetition lag on electrophysiological and haemodynamic correlates of visual object priming
    R N Henson
    Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
    Neuroimage 21:1674-89. 2004
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  29. ncbi Social categorization and perceptual judgment of size: when perception is social
    D 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...
  30. ncbi Monocular vision leads to a dissociation between grip force and grip aperture scaling during reach-to-grasp movements
    Stephen 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...
  31. ncbi Size constancy in infants: 4-month-olds' responses to physical versus retinal image size
    Carl 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...
  32. ncbi The interaction of binocular disparity and motion parallax in determining perceived depth and perceived size
    M 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...
  33. ncbi The effects of concurrent task interference on category learning: evidence for multiple category learning systems
    E 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...
  34. ncbi Human listeners attend to size information in domestic dog growls
    Anna 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...
  35. ncbi Multisensory synesthetic interactions in the speeded classification of visual size
    Alberto 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...
  36. ncbi Dynamic touch
    M 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...
  37. ncbi Size perception in hemianopia and neglect
    S 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...
  38. ncbi Comparison of digital photography to weighed and visual estimation of portion sizes
    Donald 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...
  39. ncbi 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...
  40. ncbi Visual memory for moving scenes
    Patricia R DeLucia
    Department of Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409 2051, USA
    Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 59:340-60. 2006
    ....
  41. ncbi Effect of short and long exposure duration and dual-tasking on a global-local task
    Allison 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...
  42. ncbi Attention and the subjective expansion of time
    Peter 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...
  43. ncbi Implicit identification of irrelevant local objects interacts with global/local processing of hierarchical stimuli
    N 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...
  44. ncbi Temporal production and visuospatial processing
    Francesca 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...
  45. ncbi 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)...
  46. ncbi How perception impacts on drawings
    Peter 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...
  47. ncbi Time-frequency analysis of target detection reveals an early interface between bottom-up and top-down processes in the gamma-band
    Niko 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...
  48. ncbi Eyetracking and selective attention in category learning
    Bob Rehder
    Department of Psychology, 6 Washington Place, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Cogn Psychol 51:1-41. 2005
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  49. ncbi 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...
  50. ncbi Attentional spread in the statistical processing of visual displays
    Sang Chul Chong
    Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
    Percept Psychophys 67:1-13. 2005
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  51. ncbi Microgenesis and ontogenesis of perceptual organization: evidence from global and local processing of hierarchical patterns
    Ruth 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...
  52. ncbi 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
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  53. ncbi The relationship between perceived length and egocentric location in Müller-Lyer figures with one versus two chevrons
    Robert 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...
  54. ncbi 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...
  55. ncbi Aging and the perceptual organization of 3-D scenes
    Zheng 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...
  56. ncbi Grasp cueing shows obligatory attention to action goals
    Martin 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...
  57. ncbi Working memory costs of task switching
    Baptist 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...
  58. ncbi Precuing benefits for color and location in a visual search task
    Esther 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...
  59. ncbi Visual short-term memory operates more efficiently on boundary features than on surface features
    George 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...
  60. ncbi The role of memory and restricted context in repeated visual search
    Melina 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)...
  61. ncbi A further test of sequential-sampling models that account for payoff effects on response bias in perceptual decision tasks
    Adele 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...
  62. ncbi [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...
  63. ncbi One or two dimensions in spontaneous classification: a simplicity approach
    Emmanuel 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...
  64. ncbi 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...
  65. ncbi Spatial accuracy demand in aiming movements: kinematic analysis of subtended angle and tolerance width
    Wan 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...
  66. ncbi Visual search performance on an lcd monitor: effects of color combination of figure and icon background, shape of icon, and line width of icon border
    Kuo 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...
  67. ncbi Bottom-up guidance in visual search for conjunctions
    Michael J Proulx
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 33:48-56. 2007
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  68. ncbi Global and local processing in Williams syndrome, autism, and Down syndrome: perception, attention, and construction
    Melanie 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)...
  69. ncbi Age-related deficits in guided search using cues
    Lawrence 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...
  70. ncbi 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...
  71. ncbi Looking at perspective pictures from too far, too close, and just right
    Igor Juricevic
    Department of Life Sciences-Psychology, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada
    J Exp Psychol Gen 135:448-61. 2006
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  72. ncbi Local and global processing: observations from a remote culture
    Jules 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...
  73. ncbi The preparation effect in task switching: carryover of SOA
    Erik 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...
  74. ncbi Repetition priming in visual search: episodic retrieval, not feature priming
    Liqiang 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...
  75. ncbi More learned irrelevance than perseveration errors in rule shifting in healthy subjects
    J 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...
  76. ncbi The PIG in sPrInG: evidence on letter grouping from the reading of buried words
    Glyn 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...
  77. ncbi Grouping with and without attention
    Wai 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...
  78. ncbi 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...
  79. ncbi Comparison is not just subtraction: effects of time- and space-order on subjective stimulus difference
    Ake 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...
  80. ncbi Selective reaching: evidence for multiple frames of reference
    Ron 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...
  81. ncbi Decision-bound theory and the influence of familiarity
    Tom 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...
  82. ncbi Effect of background motion on line bisection performance in normal subjects
    Duk L Na
    Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
    Cortex 38:787-96. 2002
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  83. ncbi Sequential modulations of stimulus-response correspondence effects depend on awareness of response conflict
    Wilfried 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...
  84. ncbi Hemispheric asymmetries in categorical judgments of direction versus coordinate judgments of velocity of motion
    Stephen 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...
  85. ncbi Task shifting in dual-task settings
    Shulan 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...
  86. ncbi The classification of graphical elements
    J 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...
  87. ncbi Comparing supervised and unsupervised category learning
    Bradley 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...
  88. ncbi Grasping what is graspable: evidence from visual form agnosia
    Robert 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...
  89. ncbi Objects look different sizes in the right and left eyes
    I C McManus
    Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
    Laterality 9:245-65. 2004
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  90. ncbi The functional anatomy of inspection time: an event-related fMRI study
    Ian 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...
  91. ncbi Interhemispheric integration during the menstrual cycle: failure to confirm progesterone-mediated interhemispheric decoupling
    Rebecca 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...
  92. ncbi Covert processing of visual form in the absence of area LO
    R 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...
  93. ncbi Serial attention mechanisms in visual search: a direct behavioral demonstration
    Emanuela Bricolo
    University of Verona, Italy
    J Cogn Neurosci 14:980-93. 2002
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  94. ncbi Attentional capture with various distractor and target types
    G 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...
  95. ncbi Interhemispheric interaction during global-local processing in mathematically gifted adolescents, average-ability youth, and college students
    Harnam 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...
  96. ncbi Effects of order of report and stimulus type on multidimensional identification
    Kong 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...
  97. ncbi Body image and dieting behavior in cystic fibrosis
    H 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...
  98. ncbi Horizontal and vertical micropsia following macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal-detachment surgical repair
    Marta Ugarte
    Department of Ophthalmology, St Thomas Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK
    Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 244:1545-8. 2006
    Dysmetropsia or distorted image size perception (smaller: micropsia; larger: macropsia) is known to occur after successful surgical re-attachment for macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment...
  99. ncbi Specific body image pathology in acute schizophrenia
    S 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)...
  100. ncbi Ego-pathology, body experience, and body psychotherapy in chronic schizophrenia
    Frank 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...
  101. ncbi A motor signal and "visual" size perception
    D P Carey
    School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK
    Exp Brain Res 110:482-6. 1996
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Research Grants129 found, 100 shown here

  1. NEURAL MECHANISMS OF SIZE PERCEPTION
    John 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 ..
  2. Blur, Accommodation, and Vision
    Martin 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...
  3. MORPHOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION OF CUTANEOUS MECHANORECEPTORS
    STANLEY BOLANOWSKI; Fiscal Year: 2001
    ....
  4. POSTATTENTIVE VISION
    Jeremy 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. ..
  5. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Category Learning
    F Ashby; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..g., teaching radiologists to find tumors in x-rays). ..
  6. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Category Learning
    F Ashby; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..abstract_text> ..
  7. Monocular distance Perception of reaching and grasping
    Geoffrey 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. ..
  8. TRAINING PROGRAM IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
    Janellen 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. ..
  9. PSYCHOPHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN VISION
    Jeremy 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"). ..
  10. Tests of neurobiologically-inspired Model of the Motivation-Learning Interface
    W Maddox; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..This proposal reunites research on motivation and cognition to better understanding their effects on functioning in clinical populations. ..
  11. MONOCULAR DISTANCE PERCEPTION FOR REACHING AND GRASPING
    Geoffrey 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. ..
  12. Prevalence effects in visual search: Theoretical and practical implications
    Jeremy M Wolfe; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....
  13. MONOCULAR DISTANCE PERCEPTION FOR REACHING AND GRASPING
    Geoffrey 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. ..
  14. Prevalence effects in visual search: Theoretical and practical implications
    Jeremy Wolfe; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ....
  15. PSYCHOPHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN VISION
    Jeremy Wolfe; Fiscal Year: 1993
    ..g. Can the color module be asked simultaneously about "red" and "green" items?)...
  16. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Category Learning
    F Ashby; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..g., teaching radiologists to find tumors in x-rays). ..
  17. TACTILE PICTURES AND THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED
    MORTON 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. ..
  18. AGE AND SPECIFIC MECHANISMS OF VISUAL ATTENTION
    LAWRENCE 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. ..
  19. RECOGNIZING PHONOLOGICAL VARIANTS OF SPOKEN WORDS
    MARK 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. ..
  20. Neurocognitive Risks & Consequences of Smoking
    Jennifer 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. ..
  21. Neurocognitive Risks & Consequences of Smoking
    Jennifer 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. ..
  22. Control of Dynamic Attention
    Todd Horowitz; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..We propose to study how attention works in complex, dynamic environments, using a combination of cognitive and neuroscience approaches. ..
  23. Control of Dynamic Attention
    TODD STEVEN HOROWITZ; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..We propose to study how attention works in complex, dynamic environments, using a combination of cognitive and neuroscience approaches. ..
  24. Spatial neglect and bias in near and far space
    Anna 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. ..
  25. Neural time-integration underlying higher cognitive function
    ALEXANDER 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. ..
  26. Mechanisms of Positive Energy Balance in PROP Nontasters
    Kathleen 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) . ..
  27. TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION IN VISUAL SYSTEM
    DENIS PELLI; Fiscal Year: 2001
    ....
  28. DEVELOPMENTAL FOUNDATIONS OF RATIO KNOWLEDGE
    Catherine Sophian; Fiscal Year: 2002
    ....
  29. The Role of Sensory Decline In Cognitive Aging
    Jennifer 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. ..
  30. RECOGNIZING PHONOLOGICAL VARIANTS OF SPOKEN WORDS
    MARK 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. ..
  31. DISTRACTION
    Anna Barrett; Fiscal Year: 2003
    ..abstract not available..