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Attentional and oculomotor capture with static singletons.

Previous research has shown that in visual search static singletons have the ability to capture attention (Theeuwes, 1991a, 1992). The present study investigated whether these singletons also have the ability to capture the eyes. Participants had to make ...
Jan Theeuwes, Giel-Jan De Vries, Richard Godijn (Percept Psychophys, 200307)
attentional-oculomotor-capture-static-singletons.asp

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Audiovisual phenomenal causality.

We report three experiments in which visual or audiovisual displays depicted a surface (target) set into motion shortly after one or more events occurred. A visual motion was used as an initial event, followed directly either by the target motion or by ...
Rainer Guski, Nikolaus F Troje (Percept Psychophys, 200307)
audiovisual-phenomenal-causality.asp

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Dual-task interference with equal task emphasis: graded capacity sharing or central postponement?

Most studies using the psychological refractory period (PRP) design suggest that dual-task performance is limited by a central bottleneck. Because subjects are usually told to emphasize Task 1, however, the bottleneck might reflect a strategic choice ...
Eric Ruthruff, Harold E Pashler, Eliot Hazeltine (Percept Psychophys, 200307)
dual-task-interference-equal-task-emphasis-graded-capacity-sharing-or.asp

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The inability to ignore auditory distractors as a function of visual task perceptual load.

Using a response competition paradigm, we investigated the ability to ignore target response-compatible, target response-incompatible, and neutral visual and auditory distractors presented during a visual search task. The perceptual load model of ...
Donald J Tellinghuisen, Erin J Nowak (Percept Psychophys, 200307)
inability-ignore-auditory-distractors-function-visual-task-perceptual.asp

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ERP and behavioral evidence of individual differences in metaphor comprehension.

In two experiments, we examined individual differences in metaphor processing. In Experiment 1, the subjects judged the literal truth of literal, metaphorical, and scrambled sentences. Overall, metaphors were more difficult to judge as false, in ...
Victoria A Kazmerski, Dawn G Blasko, Banchiamlack G Dessalegn (Mem Cognit, 200307)
erp-behavioral-evidence-individual-differences-metaphor-comprehension.asp

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Perceptual completion and object-based representations in short-term visual memory.

Object-based representations in visual short-term memory (VSTM) were examined using a change detection memory task. A display comprising two rows of four differently colored elements was followed by a probe display in which only one of the rows ...
Peter Walker, Simon J Davies (Mem Cognit, 200307)
perceptual-completion-object-based-representations-short-term-visual.asp

117.

The nose smells what the eye sees: crossmodal visual facilitation of human olfactory perception.

Human olfactory perception is notoriously unreliable, but shows substantial benefits from visual cues, suggesting important crossmodal integration between these primary sensory modalities. We used event-related fMRI to determine the underlying neural ...
Jay A Gottfried, Raymond J Dolan (Neuron, 200307)
nose-smells-eye-sees-crossmodal-visual-facilitation-human-olfactory.asp

118.

Tasks of a feather flock together: similarity effects in task switching.

Recent research on task switching has paid little attention to how tasks are represented and how the relations between task representations might affect the executive processes engaged to achieve a task switch. Two experiments investigated the effect of ...
Catherine M Arrington, Erik M Altmann, Thomas H Carr (Mem Cognit, 200307)
tasks-feather-flock-together-similarity-effects-task-switching.asp

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Semantic interference from visual object recognition on visual imagery.

A new technique for examining the interaction between visual object recognition and visual imagery is reported. The "image-picture interference" paradigm requires participants to generate and make a response to a mental image of a previously memorized ...
Toby J Lloyd-Jones, David Vernon (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200307)
semantic-interference-visual-object-recognition-visual-imagery.asp

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Implicit learning of visuospatial sequences in schizophrenia.

The authors examined whether patients with schizophrenia learned sequential patterns in a probabilistic serial response time task in which pattern trials alternated with random ones. Patients showed faster and more accurate responses to pattern trials ...
Barbara L Schwartz, Darlene V Howard, James H Howard, Alexandra Hovaguimian, Stephen I Deutsch (Neuropsychology, 200307)
implicit-learning-visuospatial-sequences-schizophrenia.asp