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Sensory versus cognitive components in harmonic priming.

This study investigated the strength of sensory and cognitive components involved in musical priming. In Experiment 1, the harmonic function of the target chord and the number of pitch classes shared by the prime sequence and the target chord were ...
Emmanuel Bigand, Bénédicte Poulin, Barbara Tillmann, François Madurell, Daniel A DAdamo (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200302)
sensory-versus-cognitive-components-harmonic-priming.asp

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Intrahemispherical activation, visuomotor transmission, and the Simon effect: comment on Wascher et al. (2001).

On the basis of 3 experiments E. Wascher, U. Schatz, T. Kuder, and R. Verleger (2001) concluded, "The variety of tasks subsumed under the term Simon effect turned out to be heterogeneous" (p. 749). This comment critically evaluates the validity of their ...
Todd Eric Roswarski, Robert W Proctor (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200302)
intrahemispherical-activation-visuomotor-transmission-simon-effect.asp

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The role of response selection for inhibition of task sets in task shifting.

Response selection in task shifting was explored using a go/no-go methodology. The no-go signal occurred unpredictably with stimulus onset so that all trials required task preparation but only go trials required response selection. Experiment 1 showed ...
Stefanie Schuch, Iring Koch (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200302)
role-response-selection-inhibition-task-sets-task-shifting.asp

624.

Bimanual interference associated with the selection of target locations.

Four experiments were conducted to identify the locus of interference observed during the preparation of bimanual reaching movements. Target locations were specified by color, and the right-hand and left-hand targets could be either the same or a ...
Jörn Diedrichsen, Richard B Ivry, Eliot Hazeltine, Steven Kennerley, Asher Cohen (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200302)
bimanual-interference-associated-selection-target-locations.asp

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Focal distraction: spatial shifts of attentional focus are not required for contingent capture.

Contingent capture occurs when distractors that share the targets defining attribute capture attention and slow down target identification. This slowdown has been attributed to an involuntary attentional shift to the location of a pertinent distractor. ...
S M Shahab Ghorashi, Samantha M Zuvic, Troy A W Visser, Vincent Di Lollo (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200302)
focal-distraction-spatial-shifts-attentional-focus-not-required.asp

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Strategic effects in word naming: examining the route-emphasis versus time-criterion accounts.

K. Rastle and M. Coltheart (1999) demonstrated that both nonwords and low-frequency regular words are named more slowly when mixed with first-phoneme irregular word fillers (e.g., CHEF) than when mixed with third-phoneme irregular word fillers (e.g., ...
Dan Chateau, Stephen J Lupker (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200302)
strategic-effects-word-naming-examining-route-emphasis-versus-time.asp

627.

Representation of anatomical constraints in motor imagery: mental rotation of a body segment.

Classically, the mental rotation paradigm has shown that when subjects are asked to judge whether objects that differ in orientation are spatially congruent, reaction times increase with angular discrepancy, although some reports have shown that this is ...
L S Petit, A J Pegna, E Mayer, C-A Hauert (Brain Cogn, 200302)
representation-anatomical-constraints-motor-imagery-mental-rotation.asp

628.

Top-down control over biased competition during covert spatial orienting.

Larger benefits of spatial attention are observed when distractor interference is prevalent, supporting the view that spatial selection facilitates visual processing by suppressing distractor interference. The present work shows that cuing effects with ...
Edward Awh, Michi Matsukura, John T Serences (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200302)
top-down-control-over-biased-competition-covert-spatial-orienting.asp

629.

Serial deployment of attention during visual search.

This study examined whether objects are attended in serial or in parallel during a demanding visual search task. A component of the event-related potential waveform, the N2pc wave, was used as a continuous measure of the allocation of attention to ...
Geoffrey F Woodman, Steven J Luck (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200302)
serial-deployment-attention-visual-search.asp

630.

How long range is contour integration in human color vision?

We quantified and compared the effect of element spacing on contour integration between the achromatic (Ach), red-green (RG), and blue-yellow (BY) mechanisms. The task requires the linking of orientation across space to detect a contour in a stimulus ...
William H A Beaudot, Kathy T Mullen (Vis Neurosci, 200301-02)
long-range-contour-integration-human-color-vision.asp