Visual Perception

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Stimulus-related priming during task switching.

Task switch cost (the deficit of performing a new task vs. a repeated task) has been partly attributed to priming of the repeated task, as well as to inappropriate preparation for the switched task. In the present study, we examined the nature of the ...
Myeong-Ho Sohn, John R Anderson (Mem Cognit, 200307)
stimulus-related-priming-task-switching.asp

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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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Music training improves verbal but not visual memory: cross-sectional and longitudinal explorations in children.

The hypothesis that music training can improve verbal memory was tested in children. The results showed that children with music training demonstrated better verbal but not visual memory than did their counterparts without such training. When these ...
Yim-Chi Ho, Mei-Chun Cheung, Agnes S Chan (Neuropsychology, 200307)
music-training-improves-verbal-not-visual-memory-cross-sectional.asp

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Projecting sensations to external objects: evidence from skin conductance response.

Subjects perceived touch sensations as arising from a table (or a rubber hand) when both the table (or the rubber hand) and their own real hand were repeatedly tapped and stroked in synchrony with the real hand hidden from view. If the table or rubber ...
K Carrie Armel, V S Ramachandran (Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 200307)
projecting-sensations-external-objects-evidence-skin-conductance.asp

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Time-locked perceptual fading induced by visual transients.

After prolonged fixation, a stationary object placed in the peripheral visual field fades and disappears from our visual awareness, especially at low luminance contrast (the Troxler effect). Here, we report that similar fading can be triggered by visual ...
Ryota Kanai, Yukiyasu Kamitani (J Cogn Neurosci, 200307)
time-locked-perceptual-fading-induced-visual-transients.asp

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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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Cortical specialisation for face processing: face-sensitive event-related potential components in 3- and 12-month-old infants.

The adult N170 is considered to be an electrophysiological marker of specialised mechanisms for face processing, but little is known about its developmental origin. Previous work has identified two face-sensitive infant ERP components (N290 and P400) (J. ...
H Halit, M de Haan, M H Johnson (Neuroimage, 200307)
cortical-specialisation-face-processing-face-sensitive-event-related.asp

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Ventromedial prefrontal cortex activation is critical for preference judgments.

Preference judgment, the process of selecting a response from several alternatives based on which alternative the subject likes best, is an important aspect of daily life. The current study examined whether neural substrates that are thought to be ...
Martin P Paulus, Lawrence R Frank (Neuroreport, 200307)
ventromedial-prefrontal-cortex-activation-critical-preference.asp

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Discrete stochastic process underlying perceptual rivalry.

In perceptual rivalry such as ambiguous figure perception and binocular rivalry, the conscious percept spontaneously alternates between two stable interpretations of an unchanging stimulus. It is well known that the time intervals of the perceptual ...
Tsutomu Murata, Nobuyuki Matsui, Satoru Miyauchi, Yuki Kakita, Toshio Yanagida (Neuroreport, 200307)
discrete-stochastic-process-underlying-perceptual-rivalry.asp

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Endogenous context for visual processing of human faces and other objects.

The human ability to quickly recognise faces and objects is an important skill. This skill may be facilitated by the prior existence of context-setting functional brain states. MEG was used to test the hypothesis that such states may be defined ...
Sven Braeutigam, Stephen J Swithenby (Neuroreport, 200307)
endogenous-context-visual-processing-human-faces-other-objects.asp