Visual Perception

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Orientation invariance in visual object priming depends on prime-target asynchrony.

Two experiments are reported in which orientation effects on visual object recognition latency were examined. In Experiment 1, we assessed picture-naming performance as a function of image-plane stimulus orientation and found increasing response times ...
Martin Arguin, E Charles Leek (Percept Psychophys, 200304)
orientation-invariance-visual-object-priming-depends-prime-target.asp

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Test of the effect of attention on judged length of a line.

Studies to assess experimentally whether attention affects the judged length of a line have produced discordant results. This paper reports the results of a test designed to avoid factors that were not controlled in previous studies. Stimuli were either ...
Sergio C Masin (Percept Mot Skills, 200304)
test-effect-attention-judged-length-line.asp

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Task-set reconfiguration with predictable and unpredictable task switches.

Participants switched frequently between high/low and odd/even classification of a digit. The interval between a task cue and the next digit varied between blocks. In Experiment 1, the task switched predictably every two, four, or eight trials. In ...
Stephen Monsell, Petroc Sumner, Helen Waters (Mem Cognit, 200304)
task-set-reconfiguration-predictable-unpredictable-task-switches.asp

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Perceptual judgements of others tasting experiences: are they enjoying their food?

Motivated by previous work suggesting that infants make stereotypic facial reactions to different tastes, we assessed communicative signals that might enable an adult to interpret the strength, taste, and hedonic value of a liquid flavour another adult ...
D Michael Burt, Keith R Payne, David I Perrett (Percept Mot Skills, 200304)
perceptual-judgements-others-tasting-experiences-enjoying-food.asp

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Negative priming and stimulus familiarity: what causes opposite results?

There has been a discrepancy among past studies with regard to the relation between negative priming and familiarity of stimuli. That is, Malley and Strayer (1995; Strayer & Grison, 1999) reported that the more familiar the stimuli were, the larger ...
Jun-Ichi Nagai, Kazuhiko Yokosawa (Mem Cognit, 200304)
negative-priming-stimulus-familiarity-causes-opposite-results.asp

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The effects of study-task relevance on perceptual repetition priming.

Repetition priming is easily elicited in many traditional paradigms, and the possibility that perceptual priming may be other than an automatic consequence of perception has received little consideration. This issue is explored in two experiments. In ...
Jon B Holbrook, Preston R Bost, Carolyn Backer Cave (Mem Cognit, 200304)
effects-study-task-relevance-perceptual-repetition-priming.asp

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Conceptual processing effects on automatic memory.

In the present study, influences of conceptual processing on automatic forms of memory were investigated, using a category production task. The experiment employed Jacobys (1991) process dissociation procedure and fits of multinomial models to estimate ...
Dawn M McBride, Heather Shoudel (Mem Cognit, 200304)
conceptual-processing-effects-automatic-memory.asp

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Memory for actions: self-performed tasks and the reenactment effect.

Encoding action phrases by enactment (self-performed tasks, or SPTs) leads to better memory than does observing actions (experimenter-performed tasks, or EPTs) or hearing action phrases (Engelkamp, 1998). In addition, recognition memory for SPTs is ...
Neil W Mulligan, Susan L Hornstein (Mem Cognit, 200304)
memory-actions-self-performed-tasks-reenactment-effect.asp

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Migration of objects and inferences across episodes.

Participants viewed episodes in the form of a series of photographs portraying ordinary routines (e.g., eating at a restaurant) and later received a recognition test. In Experiment 1, it was shown that objects (e.g., a vase of flowers, a pewter lantern) ...
Sharon L Hannigan, Mark Tippens Reinitz (Mem Cognit, 200304)
migration-objects-inferences-across-episodes.asp

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Locomotion, incidental learning, and the selection of spatial reference systems.

In three experiments, we examined the effects of locomotion and incidental learning on the formation of spatial memories. Participants learned the locations of objects in a room and then made judgments of relative direction, using their memories (e.g., ...
Christine M Valiquette, Timothy P McNamara, Keith Smith (Mem Cognit, 200304)
locomotion-incidental-learning-selection-spatial-reference-systems.asp