Visual Perception

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The influence of instructions on the adjustment of scales.

In each of three experiments, one group of subjects first judged the eight largest and another group first judged the eight smallest of a graded series of 16 squares according to size. After four blocks of trials, both groups were shifted to the total ...
Gert Haubensak, Peter Petzold (Percept Psychophys, 200302)
influence-instructions-adjustment-scales.asp

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Masculine somatotype and hirsuteness as determinants of sexual attractiveness to women.

Five questionnaire studies asked women to rate the attractiveness of outline drawings of male figures that varied in somatotype, body proportions, symmetry, and in distribution of trunk hair. In Study 1, back-posed figures of mesomorphic (muscular) ...
Alan F Dixson, Gayle Halliwell, Rebecca East, Praveen Wignarajah, Matthew J Anderson (Arch Sex Behav, 200302)
masculine-somatotype-hirsuteness-determinants-sexual-attractiveness.asp

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Multisensory temporal order judgments: when two locations are better than one.

In Experiment 1, participants were presented with pairs of stimuli (one visual and the other tactile) from the left and/or right of fixation at varying stimulus onset asynchronies and were required to make unspeeded temporal order judgments (TOJs) ...
Charles Spence, Roland Baddeley, Massimiliano Zampini, Robert James, David I Shore (Percept Psychophys, 200302)
multisensory-temporal-order-judgments-two-locations-better-one.asp

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What does the dominant eye dominate? A brief and somewhat contentious review.

We examine a set of implicit and explicit claims about the concept of eye dominance that have been made over the years and note that the new literature on eye dominance does not reflect the old literature from the first half of the last century. We argue ...
Alistair P Mapp, Hiroshi Ono, Raphael Barbeito (Percept Psychophys, 200302)
dominant-eye-dominate-brief-somewhat-contentious-review.asp

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A tool for tracking visual attention: the Restricted Focus Viewer.

Eye-tracking equipment has proven useful in examining the cognitive processes people use when understanding and reasoning with visual stimuli. However, eye-tracking has several drawbacks: accurate eye-tracking equipment is expensive, it is often awkward ...
Anthony R Jansen, Alan F Blackwell, Kim Marriott (Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput, 200302)
tool-tracking-visual-attention-restricted-focus-viewer.asp

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Influence of neighborhood size and exposure duration on visual-word recognition: evidence with the yes/no and the go/no-go lexical decision tasks.

We present two experiments in which we measured lexical decision latencies and errors to words with few or many orthographic neighbors (ie., Colthearts N). The main goal of the study was to examine whether or not the neighborhood size effect in a lexical ...
Manuel Perea, Eva Rosa, Consolación Gómez (Percept Psychophys, 200302)
influence-neighborhood-size-exposure-duration-visual-word-recognition.asp

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Visuomotor transformations affect bimanual coupling.

Interactions between bimanual movements may occur at two different levels: at a visually based level, where movement trajectories are programmed within the visually perceived external space, and at the executional level, through crosstalk of sensorimotor ...
Cornelia Weigelt, Simone Cardoso de Oliveira (Exp Brain Res, 200302)
visuomotor-transformations-affect-bimanual-coupling.asp

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Autism and a deficit in broadening the spread of visual attention.

BACKGROUND: This study examines if visual attention in autism is spatially overfocused (Townsend & Courchesne, 1994) and if there is an associated deficit in broadening the spatial spread of attention. METHOD: Two crosshairs were presented on each trial ...
Tania A Mann, Peter Walker (J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 200302)
autism-deficit-broadening-spread-visual-attention.asp

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Sources of interference in the attentional blink: target-distractor similarity revisited.

Observers monitored streams of words or letters (10 items/sec) for one or two targets. An attentional blink (AB) effect was observed in which identification of the first target temporarily impaired identification of the second target. Target ...
William S Maki, Giulia Bussard, Kellie Lopez, Beth Digby (Percept Psychophys, 200302)
sources-interference-attentional-blink-target-distractor-similarity.asp

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Auditory influences on visual temporal rate perception.

Visual stimuli are known to influence the perception of auditory stimuli in spatial tasks, giving rise to the ventriloquism effect. These influences can persist in the absence of visual input following a period of exposure to spatially disparate auditory ...
Gregg H Recanzone (J Neurophysiol, 200302)
auditory-influences-visual-temporal-rate-perception.asp