Visual Perception

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Visual masking during the attentional blink: tests of the object substitution hypothesis.

When 2 masked targets are presented in a rapid sequence, correct identification of the 1st hinders identification of the 2nd. Visual masking of the 2nd target plays a critical role during this 2nd-target deficit, or "attentional blink" (AB). The object ...
Barry Giesbrecht, Walter F Bischof, Alan Kingstone (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200302)
visual-masking-attentional-blink-tests-object-substitution-hypothesis.asp

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A negative order-repetition priming effect: inhibition of order in unattended auditory sequences?

A novel negative priming (NP) effect is reported in which serial recall for a sequence of visually presented digits was poorer if the same sequence was presented as an irrelevant auditory sequence on the previous trial (Experiments 1 and 2). The effect ...
Robert Hughes, Dylan M Jones (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200302)
negative-order-repetition-priming-effect-inhibition-order-unattended.asp

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Properties of school Chinese: implications for learning to read.

The properties of the 2,570 Chinese characters explicitly taught in Chinese elementary schools were systematically investigated, including types of characters, visual complexity, spatial structure, phonetic regularity and consistency, semantic ...
Hua Shu, Xi Chen, Richard C Anderson, Ningning Wu, Yue Xuan (Child Dev, 200301-02)
properties-school-chinese-implications-learning-read.asp

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Infants perception of object trajectories.

Filling in the gaps in what humans see is a fundamental perceptual skill, but little is known about the developmental origins of occlusion perception. Three experiments were conducted with infants between 2 and 6 months of age to investigate perception ...
Scott P Johnson, J Gavin Bremner, Alan Slater, Uschi Mason, Kirsty Foster, Andrea Cheshire (Child Dev, 200301-02)
infants-perception-object-trajectories.asp

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Childrens suggestibility in relation to their understanding about sources of knowledge.

In the experiments reported here, children chose either to maintain their initial belief about an objects identity or to accept the experimenters contradicting suggestion. Both 3- to 4-year-olds and 4- to 5-year-olds were good at accepting the suggestion ...
E J Robinson, E L Whitcombe (Child Dev, 200301-02)
children-s-suggestibility-relation-understanding-sources-knowledge.asp

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Audiospatial and visuospatial working memory in 6-13 year old school children.

The neural processes subserving working memory, and brain structures underlying this system, continue to develop during childhood. We investigated the effects of age and gender on audiospatial and visuospatial working memory in a nonclinical sample of ...
Virve Vuontela, Maija-Riikka Steenari, Synnöve Carlson, Juha Koivisto, Mika Fjällberg, Eeva T Aronen (Learn Mem, 200301-02)
audiospatial-visuospatial-working-memory--year-old-school-children.asp

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Visuomotor adaptation in normal aging.

Visuomotor adaptation to a gradual or sudden screen cursor rotation was investigated in healthy young and elderly subjects. Both age groups were equally divided into two subgroups; one subgroup was exposed to 11.25 degrees step increments of visual ...
Ethan R Buch, Sereniti Young, José L Contreras-Vidal (Learn Mem, 200301-02)
visuomotor-adaptation-normal-aging.asp

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The infant as onlooker: learning from emotional reactions observed in a television scenario.

Two studies investigated whether 10- and 12-month-olds can use televised emotional reactions to guide their behavior. Infants watched an actress orient toward 1 of 2 novel objects and react with neutral affect during baseline and with positive or ...
Donna L Mumme, Anne Fernald (Child Dev, 200301-02)
infant-onlooker-learning-emotional-reactions-observed-television.asp

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Orthography effect on brain activities in the working memory process for phonologically ambiguous syllables: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study using Japanese speakers.

English /l/ and /r/ sounds are not distinctive for Japanese speakers and they are loosely associated with corresponding graphemes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the brain activities in the memory process for the graphemes containing l and ...
Chika Sumiyoshi, Kayako Matsuo, Chikako Kato, Fukujirou Ozawa, Yasuo Takehara, Haruo Isoda, Satoshi Isogai, Harumi Sakahara, Toshiharu Nakai (Neurosci Lett, 200301)
orthography-effect-brain-activities-working-memory-process.asp

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Behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of visuomotor learning during a visual search task.

Visuomotor association learning involves learning specific motor responses to arbitrary cues, and is dependent on a distributed and highly flexible network in the brain. We investigated the behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of arbitrary ...
Richard A P Roche, Shane M OMara (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200301)
behavioural-electrophysiological-correlates-visuomotor-learning.asp