Visual Perception

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Accessibility experiences and the hindsight bias: I knew it all along versus it could never have happened.

In two experiments, we tested accessibility experiences versus accessible content in influencing the hindsight bias when participants generated either thoughts about alternative outcomes or thoughts about known outcomes. Participants who had listed many ...
Lawrence J Sanna, Norbert Schwarz, Eulena M Small (Mem Cognit, 200212)
accessibility-experiences-hindsight-bias-knew-along-versus-never.asp

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Influences of visibility, intentions, and probability in a peripheral cuing task.

According to the concept of direct parameter specification, nonconsciously registered information can be processed to the extent that it matches currently active intentions of a person. This prediction was tested and confirmed in the current study. ...
Ulrich Ansorge, Manfred Heumann, Ingrid Scharlau (Conscious Cogn, 200212)
influences-visibility-intentions-probability-peripheral-cuing-task.asp

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Eyewitness recognition errors: the effects of mugshot viewing and choosing in young and old adults.

Eyewitness memory is vulnerable to information encountered prior to a lineup. Young (18-30 years) and older (60-80 years) witnesses viewed a crime video. Some witnesses were then exposed to mugshots of innocent suspects that included a critical foil. ...
Amina Memon, Lorraine Hope, James Bartlett, Ray Bull (Mem Cognit, 200212)
eyewitness-recognition-errors-effects-mugshot-viewing-choosing-young.asp

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Chronometric comparisons of imagery to action: visualizing versus physically performing springboard dives.

Motor imagery research emphasizes similarities between the mental imagery of an action and its physical execution. In this study, temporal differences between motor imagery and its physical performance as a function of performer expertise, skill ...
Catherine L Reed (Mem Cognit, 200212)
chronometric-comparisons-imagery-action-visualizing-versus-physically.asp

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Magnitude estimation of conceptual data dimensions for use in sonification.

Sonifications must match listener expectancies about representing data with sound. Three experiments showed the utility of magnitude estimation for this. In Experiment 1, 67 undergraduates judged the sizes of visual stimuli and the temperature, pressure, ...
Bruce N Walker (J Exp Psychol Appl, 200212)
magnitude-estimation-conceptual-data-dimensions-sonification.asp

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Spike timing and visual processing in the retinogeniculocortical pathway.

Although the visual response properties of neurons along the retinogeniculocortical pathway have been studied for decades, relatively few studies have examined how individual neurons along the pathway communicate with each other. Recent studies in the ...
W Martin Usrey (Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 200212)
spike-timing-visual-processing-retinogeniculocortical-pathway.asp

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Gaze-eccentricity effects on road position and steering.

The effects of gaze eccentricity on the steering of an automobile were studied. Drivers performed an attention task while attempting to drive down the middle of a straight road in a simulation. Steering was biased in the direction of fixation, and ...
Wilson O Readinger, Astros Chatziastros, Douglas W Cunningham, Heinrich H Bülthoff, James E Cutting (J Exp Psychol Appl, 200212)
gaze-eccentricity-effects-road-position-steering.asp

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Discriminating overhead points of contact after arm raising.

Arm-raising movements at the shoulder made to overhead locations were investigated in a weight-hearing stance with forward vision available. When discrimination of different points of contact was measured after arm elevations to the unseen overhead ...
Jan Naughton, Roger Adams, Chris Maher (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
discriminating-overhead-points-contact-after-arm-raising.asp

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Jaw and finger movement accuracy under visual and nonvisual feedback conditions.

The present study revisited the issue whether the presence of added visual feedback differentially affects the accuracy of finger and jaw movements. 15 men were instructed to move either the index finger on the dominant (right) hand, or the jaw, to a ...
Luc F De Nil, Sophie J Lafaille (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
jaw-finger-movement-accuracy-under-visual-nonvisual-feedback.asp

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Visual degradation in Boston Naming Test performance.

The 60 pictures of the Boston Naming Test were degraded via a mask to be either "easy," "medium", or "hard" to process visually. The visual mask was created by cutting a 2-in. x 2-in. square from a security mailing envelope and progressively reducing the ...
F Richard Ferraro, Bobbi Jo Bang, Kristen Scheuler (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
visual-degradation-boston-naming-test-performance.asp