Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
February 2012 Volume 38, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 7
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Training Experts: Individuation without Naming Is Worth It
Cindy M. Bukach, Timothy J. Vickery, Daniel Kinka & Isabel Gauthier
There is growing evidence that individuation experience is necessary for development of expert object discrimination that transfers to new exemplars. Individuation training in human studies has... More
pp. 14-17
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When Does Repeated Search in Scenes Involve Memory? Looking at versus Looking for Objects in Scenes
Melissa L. -H. Vo & Jeremy M. Wolfe
One might assume that familiarity with a scene or previous encounters with objects embedded in a scene would benefit subsequent search for those items. However, in a series of experiments we show... More
pp. 23-41
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Using the Dual-Target Cost to Explore the Nature of Search Target Representations
Michael J. Stroud, Tamaryn Menneer, Kyle R. Cave & Nick Donnelly
Eye movements were monitored to examine search efficiency and infer how color is mentally represented to guide search for multiple targets. Observers located a single color target very efficiently ... More
pp. 113-122
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Stopping while Going! Response Inhibition Does Not Suffer Dual-Task Interference
Motonori Yamaguchi, Gordon D. Logan & Patrick G. Bissett
Although dual-task interference is ubiquitous in a variety of task domains, stop-signal studies suggest that response inhibition is not subject to such interference. Nevertheless, no study has... More
pp. 123-134
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Global Statistical Learning in a Visual Search Task
John L. Jones & Michael P. Kaschak
Locating a target in a visual search task is facilitated when the target location is repeated on successive trials. Global statistical properties also influence visual search, but have often been... More
pp. 152-160
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The Attentional Blink Is Not Affected by Backward Masking of T2, T2-Mask SOA, or Level of T2 Impoverishment
Ali Jannati, Thomas M. Spalek, Hayley E. P. Lagroix & Vincent Di Lollo
Identification of the second of two targets (T2) is impaired when presented shortly after the first (T1). This "attentional blink" (AB) is thought to arise from a delay in T2 processing during... More
pp. 161-168
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Parafoveal Processing of Transposed-Letter Words and Nonwords: Evidence against Parafoveal Lexical Activation
Rebecca L. Johnson & Maxine D. Dunne
The current experiments explored the parafoveal processing of transposed-letter (TL) neighbors by using an eye-movement-contingent boundary change paradigm. In Experiment 1 readers received a... More
pp. 191-212