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Direct linkKaschak, Michael P.; Madden, Carol J.; Therriault, David J.; Yaxley, Richard H.; Aveyard, Mark; Blanchard, Adrienne A.; Zwaan, Rolf A. – Cognition, 2005
Recently developed accounts of language comprehension propose that sentences are understood by constructing a perceptual simulation of the events being described. These simulations involve the re-activation of patterns of brain activation that were formed during the comprehender's interaction with the world. In two experiments we explored the…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Motion, Language Processing, Simulation
Peer reviewedBurack, Jacob A.; Enns, James T.; Iarocci, Grace; Randolph, Beth – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Examined visual search for compound patterns in 6-, 8-, 10-, and 22-year-olds. Found large improvements with age in search rate for long-range targets; search rate for short-range targets was fairly constant across age. This pattern held regardless of ease of perceptual access to target, supporting the hypothesis of different processes involved at…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Patterned Responses, Perceptual Development
Gardner, Judith; Karmel, Bernard Z. – 1980
Preferential looking behavior to stimuli varying in temporal frequency was examined in 11 prematurely born, Black and Hispanic infants when they were between 37 and 39 weeks of postconceptional age. Infants were tested one hour after they had fed on two successive days. Infants were unswaddled during testing on the first day, and swaddled during…
Descriptors: Attention, Black Youth, Hispanic Americans, Influences
Brannstrom, Lauritz – 1980
The significance of spatial factors on an initial segmentation and an active attentional phase was demonstrated by briefly exposing spatial configurations of elements, and then asking the subjects to reproduce the patterns or to search them for a target letter. The stimulus displays consisted of small o's forming different spatial configurations,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dimensional Preference, Eye Movements, Patterned Responses
Brannstrom, Lauritz – 1980
The visual scanning of redundant and random spatial configurations of two-digit numbers was investigated in a target recognition task. The experimental technique involved a brief exposure of a probe (a two-digit number) at the center of the visual field, followed by a spatial pattern of 16 two-digit numbers which included the matching target in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Eye Movements, Patterned Responses
Brannstrom, Lauritz – 1980
The spatial layout of visual displays was evaluated by means of three magnitude estimation tasks and one reproduction task. Each stimulus display consisted of 16 randomly-drawn, two-digit numbers. Six different spatial layouts, or display types, were used: systematic vs. random spatial order of numbers; regular vs. irregular boundaries of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Evaluation Methods, Patterned Responses
Brannstrom, Lauritz – 1980
Visual acuity as a function of target position and density was measured in a letter recognition task. A homogeneous pattern of equally-spaced elements was tachistoscopically exposed, where the target was never located at the boundaries of the pattern. The target was marked with a spatial cue to control attentional processes. With such a spatial…
Descriptors: Cues, Dimensional Preference, Letters (Alphabet), Patterned Responses
