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Direct linkOlivers, Christian N. L.; Humphreys, Glyn W. – Cognitive Psychology, 2003
This paper is concerned with how we prioritize the selection of new objects in visual scenes. We present four experiments investigating the effects of distractor previews on visual search through new objects. Participants viewed a set of to-be-ignored nontargets, with the task being to search for a target in a second set, added to the first after…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Task Analysis, Color, Attention
Peer reviewedSinclair, Robert C.; Soldat, Alexander S.; Mark, Melvin M. – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Argues that external cues provide affective information that influence processing strategy and, therefore, examination performance. Notes the differences in performance for two midterm examinations, identical, except that they were printed on blue and red paper. Discusses a method for appropriately adjusting scores to control for form effects.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Color, Cues, Dimensional Preference
