The object-detection effect: Configuration enhances perception |
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Authors: | Dean G. Purcell Alan L. Stewart |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 48309-4401, Rochester, MI 2. Management Department, Stevens Institute of Technology, 07030, Hoboken, NJ
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Abstract: | Line drawings used by Weisstein and Harris (1974) are seen as box-like three-dimensional figures if the lines are arranged properly. A flat two-dimensional pattern is seen when these same lines are disarranged. A target line contained within the three-dimensional figure is identified more readily than is the same line contained within a two-dimensional figure. This finding was extended in the present experiments: The three-dimensional stimulus was detected more quickly than the two-dimensional stimulus, under conditions of visual backward masking. Three-dimensional stimuli were also classified more quickly than two-dimensional stimuli. Just as with the face-detection effect and the word-detection effect, object detection can be affected by the form of the visual stimulus. |
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