Perceptual Adjustments on Representations of Familiar Patterns: Change Over Time and Relational Features
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1991
Keywords
Critical Part, Shared Feature, Difficult Condition, Critical Trial, Buffer Trial
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212203
Abstract
Subjects classified individual stimuli as exact copies or as distortions of previously viewed prototype letters. Perceptual adjustments were induced by the presence of difficult (subtle) distortions within the stimulus set. In Experiment 1, subjects initially made feature-based adjustments, and, with experience, adjustments became identity-based. Decisional adjustments also occurred. A similar change over time was obtained in Experiment 2; in addition, the feature-based adjustments could not be explained by overall similarity between letters. Experiment 3 indicated that feature-based adjustments can be long lasting under appropriate circumstances. Experiment 4 indicated that the relevant features are not functionally independent parts of letters, but rather relations between neighboring parts. The results are consistent with the idea that adjustments can change between levels over time, and that the adjusted features are relational in nature.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Perception & Psychophysics, v. 50, issue 1, p. 28-44
Scholar Commons Citation
Sanocki, Thomas and Oden, Gregg C., "Perceptual Adjustments on Representations of Familiar Patterns: Change Over Time and Relational Features" (1991). Psychology Faculty Publications. 494.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/494
