Facilitatory Priming of Scene Layout Depends on Prior Experience with the Scene
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2012
Keywords
Human visual perception, Spatial layout, Depth perception, Distance perception, Priming, Scene perception
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-012-0332-9
Abstract
Facilitatory scene priming is the positive effect of a scene prime on the immediately subsequent spatial processing of a related target, relative to control primes. In the present experiments, a large set of scenes were presented, each several times. The accuracy of a relational spatial-layout judgment was the main measure (which of two probes in a scene was closer?). The effect of scene primes on sensitivity was near zero for the first presentation of a scene; advantages for scene primes occurred only after two or three presentations. In addition, a bias effect emerged in reaction times for novel scenes. These results imply that facilitatory scene priming requires learning and is top-down in nature. Scene priming may require the consolidation of interscene relations in a memory representation.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, v. 20, issue 2, p. 274-281
Scholar Commons Citation
Sanocki, Thomas, "Facilitatory Priming of Scene Layout Depends on Prior Experience with the Scene" (2012). Psychology Faculty Publications. 517.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/517
