The effect of irrelevant surround on speeded visual discriminations varying in complexity

Wayne P. Silverman

doi:10.3758/BF03213951

The effect of irrelevant surround on speeded visual discriminations varying in complexity

Wayne P. Silverman

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To measure the effect of varying stimulus material on visual matching, a three-factor experimental design was employed, with "same"-"different" RT as the main dependent variable. Pairs of sequences of meaningless shapes served as stimuli, varying in discriminability (high or low), complexity (sequence lengths of 1, 2, 5, or 8 shapes), and level of pair difference (identical sequences or sequences with one pair differing). All independent variables significantly affected RT, with (a) high-discriminability stimuli being reacted to faster than low, (b)RT increasing with sequence pair length, and (c)"same"-response RTs interacting with "different"-response RTs. A significant triple-order interaction component implied that, while a single-process self-terminating feature testing model could accommodate data from the low-discriminability condition, the high-discriminability data did not fit this model. The results are taken as support for a dual-process model to account for the data from "same"-"different" RT tasks. epaxtment of

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	320-324
Number of pages	5
Journal	Perception & Psychophysics
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03213951
State	Published - Mar 1974
Externally published	Yes

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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Sensory Systems
General Psychology

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The effect of irrelevant surround on speeded visual discriminations varying in complexity

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