Journal article
Object-based selection in the two-rectangles method is not an artifact of the three-sided directional cue
Perception & psychophysics, Vol.65(7), pp.1103-1109
10/2003
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194837
PMID: 14674636
Abstract
A common means of investigating object-specific selection is thetwo-rectangles method, in which a target appears at one end of two rectangles (Egly, Driver, & Rafal, 1994). Prior to target presentation, one end of two parallel rectangles is cued by brightening the three line segments along one of its ends. When the target appears in the opposite end of the cued rectangle, responses tend to be faster and more accurate than when it appears in the end of the other rectangle, which is equally distant from the cue. This effect has been taken as evidence of object-specific selection of information. The present study rules out the concern that the object-specific effect that is found with this method is caused by the directional nature of the cue. That is, the three-sided cue, which essentially points to the “sameobject” location, does not itself give rise to the object-specific advantage. These results are discussed in terms of the combined roles of explicit object structure in the scene, past experience, and task set as contributing to the way in which information is organized and selected from a scene.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Object-based selection in the two-rectangles method is not an artifact of the three-sided directional cue
- Creators
- Mark Marrara - Metavante Corporation 11000 W. Lake Park Drive 53224 Milwaukee WICathleen Moore - Metavante Corporation 11000 W. Lake Park Drive 53224 Milwaukee WI
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Perception & psychophysics, Vol.65(7), pp.1103-1109
- DOI
- 10.3758/BF03194837
- PMID
- 14674636
- NLM abbreviation
- Percept Psychophys
- ISSN
- 0031-5117
- eISSN
- 1532-5962
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag; New York
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2003
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984002436702771
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