Testing a conceptual locus for the inconsistent object change detection advantage in real-world scenes

Andrew Hollingworth; John M Henderson

doi:10.3758/BF03196446

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Testing a conceptual locus for the inconsistent object change detection advantage in real-world scenes

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Testing a conceptual locus for the inconsistent object change detection advantage in real-world scenes

Andrew Hollingworth and John M Henderson

Memory & cognition, Vol.31(6), pp.930-940

2003

DOI: 10.3758/BF03196446

PMID: 14651300

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Changes to objects that are inconsistent with the scene in which they appear are detected more accurately than changes to consistent objects. In three experiments, we tested whether this inconsistent object advantage derives from the differential retention of conceptual codes generated from a brief view of a real-world scene in accordance with a conceptual short-term memory (CSTM) hypothesis. A scene was presented for 250 msec, followed by a brief mask and a test scene in which a target object was either changed or not changed. In Experiment 1, changes that altered conceptual content (object deletion) were contrasted with visual changes (left-right orientation changes). In Experiment 2, the duration of the mask was manipulated to vary the amount of time available for conceptual consolidation of the initial scene. In Experiment 3, the type of mask was manipulated: Either a meaningless pattern mask or a meaningful, and thus conceptually disruptive, scene was shown. The inconsistent object advantage was obtained in each experiment, yet in none was it modulated in the direction predicted by the CSTM hypothesis. Instead, the inconsistent object advantage is likely to be caused by contextual influence on memory for visual object representations.

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Title: Subtitle: Testing a conceptual locus for the inconsistent object change detection advantage in real-world scenes
Creators: Andrew Hollingworth - Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
John M Henderson - Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Memory & cognition, Vol.31(6), pp.930-940
Publisher: Psychonomic Society
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196446
PMID: 14651300
ISSN: 0090-502X
eISSN: 1532-5946
Language: English
Date published: 2003
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences
Record Identifier: 9984213423802771

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