Modeling feature perception in brief displays with evidence for positive interdependencies

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Abstract

Recent studies have begun to test certain fundamental assumptions underlying popular models of feature perception. This research is continued here. It was discovered that every basic assumption that was open to test in the present study was disconfirmed. However, several new characteristics of line and curve feature perception were discovered: (1) Feature perception sensitivity was inversely related to the number of features present in a stimulus pattern, and the decision criteria for reporting a feature decreased with the number of features contained in a pattern; (2) the decrements in sensitivity reported in (1) were greater for features lying inside a pattern than for those on the exterior; and (3) feature perception sensitivity actually improved if another feature was known to be correctly perceived during the same trial. Likewise, feature sensitivity decreased if another feature was missed on any trial. At the present time, a system that first extracts global and then local (more detailed) featural information provides a basis that qualitatively accounts for our findings and is also compatible with several other studies in the literature. © 1984 Psychonomic Society, Inc.

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Townsend, J. T., Hu, G. G., & Evans, R. J. (1984). Modeling feature perception in brief displays with evidence for positive interdependencies. Perception & Psychophysics, 36(1), 35–49. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206352

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