Abstract
Previous research has shown that synchronized flicker can facilitate detection of a single Kanizsa square. The present study investigated the role of temporally structured priming in discrimination tasks involving perceptual relations between multiple Kanizsa-type figures. Results indicate that visual information presented as temporally structured flicker in the gamma band can modulate the perception of multiple objects in a subsequent display. For judgments of both relative orientation and relative position of 2 rectangles, response time to identify and discriminate relations between the objects was consistently decreased when the vertices corresponding to distinct Kanizsa-type rectangles were primed asynchronously. Implications are discussed for models of the perception of objects and their interrelations.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 610-617 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2006 |
Keywords
- Binding
- Kanizsa-type figure discrimination
- Neural synchrony
- Relation coding
- Visual priming
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Behavioral Neuroscience