Flexible visual processing of spatial relationships

Franconeri, Steven; Scimeca, Jason M.; Roth, Jessica; Helseth, Sarah A.; Kahn, Lauren E.

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.11.002

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“…Franconeri et al (Franconeri, et al, 2012) found lateral modulation of the electroencephalographic N2pc component consistent with an attentional shift around 300 ms after the onset of stimuli that were presented for only 120 ms. Recent studies using the part-report technique (Sperling, 1960) When unrotated text is arrayed vertically in a marquee arrangement, it is almost invariably read from top to bottom; this would explain the results in our unilateral condition.…”

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“Pseudoextinction”: Asymmetries in simultaneous attentional selection.

Goodbourn

Holcombe

2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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We report robust visual-field asymmetries associated with selecting simultaneous targets. One letter embedded in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) of letters was encircled by a white ring, cueing it as the target to report. In some conditions, 2 RSVP streams were presented concurrently, and targets appeared simultaneously in both. When only 1 stream was cued, performance was similar regardless of whether it was in the left or right visual field. Cueing 2 streams barely affected performance in the left stream, but performance in the right stream suffered markedly. We term this phenomenon pseudoextinction, by analogy to pseudoneglect whereby observers bisect lines to the left of center. Such attentional asymmetries are often believed to originate from a processing imbalance between the 2 cerebral hemispheres. But pseudoextinction also occurred with vertically arrayed streams, with higher efficacy in the superior than in the inferior stream. Mixture modeling of errors indicated that pseudoextinction did not affect the temporal precision or latency of selection episodes; rather, only the efficacy of selection suffered. These findings lead us to suggest that pseudoextinction arises because perceptual traces are activated simultaneously in a visual buffer, but must be tokenized serially. Observers succeed in selecting simultaneous targets because trace activation occurs in parallel. However, observers often fail to report both targets because tokenization proceeds serially: While 1 target is being tokenized, the other’s trace may decay below the activation level necessary for tokenization.

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Section: Type-token Models Of Pseudoextinctionmentioning

confidence: 91%

“Pseudoextinction”: Asymmetries in simultaneous attentional selection.

Goodbourn

Holcombe

2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

117

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“…These include determining the distance between two objects [7], deciding whether two objects are visually similar [17], or extracting statistical summary information (about e.g., size or orientation) from a collection of objects [9]. In contrast, a more narrow spatial scope may be necessary for processing spatial relations between objects [7,17] or accessing fine details [40].…”

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Influencing visual judgment through affective priming

Harrison

Skau

Franconeri

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Recent research suggests that individual personality differences can influence performance with visualizations. In addition to stable personality traits, research in psychology has found that temporary changes in affect (emotion) can also significantly impact performance during cognitive tasks. In this paper, we show that affective priming also influences user performance on visual judgment tasks through an experiment that combines affective priming with longstanding graphical perception experiments. Our results suggest that affective priming can influence accuracy in common graphical perception tasks. We discuss possible explanations for these findings, and describe how these findings can be applied to design visualizations that are less (or more) susceptible to error in common visualization contexts.

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“…Attending to one surface (He and Nakayama, 1995) could increase the cortical response associated with that area, biasing competition between potential structural representations (Desimone and Duncan, 1995;Luck et al, 1997), and guiding or maintaining the corresponding structure (Slotnick and Yantis, 2005). This role would promote selection from a filter to a more sophisticated agent in creating complex visual representations (Ullman, 1984;Peterson and Gibson, 1991;Cavanagh, 2004;Franconeri et al, 2012).…”

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The Head of the Table: Marking the “Front” of An Object Is Tightly Linked with Selection

Xu¹,

Franconeri²

2012

J. Neurosci.

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Objects in the world do not have a surface that can be objectively labeled the "front." We impose this designation on one surface of an object according to several cues, including which surface is associated with the most task-relevant information or the direction of motion of an object. However, when these cues are competing, weak, or absent, we can also flexibly assign one surface as the front. One possibility is that this assignment is guided by the location of the "spotlight" of selection, where the selected region becomes the front. Here we used an electrophysiological correlate to show a direct temporal link between object structure assignments and the spatial locus of selection. We found that when human participants viewed a shape whose front and back surfaces were ambiguous, seeing a given surface as front was associated with selectively attending to that location. In Experiment 1, this pattern occurred during directed rapid (every 1 s) switches in structural percepts. In Experiment 2, this pattern occurred during spontaneous reversals, from 900 ms before to 600 ms after the reported percept. These results suggest that the distribution of selective attention might guide the organization of object structure.

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Flexible visual processing of spatial relationships

Cited by 68 publications

References 125 publications

“Pseudoextinction”: Asymmetries in simultaneous attentional selection.

“Pseudoextinction”: Asymmetries in simultaneous attentional selection.

Influencing visual judgment through affective priming

The Head of the Table: Marking the “Front” of An Object Is Tightly Linked with Selection

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