Attention and perception, memory, and judgment of line length.
The literature reports that focused attention alters perceived length of lines. Some tests of this attentional effect require that subjects compare line lengths. This note shows that conceptual confusions inherent in this comparison make the tests invalid.
Masin
Sergio Cesare
SC
Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy. scm@unipd.it
D001288:Attention; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D011939:Mental Recall; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011594:Psychometrics; D012858:Size Perception