Visual identity and uncertainty in repetition blindness.
Repetition blindness (RB) was investigated in 6 experiments. In the first 3 experiments participants detected vowel targets in 11-letter sequences. When all letters were uppercase, detection was poorer for same (e.g., AA) than for different (e.g., AO) targets. However, when one target was uppercase and the other lowercase, RB was found only for targets visually identical except for size (e.g., Oo), not for visually different pairs (e.g., Aa). Experiment 4 found RB for visually identical versus different consonant-vowel-consonant words. Experiments 5 and 6 replicated Kanwisher's (1987) experiment in which RB was insensitive to word case but revealed these effects to be artifacts of poor recognition of 5-letter words coupled with a biased guessing strategy. Overall, these experiments found RB only at a low level of visual information processing.
Brill
Gary A
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Psychology Department, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. gbrill@rci.rutgers.edu
Glass
Arnold L
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Rashid
Hanin
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Hussey
Erika
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D054518:Attentional Blink; D003118:Color Perception; D003210:Concept Formation; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D011939:Mental Recall; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D017603:Signal Detection, Psychological; D012858:Size Perception; D035501:Uncertainty; D014796:Visual Perception