May 2008
Volume 8, Issue 6
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Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting Abstract  |   May 2008
Object- and feature-based priming in visual search
Author Affiliations
  • Arni Kristjansson
    Department of Psychology, University of Iceland
  • Arny Ingvarsdottir
    Department of Psychology, University of Iceland
  • Unnur Teitsdottir
    Department of Psychology, University of Iceland
Journal of Vision May 2008, Vol.8, 868. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/8.6.868
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      Arni Kristjansson, Arny Ingvarsdottir, Unnur Teitsdottir; Object- and feature-based priming in visual search. Journal of Vision 2008;8(6):868. https://doi.org/10.1167/8.6.868.

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Abstract

Two contrasting accounts for priming in visual search have been proposed. The main difference between the two is the level of perceptual processing at which the priming effects are assumed to occur, whether priming is assumed to operate through the selective facilitation of features or at the level of selection of objects for response. The aim with the experiments here was to contrast these accounts. In the first two experiments observers performed a search for the odd diamond among two distractor diamonds. Each diamond had two colors but the configuration of colors within the diamonds was different for the two experiments, configurations previously shown to lend themselves differently well to object formation. The results show that priming can be both feature- and object-based depending on the topological properties of the stimuli in each case. This was confirmed in a third study where a quite dissimilar stimulus set was used to address the same question yielding similar results as before. Priming is thus shown to operate at various levels of perceptual processing, a result consistent with new findings from neuroimaging and neuropsychology.

Kristjansson, A. Ingvarsdottir, A. Teitsdottir, U. (2008). Object- and feature-based priming in visual search [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 8(6):868, 868a, http://journalofvision.org/8/6/868/, doi:10.1167/8.6.868. [CrossRef]
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