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Lourenço, Joana S.; White, Katherine; Maylor, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Performing a nonfocal prospective memory (PM) task results in a cost to ongoing task processing, but the precise nature of the monitoring processes involved remains unclear. We investigated whether target context specification (i.e., explicitly associating the PM target with a subset of ongoing stimuli) can trigger trial-by-trial changes in task…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Memory, Context Effect, Interference (Learning)
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Watson, Derrick G.; Compton, Suzannah; Bailey, Hannah – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
The preview benefit describes the finding that participants can prioritize the selection of new stimuli by the top-down inhibition of previously presented (previewed) items already in the field (Watson & Humphreys, 1997). Previous work has shown that if the old items undergo a permanent shape change when the new are added, then the old items…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Visual Stimuli, Attention, Ecology
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Watson, Derrick G.; Kunar, Melina A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Visual search efficiency improves by presenting (previewing) one set of distractors before the target and remaining distractor items (D. G. Watson & G. W. Humphreys, 1997). Previous work has shown that this preview benefit is abolished if the old items change their shape when the new items are added (e.g., D. G. Watson & G. W. Humphreys,…
Descriptors: Blindness, Search Strategies, Attention, Visual Stimuli
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology