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Neural Representations of Conceptual Fixation during Creative Imagination
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Frith, Emily; Gerver, Courtney R.; Benedek, Mathias; Christensen, Alexander P.; Beaty, Roger E. – Creativity Research Journal, 2022
A large body of research has revealed that viewing example image stimuli tends to constrain creative idea generation. However, the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying such visual fixation in creative cognition are unclear. In the present experiment, we explored whether example images impacted creative imagination and patterns of neural activity…
Descriptors: Imagination, Creative Thinking, Visual Stimuli, Visual Perception
The Bizarreness Effect and Visual Imagery: No Impact of Concurrent Visuo-Spatial Distractor Tasks Indicates Little Role for Visual Imagery
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Besken, Miri; Mulligan, Neil W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Ancient as well as modern writers have promoted the idea that bizarre images enhance memory. Research has documented bizarreness effects, with one standard technique finding that sentences describing unusual, implausible, or bizarre scenarios are better remembered than sentences describing plausible, every day, or common scenarios. Not…
Descriptors: Memory, Visual Stimuli, Visualization, Cognitive Processes
Distinctiveness and the Attentional Boost Effect
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Smith, S. Adam; Mulligan, Neil W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
The typical pattern of results in divided attention experiments is that subjects in a full attention (FA) condition perform markedly better on tests of memory than subjects in a divided attention (DA) condition which forces subjects to split their attention between studying to-be-remembered stimuli and completing some peripheral task.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Tests, Memory, Task Analysis
See before You Jump: Full Recognition of Parafoveal Words Precedes Skips during Reading
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Gordon, Peter C.; Plummer, Patrick; Choi, Wonil – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Serial attention models of eye-movement control during reading were evaluated in an eye-tracking experiment that examined how lexical activation combines with visual information in the parafovea to affect word skipping (where a word is not fixated during first-pass reading). Lexical activation was manipulated by repetition priming created through…
Descriptors: Human Body, Priming, Word Recognition, Eye Movements
The Attentional Boost Effect with Verbal Materials
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Mulligan, Neil W.; Spataro, Pietro; Picklesimer, Milton – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Study stimuli presented at the same time as unrelated targets in a detection task are better remembered than stimuli presented with distractors. This attentional boost effect (ABE) has been found with pictorial (Swallow & Jiang, 2010) and more recently verbal materials (Spataro, Mulligan, & Rossi-Arnaud, 2013). The present experiments…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Memory
Responses to a Modified Visual Cliff by Pre-Walking Infants Born Preterm and at Term
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Lin, Yuan-Shan; Reilly, Marie; Mercer, Vicki S. – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine, using a modified visual cliff apparatus, possible perceptual differences at crawling age between infants born preterm and infants born at term without documented visual or motor impairments. Sixteen infants born at term and 16 born preterm were encouraged to crawl to their caregivers on a modified visual…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Infants, Premature Infants, Comparative Analysis