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ERIC Number: EJ742207
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Jun
Pages: 12
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0096-1523
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What Do We Learn from Binding Features? Evidence for Multilevel Feature Integration
Colzato, Lorenza S.; Raffone, Antonino; Hommel, Bernhard
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v32 n3 p705-716 Jun 2006
Four experiments were conducted to investigate the relationship between the binding of visual features (as measured by their after-effects on subsequent binding) and the learning of feature-conjunction probabilities. Both binding and learning effects were obtained, but they did not interact. Interestingly, (shape-color) binding effects disappeared with increasing practice, presumably because of the fact that only 1 of the features involved was relevant to the task. However, this instability was only observed for arbitrary, not highly overlearned combinations of simple geometric features and not for real objects (colored pictures of a banana and strawberry), where binding effects were strong and resistant to practice. These findings suggest that learning has no direct impact on the strength or resistance of bindings or on speed with which features are bound; however, learning does affect the amount of attention particular feature dimensions attract, which again can influence which features are considered in binding.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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