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ERIC Number: EJ742387
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Jun
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0096-1523
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Role of Gamma-Band Synchronization in Priming of Form Discrimination for Multiobject Displays
Lu, Hongjing; Morrison, Robert G.; Hummel, John E.; Holyoak, Keith J.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v32 n3 p610-617 Jun 2006
Previous research has shown that synchronized flicker can facilitate detection of a single Kanizsa square. The present study investigated the role of temporally structured priming in discrimination tasks involving perceptual relations between multiple Kanizsa-type figures. Results indicate that visual information presented as temporally structured flicker in the gamma band can modulate the perception of multiple objects in a subsequent display. For judgments of both relative orientation and relative position of 2 rectangles, response time to identify and discriminate relations between the objects was consistently decreased when the vertices corresponding to distinct Kanizsa-type rectangles were primed asynchronously. Implications are discussed for models of the perception of objects and their interrelations.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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