Selective attention in vision: recognition memory for superimposed line drawings. Export

@article{citeulike:304609, abstract = {These experiments show that observers can selectively attend to one of two stationary superimposed pictures. If superimposed line drawings are presented to observers who are told to attend to one line drawing in the pair and to ignore the other line drawing in the pair, then a subsequent recognition test in which the pictures are presently singly, the attended picture in each pair is recognized much more frequently than the unattended picture in each pair. This selective recognition occurs both with large (11 degrees-22 degrees) displays in which observers are free to make eye movements during a 3-sec exposure and with small (1 degree) displays in which observers are instructed to fixate steadily on a point during a 1-sec exposure. The results of the steady fixation experiments show that in the absence of eye movements, attention to one of two superimposed stimuli can cause an observer to remember the attended image and not to remember the other, clearly visible, unattended image in a superimposed pair.}, author = {Goldstein, E. B. and Fink, S. I.}, citeulike-article-id = {304609}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6457115}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=6457115}, issn = {0096-1523}, journal = {J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform}, keywords = {attention, vision}, month = {October}, number = {5}, pages = {954--967}, posted-at = {2005-08-26 15:35:09}, priority = {4}, title = {Selective attention in vision: recognition memory for superimposed line drawings.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6457115}, volume = {7}, year = {1981} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:304609 L3 - citeulike-article-id:304609 N2 - These experiments show that observers can selectively attend to one of two stationary superimposed pictures. If superimposed line drawings are presented to observers who are told to attend to one line drawing in the pair and to ignore the other line drawing in the pair, then a subsequent recognition test in which the pictures are presently singly, the attended picture in each pair is recognized much more frequently than the unattended picture in each pair. This selective recognition occurs both with large (11 degrees-22 degrees) displays in which observers are free to make eye movements during a 3-sec exposure and with small (1 degree) displays in which observers are instructed to fixate steadily on a point during a 1-sec exposure. The results of the steady fixation experiments show that in the absence of eye movements, attention to one of two superimposed stimuli can cause an observer to remember the attended image and not to remember the other, clearly visible, unattended image in a superimposed pair. IS - 5 JF - J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform SN - 0096-1523 EP - 967 TI - Selective attention in vision: recognition memory for superimposed line drawings. VL - 7 SP - 954 KW - attention KW - vision AU - Goldstein, EB AU - Fink, SI PY - 1981/10// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6457115 ER -