Both feature comparisons and location comparisons are subject to bias

• Published in: Attention, perception & psychophysics Vol. 83; no. 4; pp. 1581 - 1599
• Main Authors: Humphries, Ailsa, Chen, Zhe, Cave, Kyle R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.05.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Attention; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Bias; Cognitive Psychology; Experiments; Feedback (Response); Heuristics; Humans; Psychology; Space Perception; Stimuli; Visual Perception; Spatial congruency bias; Analytic bias; Holistic/analytic processing; Attention; Visual perception

Four experiments explore the generalizability of two different types of bias in visual comparison. The first type is a spatial congruency bias, in which two target stimuli are more likely to be classified as matching (‘same’) if they appear successively at the same location. The second type is an an...