Perception without Attention: Results of a New Method

Four experiments involving 145 college students (81 males and 64 females) studied the basis of early-stage preattentive perceptual organization. Results suggest that perceptual organization is initially based on a principle in which connected regions of uniform stimulation are inferred to be discret...

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Published inCognitive psychology Vol. 24; no. 4; p. 502
Main Author Rock, Irvin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands 01.10.1992
Subjects
Attention
College Students
Higher Education
Humans
Organization
Perception
Task Performance and Analysis
Uniform Connectedness Principle
Visual Perception
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Summary:Four experiments involving 145 college students (81 males and 64 females) studied the basis of early-stage preattentive perceptual organization. Results suggest that perceptual organization is initially based on a principle in which connected regions of uniform stimulation are inferred to be discrete units (the principle of uniform connectedness). (SLD)
ISSN:0010-0285
DOI:10.1016/0010-0285(92)90017-V