Reorienting in Images of a Three-Dimensional Environment

Adult humans searched for a hidden goal in images depicting 3-dimensional rooms. Images contained either featural cues, geometric cues, or both, which could be used to determine the correct location of the goal. In Experiment 1, participants learned to use featural and geometric information equally...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance 2005-12, Vol.31 (6), p.1391-1403
Main Authors: Kelly, Debbie M, Bischof, Walter F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adults
Biological and medical sciences
Cognitive Processes
Color
Cues
Dimensional Preference
Environment
Female
Form and Shape Perception
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gender Differences
Geometry
Human
Human Information Storage
Human Sex Differences
Human subjects
Humans
Imagination
Information Literacy
Male
Perception
Perceptual Localization
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Sensory Experience
Sensory perception
Space Perception
Spatial Ability
Spatial Organization
Stimulus Parameters
Transformative Learning
Vision
Visual Search
Visual task performance
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Summary:Adult humans searched for a hidden goal in images depicting 3-dimensional rooms. Images contained either featural cues, geometric cues, or both, which could be used to determine the correct location of the goal. In Experiment 1, participants learned to use featural and geometric information equally well. However, men and women showed significant differences in their use of distant featural cues and the spontaneous encoding of geometric information when trained with features present. Transformation tests showed that participants could use either the color or the shape of the features independently to locate the goal. Experiment 2 showed that participants could use either configural or surface geometry when searching for the goal. However, their weighing of these geometric cues was dependent on initial training experience.
ISSN:0096-1523
1939-1277
DOI:10.1037/0096-1523.31.6.1391