Article
Role of Gamma-Band Synchronization in Priming of Form Discrimination for Multi-Object Displays
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
(2006)
Abstract
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.
Disciplines
Publication Date
June, 2006
Citation Information
Robert G Morrison. "Role of Gamma-Band Synchronization in Priming of Form Discrimination for Multi-Object Displays" Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance Vol. 32 Iss. 3 (2006) p. 610 - 617 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robert-morrison/4/