The asymmetry of lateral interference in visual letter identification
| Autor: | William P. Banks, Kenneth M. Bachrach, Douglas W. Larson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1977 |
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Masking (art)
Communication business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Lateral masking Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Sensory system Asymmetry Sensory Systems Visual field Identification (information) Optics Interference (communication) business Psychology Sensory level General Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Perception & Psychophysics. 22:232-240 |
| ISSN: | 1532-5962 0031-5117 |
| DOI: | 10.3758/bf03199684 |
| Popis: | Asymmetry of masking refers to the fact that a masking letter placed on the peripheral side of a target in the visual field will interfere more with recognition of the target than will a masking letter placed on the central side of the target. The experiments in this paper show that lateral masking for a pair consisting of a single target and a single mask cannot be entirely explained by processing interference caused by the mask but that masking ]has a component of purely sensory interference. Furthermore, the asymmetry of masking at the sensory level, when all sources of processing interference are eliminated, can be explained in terms of the falloff in acuity from the center to the periphery of the retina. The sensory component of masking is asymmetrical because, with the target at a constant retinal location, the target-plus-mask configuration is, as a whole, more peripherally located with a peripheral mask than a central one, and it is the location of the target-plus-mask configuration that determines performance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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