Kaiser, Daniel orcid.org/0000-0002-9007-3160 and Cichy, Radoslaw M (2018) Typical visual-field locations facilitate access to awareness for everyday objects. Cognition. pp. 118-122. ISSN 0010-0277
Abstract
In real-world vision, humans are constantly confronted with complex environments that contain a multitude of objects. These environments are spatially structured, so that objects have different likelihoods of appearing in specific parts of the visual space. Our massive experience with such positional regularities prompts the hypothesis that the processing of individual objects varies in efficiency across the visual field: when objects are encountered in their typical locations (e.g., we are used to seeing lamps in the upper visual field and carpets in the lower visual field), they should be more efficiently perceived than when they are encountered in atypical locations (e.g., a lamp in the lower visual field and a carpet in the upper visual field). Here, we provide evidence for this hypothesis by showing that typical positioning facilitates an object's access to awareness. In two continuous flash suppression experiments, objects more efficiently overcame inter-ocular suppression when they were presented in visual-field locations that matched their typical locations in the environment, as compared to non-typical locations. This finding suggests that through extensive experience the visual system has adapted to the statistics of the environment. This adaptation may be particularly useful for rapid object individuation in natural scenes.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Adolescent,Adult,Awareness/physiology,Female,Humans,Male,Pattern Recognition, Visual/physiology,Photic Stimulation/methods,Visual Fields/physiology,Visual Perception/physiology,Young Adult |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 31 Oct 2019 15:50 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2025 00:35 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.07.009 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.07.009 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:152950 |
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