Object Familiarity Can Be Altered in the Presence of Other Objects

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan S. Brown ◽  
Elizabeth J. Marsh
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1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 528-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catriona M. Morrison ◽  
Tameron D. Chappell ◽  
Andrew W. Ellis

Studies of lexical processing have relied heavily on adult ratings of word learning age or age of acquisition, which have been shown to be strongly predictive of processing speed. This study reports a set of objective norms derived in a large-scale study of British children's naming of 297 pictured objects (including 232 from the Snodgrass & Vanderwart, 1980, set). In addition, data were obtained on measures of rated age of acquisition, rated frequency, imageability, object familiarity, picture-name agreement, and name agreement. We discuss the relationship between the objective measure and adult ratings of word learning age. Objective measures should be used when available, but where not, our data suggest that adult ratings provide a reliable and valid measure of real word learning age.


2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 2878-2891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Daniele Zannino ◽  
Francesco Barban ◽  
Emiliano Macaluso ◽  
Carlo Caltagirone ◽  
Giovanni A. Carlesimo

Ventral occipito-temporal cortex is known to play a major role in visual object recognition. Still unknown is whether object familiarity and semantic domain are critical factors in its functional organization. Most models assume a functional locus where exemplars of familiar categories are represented: the structural description system. On the assumption that familiarity should modulate the effect of visual noise on form recognition, we attempted to individualize the structural description system by scanning healthy subjects while they looked at familiar (living and nonliving things) and novel 3-D objects, either with increasing or decreasing visual noise. Familiarity modulated the visual noise effect (particularly when familiar items were living things), revealing a substrate for the structural description system in right occipito-temporal cortex. These regions also responded preferentially to living as compared to nonliving items. Overall, these results suggest that living items are particularly reliant on the structural description system.


2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice M Proverbio ◽  
Friederike Wiedemann ◽  
Roberta Adorni ◽  
Valentina Rossi ◽  
Marzia Del Zotto ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Martín ◽  
Javier G. Chambeaud ◽  
José F. Barraza
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2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (30) ◽  
pp. 7881-7887 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Hein ◽  
O. Doehrmann ◽  
N. G. Muller ◽  
J. Kaiser ◽  
L. Muckli ◽  
...  

NeuroImage ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 1977-1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Lacey ◽  
Peter Flueckiger ◽  
Randall Stilla ◽  
Michael Lava ◽  
K. Sathian

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria D. Sera ◽  
Caitlin A. Cole ◽  
Mercedes Oromendia ◽  
Melissa A. Koenig

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank M. Marchak ◽  
Tanner L. Keil ◽  
Pamela S. Westphal ◽  
David M. Bechberger ◽  
Jennifer E. Tierney
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1969 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter C. Gogel

The perceived sizes and perceived distances of familiar objects were investigated in two experiments in which images of familiar objects were presented monocularly, one at a time, in an otherwise dark field of view. It was found that the angular size of the objects as well as their familiar size determined reported size. Reported distances were increasingly underestimated as a function of increasing simulated distances of the objects. The results are consistent with the conclusion that, as a function of the retinal size of the objects, the observer perceives the familiar objects as off-sized, and, that as a consequence of these off-sized perceptions, the observer's judgements of the object distances reflect inferential rather than perceptual processes.


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