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Creator:: Lien, Mei-Ching, Ruthruff, Eric, and Naylor, Jamie
Abstract:: Whereas capture experiments typically repeat a single task many times, real world cognition is characterized by frequent switching. Lien, Ruthruff, and Johnston (2010) reported that the attentional control system can rapidly and fully switch between different search settings (e.g., red to green), with no carryover and no inter-trial priming. The...
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Creator:: Lien, Mei-Ching, Allen, Philip A., and Martin, Nicole
Abstract:: Perea, Duñabeitia, and Carreiras (2008) found that LEET stimuli, formed by a mixture of digits and letters (e.g., “T4BL3” instead of “TABLE”), produced similar priming effects as regular words. This finding led them to conclude that LEET stimuli automatically activate lexical information. The present study examined whether semantic activation occurs...
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Creator:: Lien, Mei-Ching, Gray, Daniel, Jardin, Elliott, and Proctor, Robert W.
Abstract:: Tipper, Paul, and Hayes (2006) found object-based correspondence effects for door-handle stimuli for shape judgments but not color. They reasoned that a grasping affordance is activated when judging dimensions related to a grasping action (shape), but not for other dimensions (color). Cho and Proctor (2011, 2013), however, found the effect...
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Creator:: Levant, Ronald F., Allen, Philip A., and Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: The present study extended existing research on alexithymia in men, investigating whether the deficit in processing emotions occurs early in the process, as a result of dissociation or repression, or later, as a result of suppression. We also examined the assumption in Levant’s (2011) normative male alexithymia hypothesis that men...
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Creator:: Noesen, Birken, Lien, Mei-Ching, and Ruthruff, Eric
Abstract:: Several behavioral studies have suggested that rarity is critical for enabling irrelevant, salient objects to capture attention. We tested this hypothesis using the N2pc, thought to reflect attentional allocation. A cue display was followed by a target display in which participants identified the letter in a specific color. Experiment 1...
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Creator:: Allen, Philip A., Lien, Mei-Ching, Ruthruff, Eric, and Voss, Andreas
Abstract:: The present study examined the effect of training on age differences in performing a highly practiced task using the psychological refractory period (PRP) paradigm (Pashler, 1984). Earlier training studies have concentrated on tasks that are not already overlearned. The present question of interest is whether task dual-task integration will be...
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Creator:: Lien, Mei-Ching, Jardin, Elliott, and Proctor, Robert W.
Abstract:: We examined Goslin et al.’s (2012) claim that the object based-correspondence effect (faster keypress responses when the orientation of an object’s graspable part corresponds with the response location than when it does not) is the result of object-based attention (visual-action binding). In Experiment 1, participants determined the category of a...
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Creator:: Lien, Mei-Ching, Taylor, Robinson, and Ruthruff, Eric
Abstract:: The present study, using a cuing paradigm, reexamined the claim of an attentional bias toward fearful faces. In Experiment 1, participants searched a target display for a letter in a specific color. This target display was preceded by a non-informative cue display, which contained colored boxes (one in the target...
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Creator:: Gaspelin, Nicholas, Ruthruff, Eric, Lien, Mei-Ching, and Jung, Kyunghun
Abstract:: Theeuwes (2004) proposed that stimulus-driven capture occurs primarily for salient stimuli that fall within the observer's attentional window, such as when performing a parallel search. This proposal, supported by some studies, can explain many seemingly discrepant results in the literature. The present study tested this proposal using a modified pre-cuing...
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Creator:: Lien, Mei-Ching, Allen, Philip A., and Crawford, Caitlin
Abstract:: Do word frequency and case mixing affect different processing stages in visual word recognition? Some studies of on line reading suggests that word frequency affects an earlier perceptual, encoding stage and case mixing affects a later central, decision stage (e.g., Reingold, Yang, & Rayner, 2010). Others have suggested otherwise (e.g.,...
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