Studies on affordance perception commonly report systematic errors; a finding that is at odds with the observation that everyday motor behavior is accurate. The present study investigated whether the means by which perceptual performance is measured could explain the reported errors. Perception of overhead reachability and reaction time were measured using a verbal and an actual reaching respon...

Enhancing image quality has become an important issue as the volume of digital images increases exponentially and the expectation of high-quality images grows insatiably. Digitized images commonly suffer from poor visual quality due to distortions, low contrast, the deficiency of lighting, defocusing, atmospheric influences such as fog, severe compression, and transmission errors. Hence, image ...

Previous experiments have shown that objects are recognized more readily in a semantically consistent visual context. However, the benefit from context could be explained by response bias, and may not reflect the influence of context on the perceptual processes of recognition. We conducted a six-alternative forced-choice experiment to measure semantic and perceptual errors. A target object appe...

This study was an attempt to shed light on the relationship between perceptual learning styles and perceptual teaching styles of Iranian EFL learners and teachers. It further investigated the relationship between perceptual learning style and the age, gender, and proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. A total of 112 students and 23 teachers participated in this study. The data was collected using...

This article compares the errors made by automatic speech recognizers to those made by humans for near-homophones in American English and French. This exploratory study focuses on the impact of limited word context and the potential resulting ambiguities for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems and human listeners. Perceptual experiments using 7-gram chunks centered on incorrect or correc...

UNLABELLED [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 29(2) of Neuropsychology (see record 2014-42242-001). The funding source information was missing from the author note, and A. M. Barrett's institutional affiliation was incorrect. The funding source information and Barrett's correct institutional affiliation are provided in the erratum.] OBJECTIVE The sparse existi...

On the basis of noises recorded in trains, this article presents circular errors rates obtained by two possible paired comparison methods. The first one allows listeners to answer that two noises in a pair are equally annoying, while the second one forces them to select one of the sounds. It is shown that the latter can lead to very high number of circular errors when perceptual differences bet...