A dominant account of selective attention, perceptual load theory, proposes that when attentional resources are exhausted, task-irrelevant information receives little attention and goes unrecognized. However, the flanker effect-typically used to assay stimulus identification-requires an arbitrary mapping between a stimulus and a response. We looked for failures of flanker identification by usin...

Perceptual image and video coders have been reported extensively in the literature with a recent survey listing sixteen representative PVCs (perceptual video coders) for single-view video coding, ten of which conform to H.263, MPEG-4 or H.264/AVC international standard. Successful approaches to perceptual picture coding are classified as perceptual predictive coding, perceptual quantization, ra...

Perceptual load has been found to be a powerful determinant of distractibility in laboratory tasks. The present study assessed how the effects of perceptual load on distractibility in the laboratory relate to individual differences in the likelihood of distractibility in daily life. Sixty-one subjects performed a response-competition task in which perceptual load was varied. As expected, indivi...

Aggressive driving is common across the world. While most aggressive conscious, some behavior may be unconscious on part of motor vehicle drivers. Perceptual bias one main causes traffic accidents. This paper focuses identifying impact factors related to perceptual bias. Questionnaire data from 690 drivers, collected a drivers’ retraining course administered by Traffic Management Bureau in Nanj...

The perceptual error of the investors is one of the issues discussed in behavioral finance. The perceptual error is a wrong sensual or perceptual error.  That is, what we see or hear does not match with the reality. Regarding the fact that the perception of individuals is affected by their worldview and beliefs and religious attitudes can also affect their viewpoint, in this study, the relation...

Most concatenative speech synthesizers employ both acoustic measures and phonetic features to predict the perceptual damage caused by concatenating two waveform segments because no reliable acoustic measure has been found so far. This paper compares the predicting ability of the two kinds of predictor variables. We first conduct a perceptual experiment to measure the naturalness degradation due...

Two studies explored which different dimensions of schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) were associated with negative affect, attention to emotions, clarity of emotions, and emotional intensity/instability. Study 1 included 247 college students, and questionnaires were used to measure SPD. Study 2 included 225 community residents, oversampling for individuals with elevated levels of SPD, and ...

We propose an algorithm that groups points similarly to how human observers do. It is simple, totally unsupervised and able to find clusters of complex and not necessarily convex shape. Groups are identified as the connected components of a Reduced Delaunay Graph (RDG) that we define in this paper. Our method can be seen as an algorithmic equivalent of the gestalt law of perceptual grouping acc...

Dissociable processes for conscious perception (“what” processing) and guidance of action (“how” processing) have been identified in visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems. The present study was designed to find similar dissociation within whole-body movements in which the presence of vestibular information creates a unique perceptual condition. In two experiments, blindfolded participants...

this article addresses the perceptual correlates of compensatory lengthening in persian. in a perception experiment, duration, spectral tilt measurements h1-h2 and h1-f1 and f0 were varied in several steps based on the results from a production experiment (sadeghi, 2007). subjects were asked to identify the tokens involving vowel length. results revealed that duration is the most reliable perce...