Citation

Boyce SJ, Pollatsek A. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 1992; 18(3): 531-543.

Affiliation

AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ 07733.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1534354

Abstract

Research with brief presentations of scenes has indicated that scene context facilitates object identification. In the present experiments we used a paradigm in which an object in a scene is "wiggled"--drawing both attention and an eye fixation to itself--and then named. Thus the effect of scene context on object identification can be examined in a situation in which the target object is fixated and hence is fully visible. Experiment 1 indicated that a scene background that was episodically consistent with a target object facilitated the speed of naming. In Experiments 2 and 3, we investigated the time course of scene background information acquisition using display changes contingent on eye movements to the target object. The results from Experiment 2 were inconclusive; however, Experiment 3 demonstrated that scene background information present only on either the first or second fixation on a scene significantly affected naming time. Thus background information appears to be both extracted and able to affect object identification continuously during scene viewing.

Language: en