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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"visual cognition"”.
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Assessing Evolutionary Explanations of Human Behaviour Using Visual Cognition.
… has focused solely on sex differences in spatial cognition. In a series of eight experiments, the present thesis examined the hunter gatherer hypothesis using visual cognition paradigms. Chapters 2 and 3 failed to support the hunter gatherer hypothesis when assessed by attentional and perceptual …
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A Science Education Study Using Visual Cognition and Eye Tracking to Explore Medication Selection in the Novice Versus Expert Nurse Anesthetist
… of this science education study is to explore visual cognition and eye tracking during medication selection in the student nurse anesthetist (first year and second year students) and the expert nurse anesthetist. The first phase of this study consisted of the selection of a specific medication …
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Developing/testing a new approach for assessing rapid visual identification of hematological cells using principles of visual cognition: a health science education study
… identification. Format 2 applied principles of visual cognition, grouping WBCs for identification by patient and presenting multiple example images from the patient before requesting identification of individual cells. This novel exam format was intended to: (a) provide a contextualized visual …
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We are what we attend to: Individual differences in attention and personality
As the gatekeeper of conscious awareness, visual attention plays a formative role in how and what we experience. Visual attention is influenced by a cluster of exogenous (e.g., visual onsets and motion) and endogenous factors (e.g., goals, desires), which work in tandem to influence how visual …
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Emergent patterns of task-specific neurons in deep neural networks
Visual cognition has long been the subject of curiosity within the realm of deep learning. While much research has gone into the development of neural network models that can at times outperform humans, the underlying principles behind truly understanding visual concepts remain elusive. Utilizing a …
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Cognitive aspects of pictorial address and seriality in art: A practice-led investigtion
… of pictorial address in light of concepts within visual cognition. Theories of address often refer to the temporal, spatial and postural qualities of art spectatorship. Here they are aligned with relevant psychological concepts including gist extraction, spatial representation and embodied …
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The Syntax of British Sign Language: an Overview
… Deaf Association, 2013). Despite Government recognition as an official language in March 2003 (United Kingdom Council on Deafness, 2003), there is little theoretical research, at an in-depth structural level, that can tell us much about the syntactic nature of the language. This research …
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Socio - cultural investigation of visual dyslexic cognition
The thinking approaches of dyslexic visual artists in their creative production have been little analysed, either in isolation or in comparison with non-dyslexic artists. This research investigates the nature of visual dyslexic cognition and tests for cognitive differences between dyslexic and …
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A role for long term memory in search for spatial relations
In the field of visual cognition, most studies focus on how we process features of objects, individual objects, or whole scenes, but relatively little research attention is paid to how we process relationships between objects and features. Our ability to appreciate relations between objects allows …
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Interpreting abuse from self-representational drawings: a mixed-method study
… empirically grounded methodology for analyzing visual interpretation in general that, in particular, could be used for the diagnostic analysis of images to identify drawers who have suffered interpersonal abuse. The second purpose was to assess the diagnostic utility of a novel, self-portrait …
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Cognitive Audio: Enabling Auditory Interfaces with an Understanding of How We Hear
… of principles governing pre-conscious auditory cognition with traditional HCI approaches to auditory interface design via explicit statistical modeling, termed "Cognitive Audio". Along the way, I consider the major roadblocks that present themselves in approaching this convergence: I ask how we …
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What's odd? Cognitive processing of social contexts based on autistic traits within the general population
… et al., 2001). Participants completed a visual/social oddity task that varied on whether complex or simple processing of a visual scene was required. Scenes could be visually odd (e.g., girl with a vase as a “third leg,” which requires simple re-parsing of visual features, or socially odd …
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Why We Draw: An Exploration Into How and Why Drawing Works
Visual information allows us to experience concepts in a way that is analogous to the real world; an image represents the semantic meaning of a concept and does so without conforming to the structural or syntactic rules of standard language. Drawing is therefore an agile form of communication, able …
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An ERP Investigation into the Influence of Spatial Relevance on Attentional Deployment
In visual search, top-down task knowledge and bottom-up stimulus salience interact to determine where observers are most likely to attend. Past research has demonstrated that during search tasks, scene regions with a high probability of containing the target (spatially relevant regions) are more …
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Improving high school physical science students' understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum: a modified diagram approach
The focus of this study was to identify major conceptual difficulties that selected public high school physical science students encounter in understanding a standard electromagnetic spectrum diagram. A research-driven, modified version of that standard diagram was used in this study to determine …