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2007
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Mapping the Color Space of Saccadic Selectivity in Visual Search
Color coding is used to guide attention in computer displays for such critical tasks as baggage screening or air traffic control. It has been shown that a display object attracts...
Yun Xu, Emily C. Higgins, Mei Xiao, Marc Pomplun
COGSCI
2007
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Semantic Boost on Episodic Associations: An Empirically-Based Computational Model
Words become associated following repeated co-occurrence episodes. This process might be further determined by the semantic characteristics of the words. The present study focused...
Yaron Silberman, Shlomo Bentin, Risto Miikkulainen
COGSCI
2007
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Attention to Endpoints: A Cross-Linguistic Constraint on Spatial Meaning
We investigate a possible universal constraint on spatial meaning. It has been proposed that people attend preferentially to the endpoints of spatial motion events, and that langu...
Terry Regier, Mingyu Zheng
COGSCI
2007
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Contextualizing Counterintuitiveness: How Context Affects Comprehension and Memorability of Counterintuitive Concepts
A number of anthropologists have argued that religious concepts are minimally counterintuitive and that this gives them mnemic advantages. This paper addresses the question of why...
M. Afzal Upala, Lauren O. Gonce, Ryan D. Tweney, D...
COGSCI
2007
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The Dynamics of Lexical Competition During Spoken Word Recognition
The sounds that make up spoken words are heard in a series and must be mapped rapidly onto words in memory because their elements, unlike those of visual words, cannot simultaneou...
James S. Magnuson, James A. Dixon, Michael K. Tane...