Priming effects with ambiguous figures

Goolkasian, Paula; Woodberry, Courtney

doi:10.3758/app.72.1.168

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“…The assumption is in line with numerous studies demonstrating that context affects perceptual and linguistic processing so as to favor the context related aspects or meanings of a stimulus (e.g., context relevant meaning of an ambiguous word, Simpson, 1981; context relevant interpretation of an ambiguous image, Goolkasian and Woodberry, 2010). Moreover, it was demonstrated that while processing a joke, different meanings implied by the joke are activated at different times, suggesting the focus on different aspects of a joke or a particular interpretation of the joke can be subject to change (Vaid et al, 2003).…”

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The Frog Test: A Tool for Measuring Humor Theories' Validity and Humor Preferences

Amir

2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The Frog Test: A Tool for Measuring Humor Theories' Validity and Humor Preferences

Amir

2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Bistable figures have two mutually exclusive interpretations that alternately dominate awareness during viewing. However, a predictive cue related to one of the interpretations of a bistable figure can bias perception in favor of that interpretation (Figure 2A; Bugelski and Alampay, 1961; Balcetis and Dale, 2007; Goolkasian and Woodberry, 2010). Stimuli can also display bistable motion; an array of moving dot stimuli can be arranged so that observers perceive a rotating cylinder with spontaneous reversals in rotation direction.…”

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“…Viewing a prime related to one of the interpretations (right) biases perception in favor of that interpretation. Adapted, with permission, from Goolkasian and Woodberry (2010). Copyright ©by Springer Publishing.…”

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Predictive Feedback and Conscious Visual Experience

Panichello¹,

Cheung²,

Bär³

2013

Front. Psychology

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The human brain continuously generates predictions about the environment based on learned regularities in the world. These predictions actively and efficiently facilitate the interpretation of incoming sensory information. We review evidence that, as a result of this facilitation, predictions directly influence conscious experience. Specifically, we propose that predictions enable rapid generation of conscious percepts and bias the contents of awareness in situations of uncertainty. The possible neural mechanisms underlying this facilitation are discussed.

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“…The stimuli were adapted from a previous study, where a priming task was developed to manipulate top-down processing in analogue non-clinical sample. 21 There were 18 images in total. All the images were biased for 1 interpretation with half of them primed with a word related to the other interpretation (eg, saddle served as a prime for a horse) and half not primed.…”

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“…20 Prior exposure of a stimulus activates top-down processes such as memory, knowledge, and expectation and guides interpretation of subsequent perception to a stimulus. 21 In addition, this process activates top-down attention mechanisms to attend to or inhibit internally generated information. 22 Priming is an appropriate paradigm to test the interaction of top-down factors with bottom-up perception.…”

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Visual Priming and Visual Hallucinations in Parkinson’s Disease. Evidence for Normal Top-Down Processes

Straughan

Collerton

Bruce

2015

J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol

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Background: Visual hallucinations (VH) are common in Parkinson's disease (PD) and are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Current explanations for VH in PD suggest combined impairments in top-down attentional and bottom-up perceptual processes, which allow the passive ''release'' of stored images. Alternative models in other disorders have suggested that top-down factors may actively encourage hallucinations. In order to explore the interaction between top-down and bottom-up visual processing in PDVH, we developed novel experimental priming tasks in which top-down verbal cues were used to prime the bottom-up recognition of partial or ambiguous pictures. Method: Two groups of PD participants with (PD þ VH, n ¼ 16), and without VH (PD -VH, n ¼ 20) were compared to a group of healthy older adults (NC, n ¼ 20) on 3 novel measures of visual priming. Results: All tasks showed significant priming effects. The PD þ VH group was more impaired at accurately identifying silhouette and fragmented images compared to the PD -VH group. There were no differences in priming between the 2 PD groups. Conclusions: The study showed that VH in PD are not associated with relatively greater top-down activation, and that the interaction between top-down and bottom-up processes is intact.

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Priming effects with ambiguous figures

Cited by 20 publications

References 26 publications

The Frog Test: A Tool for Measuring Humor Theories' Validity and Humor Preferences

The Frog Test: A Tool for Measuring Humor Theories' Validity and Humor Preferences

Predictive Feedback and Conscious Visual Experience

Visual Priming and Visual Hallucinations in Parkinson’s Disease. Evidence for Normal Top-Down Processes

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