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Rhythm contour drives musical memory
Listeners’ use of contour information as a basis for memory of rhythmic patterns was explored in two experiments. Both studies employed a short-term...
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Memorability of line drawings of scenes: the role of contour properties
Why are some images more likely to be remembered than others? Previous work focused on the influence of global, low-level visual features as well as...
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Interaction of contour geometry and optic flow in determining relative depth of surfaces
Dynamic occlusion, such as the accretion and deletion of texture near a boundary, is a major factor in determining relative depth of surfaces....
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Visual search of illusory contours: The role of illusory contour clarity
Kanizsa-type illusory contours demonstrate an important function of the visual system—object inference from incomplete boundaries, which can be due...
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Symmetry Detection in Autistic Adults Benefits from Local Processing in a Contour Integration Task
Symmetry studies in autism are inconclusive possibly due to different types of stimuli used which depend on either local or global cues. Therefore,...
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Auditory and visual short-term memory: influence of material type, contour, and musical expertise
Short-term memory has mostly been investigated with verbal or visuospatial stimuli and less so with other categories of stimuli. Moreover, the...
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Does optic flow provide information about actions?
Optic flow, the pattern of light generated in the visual field by motion of objects and the observer’s body, serves as information that underwrites...
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Differences Between East Asians and Westerners in the Mental Representations and Visual Information Extraction Involved in the Decoding of Pain Facial Expression Intensity
Effectively communicating pain is crucial for human beings. Facial expressions are one of the most specific forms of behavior associated with pain,...
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Stimulus Selection in a Q-learning Model Using Fisher Information and Monte Carlo Simulation
Reinforcement learning models have been extensively studied for decision-making tasks with reward feedback. However, in designing an experiment to...
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Perception of illusory contours in children and adults: An eye-tracking study
The eye-tracking study investigated the perception of subjective Kanizsa and Ehrenstein figures in adults and in children aged 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, and...
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Contrastive intonation effects on word recall for information-structural alternatives across the sexes
Focus highlights the fact that contextual alternatives are relevant for the interpretation of an utterance. For example, if someone says: “The...
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Pitch chroma information is processed in addition to pitch height information with more than two pitch-range categories
Octave equivalence describes the perception that notes separated by a doubling in frequency sound similar. While the octave is used cross-culturally...
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Illusory contour perception in domestic dogs
One way to better understand how animals visually perceive their environment is to assess the way in which visual information is interpreted and...
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A Set of 200 Musical Stimuli Varying in Balance, Contour, Symmetry, and Complexity: Behavioral and Computational Assessments
We present a novel set of 200 Western tonal musical stimuli (MUST) to be used in research on perception and appreciation of music. It consists of...
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Filled Pauses Produced by Autistic Adults Differ in Prosodic Realisation, but not Rate or Lexical Type
We examined the use of filled pauses in conversations between homogeneous pairs of autistic and non-autistic adults. A corpus of semi-spontaneous...
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Why are the batteries in the microwave?: Use of semantic information under uncertainty in a search task
A major problem in human cognition is to understand how newly acquired information and long-standing beliefs about the environment combine to make...
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Language-to-music transfer effects depend on the tone language: Akan vs. East Asian tone languages
Recent research suggests that speaking a tone language confers benefits in processing pitch in nonlinguistic contexts such as music. This research...
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Information for perceiving blurry events: Optic flow and color are additive
Information used in visual event perception includes both static image structure projected from opaque object surfaces and dynamic optic flow...
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Object-based visual working memory: an object benefit for equidistant memory items presented within simple contours
Previous research has shown that more information can be stored in visual working memory (VWM) when multiple items belong to the same object. Here,...
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(Mis) understanding your native language: Regional accent impedes processing of information status
Native-speaker listeners constantly predict upcoming units of speech as part of language processing, using various cues. However, this process is...
