Straight to the point: how people encode linear discontinuations
Fractal rev. psicol
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24(3): 501-512, set.-dez. 2012. ilus
Artículo
en Inglés
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ABSTRACT
Spatial discontinuations, as those found in cities and buildings, are everyday events. But, how do we encode and classify such misalignments? This is the topic of this paper. Twenty participants were asked to classify a total of 51 icons showing an upward-moving line being misaligned to the right, left and straight down. The results show that subjects were very sensitive to slight discontinuations occurring to vertical lines and that there was not exact symmetry between the left and right axis, meaning that the pieces slightly misaligned to the left were encoded differently than those misaligned to the right.
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Percepción Espacial
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Percepción Visual
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Cognición
Límite:
Femenino
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Humanos
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Masculino
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Fractal rev. psicol
Asunto de la revista:
Psicologia
Año:
2012
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
País de afiliación:
Chile
Institución/País de afiliación:
Universidad Diego Portales/CL
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