Attention is biased to near surfaces

GL West, J Pratt, MA Peterson - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2013 - Springer
It is thought that attention is allocated to figural items over adjacent ground stimuli. It is
unclear which attribute of figures drives any previously observed attentional effects (eg …

Spatially rearranged object parts can facilitate perception of intact whole objects

L Cacciamani, AA Ayars, MA Peterson - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The familiarity of an object depends on the spatial arrangement of its parts; when the parts
are spatially rearranged, they form a novel, unrecognizable configuration. Yet the same …