Prior-entry: A review

C Spence, C Parise - Consciousness and cognition, 2010 - Elsevier
The law of prior entry was one of EB Titchener's seven fundamental laws of attention.
According to Titchener (1908, p. 251):“the object of attention comes to consciousness more …

Using single colors and color pairs to communicate basic tastes II: Foreground–background color combinations

AT Woods, F Marmolejo-Ramos, C Velasco… - i …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
People associate basic tastes (eg, sweet, sour, bitter, and salty) with specific colors (eg, pink
or red, green or yellow, black or purple, and white or blue). In the present study, we …

Lack of color integration in visual short-term memory binding

MA Parra, R Cubelli, S Della Sala - Memory & cognition, 2011 - Springer
Bicolored objects are retained in visual short-term memory (VSTM) less efficiently than
unicolored objects. This is unlike shape–color combinations, whose retention in VSTM does …

Object salience is transiently represented whereas object presence is not: Evidence from temporal order judgment

M Donk, L Soesman - Perception, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
We investigated the temporal dynamics in the processing of object salience and object
presence by using a temporal-order-judgment task. In two experiments, observers were …

Temporal correspondence in perceptual organization: Reciprocal interactions between temporal sensitivity and figure–ground segregation

I Singhal, N Srinivasan - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024 - Springer
How do visual representations account for time? Is it the case that they represent time by
themselves possessing temporal properties (temporal mirroring) or by atemporal …

Contour entropy: A new determinant of perceiving ground or a hole.

BJ Gillam, PM Grove - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Figure-ground perception is typically described as seeing one surface occluding another.
Figure properties, not ground properties, are considered the significant factors. In scenes …

[HTML][HTML] Contextual effects on perceived contrast: Figure–ground assignment and orientation contrast

MW Self, A Mookhoek, N Tjalma… - Journal of …, 2015 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Figure–ground segregation is an important step in the path leading to object recognition.
The visual system segregates objects ('figures') in the visual scene from their backgrounds …

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 …

At the mercy of prior entry: Prior entry induced by invisible primes is not susceptible to current intentions

K Weiß, I Scharlau - Acta Psychologica, 2012 - Elsevier
If one of two events is attended to, it will be perceived earlier than a simultaneously
occurring unattended event. Since 150years, this effect has been ascribed to the facilitating …

[PDF][PDF] Gestalt has no Notion of Attention. But does it need One?

C van Leeuwen, D Alexander, C Nakatani… - … . Mente Journal of …, 2011 - academia.edu
We consider the framework of attentional processing in light of Gestalt theory. The dichotomy
of top-down and bottom-up attention is criticized as an anachronism in light of the interactive …