Psychology, Department of
Date of this Version
1980
Abstract
Oral naming latencies were measured for visually displayed digits that were flanked by either compatible (identical) or incompatible (different) noise digits. When target-noise spatial separation was "narrow" (1.1-deg visual angle), substantially longer latencies were observed for incompatible target-noise combinations than for compatible combinations, and this effect was greatest when the onset of the noise preceded the target by 150 msec. When target-noise spatial separation was increased to 3.3 deg, noise-compatibility effects were substantially attenuated when the noise preceded the target by 100 msec or less, but the effects reappeared with longer SOA values and reached a maximum when the noise preceded the target by 250 msec. This three-way interaction of spatial separation, SOA, and noise compatibility offers support for the continuous flow conception of visual information processing described by Eriksen and Schultz (1979).
Comments
Published in the Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 1980, 16 (6), 443-446. Copyright © 1980 The Psychonomic Society. Used by permission.