Showing papers by "Hadyn D. Ellis published in 1977"
TL;DR: The present study attempted to assess the relative salience of different parts of the human face through the manipulation of the features contained in the Photofit Kit, and found Nose changes were least likely to be noticed, followed by mouth and eyes, with foreheads producing the lowest rate of error.
Abstract: The present study attempted to assess the relative salience of different parts of the human face through the manipulation of the features contained in the Photofit Kit. Subjects observed a face constructed from the kit before attempting to identify the same face in an array of alternatives. The alternatives differed from the target in only one feature and this was systematically varied within the array. Nose changes were least likely to be noticed, followed by mouth and eyes, with foreheads producing the lowest rate of error. This order of features held irrespective of the similarity of the distractors or whether judgements were made in the presence or in the absence of the target. The chin region produced different results depending upon the similarity of the distractors. The results are discussed in relation to earlier experiments in which Photofit and previous studies of cue saliency were used.
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TL;DR: Nouns acquired relatively early or late in life were tachistoscopically presented left or right of a central fixation point and yielded the field by age-of-acquisition interaction, predicted on the argument that words learned early in life are bilaterally represented in the cerebral hemispheres, whereas later acquired words tend to be lateralized in the left hemisphere.
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