Familiarity and nameability do not affect picture detection.

Author(s)
Boucart, M. & Humphreys, G.W.
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Abstract

It has recently been suggested that the familiarity of a stimulus can affect early sensory processes involved in their detection. This hypothesis was tested in a detection task using fragmented forms varying in familiarity and their structural properties but equivalent in their spatial frequency content. No effect of familiarity or structure was found on the detectability of the stimuli. Possible reasons for the familiarity effect observed in previous detection studies are discussed.

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B 31865 [electronic version only] / 01/ 83.2/
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From: Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 28 (1990), No. 5, p. 409- 411, 15 ref.

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