Unstable world: Recent experience affects spatial perception

Combining Perception and Experience in Spatial Categorization

Two experiments examined how categories derived from experience and those derived from perception affect spatial memory. Four kinds of objects were distributed within a circle and spatially clustered so that all objects of each kind appeared within the same spatial region. These identity-based categories were either aligned with or in opposition to the perceptuallybased quadrant categories that...

Spatial Perception and Spatial Experience in 3D Worlds

In 3D worlds, the added dimension gives users the feeling of perceiving a more realistic presentation. Therefore, 3D is very attractive for different research and development areas like in the field of Games and Serious Games. The spatial perception and spatial presence experience of the user are different when using 3D in contrast to 2D applications. In the context of the project ‘Sports in th...

Specific previous experience affects perception of harmony and meter.

Prior knowledge shapes our experiences, but which prior knowledge shapes which experiences? This question is addressed in the domain of music perception. Three experiments were used to determine whether listeners activate specific musical memories during music listening. Each experiment provided listeners with one of two musical contexts that was presented simultaneously with a melody. After a ...

How Experience Affects Perception in Expert Decision-Making

Spatial organization affects lightness perception on articulated surrounds.

The articulation effect refers to a change in lightness contrast induced by adding small patches of different luminances to a uniform background surrounding a target in a lightness contrast display. This study investigated how local luminance signals are integrated to generate the articulation effect. We asked whether spatial organization due to perceptual grouping can influence the articulatio...