Salient objects in the visual field attract our attention. Recent work in the orientation domain has shown that the effects of the relative salience of two singleton elements on covert visual attention disappear over time. The present study aims to investigate how salience derived from color and luminance differences affects covert selection. In two experiments, observers indicated the location...

We investigated whether the effect of covert attention on information accrual varies with eccentricity (4 degrees vs 9 degrees) and the complexity of the visual search task (feature vs conjunction). We used speed-accuracy tradeoff procedures to derive conjoint measures of the speed of information processing and accuracy in each search task. Information processing was slower with more complex co...

It has been implicitly assumed in the generative literature that coordinate structures are base-generated. This paper argues, however, that coordinate structures can be derived, their formations involving movement. We demonstrate that comitative phrases in Japanese are in fact part of coordinate structures, and that these structures are formed in covert syntax. We show, adopting the Move-F theo...

PURPOSE To investigate the presence of reactivity, if any, to wearing sealed and unsealed pedometers, with and without step count recording. METHODS On the first visit to the laboratory, 63 participants (41 females and 22 males; age = 23.6 +/- 9.6 yr, body mass index = 22.7 +/- 3.0 kg x m(-2)), blinded to the study aim, were provided with a sealed pedometer (New Lifestyles NL-1000) and inform...

PURPOSE This study aimed to examine the presence and duration of reactivity to wearing a pedometer and recording daily step counts in free-living adults. METHODS On the first visit to the laboratory, 90 participants (69% were females, age = 26.8 ± 13.0 yr, body mass index = 23.4 ± 4.0 kg·m(-2)), blinded to the study aim, were provided with a sealed pedometer (New Lifestyles NL-800) and inform...