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Recognition accuracy for tachistoscopically presented pictures of common objects was tested for independent groups of subjects who performed under factorial combinations of pictorial or verbal, similar or dissimilar alternatives, which were presented either before and after or only after test pictures. For both verbal and pictorial alternatives, recognition was less with similar than with dissimilar alternatives, the difference being greatest in the only-after condition, and performance with dissimilar alternatives was relatively unaffected by the time at which alternatives were presented. Although the pattern of results was similar, recognition was generally poorer with verbal than with pictorial alternatives. Results are interpreted in terms of pictorial recoding of verbal information, such that for both pictorial and verbal alternatives a set of critical features may be identified which distinguish among the alternatives, and which guide selective perceptual processing of a following pictorial target.
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A preliminary report of this study appeared as a paper read at meetings of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 1976. The authors wish to thank Elizabeth R. Erspamer and Miles A. Lombard for their assistance in constructing stimulus materials and in pilot work done for the present experiment.
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Redding, G.M., Seward, W.M. & Stolldorf, D.E. Selective attention in visual recognition with pictorial and verbal alternatives. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 8, 295–297 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335144
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