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When detecting a change in a local feature (think: orientation of an object), structural changes in the background make it easier. The representation of statistical regularities (e.g. shared features) can work under conditions of reduced attention.
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Object pairs that are traditionally grouped (e.g., bathroom mirrors often appear above the sink) may have priority access to conscious awareness. Stein et al, 2015, shared how can the spatial configuration of objects modulates visual awareness.
https://t.co/YeFtTJZfSc
Moving away from an image can help to inspect the surrounding details better. In their seminal work, Yeshurun & Carasco showed that attention enhances spatial resolution by reducing the size of the parallel spatial filters involved in vision. #prosemtweet
https://t.co/vY40XUDPlQ
Do you engage in more habitual behavior when under stress? Schwabe and Wolf showed that in an instrumental learning task cold-induced stress rendered people to behave in response to triggering stimuli, independent of what is the outcome. #prosemtweet. Here https://t.co/bM7Ps2yB4x
Individual differences in conceptual knowledge can shape how you perceive facial expressions. Brooks et al. in 2018 show that conceptual similarity in emotion categories can modulate the early processing of facial cues. #prosemtweet Here is the work: https://t.co/xtmrhzFaTj
Is feeling good makes changes how you perceive things? Uddenberg & Shim shows some of that: feeling positive broadens your perceptual tuning and decreases your sensitivity of feature discrimination. #prosemtweet See more about that here: https://t.co/b5KGdWSemr