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SPATIAL FRAMEWORK OF FORM PERCEPTION: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES WITH RESPECT TO PHENOMENAL AND RETINAL DETERMINATION OF SPATIAL REFERENCE

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1974
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Rock's procedure for separating the effect of objective and retinal spatial reference by varying stimulus orientation and body posture was used in conjunction with the "same-different" reaction time paradigm. It was predicted that the individual differences in perceptual processing (analytic and structural) obtained by Hock (1973) would involve different determinants of spatial reference, these being retinal reference for analytic processing and objective reference for structural processing. The results show that analytic subjects as hypothesized, referenced perceptual information to a retinal coordinate system. Structural subjects however, seemed to reference perceptual information to both objective and retinal coordinates. The results for structural subjects were attributed to the unexpected finding that subjects who were structural while upright, became analytic when in a reclining position. The latter finding suggested that Rock's methodology for separating the effects of retinal and objective orientation relies on the subjects employing the same mode of processing in all bodily postures.
Title: THE SPATIAL FRAMEWORK OF FORM PERCEPTION: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES WITH RESPECT TO PHENOMENAL AND RETINAL DETERMINATION OF SPATIAL REFERENCE.
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Name(s): GOLD, LEON SAMUEL
Florida Atlantic University, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1974
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 45 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Rock's procedure for separating the effect of objective and retinal spatial reference by varying stimulus orientation and body posture was used in conjunction with the "same-different" reaction time paradigm. It was predicted that the individual differences in perceptual processing (analytic and structural) obtained by Hock (1973) would involve different determinants of spatial reference, these being retinal reference for analytic processing and objective reference for structural processing. The results show that analytic subjects as hypothesized, referenced perceptual information to a retinal coordinate system. Structural subjects however, seemed to reference perceptual information to both objective and retinal coordinates. The results for structural subjects were attributed to the unexpected finding that subjects who were structural while upright, became analytic when in a reclining position. The latter finding suggested that Rock's methodology for separating the effects of retinal and objective orientation relies on the subjects employing the same mode of processing in all bodily postures.
Identifier: 13649 (digitool), FADT13649 (IID), fau:10486 (fedora)
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1974.
Subject(s): Form perception
Orientation (Psychology)
Recognition (Psychology)
Visual perception
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