CODING SYSTEMS IN PERCEPTION AND COGNITION

Abstract

A number of studies were conducted in the areas of perception, attention, memory and cognition. Empirical and theoretical techniques were formulated for studying how man allocates his limited processing capacities to various aspects of the environment. It was shown that material which does not reach focal attention can still be related to past experience, but that it shows a serious deficiency in storage. The process of abstraction from visual to verbal codes and from simple individual stimuli to integrated stimulus compounds was studied. It was shown that the order that man searches and indeed whether or not he incoporates a stimulus dimension into his running estimate of the situation is a function not only of the problem he is to solve, but also of the structure of the environment which furnished him the evidence. The coexistence of stimultaneous codes in different sensory forms and the flexibility with which codes are used in particular situations are emphasized.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 08, 1968
Accession Number
AD0667221

Entities

People

  • Michael Posner

Organizations

  • University of Oregon

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Brightness
  • Coding
  • Cognition
  • Contracts
  • Data Displays
  • Environment
  • Information Processing
  • Information Transfer
  • Intervals
  • Judgment
  • Materials
  • Motor Skills
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Psychology
  • Reaction Time
  • Recognition

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  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.
  • Theoretical Analysis.