A Proposal to Perform New Theoretical and Experimental Research on HumanEfficiency Through Developments Within Systems Factorial Technology (SFT)

Abstract

Project is complete. A model of configural processing in which humans process global characteristics (such as general shape) first and then local characteristics (like the fine details of a pattern) is presented. The Blobloc model is a culmination of findings within the GRT and SFT methods and serves to connect physiologically plausible processing mechanisms with perception modeling. It can be adapted to account for learning effects. An experiment to test the model has been designed using sinusoidal grating patterns that vary in contrast in a single direction. The parameters of Blobloc allows for the direct comparison of feature-by-feature processing versus holistic/ or configural processing mechanisms by the human.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 26, 2017
Accession Number
AD1036346

Entities

People

  • James Townsend

Organizations

  • Indiana University Bloomington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognitive Science
  • Contrast
  • Identification
  • Information Processing
  • Mathematical Models
  • Measurement
  • Models
  • Parallel Processing
  • Perception
  • Psychology
  • Reaction Time
  • Recognition
  • Standards
  • Students

Readers

  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Regression Analysis.