Ambiguity Priming Facilitates Pattern Detection and Resistance to Set-Shifting
Abstract
The goal of this grant was to test the ambiguity-priming hypothesis empirically, as well as to provide a quantitative description of this behavior using approaches borrowed from game theory. Ambiguity-priming was behaviorally tested with N=20 individuals at the visual perceptual level with a motion detection task including points with probabilistic coherence. We did not find evidence for the hypothesis that ambiguity priming facilitates pattern detection or influences set-shifting in the visual perceptual domain with the random-dots motion task. However, through the construction and optimization of this task we observed that there was a significant amount of individual variability in participants' ability to detect signal in varying degrees of noise. We found this individual variability in pattern detection to have potentially important behavioral implications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA534913
Entities
People
- Lilianne R. Mujica-parodi
Organizations
- State University of New York