adam 1xbet online casino Larson, Ph.D. (2012)

Major Professor:

Dr. Les Loschky

Title and Institution:

Assistant Professor, University of Findlay

Dissertation:

Recognizing the setting before reporting the action: Investigating how visual events are mentally constructed from scene images

Abstract:

While watching a film, the viewer begins to construct mental representations of it, which are called events. During the opening scene of a film, the viewer is presented with two distinct pieces of information that can be used to construct the event, namely the setting and an action by the main character. But, which of these two constructs are first cognitively represented by the viewer? Experiment 1 examined the time-course of basic level action 1xbet online casino with superordinate and basic level scene 1xbet online casino using masking. The results indicated that 1xbet online casino occurred in a course-to-fine manner, inconsistent with Rosch et al.'s (1976) basic level theory. Interestingly, basic level action 1xbet online casino performance did not reach ceiling when it was processed for a 367 ms SOA, suggesting that additional scene information and processing time were required. Thus, Experiment 2 examined scene and action 1xbet online casino performance over multiple fixations, and the scene information that was fixated for each 1xbet online casino task. Both superordinate and basic level scene 1xbet online casino required only a single fixation to reach ceiling performance, inconsistent with basic level primacy, whereas basic level action 1xbet online casino took two to three fixations, and led to more object fixations than in either scene 1xbet online casino task. Eye movements showed evidence of a person bias across all three 1xbet online casino tasks. Additionally, the 1xbet online casino task did produce differences in the scene information that was fixated (Yarbus, 1967). However, could basic level theory still be correct when subjects are given a different task? When the same scene images were named, basic level action terms were used more often than basic level scene category terms, while superordinate level action terms were used relatively less often, and superordinate level scene category terms were hardly ever used. This shows that linguistic 1xbet online casino (naming) is sensitive to informative, middle-level categories, whereas early perceptual 1xbet online casino makes use of coarse high level distinctions. Additionally, the early perceptual advantage for scene 1xbet online casino over basic level action 1xbet online casino suggests that the scene category is the first construct that is used to represent events in scene images, and maybe even events in visual narratives like film.