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- Title
Which is more critical in identification of random figures, endpoints or closures?
- Authors
KANBE, FUMIO
- Abstract
The present study intended to examine the criticality of the presence of endpoints and its complementary state, the presence of closures, in early figural identification. Three experiments used a same/different judgment task for simultaneously presented pairs of random figures. Rigorous control over the selections of stimulus figures containing closures and endpoints was ensured. Latencies predicted by six explanations of figural identification (i.e. parallel and the presence of endpoint detection; parallel and closure detection; serial, exhaustive and endpoint detection; serial, exhaustive and closure detection; serial, self-terminating and endpoint detection; and serial, self-terminating and closure detection) were evaluated by the obtained patterns of latencies. The experiments persistently indicated that serial, self-terminating feature detections were executed as the means of the identification. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that closures were detected faster than endpoints. Experiment 3 further suggested that multiple closures were detected faster than a single closure.
- Subjects
IDENTIFICATION (Psychology); RECOGNITION (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGICAL experiments; THOUGHT &; thinking; JUDGMENT (Psychology)
- Publication
Japanese Psychological Research, 2009, Vol 51, Issue 4, p235
- ISSN
0021-5368
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-5884.2009.00406.x