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Cognitive Controls and Person Perception
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1973The Embedded-figures Test (EFT) and the Rod-and-frame Test (RFT) were used as measures of the field-dependence-field-independence cognitive control dimension in a test of the hypothesis that field-independence would be associated with greater accuracy in the discrimination of affective expression and implied meanings.
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Perception as Controlled Hallucination
2021In this chapter, I will deal with the problem of perception from a the point of view of cognitive semiotics. I will try to underline the crucial role of imagination, claiming that perception is a form of “controlled hallucination” (Koenderink 2010; Clark 2016), where, by “controlled hallucination”, I mean the product of the imagination controlled by ...
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Unconscious perception: Attention, awareness, and control.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1994Conscious perception is substantially overestimated when standard measurement techniques are used. That overestimation has contributed to the controversial nature of studies of unconscious perception. A process-dissociation procedure (L. L. Jacoby, 1991) was used for separately estimating the contribution of conscious and unconscious perception to ...
J A, Debner, L L, Jacoby
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Vision: Control, Desire, Perception
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014With the iconic turn, seeing and human vision have received new attention. How is seeing constituted? What is characteristic of the human vision? How is it determined by physical, cultural, and historical moments? Seeing enables an expansion of the human body, it creates inter-corporeality and image worlds through images, simulacra, and simulations ...
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From Clarinet Control to Timbre Perception
Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 2010This study investigates the relationships between the control gestures of the clarinet, the generated timbres and their perceptual representation. The understanding of such relationships can provide great interest in several research contexts: synthesis and control (e.g. to improve the quality of current synthesis models), music analysis and perception
Barthet, Mathieu +3 more
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Sheriffs Perceptions of Firearm Control Polices
Journal of Community Health, 2011Public health professionals can maximize their effectiveness in reducing firearm trauma by seeking partners from law enforcement professionals. This study assessed sheriff's support for various types of firearm control measures and their firearm control advocacy activities.
Amy, Thompson +3 more
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Environmental control and the perception of control
Motivation and Emotion, 1981The perception of control may be established if an individual is provided with an opportunity to choose and if the outcome of the choice is moderately uncertain. In turn, perceived control has been shown to enhance motivation and performance. In the present experiment, the effects of uncertainty about environmental control were examined by measuring ...
Mark E. Revesman, Lawrence C. Perlmuter
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Anxiety, Perception, and Control of Heart Rate
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 19848 women and 8 men took Cattell's IPAT-anxiety questionnaire and later McFarland's test of ability to perceive heart activity. The second test involved subjects' tracking their own heart rates, then they enrolled in an EKG biofeedback session to evaluate ability to increase and decrease heart rate from subjects' resting baselines.
DE PASCALIS, Vilfredo +2 more
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Maintaining perceptions of control: Finding perceived control in low-control circumstances.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1993Three questions about the role of perceived control in coping with a major life stressor were addressed in a sample of 71 cancer patients. As expected, those with greater perceptions of control were less depressed, even when physical functioning, marital satisfaction, and negative affectivity were controlled for. Consistent with a compensatory model of
S C, Thompson +4 more
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Social Perception of Internal-External Control
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970420 male and 324 female Ss were given photographs, previously scaled as being high, moderate, or low in physical attractiveness, and were instructed to fill out Rotter's I-E scale as they thought the person in the photograph would. Persons low in attractiveness were perceived as more external in I-E control than persons either high or moderately ...
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