Pictoral Priming and Age Changes in the Visual Information Processing Systems

这位研究者建议使用他之前调查和发表的一项任务来研究图画启动。一般来说，研究中的对象将被提供一系列完整图片中的素数，并将使用一系列降级图片作为目标项目进行测试。受试者将收到三个相同的素数，三个相似的素数和三张在任务的启动部分没有呈现的图片。研究中将使用男女被试和图片特征类型轮廓。受试者在目标系列中收到的图片在空间方向上将与任务第一部分提供的素数完全相同，或者在空间方向上是镜像。受试者的成绩将以解决退化形式的时间和解决退化形式的击键次数来记录。这位研究人员希望确定，随着年龄的增长，视觉系统可能会变慢，这是否会影响性能。

The investigator proposes to study pictorial priming by using a task previously investigated and published by him. In general, the subject under study will be offered primes in a series of whole pictures and they will be tested using a series of degraded pictures as target items. The subject will receive three identical primes, three similar primes and three pictures that have not been presented during the priming portion of the task. Male and female subjects and the picture feature types contour will be used in the study. The pictures a subject receives during the target series will be either identical in spatial orientation to the prime offered in the first portion of the task or will be a mirror-image in terms of spatial orientation. The subjects performance will be recorded in terms of time to solve the degraded form and the number of keystrokes to solve the degraded form. The investigator hopes to determine if performance is affected by the slowing of the visual system that might occur with aging.