What is it about?
More than one neural system in the brain is capable of performing an immediate visual recognition task. The apparently irrelevant independent variable of response assignment determines which neural system controls the response.
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Why is it important?
The findings provide foundational information about the organization of functional systems in the brain. The results call past findings into question because of inadequate analysis of the data. The experiments provide a paradigm for isolating the effect of single system on task performance; hence revealing the functional organization of the brain.
Perspectives
Even if the editor of every journal closes their eyes and sticks their fingers in their ears, there is now convincing evidence from multiple experiments performed in different laboratories that an immediate visual recognition task can be performed by more than one neural system and response assignment can be used to isolate the effect of a single system, which is revealed when response time is the dependent measure.
Arnold Glass
Rutgers University New Brunswick
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This page is a summary of: The interaction of study sequence presentation mode and response assignment reveals the effects of multiple computational systems on an immediate visual recognition task, Attention Perception & Psychophysics, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-025-03032-7.
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