Research article summary (published 30 May 2006):

What do we learn from binding features? Evidence for multilevel feature integration.

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Four experiments were conducted to investigate the relationship between the binding of visual features (as measured by their aftereffects on subsequent binding) and the learning of feature-conjunction probabilities. Both binding and learning effects were obtained, but they did not interact. Interestingly, (shape-color) binding effects disappeared with increasing practice, presumably because of the fact that only 1 of the features involved was relevant to the task. However, this instability was only observed for arbitrary, not highly overlearned combinations of simple geometric features and not for real objects (colored pictures of a banana and strawberry), where binding effects were strong and resistant to practice. These findings suggest that learning has no direct impact on the strength or resistance of bindings or on speed with which features are bound; however, learning does affect the amount of attention particular feature dimensions attract, which again can influence which features are considered in binding. Copyright 2006 APA

Author information

Author/s: Colzato, Lorenza S (LS); Raffone, Antonino (A); Hommel, Bernhard (B);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Jun; vol 32 (issue 3) : pp 705-16

Dates: Created 2006/07/06; Completed 2006/11/20;

PMID: 16822133, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00)

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Analysis of Variance Association Learning Attention Color Perception Form Perception

Humans Memory - physiology Overlearning Reaction Time Visual Perception - physiology

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