Richard A Abrams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3459051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard A Abrams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard A |
| FAMILY NAME | Abrams |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAMS R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Statistical learning of across-trial regularities weakens emotion-induced blindness
Emotion-induced blindness (EIB) refers to a brief impairment in visual processing induced by the appearance of an emotional, but task-irrelevant, image. Recent research has shown that EIB is difficult to eliminate, although a few manipulations have succeeded in reducing its magnitude. However, whether EIB can be reduced or eliminated by statistical learning of across-trial regularities is not known. The present study examined this issue by introd…
Bias-free measure of distractor avoidance in visual search
Recent findings suggest that it is possible for people to proactively avoid attentional capture by salient distractors during visual search. The results have important implications for understanding the competing influences of top-down and bottom-up factors in visual attention. Nevertheless, questions remain regarding the extent to which apparently ignored distractors are processed. To assess distractor processing, previous experiments have used …
Event boundaries in perception affect memory encoding and updating.
Memory for naturalistic events over short delays is important for visual scene processing, reading comprehension, and social interaction. The research presented here examined relations between how an ongoing activity is perceptually segmented into events and how those events are remembered a few seconds later. In several studies, participants watched movie clips that presented objects in the context of goal-directed activities. Five seconds after…
Capture of Attention by New Motion in Young and Older Adults
Recent research has shown that newly introduced motion in a scene captures attention in young adults. Prior research has been mixed in terms of possible age-related differences in the allocation of visual attention, and it remains unclear whether new motion has a similar influence on visual attention in older adults. In the present study, we directly compared the capture of attention by new motion in young and older adults. The results suggest th…
Initiation and Inhibition of Saccadic Eye Movements in Younger and Older Adults an Analysis of the Gap Effect
Previous research with young adults has shown that the latency to initiate a saccadic eye movement is typically reduced when the visual fixation stimulus is removed prior to the appearance of a peripheral target stimulus (the "gap effect"). The present study sought to determine whether such fixation offsets would produce similar reductions in reaction time in both younger and older adults. The results indicated that older adults have longer overa…
Psychological sources of ambiguity avoidance
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Psychological sources of ambiguity avoidance
Initiation and Inhibition of Saccadic Eye Movements in Younger and Older Adults an Analysis of the Gap Effect
Previous research with young adults has shown that the latency to initiate a saccadic eye movement is typically reduced when the visual fixation stimulus is removed prior to the appearance of a peripheral target stimulus (the "gap effect"). The present study sought to determine whether such fixation offsets would produce similar reductions in reaction time in both younger and older adults. The results indicated that older adults have longer overa…
Capture of Attention by New Motion in Young and Older Adults
Recent research has shown that newly introduced motion in a scene captures attention in young adults. Prior research has been mixed in terms of possible age-related differences in the allocation of visual attention, and it remains unclear whether new motion has a similar influence on visual attention in older adults. In the present study, we directly compared the capture of attention by new motion in young and older adults. The results suggest th…
Event boundaries in perception affect memory encoding and updating.
Memory for naturalistic events over short delays is important for visual scene processing, reading comprehension, and social interaction. The research presented here examined relations between how an ongoing activity is perceptually segmented into events and how those events are remembered a few seconds later. In several studies, participants watched movie clips that presented objects in the context of goal-directed activities. Five seconds after…
Statistical learning of across-trial regularities weakens emotion-induced blindness
Emotion-induced blindness (EIB) refers to a brief impairment in visual processing induced by the appearance of an emotional, but task-irrelevant, image. Recent research has shown that EIB is difficult to eliminate, although a few manipulations have succeeded in reducing its magnitude. However, whether EIB can be reduced or eliminated by statistical learning of across-trial regularities is not known. The present study examined this issue by introd…
Bias-free measure of distractor avoidance in visual search
Recent findings suggest that it is possible for people to proactively avoid attentional capture by salient distractors during visual search. The results have important implications for understanding the competing influences of top-down and bottom-up factors in visual attention. Nevertheless, questions remain regarding the extent to which apparently ignored distractors are processed. To assess distractor processing, previous experiments have used …
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Visual perception and processing mechanisms (4 works) · Neuroscience (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Young adult (2 works) · Affect (linguistics) (1 works)