Erik Blaser
Biographic Data
| ID | 5764103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik Blaser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Blaser |
| SIGNATURE | BLASER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9968-8946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Testing the interleaving effect without response bias
How attention and working memory work together in the pursuit of goals
My tablet’s about to go dead! 5- to 6-year-old children adjust their cognitive strategies depending on whether an external resource is reliably available
The Accuracy and Precision of Memory for Natural Scenes
It is challenging to quantify the accuracy and precision of scene memory because it is unclear what ‘space’ scenes occupy (how can we quantify error when misremembering a natural scene?). To address this, we exploited the ecologically valid, metric space in which scenes occur and are represented: routes. In a delayed estimation task, participants briefly saw a target scene drawn from a video of an outdoor ‘route loop’, then used a continuous repo…
Can’t get it out of my head
Proactive interference (PI) occurs when previously learned memories compete with currently relevant information. Despite extensive literature investigating the effect in adults, little work has been done in young children. In three preregistered studies (N = 38, 35, 172; convenience samples from the Northeastern United States), first, we showed that 3-year-old toddlers are highly sensitive to the effect of PI in visual working memory and second, …
Rules Infants Look By
What drives infants’ attention in complex visual scenes? Early models of infant attention suggested that the degree to which different visual features were detectable determines their attentional priority. Here, we tested this by asking whether two targets—defined by different features, but each equally salient when evaluated independently—would drive attention equally when pitted head‐to‐head. In Experiment 1, we presented 6‐month‐old infants wi…
How to Compare Apples and Oranges
What kind of featural information do infants rely on when they are trying to recognize a previously seen object? The question of whether infants use certain features (e.g., shape or color) more than others (e.g., luminance) can only be studied legitimately if visual salience is controlled, as the magnitude of feature values—how noticeable and interesting they are—will affect results. We employed a novel methodology, interdimensional salience mapp…
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How to Compare Apples and Oranges
What kind of featural information do infants rely on when they are trying to recognize a previously seen object? The question of whether infants use certain features (e.g., shape or color) more than others (e.g., luminance) can only be studied legitimately if visual salience is controlled, as the magnitude of feature values—how noticeable and interesting they are—will affect results. We employed a novel methodology, interdimensional salience mapp…
Rules Infants Look By
What drives infants’ attention in complex visual scenes? Early models of infant attention suggested that the degree to which different visual features were detectable determines their attentional priority. Here, we tested this by asking whether two targets—defined by different features, but each equally salient when evaluated independently—would drive attention equally when pitted head‐to‐head. In Experiment 1, we presented 6‐month‐old infants wi…
The Accuracy and Precision of Memory for Natural Scenes
It is challenging to quantify the accuracy and precision of scene memory because it is unclear what ‘space’ scenes occupy (how can we quantify error when misremembering a natural scene?). To address this, we exploited the ecologically valid, metric space in which scenes occur and are represented: routes. In a delayed estimation task, participants briefly saw a target scene drawn from a video of an outdoor ‘route loop’, then used a continuous repo…
Can’t get it out of my head
Proactive interference (PI) occurs when previously learned memories compete with currently relevant information. Despite extensive literature investigating the effect in adults, little work has been done in young children. In three preregistered studies (N = 38, 35, 172; convenience samples from the Northeastern United States), first, we showed that 3-year-old toddlers are highly sensitive to the effect of PI in visual working memory and second, …
How attention and working memory work together in the pursuit of goals
My tablet’s about to go dead! 5- to 6-year-old children adjust their cognitive strategies depending on whether an external resource is reliably available
Testing the interleaving effect without response bias
Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Neuroscience (3 works) · Visual Attention and Saliency Detection (3 works) · Visual perception and processing mechanisms (3 works) · Cognitive Abilities and Testing (2 works)