Our need for associative coherence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22234398 |
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| Authors | Yael Afiki (0000-0002-3181-6059, Bar-Ilan University, corresponding author), Michael Bar (0000-0003-3362-3709, Bar-Ilan University), Moshe Bar |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2662-9992 • E-ISSN: 2662-9992 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/s41599-020-00577-w |
| OpenAlex | W3082763260 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 47 |
The world around us consists of typical settings manifested as statistical regularities and stored as associations. These associations are beneficial for performance, and we rely on them as a source of stability in our perception of a coherent surrounding. What happens when such associativity is not apparent? We presented pairs of associated images and pairs of non-associated images and compared their corresponding effect on subsequent performance in three different visual perception paradigms: contrast-sensitivity, global vs. local perception, and critical-flicker-fusion. In all three experiments, performance was significantly inferior when preceded by images with no clear associative connection. We propose that these results reflect the need to find coherence in our environment. When such coherence is not easily detected, we seem to persist in seeking for it, which in turn poses a lingering cognitive load that taxes performance even in low-level perception
Associative property · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Flicker · Flicker fusion threshold · Perception · Pure mathematics · Statistics · Visual perception · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Computer Science · Mathematics · Neural dynamics and brain function · Neuroscience · Psychology · Visual perception and processing mechanisms · Artificial Intelligence
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