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The Familiarity Bias
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2026
Familiarity bias is a psychological tendency in which investors prefer well-known assets and avoid unfamiliar investments, often to the detriment of their portfolios. This bias arises from an aversion to uncertainty and a fear of negative outcomes associated with lesser-known financial instruments. While investors may believe they are making safer choices, their reluctance to explore a broader range of assets can lead to suboptimal diversification and increased risk exposure.Familiarity bias...
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A Familiarization Protocol Facilitates the Participation of Children with ASD in Electrophysiological Research
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2017
Electrophysiological research is an important tool for identifying biomarkers of developmental disorders, including Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), but data collection in these populations remains challenging. This work presents a familiarization protocol to accompany research that includes electroencephalography (EEG) to improve the likelihood of collecting EEG data from children with ASD.
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Multiple Object Tracking
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University In a staggeringly complex and engaging world, it is crucial to selectively process some stimuli at the expense of others. Experimental psychologists call this ability attention. Specifically, visual attention refers to the ability to selectively process aspects of a visual scene. Many paradigms used to study visual attention involve brief, punctuated, and repeated trials. However, everyday situations often place sustained demands...
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Object Substitution Masking
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Visual masking is a term used by perceptual scientists to refer to a wide range of phenomena in which in an image is presented but not perceived by an observer because of the presentation of a second image. There are several different kinds of masking, many of them relatively intuitive and unsurprising. But one surprising and important type of masking is called Object Substitution Masking. It has been a focus of research in vision...
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Creating Objects and Object Categories for Studying Perception and Perceptual Learning
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2012
We describe a novel methodology for creating naturalistic 3-D objects and object categories with precisely defined feature variations. We use simulations of the biological processes of morphogenesis and phylogenesis to create novel, naturalistic virtual 3-D objects and object categories that can then be rendered as visual images or haptic objects.
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Recognition can remain stable because the mind does not depend on one fixed image alone. It combines visual features, including shape, color, and arrangement, with stored representations formed through prior experience. This combination helps identify the same item when its appearance changes, revealing how visual processing supports consistent perception across different sensory conditions.
Context and expectations help the mind interpret incomplete or unclear sensory information. When visual features do not provide a decisive answer, surrounding circumstances and prior knowledge can guide the likely meaning of what is seen. Studying this interaction shows that recognition depends not only on incoming visual information but also on memory-based interpretation.
These processes contribute different but connected functions. Visual processing extracts features, attention helps select relevant information, memory supplies stored representations, and categorization organizes the perceived item according to its meaning. Examining their interaction helps psychologists explain how recognition supports everyday cognition rather than treating perception as an isolated visual operation.
A study can present recognizable items while varying factors such as viewpoint, lighting, or surrounding context, then examine how successfully participants identify them. Comparing performance across these conditions can reveal whether recognition depends mainly on stable visual features, stored representations, or contextual support. Such designs connect observable identification performance with underlying perceptual and memory processes.
It shows how people use prior experience to interpret ordinary visual information efficiently, even when sensory input is incomplete or altered. Because recognition draws on visual features, memory, attention, categorization, and context, it provides a useful model for studying how multiple cognitive processes cooperate during routine perception and meaning-making.
Researchers can use this topic to investigate how recognition changes across development and how it is disrupted by conditions affecting perception or memory. Difficulties identifying objects may therefore provide information about the systems supporting visual processing and stored representations. The topic links basic research on cognition with the study of disorders involving object identification.