Ambiguous Pictures
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Children's Reliance on Artist Intentions When Identifying Pictures
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Judith Danovitch and Nicholaus Noles—University of Louisville Children are not the best artists. Sometimes it’s easy to pick out the characteristic triangular head, whiskers, and tail of a cat, but children often describe elaborate scenarios that they depict as a beautifully unrecognizable mess. Thus, given children’s questionable artistic talent, how do they know what their drawings, and the drawings of others, represent? One way children identify pictures is by relying...
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Measuring the Subjective Value of Risky and Ambiguous Options using Experimental Economics and Functional MRI Methods
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2012
Using functional MRI and behavioral methods to determine the neural representation of the subjective value of risky and ambiguous options in the human brain.
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Virtual Hand with Ambiguous Movement between the Self and Other Origin: Sense of Ownership and 'Other-Produced' Agency
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2020
While previous research on bodily self-consciousness assumed that self- and other-origin movements were perceptually distinguishable, this protocol allows them to be ambiguous on a virtual hand with unintentional slight movements. This enables us to observe one’s experience formed by SoO and other-produced SoA, rather than the absence of SoA.
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Experimental Research Examining How People Can Cope with Uncertainty Through Soft Haptic Sensations
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2015
To date research has focused on cognitive strategies people adopt to cope with uncertainty. This research examines instead an experiential way of dealing with uncertainty and introduces a set of experimental methods showing how the experience of haptic softness can serve as a tool to deal with uncertainty.
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Transsynaptic Tracing from Peripheral Targets with Pseudorabies Virus Followed by Cholera Toxin and Biotinylated Dextran Amines Double Labeling
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2015
Transsynaptic tracing has become a powerful tool for analyzing central efferents regulating peripheral targets through multi-synaptic circuits. Here we present a protocol that exploits the transsynaptic pseudorabies virus to identify and localize a functional brain circuit, followed by classical tract tracing techniques to validate specific connections in the circuit between identified groups of neurons.
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Figure-ground organization determines which parts of an image receive focus as a meaningful figure and which recede into the background. Because the same visual elements can support competing organizations, attention may shift the perceived roles of those elements. Studying these changes helps psychologists examine how perception is actively structured rather than simply copied from sensory input.
Perceptual switching occurs when competing interpretations remain available and attention, prior knowledge, or sensory information temporarily favors one over the other. As the balance changes, the observer may experience a different percept without any change to the image itself. This makes switching useful for investigating how the mind resolves conflicting visual information over time.
Expectations and prior knowledge influence which interpretation appears most plausible when visual information is incomplete or conflicting. They work alongside sensory information and attention, so different observers may favor different percepts from the same image. This provides a way to study how cognition contributes to visual interpretation rather than treating perception as purely stimulus driven.
Observers may not interpret the same image in the same way, and their percepts may alternate differently over time. These variations allow researchers to examine individual differences in attention, expectations, and perceptual organization. Comparing responses can therefore show how people differ in resolving competing interpretations while using the same visual information.
Researchers present visual images with competing interpretations and examine how observers report or experience the resulting percepts. The images can be used to study perceptual switching, figure-ground organization, attention, and the effects of expectations. Because the stimulus remains constant while interpretation changes, it offers a focused way to investigate processes involved in visual perception.
Studies using Ambiguous Pictures can examine how attention selects information, how Gestalt principles organize visual elements, and how prior knowledge shapes interpretation. They also support investigation of perceptual switching and individual differences. Together, these applications connect visual experience with broader questions about cognition, especially how the mind resolves incomplete or conflicting information.
Their value comes from separating the unchanged sensory image from the observer’s changing interpretation. This distinction gives psychologists a clear model for examining perception as a constructed process involving sensory information, attention, expectations, and organization. The same approach also provides context for studying broader cognitive processes that influence how people make sense of visual input.