TY - JOUR PY - 1992// TI - Attentional demands of processing shape in three-dimensional space: evidence from visual search and precuing paradigms JO - Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance A1 - Epstein, William A1 - Babler, T. A1 - Bownds, S. SP - 503 EP - 511 VL - 18 IS - 2 N2 - The hypothesis that representation of projective shape is preattentive whereas representation of objective shape in three-dimensional space requires allocation of attention was tested in 2 visual search and 2 precuing experiments. In the visual search experiments, the slope for projective shape search was expected to approach 0 and that for objective shape search was expected to be a positive monotonic function of set size. In the precuing experiments, the effects of precuing were expected to be largely limited to the task requiring representation of objective shape. The overall pattern of results conformed to expectations. The findings are interpreted in the context of a model of shape-at-a-slant processing set out by Epstein and Lovitts (1985) and Epstein and Babler (1989, 1990).

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