The question of whether perception is analytic or wholistic is an enduring issue in
psychology. The global-precedence hypothesis, considered by many as a modern version of …

The goal of avoiding distraction (eg, ignoring words when naming their print colors in a
Stroop task) is opposed intrinsically by the penchant to process conspicuous and correlated …

Two identical top halves of a face are perceived as being different when their bottom halves
belong to different faces, showing that the parts of a face cannot be perceived independently …

Three influential perspectives of social cognition entail conflicting predictions regarding the
selectivity of performance under stress. According to the attention view, selectivity to the task …

This is a revision of the chapter on the same topic that appeared in the first edition of the
Handbook, published in 1996. In the intervening years, a great many changes have …

In the present study, we attempted to demonstrate a synesthetic relationship between
auditory frequency and visual size. In Experiment 1, participants performed a speeded visual …

In two experiments, we examined whether or not pairs of auditory dimensions—timbre-
loudness (Experiment 1) and timbre-pitch (Experiment 2)—interact in speeded classification …

This review of learning from maps and diagrams consists of two sections. The first section
presents a theoretical framework for learning from maps and diagrams. The case is made …

Across the millennia, and across a range of disciplines, there has been a widespread desire
to connect, or translate between, the senses in a manner that is meaningful, rather than …

The developmental trend from overall-similarity to dimensional-identity classifications is
explained by a quantitative model. I begin with the assumption that objects are represented …