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Practice effects in backward masking.

G Wolford1, F Marchak, H Hughes

  • 1Department of Psychology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
|February 1, 1988
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Practice effects in backward masking are substantial, driven by mask familiarity and enhanced sensory processing, unlike other visual tasks. This highlights specific learning within the backward masking paradigm.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Backward masking paradigms reveal significant practice effects compared to other visual processing tasks.
  • Understanding the sources of these practice effects is crucial for interpreting experimental results.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the magnitude of practice effects in backward masking with patterned masks.
  • To differentiate between potential explanations for these effects: general familiarity, target learning, mask learning, and enhanced sensory processing.

Main Methods:

  • Comparison of practice effects across backward masking, lateral masking, and whole report paradigms.
  • Experimental manipulations involving switching target and mask sets during training.
  • Assessment of performance changes in related visual tasks (two-flash, whole report) post-training.

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Main Results:

  • Backward masking showed larger practice effects than other visual paradigms.
  • Target learning was rejected as a cause; mask learning accounted for one-third of the improvement.
  • Residual improvement was attributed to enhanced sensory processing, evidenced by lowered thresholds in a two-flash paradigm.

Conclusions:

  • Practice effects in backward masking are significantly influenced by learning specific masks and improvements in sensory processing.
  • These findings differentiate backward masking from other visual paradigms regarding practice effect mechanisms.