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P R Hecht, J B Juhasz

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    Undergraduates mentally combined shapes, choosing from many options. Performance did not decrease as the number of incorrect shape choices increased, contrary to expectations.

    Area of Science:

    • Cognitive psychology
    • Visual perception

    Background:

    • Understanding the cognitive processes involved in mental shape combination is crucial for cognitive psychology.
    • Investigating how the number of alternatives affects performance in visual discrimination tasks provides insights into perceptual limitations.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To assess undergraduates' ability to mentally combine two shapes.
    • To determine the impact of varying numbers of incorrect alternatives on performance in a shape combination task.

    Main Methods:

    • 146 undergraduates participated in the study.
    • Participants mentally combined two shapes and selected the correct combination from 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, or 15 alternatives.
    • Shapes used were previously validated as unverbalizable yet recognizable and discriminable.

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    Main Results:

    • Contrary to hypotheses, performance did not show a negative decrement as the number of incorrect alternatives increased.
    • The ability to mentally combine shapes remained consistent across different set sizes of distractors.

    Conclusions:

    • The number of incorrect alternatives does not negatively impact performance in this specific visual-spatial task.
    • Cognitive strategies or perceptual efficiencies may mitigate the expected performance decline in tasks with numerous distractors.