Accession Number:

AD1036346

Title:

A Proposal to Perform New Theoretical and Experimental Research on HumanEfficiency Through Developments Within Systems Factorial Technology (SFT)

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report,01 May 2012,30 Apr 2017

Corporate Author:

INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON United States

Personal Author(s):

• Townsend,James

Report Date:

2017-05-26

Pagination or Media Count:

15.0

Abstract:

Project is complete. A model of configural processing in which humans process global characteristics such as general shape first and then local characteristics like the fine details of a pattern is presented. The Blobloc model is a culmination of findings within the GRT and SFT methods and serves to connect physiologically plausible processing mechanisms with perception modeling. It can be adapted to account for learning effects. An experiment to test the model has been designed using sinusoidal grating patterns that vary in contrast in a single direction. The parameters of Blobloc allows for the direct comparison of feature-by-feature processing versus holistic or configural processing mechanisms by the human.

Descriptors:

• bayesian networks
• cognitive science
• workload
• gaussian distributions
• information processing
• mathematical models
• measurement
• perception

Subject Categories:

• Psychology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE