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Experiment 1 measured the perceived duration of 50-msec exposures of vertical, horizontal, 135-deg, and 45-deg line segments and diamonds and squares formed from these lines. The oblique lines generated longer estimates of visual persistence than the other stimuli did. Experiment 2 replicated these results for stimulus durations of 50–500 msec. Also, parallel persistence by stimulus duration functions were found, indicating a cortical locus for these effects. The results are discussed in light of current theories of visual persistence and the oblique effect.
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L’Hommedieu-Vitale, G., & Meyer, G. E. Obliques and object superiority: Interaction ofeffects on the perceived duration of lines. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Florida, 1977.
Meyer, G. E. Spatial configuration and visual persistence. Paper presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, San Francisco, California, 1978.
Williams, A., & Weisstein, N. Effects of overall structure on the temporal course of masking a simple detection task. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Florida, 1977.
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Parts of these data were presented at the meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology, Sarasota, Florida, April 1977. Experiment 2 was conducted while Glenn E. Meyer was at the Division of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, New York 14226, and supported by National Eye Institute Grant 5T32 EY07019-01.
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L’Hommedieu, G., Meyer, G.E. The oblique effect: Interactions with visual persistence and spatial configuration. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 19, 347–350 (1982). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330278
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