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The reviewing of object files: Object-specific integration of information

Kahneman, Daniel, Treisman, Anne, Gibbs, Brian J·1992·Cognitive Psychology
DOI 10.1016/0010-0285(92)90007-o
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A series of experiments explored a form of object-specific priming. In all experiments a preview field containing two or more letters is followed by a target letter that is to be named. The displays are designed to produce a perceptual interpretation of the target as a new state of an object that previously contained one of the primes. The link is produced in different experiments by a shared location, by a shared relative position in a moving pattern, or by successive appearance in the same moving frame. An object-specific advantage is consistently observed: naming is facilitated by a preview of the target, if (and in some cases only if) the two appearances are linked to the same object. The amount and the object specificity of the preview benefit are not affected by extending the preview duration to 1 s, or by extending the temporal gap between fields to 590 ms. The results are interpreted in terms of a reviewing process, which is triggered by the appearance of the target and retrieves just one of the previewed items. In the absence of an object link, the reviewing item is selected at random. We develop the concept of an object file as a temporary episodic representation, within which successive states of an object are linked and integrated.

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  • The lack of disparity/distance or magnitude/size effects found by both Irie-Sugimoto et al. (2009) and Irie and Hasegawa (2012) led the authors to conclude that elephants may not represent numbers as approximations (i.e., accumulator model) but instead as separate memory files (i.e., object-file model).

    “Thus, the lack of disparity/distance or magnitude/size effects found by both Irie-Sugimoto et al. (2009) and Irie and Hasegawa (2012) led the authors to conclude that elephants may not represent numbers as approximations (i.e., accumulator model) but instead as separate memory files (i.e., object-file model; Kahneman et al., 1992).”

    From Do elephants really never forget? What we know about elephant memory and a call for further investigation (2025) · cites this paper as Kahneman et al., 1992

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Authors
Kahneman, D., Treisman, A., & Gibbs, B. J.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Stanford University (US)
Corresponding author
Kahneman, Daniel
Venue
Cognitive Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1992-04
Volume
24
Issue
2
Pages
175-219
ISSN
0010-0285 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/0010-0285(92)90007-o
OpenAlex
W2127859399
Cited by
2,218
References
1
Citations by year
2026: 51 · 2025: 62 · 2024: 79 · 2023: 118 · 2022: 87 · 2021: 70 · 2020: 73 · 2019: 97 · 2018: 59 · 2017: 55 · 2016: 59 · 2015: 91 · 2014: 82 · 2013: 82 · 2012: 89
FWCI
8.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Cognitive Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Keywords
object files, reviewing, preview benefit, letter naming, episodic representation, object integration, time gap, visual working memory
MeSH terms
Adult, Attention, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Female, Humans, Male, Motion Perception, Orientation, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Mental Recall

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