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INTER‐SENSORY PERCEPTUAL SET
Author(s) -
TALLAND GEORGE A.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1959.tb00700.x
Subject(s) - set (abstract data type) , psychology , perception , class (philosophy) , cognitive psychology , sensory system , communication , visual perception , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , computer science , programming language
A set to perceive words representing a given category, more specifically animal names, was induced by visual presentation of some other words drawn from the same class. Measures were taken to prevent vocalization of these visual stimuli. Under these conditions, the facilitatory effect of a set was found to be no less marked than it is when auditory material is used both for establishing and for testing the set. In either instance, the effect of set was demonstrated by comparison with correct report of the same words, when heard scattered among other words, or as a continuous list but without previous indication of their selective composition. The finding is presented in support of a central theory of mental set, for neither events in the receptor or in the effector areas could account for it without some intervening process in the brain.