The study of how shapes are perceived and otherwise cognitively employed is among the most fascinating, and challenging, of any in cognitive psychology today. There is a sizable and impressive literature dealing with general questions of configurality, although these researches are fairly disparate and a firm definition of the construct is currently lacking. The proposed research is composed of a set of major, interlocked aims: 1. Apply theoretical, empirical, and methodological tools developed by the applicant and colleagues explicitly to the problem of configurality. 2. Synthesize two lines of the applicant's prior theoretical developments and construct new theory and methodology for application to configurality. 3. Generate tentative definitions based on historical and recent hypotheses concerning configurality within the confines of prior efforts and the synthesis described in (3). 4. Run a set of experiments using these nascent and provisional definitions and taxonomies for configurality. 5. Extend the theoretical work to explicitly consider the underlying dynamics and increasingly more sophisticated pattern spaces.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01MH057717-03
Application #
6165198
Study Section
Perception and Cognition Review Committee (PEC)
Program Officer
Kurtzman, Howard S
Project Start
1998-03-10
Project End
2003-02-28
Budget Start
2000-03-01
Budget End
2003-02-28
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
2000
Total Cost
$176,293
Indirect Cost
Name
Indiana University Bloomington
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
006046700
City
Bloomington
State
IN
Country
United States
Zip Code
47401
Houpt, Joseph W; Townsend, James T; Donkin, Christopher (2014) A new perspective on visual word processing efficiency. Acta Psychol (Amst) 145:118-27
Burns, Devin M; Houpt, Joseph W; Townsend, James T et al. (2013) Functional principal components analysis of workload capacity functions. Behav Res Methods 45:1048-57
Houpt, Joseph W; Townsend, James T (2012) Statistical measures for workload capacity analysis. J Math Psychol 56:341-355
Houpt, Joseph W; Townsend, James T (2011) An Extension of SIC Predictions to the Wiener Coactive Model. J Math Psychol 55:267-270
Eidels, Ami; Houpt, Joseph W; Altieri, Nicholas et al. (2011) Nice Guys Finish Fast and Bad Guys Finish Last: Facilitatory vs. Inhibitory Interaction in Parallel Systems. J Math Psychol 55:176-190
Johnson, Shannon A; Blaha, Leslie M; Houpt, Joseph W et al. (2010) Systems Factorial Technology provides new insights on global-local information processing in autism spectrum disorders. J Math Psychol 54:53-72
Eidels, Ami; Townsend, James T; Algom, Daniel (2010) Comparing perception of Stroop stimuli in focused versus divided attention paradigms: evidence for dramatic processing differences. Cognition 114:129-50
Fific, Mario; Townsend, James T (2010) Information-processing alternatives to holistic perception: identifying the mechanisms of secondary-level holism within a categorization paradigm. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 36:1290-313
Silbert, Noah H; de Jong, Kenneth J; Thomas, Robin D et al. (2009) Diagonal d' does not (always) diagnose failure of separability: An addendum to. J Phon 37:339-343
Townsend, James T (2008) Mathematical Psychology: Prospects For The 21 Century: A Guest Editorial. J Math Psychol 52:269-280

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