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Description
Title
Visual Enumeration: Subitizing and Its Nature
Author(s)
Tai, Yu-Chi
Issue Date
2004
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
McConkie, George W.
Department of Study
Education
Discipline
Education
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Date of Ingest
2015-09-25T19:53:48Z
Keyword(s)
Education, Educational Psychology
Language
eng
Abstract
To examine the role of subitizing in ongoing visual enumeration processes, three experiments were conducted using saccade-continent display change technique and peripheral preview paradigm. The results shows that numerical information of up to 3 or 4 items can be quickly enumerated from an extrafovea display and be used in the following enumeration process when the display comes into fovea in the next fixation. While a valid peripheral preview facilitates enumeration speed, invalid preview information causes a penalty in both accuracy and response time. This difference only occurs for small set enumeration; for large set sizes, enumeration speed is facilitated whether information from the peripheral preview is valid or invalid. These findings suggest subitizing as part of the object perception processes. A surprising difference between two display-change conditions in which one item was either inserted in or removed from the display during a saccade to the stimulus pattern further suggests that subitizing is explained well by the object-file/visual-index theories. The nature of small and large set enumeration processes and their interaction is discussed in the last chapter.
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