Publications by authors named "G W McConkie"

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  • Research supports the existence of two visual systems in the brain - the ventral (what) and dorsal (where) - that play distinct roles in processing visual information while driving.
  • A study using a change detection task revealed that drivers are better at detecting changes in vehicle features (ventral system) than in their locations (dorsal system), particularly when visual disruptions occur.
  • The findings emphasize the importance of both visual systems in helping drivers stay aware of their surroundings, while also addressing the pros and cons of using driving simulations in this kind of research.
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Previous research has suggested that older readers may self-regulate input during reading differently from the way younger readers do, so as to accommodate age-graded change in processing capacity. For example, older adults may pause more frequently for conceptual integration. Presumably, such an allocation policy would enable older readers to manage the cognitive demands of constructing a semantic representation of the text by off-loading the products of intermediate computations to long-term memory, thus decreasing memory demands as conceptual load increases.

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Gaze-contingent multiresolutional displays (GCMRDs) center high-resolution information on the user's gaze position, matching the user's area of interest (AOI). Image resolution and details outside the AOI are reduced, lowering the requirements for processing resources and transmission bandwidth in demanding display and imaging applications. This review provides a general framework within which GCMRD research can be integrated, evaluated, and guided.

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In this study, we investigated where people look on talkers' faces as they try to understand what is being said. Sixteen young adults with normal hearing and demonstrated average speechreading proficiency were evaluated under two modality presentation conditions: vision only versus vision plus low-intensity sound. They were scored for the number of words correctly identified from 80 unconnected sentences spoken by two talkers.

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In this study, we investigated when visual perception begins in fixations. During picture viewing, the picture was degraded at the beginning of selected saccades and changed back to the original after varying intervals. Participants manually responded whenever they detected changes.

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