The word superiority effect as an interaction of top-down processes in visual search

Student: Pominova Anna

Educational Programme: Bachelor

Year of Graduation: 2014

<p>The present paper describes a proposed study that will examine the interrelationships of top-down processes in visual search using the word superiority effect.  More precisely, the research will be concerned with two types of top-down influences upon the processing of target stimuli. One of them relies upon the observer's knowledge and structural units of his/her memory activated by incoming stimuli, whereas the other is represented by subjective strategies and functional units of the observer’s perceptual activity. </p>

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