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Frank Durgin

Department of Psychology
Swarthmore College
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081
USA
Office phone: (610) 328-8678
Office fax: (610) 328-7814

Email: fdurgin1@swarthmore.edu
Home page: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/fdurgin1/




Change Detection Research Interests
I've done work with Joel Lachter looking at "fleeting perceptions" -- instances where a masked stimulus is more likely to be identified when responses are faster than normal. Opposite from a speed-accuracy tradeoff, fleeting perceptions seem to represent a kind of evidence for memory-less perception, quite relevant to change-blindness. I also do research on implicit learning in visual search using a paradigm that takes advantage of change blindness. Participants "discover" a target (that is actually added to the screen) only if their eye-movements follow a simple rule of our choosing. I am very interested in "unconscious" aspects of perception and cognition.

Other Research Interests
visual adaptation, texture perception, visual filling-in, face perception, implicit learning, stereoscopic depth perception, perceptuo-motor adaptation, masking, Stroop interference


Change Detection Publications
Lachter, J., Durgin, F. H., & Washington, T. (2000). Disappearing percepts: Evidence for retention failure in metacontrast masking. Visual Cognition, 7, 269-279.

Lachter, J., & Durgin, F. H. (1999). Metacontrast masking functions: A question of speed? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 936-947.

Durgin, F. H. (1999). Supporting the "Grand Illusion" of direct perception: Implicit learning in eye-movement control. In S. R Hameroff, A. W. Kaszniak, and D. J. Chalmers (Eds.), Toward a Science of Consciousness III, (pp. 179-188). Cambridge: MIT Press.




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