| Abstract: | Announces Michael Turvey as a recipient of the 1974 Early Career Award, and presents his biography and list of scientific publications. His most important research contribution to date is his information-processing analysis of peripheral and central visual mechanisms. Turvey elucidated the processes involved in forward and backward masking by cleanly designed experiments utilizing noise and pattern masks presented either monoptically or dichoptically. Further, in his 1973 Psychological Review paper he integrated his results with a large body of literature on both visual theory and psychological experiments in terms of a model for the concurrent-contingent relationships between peripheral and central processes in the sequence of events leading from the onset of a visual display to recognition of a stimulus. In addition, he has been responsible for an extensive series of studies analyzing the function of release from proactive inhibition in short-term memory. He and his associates have contributed methods for studying primary or iconic memory, including an auditory analogue of Sperling's partial report procedure. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
