Rolf Nelson
Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
16 Papers
40 Citations
Rolf Nelson is an academic researcher from Wheaton College (Massachusetts). The author has contributed to research in topics: Figure–ground & Perception. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 14 publications. Previous affiliations of Rolf Nelson include Wheaton College (Illinois) & University of California, Berkeley.
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Papers
Enhancing Cognitive Abilities with Comprehensive Training: A Large, Online, Randomized, Active-Controlled Trial
Joseph L. Hardy,Rolf Nelson,Moriah E. Thomason,Daniel A. Sternberg,Kiefer Katovich,Faraz Farzin,Michael J. Scanlon +6 more
TL;DR: Results indicate that a varied training program composed of a number of tasks targeted to different cognitive functions can show transfer to a wide range of untrained measures of cognitive performance.
Action and puzzle video games prime different speed/accuracy tradeoffs.
Rolf Nelson,Ian Strachan +1 more
TL;DR: To understand the way in which video-game play affects subsequent perception and cognitive strategy, two experiments were performed in which participants played either a fast-action game or a puzzle-solving game.
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Seasonal Variations in Color Preference
TL;DR: The results indicate that color preferences change according to season, as color-associated objects become more/less activated in the observer, and could not be characterized by overall shifts in weights along cone-contrast axes.
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Figure-ground effects on shape memory for objects versus holes.
TL;DR: The present findings support an account of hole perception in which the shape of an intrinsic hole is encoded as a shaped, immaterial (or virtual) surface where the absence of matter is coded by a functional ‘missing’ symbol to represent its non-material status.
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Shape memory for intrinsic versus accidental holes
TL;DR: It is argued that observers are likely to encode shapes that are invariant features of the environmental scene and not those that arise only from the coincidence of particular viewing conditions.