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    "pk": 27452,
    "title": "Alternation blindness in the perception of binary sequences",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Binary information is prevalent in the environment. In this\nstudy, we examined how people process repetition and\nalternation in binary sequences. Across four paradigms\ninvolving estimation, working memory, change detection, and\nvisual search, we found that the number of alternations is\nunder-estimated compared to repetitions (Experiment 1).\nMoreover, recall for binary sequences deteriorates as the\nsequence alternates more (Experiment 2). Changes in bits are\nalso harder to detect as the sequence alternates more\n(Experiment 3). Finally, visual targets superimposed on bits\nof a binary sequence take longer to process as alternation\nincreases (Experiment 4). Overall, our results indicate that\ncompared to repetition, alternation in a binary sequence is\nless salient in the sense of requiring more attention for\nsuccessful encoding. The current study thus reveals the\ncognitive constraints in the representation of alternation and\nprovides a new explanation for the over-alternation bias in\nrandomness perception.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "alternation bias"
        },
        {
            "word": "randomness perception"
        },
        {
            "word": "working\nmemory"
        },
        {
            "word": "attention"
        },
        {
            "word": "numerosity perception"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x13w18w",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ru",
            "middle_name": "Qi",
            "last_name": "Yu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of British Columbia",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Osherson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jiaying",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zhao",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of British Columbia",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T13:00:00-05:00",
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