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prime. Participants were asked to determ<strong>in</strong>e whe<strong>the</strong>r or not each target matched its<br />

preced<strong>in</strong>g prime. It was hypo<strong>the</strong>sized that at short prime durations, targets would appear<br />

to match <strong>the</strong> coarse blob <strong>in</strong>terpretation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ambiguous hybrid prime. Conversely, at<br />

long prime durations, it was hypo<strong>the</strong>sized that targets would appear to match <strong>the</strong> f<strong>in</strong>e<br />

edge <strong>in</strong>terpretation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ambiguous prime.<br />

Schyns and Oliva (1994) found that at short prime durations, participants<br />

preferentially matched <strong>the</strong> course blob <strong>in</strong>terpretation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> primes with <strong>the</strong> targets.<br />

However, <strong>in</strong> long prime durations, participants preferentially matched <strong>the</strong> f<strong>in</strong>e edges<br />

<strong>in</strong>terpretation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> primes with <strong>the</strong> targets. <strong>The</strong>se results suggest that <strong>in</strong> limited<br />

exposure durations to spatial scenes, humans tend to organize displays by coarse scene<br />

<strong>in</strong>formation. However, given longer exposure durations and <strong>the</strong>refore more process<strong>in</strong>g<br />

time to spatial scenes, humans tend to organize displays by f<strong>in</strong>e scene edges. Both <strong>the</strong><br />

research by Scyns and Oliva (1994) and that <strong>of</strong> Vannucci et al. (2001) lend support to <strong>the</strong><br />

Fixed Usage, course to f<strong>in</strong>e hypo<strong>the</strong>sis.<br />

As opposed to <strong>the</strong> Fixed Usage hypo<strong>the</strong>sis, <strong>the</strong> Flexible Usage hypo<strong>the</strong>sis<br />

suggests that process<strong>in</strong>g can beg<strong>in</strong> with ei<strong>the</strong>r scale. Accord<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong> Flexible Usage<br />

hypo<strong>the</strong>sis, visual process<strong>in</strong>g beg<strong>in</strong>s with <strong>the</strong> spatial scale that is most useful (Morrison<br />

& Schyns, 2001; Oliva and Schyns, 1997; Schyns and Oliva, 1999). That is, visual<br />

process<strong>in</strong>g can beg<strong>in</strong> with high spatial frequency <strong>in</strong>formation <strong>the</strong>n followed by low<br />

spatial frequency <strong>in</strong>formation or beg<strong>in</strong> by low spatial frequency <strong>in</strong>formation <strong>the</strong>n<br />

followed by high frequency <strong>in</strong>formation. <strong>The</strong> order <strong>of</strong> process<strong>in</strong>g is believed to rely on<br />

task diagnosticity (Oliva & Schyns, 1997).<br />

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