microgenesis of perception and anxiety

What is it about?

We investigate how our participants grapple with the inherent uncertainty of a visual hybrid, when presented as a sequential presentation of degraded and brief images. We argue that this uncertainty should lead to readily observable anxiety. A total of 44 students participated in this microgenetic study, employing 4 visual hybrids, each presented as a series of 14 blurred images. Our use of a microgenetic technique highlighted the fact that the participant’s response to a visual hybrid is predominantly to first report the half-man component, and only after a rather long period of time to report the other component. Visual hybrids elicit an emotional response, seen in both verbal report and the participant’s behavior during the session.

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