Mechanistic complexity is fundamental:
Evidence from judgments, attention, and memory
This webpage contains stimuli and demonstrations supporting our paper:
Mechanistic complexity is fundamental: Evidence from judgments, attention, and memory.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(2), 596-606.
Below, you will find links to all the experiments we performed.
- Experiment 1: Visual complexity ratings (words only, silhouettes, real objects). Mechanistic complexity ratings (words only, silhouettes, real objects)
- Experiment 2: Type-free ratings (words only, silhouettes, real objects)
- Experiment 3: 2AFC (experiment)
- Experiment 4: Visual search (experiment)
- Experiment 5: Visual working memory (experiment)
An OSF repository containing all our code, materials, data, preregistrations, etc. is available here.
The full paper is available here.