Cited 2 times since 1997 (0.1 per year) source: EuropePMC Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, Volume 23, Issue 6, 1 1 1997, Pages 1798-1812 On the statistical independence of color and shape in object identification. van der Velde F, van der Heijden AH
M. J. Nissen (1985) showed that color and shape are processed independently. M. A. Monheit and J. C. Johnston (1994) argued that dependence of color and shape in these experiments was reduced due to random guessing. They conducted 4 experiments in which they attempted to reduce the effect of random guessing. A strong dependence of color and shape reports was observed. In this article the effects that random guessing can have on statistical (in)dependence are analyzed. The authors argue that Monheit and Johnston's analysis is incorrect and inconsistent with the data they report and that random guessing can be the cause of statistical dependence of color and shape reports.
