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Practice makes perfect, especially when doing what we like

Irene Reppa Orcid Logo, Siné McDougall

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

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DOI (Published version): 10.3758/s13414-025-03031-8

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Previous research has found that aesthetic appeal can facilitate visual search performance. One avenue of enquiry is that appealing icons are processed better than unappealing icons. If appealing stimuli are better processed, then it may be expected that they will benefit from practice more than the...

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ISSN: 1943-3921 1943-393X
Published: Springer Nature 2025
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