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Look at them and they will notice you : Distractor-independent attentional capture by direct gaze in change blindness
Jari K. HietanenPiia AstikainenPessi Lyyrasubject
Cognitive NeuroscienceComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISIONExperimental and Cognitive Psychologyhavaitseminen050105 experimental psychologyGaze perception03 medical and health sciencesstare-in-the-crowd effectsilmänliikkeet0302 clinical medicineArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)0501 psychology and cognitive scienceschange detectionta515Visual searchCommunicationchange blindnessNoticebusiness.industryPsykologia - Psychology05 social sciencesVisual search tasksGazeChange blindnesskatsetarkkailubusinessPsychology030217 neurology & neurosurgeryChange detectiongaze perceptionCognitive psychologydescription
Humans have shown a detection advantage of direct vs. averted gaze stimuli in visual search tasks. However, instead of attentional capture by direct gaze, the detection advantage in visual search may depend on attention-grabbing potential of the distractor stimuli to which the target needs to be compared. We investigated attentional capture by direct gaze using the change blindness paradigm, in which successful detection does not require comparison between the target and the distractor items. Participants detected a masked gaze direction change in one of four simultaneously presented schematic faces. The distractor gaze directions were systematically varied across three experiments. Changes resulting in direct gaze were detected more efficiently than those resulting in averted gaze, independently of distractor gaze directions. This finding suggests that the detection advantage is specifically due to attentional capture by direct gaze, not properties of distractor items. peerReviewed
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2018-01-01 |