Austen, Erin and Enns, James T. (2000) Change Detection: Paying Attention To Detail Detail. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]
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Abstract
Changes made during a brief visual interruption sometimes go undetected, even when the object undergoing the change is at the center of the observer's interest and spatial attention (Simons & Levin, 1998). This study examined two potentially important attentional variables in change blindness: spatial distribution, manipulated via set size, and detail level, varied by having the change at either the global or local level of a compound letter. Experiment 1 revealed that both types of change were equally detectable in a single item, but that global change was detected more readily when attention was distributed among several items. Variation of target level probability in Experiment 2 showed further that observers could flexibly set the detail level in monitoring both single and multiple items. Sensitivity to change therefore depends not only on the spatial focus of attention; it depends critically on the match between the detail level of the change and the level-readiness of the observer.
| Item Type: | Journal (On-line/Unpaginated) |
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| Keywords: | change blindness, local perception, global perception, visual search, attention. |
| Subjects: | Psychology > Cognitive Psychology |
| ID Code: | 1055 |
| Deposited By: | Enns, James T. |
| Deposited On: | 23 Oct 2000 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2009 19:17 |
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