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Visual marking and change blindness : moving occluders and transient masks neutralize shape changes to ignored objects

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Watson, Derrick G. and Kunar, Melina A.. (2010) Visual marking and change blindness : moving occluders and transient masks neutralize shape changes to ignored objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol.36 (No.6). pp. 1391-1405. ISSN 0096-1523

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0020565

Abstract

Visual search efficiency improves by presenting (previewing) one set of distractors before the target and remaining distractor items (D. G. Watson & G. W. Humphreys, 1997). Previous work has shown that this preview benefit is abolished if the old items change their shape when the new items are added (e.g., D. G. Watson & G. W. Humphreys, 2002). Here we present 5 experiments that examined whether such object changes are still effective in recapturing attention if the changes occur while the previewed objects are occluded or masked. Overall, the findings suggest that masking transients are effective in preventing both object changes and the presentation of new objects from capturing attention in time-based visual search conditions. The findings are discussed in relation to theories of change blindness, new object capture, and the ecological properties of time-based visual selection. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Psychological tests -- Design and construction, Searching behavior
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
ISSN:	0096-1523
Date:	December 2010
Volume:	Vol.36
Number:	No.6
Page Range:	pp. 1391-1405
Identification Number:	10.1037/a0020565
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
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URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/3861