To See or not to See: The Need for Attention to Perceive Changes in Scenes

• Ronald A. Rensink

  Cambridge Basic Research, Nissan Research & Development, Inc

• J. Kevin O'Regan

  Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale, CNRS, Universit$eA Ren$eA Descartes, Paris, France

• James J. Clark

  Department of Electrical Engineering, McGill University

抄録

When looking at a scene, observers feel that they see its entire structure in great detail and can immediately notice any changes in it However, when brief blank fields are placed between alternating displays of an original and a modified scene, a striking failure of perception is induced Identification of changes becomes extremely difficult, even when changes are large and made repeatedly Identification is much faster when a verbal cue is provided showing that poor visibility is not the cause of this difficulty Identification is also faster for objects considered to be important in the scene These results support the idea that observers never form a complete, detailed representation of their surroundings In addition, the results indicate that attention is required to perceive change, and that in the absence of localized motion signals attention is guided on the basis of high-level interest

収録刊行物

• Psychological Science

  Psychological Science 8 (5), 368-373, 1997-09

  SAGE Publications

キーワード

• General Psychology

詳細情報

• CRID: 1360574093797903488
• NII論文ID: 30020174669
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.1997.tb00427.x
• ISSN: 14679280
• ISSN: 09567976
• ISSN: http://id.crossref.org/issn/09567976
• Web Site: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1997.tb00427.x
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