TY - JOUR
T1 - Motion silences awareness of visual change
AU - Suchow, Jordan W.
AU - Alvarez, George A.
PY - 2011/1/25
Y1 - 2011/1/25
N2 - Loud bangs, bright flashes, and intense shocks capture attention, but other changes - even those of similar magnitude - can go unnoticed. Demonstrations of change blindness have shown that observers fail to detect substantial alterations to a scene when distracted by an irrelevant flash, or when the alterations happen gradually [1-5]. Here, we show that objects changing in hue, luminance, size, or shape appear to stop changing when they move. This motion-induced failure to detect change, silencing, persists even though the observer attends to the objects, knows that they are changing, and can make veridical judgments about their current state. Silencing demonstrates the tight coupling of motion and object appearance.
AB - Loud bangs, bright flashes, and intense shocks capture attention, but other changes - even those of similar magnitude - can go unnoticed. Demonstrations of change blindness have shown that observers fail to detect substantial alterations to a scene when distracted by an irrelevant flash, or when the alterations happen gradually [1-5]. Here, we show that objects changing in hue, luminance, size, or shape appear to stop changing when they move. This motion-induced failure to detect change, silencing, persists even though the observer attends to the objects, knows that they are changing, and can make veridical judgments about their current state. Silencing demonstrates the tight coupling of motion and object appearance.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cub.2010.12.019
DO - 10.1016/j.cub.2010.12.019
M3 - Article
C2 - 21215632
AN - SCOPUS:79151481657
SN - 0960-9822
VL - 21
SP - 140
EP - 143
JO - Current Biology
JF - Current Biology
IS - 2
ER -