Mapping visual attention with change blindness: new directions for a new method
Open Access
- 30 April 2004
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Cognitive Science
- Vol. 28 (2) , 241-258
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsci.2003.12.002
Abstract
Change blindness provides a new technique for mapping visual attention with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. Change blindness can occur when a brief full‐field blank interferes with the detection of changes in a scene that occur during the blank. This interference can be overcome by attending to the location of a change. Because changes are detected at attended locations, but not at unattended locations, detection accuracy provides an indirect measure of the distribution of visual attention. The likelihood of detecting a new element in a scene provides a measure of the occurrence of attention at that element's location. Potential new directions, advantages, and problems with this method are considered.Keywords
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