Abstract :
[en] Change blindness—our inability to detect changes in a stimulus—occurs even when the
change takes place gradually, without disruption (Simons et al., 2000). Such gradual
changes are more difficult to detect than changes that involve a disruption. In this
experiment, we extend previous findings to the domain of facial expressions of emotions
occurring in the context of a realistic scene. Even with changes occurring in central,
highly relevant stimuli such as faces, gradual changes still produced high levels of change
blindness: Detection rates were three times lower for gradual changes than for displays
involving disruption, with only 15% of the observers perceiving the gradual change
within a single trial. However, despite this high rate of change blindness, changes on
faces were significantly better detected than color changes occurring on non facial objects
in the same scene.
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