[en] Using a simple change detection task involving vertical and horizontal stimuli, I. M. Thornton and D. Fernandez-Duque (2000) showed that the implicit detection of a change in the orientation of an item influences performance in a subsequent orientation judgment task. However, S. R. Mitroff, D. J. Simons, and S. L. Franconeri (2002) were not able to replicate this finding after correcting for confounds and thus attributed Thornton and Fernandez-Duque's results to methodological artifacts. Because Mitroff et al.'s failure to replicate might in turn have stemmed from several methodological differences between their study and those of Thornton and Fernandez-Duque (2000) and Fernandez-Duque and Thornton, the current authors set out to conduct a further replication in which they corrected all known methodological biases identified so far. The results suggest that implicit change detection indeed occurs: People's conscious decisions about the orientation of an item appear to be influenced by previous undetected changes in the orientation of other items in the display. Implications of this finding in light of current theories of visual awareness are discussed.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Laloyaux, Cédric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie cognitive
Destrebecqz, Arnaud
Cleeremans, Axel
Language :
English
Title :
Implicit change identification: a replication of Fernandez-Duque and Thornton (2003).
Publication date :
2006
Journal title :
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
ISSN :
0096-1523
eISSN :
1939-1277
Publisher :
American Psychological Association, United States - District of Columbia
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