Abstract
Psychologica Belgica is the official journal of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS). BAPS promotes the development of psychological sciences in Belgium, at both fundamental and applied research levels. The journal ensures rigorous peer-review to maintain research integrity.Psychological Belgica makes publications available online as soon as they are finalised. All publications are open access, making research available free of charge and without delay.The journal has a 2021 Impact Factor of 1.717 and a 5 year impact factor of 2.352.Subscribe to content alerts and other journal news here. You can also follow the journal on ResearchGate.
Highlights
Change blindness, our inability to detect large changes in visual displays, is a striking phenomenon that has been demonstrated through various paradigms (Rensink, 2002; Rensink, O’Regan, & Clark, 1997, 2000; Simons, 2000; Simons & Levin, 1998, 2003).————— Elodie David is the recipient of the 2006 BAPS Best Thesis Award
We set out to explore whether change blindness occurs when the changes unfold without disruption, and on objects as complex as human faces
We roughly followed the gradual change methodology introduced by Simons et al (2000), but applied it to an entirely novel domain – facial expressions
Summary
Our inability to detect large changes in visual displays, is a striking phenomenon that has been demonstrated through various paradigms (Rensink, 2002; Rensink, O’Regan, & Clark, 1997, 2000; Simons, 2000; Simons & Levin, 1998, 2003).————— Elodie David is the recipient of the 2006 BAPS Best Thesis Award. In real life situations, observers fail to notice changes as dramatic as switching an individual with whom they are interacting to a different person (Levin & Simons, 1997). Such demonstrations are dismissed as “mere magic”, for observers do not expect the changes to occur and typically have their attention engaged elsewhere. Numerous relevant studies have used the flicker paradigm, in which two images, identical to each other but for a single change, are displayed alternatively for 240 ms and separated from each other by a 80 ms blank screen – the disruption This “flicker” sequence is typically looped until the observer detects the change. Performance improves when the change involves an area of major interest, such as a face in a picture or any other stimulus that attracts attention
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