Motion Silences Awareness of Visual Change
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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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Suchow et al. demonstrated a powerful temporal change silencing phenomenon that is triggered by the presence of large temporal image flows.
“very recently Suchow et al. demonstrated a powerful temporal change silencing phenomenon that is triggered by the presence of large temporal image flows [41].”
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Objects changing in hue, luminance, size, or shape appear to stop changing when they move in concert with other objects.
“objects changing in hue, luminance, size, or shape appear to stop changing when they move in concert with other objects.”
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The experiments in [41] strongly suggest that large, coherent motion silences transient temporal change or flicker.
“The experiments in [41] strongly suggest that large, coherent motion silences transient temporal change or 'flicker', which is a reasonable description of many temporal video distortions.”
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Highly localized space-time changes in video appearance are rendered much less conspicuous or even invisible by large coherent motions in the scene.
“Highly localized space-time changes in video appearance (brightness, hue, size, shape) are rendered much less conspicuous or even invisible by large coherent motions in the scene.”
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- Authors
- Suchow, J. W., & Alvarez, G. A.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Suchow, Jordan W.
- Venue
- Current Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-01
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 140-143
- ISSN
- 0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2167150230
- Cited by
- 121
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 6.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Current Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (BCS-0953730)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Keywords
- visual change detection, change blindness, motion perception, attention, object appearance, luminance changes, size change, shape transformation, visual awareness
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Humans, Motion, Visual Perception, Signal Detection, Psychological, Young Adult
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