摘要
We investigated whether similarity among faces could modulate the face-capturing effect in change detection. In Experiment 1, a singleton search task was used to demonstrate that a face stimulus captures attention and the odd-one-out hypothesis cannot account for the results. Searching for a face target was faster than searching for a nonface target no matter whether distractor-distractor similarity was low or high. The fast search, however, did not lead to a face-detection advantage in Experiment 2 when the pre- and postchange faces were highly similar. When participants in Experiment 3 had to divide their attention between two faces in stimulus displays for change detection, detection performance was worse than performance in detecting nonface changes. The face-capturing effect alone is insufficient to produce the face-detection advantage. Face processing is efficient but its effect on performance depends on the stimulus-task context.
原文 | 英語 |
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頁(從 - 到) | 484-499 |
頁數 | 16 |
期刊 | Visual Cognition |
卷 | 17 |
發行號 | 4 |
DOIs | |
出版狀態 | 已發佈 - 2009 |
對外發佈 | 是 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- 實驗與認知心理學
- 藝術與人文(雜項)
- 認知神經科學