It's Alive! Animate Motion Captures Visual Attention

被引:152
作者
Pratt, Jay [1 ]
Radulescu, Petre V. [1 ]
Guo, Ruo Mu [2 ]
Abrams, Richard A. [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Toronto, Dept Psychol, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada
[2] Univ Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
[3] Washington Univ, St Louis, MO 63130 USA
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
attention; animacy; attentional capture; motion; PERCEPTION; OBJECT;
D O I
10.1177/0956797610387440
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Across humans' evolutionary history, detecting animate entities in the visual field (such as prey and predators) has been critical for survival. One of the defining features of animals is their motion-self-propelled and self-directed. Does such animate motion capture visual attention? To answer this question, we compared the time to detect targets involving objects that were moving predictably as a result of collisions (inanimate motion) with the time to detect targets involving objects that were moving unpredictably, having been in no such collisions (animate motion). Across six experiments, we consistently found that targets involving objects that underwent animate motion were responded to more quickly than targets involving objects that underwent inanimate motion. Moreover, these speeded responses appeared to be due to the perceived animacy of the objects, rather than due to their uniqueness in the display or involvement of a top-down strategy. We conclude that animate motion does indeed capture visual attention.
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页码:1724 / 1730
页数:7
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