Change Blindness Reveals Distinctive Featural Processing in Size, Color, and Orientation

TitleChange Blindness Reveals Distinctive Featural Processing in Size, Color, and Orientation
Publication TypeTechnical Report
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsYu, S. X., & Lisin D.
Other Numbers3396
Abstract

Visual search experiments in static displays have long established that size, color, andorientation are elementary features whose attributes are processed in parallel andavailable to guide the deployment of attention. Using a gaze-tracked flicker paradigm forchange blindness and stimuli rendered identically in space and separately in the 3feature dimensions, we investigate whether and how these features distinguishthemselves in the active deployment of attention during prolonged visual search. Wefind out that visual search does not show any attentional modulation in orientation,whereas it engages spatial attention in color with shorter saccades between the samecolor, and it engages featural attention in size with shorter fixation from previewing thesame size as well as tuning into a particular size. Thus, in terms of dynamic attributeprocessing over time, size, color, and orientation are highly distinctive: Betweensuccessive fixations, only orientation is truly pre-attentive without any form of priming,whereas size and color deploy attention in the featural and spatial domains respectively.

Acknowledgment

This work was partially supported by funding provided to ICSI through National Science Foundation grant IIS:1257700 (“CAREER: Art and Vision: Scene Layout from Pictorial Cues”). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors or originators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

URLhttp://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/techreports/ICSI_TR-13-001.pdf
Bibliographic Notes

ICSI Technical Report TR-13-001

Abbreviated Authors

S. X. Yu and D. Lisin

ICSI Research Group

Vision

ICSI Publication Type

Technical Report