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dc.contributor.author | Mayer, Katja M. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Voung, Quoc C. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Thornton, Ian M. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-20T13:56:14Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-02-20T13:56:14Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Mayer, K. M., Voung, Q. C., & Thornton, I. M. (2015). Do people “pop out”? PLoS ONE, 10(10), e0139618. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/27018 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The human body is a highly familiar and socially very important object. Does this mean that the human body has a special status with respect to visual attention? In the current paper we tested whether people in natural scenes attract attention and “pop out” or, alternatively, are at least searched for more efficiently than targets of another category (machines). Observers in our study searched a visual array for dynamic or static scenes containing humans amidst scenes containing machines and vice versa. The arrays consisted of 2, 4, 6 or 8 scenes arranged in a circular array, with targets being present or absent. Search times increased with set size for dynamic and static human and machine targets, arguing against pop out. However, search for human targets was more efficient than for machine targets as indicated by shallower search slopes for human targets. Eye tracking further revealed that observers made more first fixations to human than to machine targets and that their on-target fixation durations were shorter for human compared to machine targets. In summary, our results suggest that searching for people in natural scenes is more efficient than searching for other categories even though people do not pop out. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Recognition (Psychology) | en_GB |
dc.subject | Attention | en_GB |
dc.subject | Eye tracking | en_GB |
dc.subject | Field dependence-independence | en_GB |
dc.subject | Vision | en_GB |
dc.title | Do people “pop out”? | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0139618 | - |
dc.publication.title | PLoS ONE | en_GB |
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