The role of perceptual factors in the reflexive attentional shift phenomenon.

SORANZO, Alessandro, WILSON, Christopher and BERTAMINI, Marco (2016). The role of perceptual factors in the reflexive attentional shift phenomenon. In: 39th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2016 Barcelona, Barcelona, 28 August 2016 - 1 September 2016.

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Abstract

The presence of a cue in the visual scene that orients attention can interfere with what we report to see. It has been suggested that this interference effect is affected by socially-relevant characteristics of the cue (social model of interference); for instance when attention is biased by the presence of a cue to whom a mental state is attributed (e.g. another person). This paper examines whether perceptual features of the cue, readily detected by visual processes (perceptual model of interference), are sufficient to elicit the interference effect. To compare the social and perceptual models of interference, an experiment was conducted which systematically manipulated the mental state attribution to the cue. The results show that interference persists even when a mental state is not attributed to the cue, and that perceptual expectations are sufficient to explain the reflexive attentional shift, thus supporting a perceptual model of interference.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute > Art and Design Research Centre
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics
Depositing User: Alessandro Soranzo
Date Deposited: 03 Feb 2017 09:45
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 16:00
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15023

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