Can change detection succeed when change localization fails?

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dc.contributor.authorOriet, Chris
dc.contributor.authorGiesinger, Candice
dc.contributor.authorStewart, Kaiden M.
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-28T20:22:52Z
dc.date.available2023-06-28T20:22:52Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-02
dc.description© 2020, American Psychological Association. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the final, authoritative version of the article. Please do not copy or cite without authors' permission. The final article will be available, upon publication, via its DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000834en_US
dc.description.abstractStatistical summary representations (SSRs) are thought to be computed by the visual system to provide a rapid summary of the properties of sets of similar objects. Recently, it has been suggested that a change in the statistical properties of a set can be identified even when changes to the individual items comprising the set cannot. Haberman and Whitney (2011) showed that subjects were correctly able to report which of two consecutively presented sets of faces was, on average, happier, even when participants were unable to localize any of the items contributing to this change. In this paper, we revisit this conclusion, and suggest that the results supporting it may be an artifact of the paradigm used. In four experiments we find little evidence to suggest that subjects can reliably detect a change in the average size or emotion of an array of faces when they are unable to localize changes to individual items. The results are well accounted for by assuming that observers are selectively attending to individual items and then inferring the direction of the overall change based on the behaviour of the attended items. We suggest that this occurs because change localization requires focused attention to individual items, impeding calculation of SSRs which requires global attention to the entire set. We conclude that there is currently little evidence that SSRs can facilitate change detection when individual change localization fails.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusFacultyen_US
dc.description.peerreviewyesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by a Discovery Grant to CO from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOriet, C., Giesinger, C., & Stewart, K. M. (2020). Can change detection succeed when change localization fails? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(10), 1127–1147. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000834en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000834
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/15975
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Associationen_US
dc.subjectstatistical summary representationen_US
dc.subjectensemble codingen_US
dc.subjectperceptual averagingen_US
dc.subjectchange blindnessen_US
dc.titleCan change detection succeed when change localization fails?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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