Change blindness to gradual changes in facial expressions

David, E.; Laloyaux, Cédric; Devue, Christel; Cleeremans, A.

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Change blindness to gradual changes in facial expressions

David, E.; Laloyaux, Cédric; Devue, Christel et al.

2006 • In Psychologica Belgica, 46 (4), p. 253-268

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Change blindness; visual perception; faces; facial expression; emotion; visual attention

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[en] Change blindness—our inability to detect changes in a stimulus—occurs even when the change takes place gradually, without disruption (Simons et al., 2000). Such gradual changes are more difficult to detect than changes that involve a disruption. In this experiment, we extend previous findings to the domain of facial expressions of emotions occurring in the context of a realistic scene. Even with changes occurring in central, highly relevant stimuli such as faces, gradual changes still produced high levels of change blindness: Detection rates were three times lower for gradual changes than for displays involving disruption, with only 15% of the observers perceiving the gradual change within a single trial. However, despite this high rate of change blindness, changes on faces were significantly better detected than color changes occurring on non facial objects in the same scene.

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Theoretical & cognitive psychology

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David, E.

Laloyaux, Cédric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie cognitive

Devue, Christel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie cognitive

Cleeremans, A.

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English

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Change blindness to gradual changes in facial expressions

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2006

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Psychologica Belgica

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0033-2879

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2054-670X

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Belgian Psychol Soc, Louvain, Belgium

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253-268

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