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- Title
Blindness to background: an inbuilt bias for visual objects.
- Authors
O'Hanlon, Catherine G.; Read, Jenny C.A.
- Abstract
Sixty-eight 2- to 12-year-olds and 30 adults were shown colorful displays on a touchscreen monitor and trained to point to the location of a named color. Participants located targets near-perfectly when presented with four abutting colored patches. When presented with three colored patches on a colored background, toddlers failed to locate targets in the background. Eye tracking demonstrated that the effect was partially mediated by a tendency not to fixate the background. However, the effect was abolished when the targets were named as nouns, whilst the change to nouns had little impact on eye movement patterns. Our results imply a powerful, inbuilt tendency to attend to objects, which may slow the development of color concepts and acquisition of color words. A video abstract of this article can be viewed at: . [Correction added on 27 January 2017, after first online publication: The video abstract link was added.]
- Subjects
COLOR vision in children; EYE tracking; EYE movements; TOUCH screens; PSYCHOLOGY of toddlers
- Publication
Developmental Science, 2017, Vol 20, Issue 5, pn/a
- ISSN
1363-755X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/desc.12478