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- Title
The spatial allocation of attention in an interactive environment.
- Authors
Wood, Katherine; Simons, Daniel J.
- Abstract
Inattentional blindness methods allow for an unobtrusive measure of the spatial distribution of attention; because subjects do not expect the critical object, they have no reason to devote attention to task-irrelevant regions in anticipation of it. We used inattentional blindness to examine the spatial allocation of attention in an interactive game in which subjects navigated through a dynamic environment and avoided hazards. Subjects were most likely to notice unexpected objects in the areas with the greatest risk of contact with a hazard, and less likely to notice equally proximal objects in inaccessible areas of the display or areas in which hazards no longer posed a threat. These results suggest that both the content of the environment and how a subject can interact with it influence the spatial allocation of attention.
- Subjects
UNOBTRUSIVE measures; ATTENTION; ECOLOGY; BLINDNESS
- Publication
Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications, 2019, Vol 4, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2365-7464
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s41235-019-0164-5