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| Title |
I can see clearly now: the effects of age and perceptual load on inattentional blindness
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, April 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00229 |
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| Authors |
Anna Remington, Ula Cartwright-Finch, Nilli Lavie |
| Abstract |
Attention and awareness are known to be linked (e.g., see Lavie et al., 2014, for a review). However the extent to which this link changes over development is not fully understood. Most research concerning the development of attention has investigated the effects of attention on distraction, visual search and spatial orienting, typically using reaction time measures which cannot directly support conclusions about conscious awareness. Here we used Lavie's Load Theory of Attention and Cognitive Control to examine the development of attention effects on awareness. According to Load Theory, awareness levels are determined by the availability of attentional capacity. We hypothesized that attentional capacity develops with age, and consequently that awareness rates should increase with development due to the enhanced capacity. Thus we predicted that greater rates of inattentional blindness (IB) would be found at a younger age, and that lower levels of load will be sufficient to exhaust capacity and cause IB in children but not adults. We tested this hypothesis using an IB paradigm with adults and children aged 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 and 13 years old. Participants performed a line-length judgment task (indicating which arm of a cross is longer) and on the last trial were asked to report whether they noticed an unexpected task-irrelevant stimulus (a small square) in the display. Perceptual load was varied by changing the line-length difference (with a smaller difference in the conditions of higher load). The results supported our hypothesis: levels of awareness increased with age, and a moderate increase in the perceptual load of the task led to greater IB for children but not adults. These results extended across both peripheral and central presentations of the task stimuli. Overall, these findings establish the development of capacity for awareness and demonstrate the critical role of the perceptual load in the attended task. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 33 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 10 | 30% |
| United States | 4 | 12% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 9% |
| Germany | 2 | 6% |
| Ireland | 2 | 6% |
| Japan | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Myanmar | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 9 | 27% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 21 | 64% |
| Scientists | 7 | 21% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 12% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 112 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Russia | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 108 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 15 | 13% |
| Researcher | 12 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 7% |
| Other | 20 | 18% |
| Unknown | 15 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 69 | 62% |
| Neuroscience | 8 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 10 | 9% |
| Unknown | 15 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 64. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 August 2021.
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#660,117
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#5,887
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#15
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