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Sustained change blindness to incremental scene rotation: a dissociation between explicit change detection and visual memory
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Sustained change blindness to incremental scene rotation: a dissociation between explicit change detection and visual memory

Andrew Hollingworth and John M Henderson
Perception & psychophysics, Vol.66(5), pp.800-807
07/2004
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194974
PMID: 15495905
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Abstract

In a change detection paradigm, the global orientation of a natural scene was incrementally changed in 1 degree intervals. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants demonstrated sustained change blindness to incremental rotation, often coming to consider a significantly different scene viewpoint as an unchanged continuation of the original view. Experiment 3 showed that participants who failed to detect the incremental rotation nevertheless reliably detected a single-step rotation back to the initial view. Together, these results demonstrate an important dissociation between explicit change detection and visual memory. Following a change, visual memory is updated to reflect the changed state of the environment, even if the change was not detected.
Humans Memory Rotation Signal Detection, Psychological Visual Perception

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