Top, Alexandra (2023) Context influence of familiar objects under violations of background in a change blindness task. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Our cognition is constantly overwhelmed with information from our surrounding environment. Attention is what brings objects into visual awareness and makes it possible to notice visual changes (Luck & Vogel, 2013). However, people often fail to notice changes that happen right in front their eyes. This could have a terrible effect in one’s life, such as failing to notice the appearance of a pedestrian while driving. This process is termed change blindness (CB). It is still not clear how one can instantly know an object’s identity, which leads up to a ‘binding problem’. Moreover, it is also not clear what role does the background play in the object identification and whether it facilitates the change detection task. The present study investigated the process of CB using the conceptual network theory and the neural mechanisms of binding (de Vries, 2004). We assessed whether the background and target context increase the response accuracy in a change blindness task. The experiment tested two questions. Firstly, it was tested whether the target’s spatial location influences the response accuracy. Secondly, the interaction effect between background and target context was tested. A total sample of 42 (N =42) participants took part in the study, completing an online change detection task. The findings of our study suggest that the object’s context in terms of its spatial location and background compatibility does not have a significant effect on one’s performance in a CB task.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Vries, P.H. de |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2023 12:14 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2023 12:14 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1550 |
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