Describing scenes hardly seen

Dobel, Ch., Gumnior, H., Bölte, J., & Zwitserlood, P.

Forschungsartikel (Zeitschrift) | Peer reviewed

Zusammenfassung

Knowledge about scene categories, the so-called gist, can be extracted very rapidly, while recognition and naming of individual scene objects is a more effortful process. We investigate this phenomenon by presenting action scenes involving two actors for durations varying between 100 and 300 ms. Incoherence was created by mirroring individual scene actors. Upon masked presentation participants had to report content, actors and objects and to indicate whether the scene was meaningful or not. Scene coherence was judged correctly at all presentation durations. Actors were correctly identified in about one-third of the cases even with presentation durations of 100 ms, and identification rate increased up to 80% with longer durations. Identification depended on scene coherence, on the position of agents in the scene, and on the position of actors relative to the fixation cross. These interdependencies of scene and object perception indicate that the visual system seems to be very sensitive to meaningful interactions of living entities. A series of fixations is not necessary to identify actors of a scene. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Details zur Publikation

FachzeitschriftActa Psychologica
Jahrgang / Bandnr. / Volume125
Ausgabe / Heftnr. / Issue2
Seitenbereich129-143
StatusVeröffentlicht
Veröffentlichungsjahr2007 (30.06.2007)
Sprache, in der die Publikation verfasst istEnglisch
DOI10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.07.004
Stichwörterscene apprehension language production event cognition object identification eye-movements natural scenes change blindness visual-system attention objects categorization perception memory competition

Autor*innen der Universität Münster

Bölte, Jens
Professur für Psycholinguistik und kognitive Neurowissenschaft (Prof. Zwitserlood)
Zwitserlood, Pienie
Professur für Psycholinguistik und kognitive Neurowissenschaft (Prof. Zwitserlood)