Attention to configurai information in change detection for faces

Simone K. Favelle*, Darren Burke

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Abstract

In recent research the change-detection paradigm has been used along with cueing manipulations to show that more attention is allocated to the upper than lower facial region, and that this attentional allocation is disrupted by inversion. We report two experiments the object of which was to investigate how the type of information changed might be a factor in these findings by explicitly comparing the role of attention in detecting change to information thought to be 'special' to faces (second-order relations) with information that is more useful for basic-level object discrimination (first-order relations). Results suggest that attention is automatically directed to second-order relations in upright faces, but not first-order relations, and that this pattern of attentional allocation is similar across features.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1353-1367
Number of pages15
JournalPerception
Volume36
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007

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