It's Alive! Animate Motion Captures Visual Attention
It's Alive! Animate Motion Captures Visual Attention
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797610387440
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发表时间：
2010-11-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Abrams, Richard A.
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作者：
Pratt, Jay;Radulescu, Petre V.;Abrams, Richard A.
纵观人类的进化史，在视野中检测有生命的实体（如猎物和捕食者）对生存至关重要。动物的一个显著特征是它们的运动--自我推进和自我导向。这样生动的动作能吸引视觉注意力吗？为了回答这个问题，我们比较了检测目标的时间，这些目标涉及由于碰撞而可预测地移动的物体（无生命运动），以及检测目标的时间，这些目标涉及不可预测地移动的物体，没有这样的碰撞（有生命运动）。在六个实验中，我们一致发现，涉及经历有生命运动的物体的目标比涉及经历无生命运动的物体的目标反应更快。此外，这些快速反应似乎是由于感知到的物体的生命性，而不是由于它们在显示或参与自上而下的策略中的独特性。我们的结论是，动画运动确实捕捉视觉注意力。
Across humans' evolutionary history, detecting animate entities in the visual field (such as prey and predators) has been critical for survival. One of the defining features of animals is their motion-self-propelled and self-directed. Does such animate motion capture visual attention? To answer this question, we compared the time to detect targets involving objects that were moving predictably as a result of collisions (inanimate motion) with the time to detect targets involving objects that were moving unpredictably, having been in no such collisions (animate motion). Across six experiments, we consistently found that targets involving objects that underwent animate motion were responded to more quickly than targets involving objects that underwent inanimate motion. Moreover, these speeded responses appeared to be due to the perceived animacy of the objects, rather than due to their uniqueness in the display or involvement of a top-down strategy. We conclude that animate motion does indeed capture visual attention.