The Role of Perceptual Organization in Dynamic Representational Updating

这个项目关注的是，当世界和人在世界中的位置不断变化时，人类的视觉系统如何能够保持对世界的最新呈现。考虑一下，例如，一个司机在繁忙的街道上。当汽车沿着道路行驶时，新的物体进入视野，而其他物体则消失在视野之外。与此同时，外界的物体，如行人和其他车辆，都在独立地改变路线。这个例子强调了动态更新视觉信息的重要性。这个项目将测试一个假设，即更新过程是由观看者当前对世界上物体的解释以及它们彼此之间的相对位置所引导的。这意味着更新过程是活动的，并且依赖于查看器。理解具象更新的动态过程可以使设计人员考虑到人类视觉处理的优缺点，从而促进人机界面、道路和其他工件的设计。了解视觉表现是如何更新的，还可以指导驾驶员、救生员、空中交通管制员、重型机械操作员、机场安检人员和其他依赖于仔细审查视觉环境的人的教育计划。

This project is concerned with how the human visual system is able to maintain an up-to-date representation of the world when the world and the position of the person in the world are constantly changing. Consider, for example, a driver on a busy street. As the car moves down the road, new objects come into view and other objects go out of view. At the same time, objects out it the world, such as pedestrians and other vehicles, are independently changing course. This example highlights how critical it is that visual information be dynamically updated. This project will test the hypothesis that the updating process is guided by the viewer's current interpretation of what objects are out in the world and where they are relative to each other. The implication is that the updating process is active and viewer dependent. Understanding the dynamic process of representational updating can facilitate the design of human-machine interfaces, roadways, and other artifacts by allowing designers to take into account the strengths and weaknesses of human visual processing. Knowing how the visual representations are updated can also guide educational programs for drivers, lifeguards, air traffic controllers, heavy machine operators, airport security screeners, and others who rely on careful scrutiny of a visual environment.