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Not All Hazards are Created Equal: The Significance of Hazards in Inattentional Blindness for Static Driving Scenes
Author(s) -
Pammer Kristen,
Bairnsfather Jane,
Burns Jacqueline,
Hellsing Annika
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.3153
Subject(s) - inattentional blindness , psychology , stimulus (psychology) , cognitive psychology , change blindness , hazard , poison control , blindness , cognition , social psychology , perception , optometry , neuroscience , medicine , chemistry , environmental health , organic chemistry
Summary Explaining how we attend to some objects and not others in real world environments remains a challenge for theories of attention. Driving is an ideal example of this, as it requires a complex synthesis of attentional processing, while still allowing attention to be captured by hazards. In the current study we employed a static inattentional blindness (IB) driving task in which participants were required to make decisions about the content of driving‐related scenarios. In a critical trial, an additional stimulus was added to the driving scenario. All unexpected stimuli were thematically consistent with a normal driving environment but varied in their level of hazard threat. Rates of IB were consistent with the level of hazard threat of the stimuli. The results are discussed in terms of semantic‐based attentional capture in driving, and models of IB.Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.