Attention. Looking without Seeing.

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Attention

Looking without Seeing

Why Have Attention? Limited resources –Too much information Attention: 1. selects important/relevant information 2. modulates it in the context of the task at hand

Attention Mechanisms Top-Down –Goal-driven Bottom-up –Stimulus-driven (“attention capture”) –There is debate if total bottom-up really exists Attention capture is shown to be modulated by task goals Early Selection vs. Late Selection

Visual Attention © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Evidence for Early Selection in Audition Shadowing paradigm What can be followed? Position (left/right)? Pitch (male/female)? Language (English/French)? X --> Early Selection

Visual Attention © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Evidence for Late Selection in Audition Cocktail Party phenomenon Unselected information can get in: Subject’s own name Words expected from context --> Early and late selection 15.1

Visual Attention © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Inattention Paradigm (Mack & Rock) What do we see without attention? 15.1

Visual Attention © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Inattention Paradigm Results: 15.1

Visual Attention © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Inattentional Blindness: 15.1 On many trials, subjects report seeing NOTHING if the test object is at fixation. Square at Fixation: 50-75% IB Own Name at Fixation: 5% IB Other’s name at Fixation: 35% IB Variant of own name at Fixation: 60% IB (e.g., JECK instead of JACK)

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Visual Attention © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Change Blindness 15.1

Visual Attention © Stephen E. Palmer, 2002 Change Blindness 15.1

Eye Movements Q: Why? A: Limitations of the eye – only fovea is high-res enough for many tasks Two types: –Saccades Rapid motion (25-30 ms) between fixations Saccades occur every ms Also evidence for “micro-saccades” –Smooth-pursuit (tracking) movements Require feedback

Eye-Tracking Alfred Yarbus

goal-attenuated Alfred Yarbus

Saliency Maps Itti et al proposed that bottom-up attention can be predicted from low-level visual features. Eye-tracking can be used to validate the predictions What are the problems with this idea?