THE EFFECT OF ATTENTIONAL LOAD ON CROWDING

Lilit Dulyan () and Igor Utochkin ()
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Lilit Dulyan: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Igor Utochkin: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: Crowding is a phenomenon of peripheral vision which impairs the ability to individuate an object surrounded by flankers. There has been a long-standing controversy in the literature between theories supporting or denying the role of attention in crowding. In our study, we present a new experimental approach to address this issue. It is based on a dual-task paradigm allowing us to manipulate attentional allocation towards or away from the crowded stimuli. It was expected that attentional load under a multiple object tracking task would impair the recognition of the target ring presented in the periphery both when the target was presented alone or when it was flanked. The results from the experiment support neither the role of attention in the crowding effect nor in a clear recognition of peripheral stimuli.

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Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2018
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Published in WP BRP Series: Science, Psychology / PSY, November 2018, pages 1-14

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