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Angelone B L, Levin D T, Simons D J, 2003, "The relationship between change detection and recognition of centrally attended objects in motion pictures" Perception 32(8) 947 – 962
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The relationship between change detection and recognition of centrally attended objects in motion pictures

Bonnie L Angelone, Daniel T Levin, Daniel J Simons

Received 10 September 2002, in revised form 28 April 2003

Abstract. Observers typically detect changes to central objects more readilythan changes to marginal objects, but they sometimes miss changes to central, attended objects as well. However, even if observers do not report such changes, they may be able to recognize the changed object. In three experiments we explored change detection and recognition memory for several types of changes to central objects in motion pictures. Observers who failed to detect a change still performed at above chance levels on a recognition task in almost all conditions. In addition, observers who detected the change were no more accurate in their recognition than those who did not detect the change. Despite large differences in the detectability of changes across conditions, those observers who missed the change did not vary in their ability to recognize the changing object.

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