A body detection inversion effect revealed by a large-scale inattentional blindness experiment

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Հիմնական հեղինակ: Gandolfo, Marco
Այլ հեղինակներ: Peelen, Marius V
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100 1 |a Gandolfo, Marco 
245 1 |a A body detection inversion effect revealed by a large-scale inattentional blindness experiment 
260 |b Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press  |c Feb 26, 2025 
513 |a Working Paper 
520 3 |a As a social species, humans preferentially attend to the faces and bodies of other people. Previous research revealed specialized cognitive mechanisms for processing human faces and bodies. For example, upright person silhouettes are more readily found than inverted silhouettes in visual search tasks. It is unclear, however, whether these findings reflect a top-down attentional bias to social stimuli or bottom-up sensitivity to visual cues signaling the presence of other people. Here, we tested whether the upright human form is preferentially detected in the absence of attention. To rule out influences of top-down attention and expectation, we conducted a large-scale single-trial inattentional blindness experiment on a diverse sample of naive participants (N=13.539). While participants were engaged in judging the length of a cross at fixation, we briefly presented an unexpected silhouette of a person or a plant next to the cross. Subsequently, we asked whether participants noticed anything other than the cross. Results showed that silhouettes of people were more often noticed than silhouettes of plants. Crucially, upright person silhouettes were also more often detected than inverted person silhouettes, despite these stimuli being identical in their low-level visual features. These results were replicated in a second experiment involving headless person silhouettes. Finally, capitalizing on the exceptionally large and diverse sample, further analyses revealed strong detection differences across age and gender. These results indicate that the visual system is tuned to the form of the upright human body, allowing for the quick detection of other people even in the absence of attention.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.Footnotes* Updated manuscript following revisions from the journal - new headless body experiment* https://osf.io/ahm7r/ 
653 |a Visual perception 
653 |a Information processing 
653 |a Visual stimuli 
653 |a Experiments 
653 |a Visual system 
653 |a Blindness 
700 1 |a Peelen, Marius V 
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