Citation

Papenmeier F, Meyerhoff HS, Brockhoff A, Jahn G, Huff M. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 2017; 43(7): 1269-1274.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/xhp0000421

PMID

28639824

Abstract

Object-based attention influences the subjective metrics of surrounding space. However, does perceived space influence object-based attention, as well? We used an attentive tracking task that required sustained object-based attention while objects moved within a tracking space. We manipulated perceived space through the availability of depth cues and varied the orientation of the tracking space. When rich depth cues were available (appearance of a voluminous tracking space), the upside-down orientation of the tracking space (objects appeared to move high on a ceiling) caused a pronounced impairment of tracking performance compared with an upright orientation of the tracking space (objects appeared to move on a floor plane). In contrast, this was not the case when reduced depth cues were available (appearance of a flat tracking space). With a preregistered second experiment, we showed that those effects were driven by scene-based depth cues and not object-based depth cues. We conclude that perceived space affects object-based attention and that object-based attention and perceived space are closely interlinked. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Language: en