Searching for people: Non-facing distractor pairs hinder the visual search of social scenes more than facing distractor pairs.

ABSTRACT: There is growing interest in the visual and attentional processes recruited when human observers view social scenes containing multiple people. Findings from visual search paradigms have helped shape this emerging literature. Previous research has established that, when hidden amongst pairs of individuals facing in the same direction (leftwards or rightwards), pairs of individuals arranged front-to-front are found faster than pairs of individuals arranged back-to-back. Here, we describe a second, closely-related effect with important theoretical implications. When searching for a pair of individuals facing in the same direction (leftwards or rightwards), target dyads are found faster when hidden amongst distractor pairs arranged front-to-front, than when hidden amongst distractor pairs arr

SUBMITTER: Vestner T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8346951 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature