The Change Detection Advantage for Animals: An Effect of Ancestral Priorities or Progeny of Experimental Design?
The “animate monitoring” hypothesis proposes that humans are evolutionarily predisposed to recruit attention toward animals. Support for this has repeatedly been obtained through the change detection paradigm where animals are detected faster than artifacts. The present study shows that the advantag...
Main Authors: | Thomas Hagen, Bruno Laeng |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2016-06-01
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Series: | i-Perception |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669516651366 |
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