An attentional bias for LEGO® people using a change detection task: Are LEGO® people animate?

LaPointe, Mitchell R. P.; Cullen, Rachael; Baltaretu, Bianca R.; Campos, Melissa; Michalski, Natalie; Satgunarajah, Suja Sri; Cadieux, Michelle L.; Pachai, Matthew V.; Shore, David I.

doi:10.1037/cep0000077

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“…Yet another explanation could be differences in attribution of agency to the Lego avatars compared with the cartoon avatars. This could be due to participants’ experience of Lego characters as non-agentive objects in the real world, although Lego figures have been shown to be processed as animate in at least some circumstances ( LaPointe et al, 2016 ), or it may be due to intrinsic properties of the images—that is, the greater realism of the cartoon avatars, with near-human proportions, body shape, and facial projections.…”

Section: Experiments 4: Original Stimulimentioning

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Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic

O’Grady

Scott‐Phillips

Lavelle

et al. 2020

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Data from a range of different experimental paradigms—in particular (but not only) the dot perspective task—have been interpreted as evidence that humans automatically track the perspective of other individuals. Results from other studies, however, have cast doubt on this interpretation, and some researchers have suggested that phenomena that seem like perspective-taking might instead be the products of simpler behavioural rules. The issue remains unsettled in significant part because different schools of thought, with different theoretical perspectives, implement the experimental tasks in subtly different ways, making direct comparisons difficult. Here, we explore the possibility that subtle differences in experimental method explain otherwise irreconcilable findings in the literature. Across five experiments we show that the classic result in the dot perspective task is not automatic (it is not purely stimulus-driven), but nor is it exclusively the product of simple behavioural rules that do not involve mentalising. Instead, participants do compute the perspectives of other individuals rapidly, unconsciously, and involuntarily, but only when attentional systems prompt them to do so (just as, for instance, the visual system puts external objects into focus only as and when required). This finding prompts us to clearly distinguish spontaneity from automaticity. Spontaneous perspective-taking may be a computationally efficient means of navigating the social world.

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Section: Experiments 4: Original Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic

O’Grady

Scott‐Phillips

Lavelle

et al. 2020

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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“…Yet another explanation could be differences in attribution of agency to the Lego avatars compared to the cartoon avatars. This could be due to participants' experience of Lego characters as non-agentive objects in the real world, although Lego figures have been shown to be processed as animate in at least some circumstances (LaPointe et al 2016); or it may be due to intrinsic properties of the images -that is, the greater realism of the cartoon avatars, with near-human proportions, body shape, and facial projections.…”

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Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic

O'Grady¹,

Scott‐Phillips²,

Lavelle³

et al. 2019

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Data from a range of different experimental paradigms -- in particular (but not only) the dot perspective task -- have been interpreted as evidence that humans automatically track the perspective of other individuals. Results from other studies, however, have cast doubt on this interpretation, and some researchers have suggested that phenomena that seem like perspective-taking might instead be the products of simpler behavioural rules. The issue remains unsettled in significant part because different schools of thought, with different theoretical perspectives, implement the experimental tasks in subtly different ways, making direct comparisons difficult. Here, we explore the possibility that subtle differences in experimental method explain otherwise irreconcilable findings in the literature. Across five experiments we show that the classic result in the dot perspective task is not automatic (it is not purely stimulus-driven), but nor is it exclusively the product of simple behavioural rules that do not involve mentalizing. Instead, participants do compute the perspectives of other individuals rapidly, unconsciously and involuntarily, but only when attentional systems prompt them to do so (just as, for instance, the visual system puts external objects into focus only as and when required). This finding prompts us to clearly distinguish spontaneity from automaticity. Spontaneous perspective-taking may be a computationally efficient means of navigating the social world.

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Change detection in complex auditory scenes is predicted by auditory memory, pitch perception, and years of musical training

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Rubio-Garcia

et al. 2018

Psychological Research

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Our world is a sonically busy place and we use both acoustic information and experience-based knowledge to make sense of the sounds arriving at our ears. The knowledge we gain through experience has the potential to shape what sounds are prioritized in a complex scene. There are many examples of how visual expertise influences how we perceive objects in visual scenes, but few studies examine how auditory expertise is associated with attentional biases toward familiar real-world sounds in complex scenes. In the current study, we investigated whether musical expertise is associated with the ability to detect changes to real-world sounds in complex auditory scenes, and whether any such benefit is specific to musical instrument sounds. We also examined whether change detection is better for human-generated sounds in general or only communicative human sounds. We found that musicians had less change deafness overall. All listeners were better at detecting human communicative sounds compared to human non-communicative sounds, but this benefit was driven by speech sounds and sounds that were vocally generated. Musical listening skill, speech-in-noise, and executive function abilities were used to predict rates of change deafness. Auditory memory, musical training, fine-grained pitch processing, and an interaction between training and pitch processing accounted for 45.8% of the variance in change deafness. To better understand perceptual and cognitive expertise, it may be more important to measure various auditory skills and relate them to each other, as opposed to comparing experts to non-experts.

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An attentional bias for LEGO® people using a change detection task: Are LEGO® people animate?

Cited by 4 publications

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Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic

Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic

Perspective-taking is spontaneous but not automatic

Change detection in complex auditory scenes is predicted by auditory memory, pitch perception, and years of musical training

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