Moving and looming stimuli capture attention

By Steven L. Franconeri, Daniel J. Simons. Perception & Psychophysics, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Theories and measurement of visual attentional processing in anxiety (2008, background): “Sudden changes in the world (e.g., when an object looms toward a viewer; Franconeri & Simons, 2003) are given high priority regardless of top-down goals.”
Adaptive Gaze Control in Natural Environments (2009, background): “In addition, sudden onset or motion stimuli typically capture attention, indicated by interference with the ongoing task (Theeuwes and Godijn, 2001; Franconeri and Simons, 2003; Lin et al., 2008).”
Feature-based attentional set as a cause of traffic accidents (2007, background): “Indeed, dynamic, looming stimuli have been found to capture attention, leading to the suggestion that behaviourally urgent stimuli are particularly likely to divert attention (Franconeri & Simons, 2003).”
Requirements and design space for interactive public displays (2010, background): “In addition, moving (towards the observer) and looming stimuli have been found to capture attention [17].”
Dynamics of target selection in multiple object tracking (MOT). (2006, background): “…features as color (Friedman-Hill and Wolfe, 1995; Green and Anderson, 1956), local shape (Egeth et al., 1984), motion (McLeod et al., 1991) (particularly looming, Franconeri and Simons, 2003), stereo-defined depth (Nakayama and Silverman, 1986) or other dynamic events (Franconeri et al., 2004).”
You look where I look! Effect of gaze cues on overt and covert attention in misdirection (2009, background): “For example, events such as the onset of an object (e.g., Cole, Kuhn, & Liversedge, 2007; Yantis & Jonides, 1990), onset of motion (Abrams & Christ, 2003), or objects looming towards the observer capture our attention (Cole & Liversedge, 2006; Franconeri & Simons, 2003).”
Towards a Framework for Attention Cueing in Instructional Animations: Guidelines for Research and Design (2009, background): “There is a considerable amount of evidence in the perception literature that such dynamic changes are very effective at capturing attention when searching for specific information, even when they are task-irrelevant (e.g., Franconeri and Simons 2003; Treisman and Gormican 1988).”
Interesting objects are visually salient. (2008, background): “Other research suggests that sudden changes in color are also effective in attracting attention (Snowden, 2002; Turatto & Galfano, 2001), although this has been more largely debated (Folk & Annett, 1994; Franconeri & Simons, 2003; Jonides & Yantis, 1988; Theeuwes, 1995).”
A taxonomy of external and internal attention. (2011, positive): “Newly discovered cues that strongly demand attention include moving or looming stimuli (Abrams & Christ 2003, Franconeri & Simons 2003), especially those on a collision path with the observer (Lin et al. 2008).”
Attentional capture by entirely irrelevant distractors (2008, background): “…such as abrupt onsets and other dynamic events in paradigms designed to rule out explanations of capture effects in terms of goal-oriented strategies or other task-biased attentional settings (Abrams & Christ, 2003; Franconeri & Simons, 2003; Franconeri, Simons, & Jungé, 2004; Lamy & Egeth, 2003).”
Breaking through Fast-Forwarding: Brand Information and Visual Attention (2008, background): “Although this should apply at both fast-forwarded and normal viewing speeds (Krugman et al. 1994), the effect may be stronger for fastforwarding viewers as a result of their more tightly focused visual search patterns.”
Eye guidance in natural vision: Reinterpreting salience (2011, neutral): “There is good evidence that specific stimuli such as sudden onsets, new objects, or motion transients have substantial power to attract attention (Franconeri & Simons, 2003; Gibson, Folk, Teeuwes, & Kingstone, 2008; Irwin, Colcombe, Kramer, & Hahn, 2000; Lin, Franconeri, & Enns, 2008; Theeuwes &…”