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Clever Cats: Do They Utilize Change Blindness as a Covered Approaching Strategy?
Pastukhov, Alexander; Carbon, Claus-Christian (2022): Clever Cats: Do They Utilize Change Blindness as a Covered Approaching Strategy?, in: Bamberg: Otto-Friedrich-Universität, S. 1–4.
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2022
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i-Perception, 12 (2021), 1, S. 1-4 - ISSN: 2041-6695
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2021
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English
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Sometimes, we do not notice big changes in our environment, if these changes occur while we perform eye movements or external events interrupt our perception. This striking phenomenon is known as “change blindness.” Research on chimpanzees, macaques, and pigeons suggests that change blindness may not be unique to humans, but our understanding is limited by the difficulty of carrying out change blindness experiments in animals. However, let’s have a look to the habitats of some of our most beloved four-legged friends: cats and dogs. Here, we list several online videos with cats and a husky appear to use humans’ change blindness to their advantage to sneak upon them. Thus, we might be able to deduce the effects of change blindness and other perceptual phenomena from animals’ behaviour. Our clear message: Watch more (cat) videos! Watch them as perceptual scientists by means of observing and analysing the cat’s behaviour.
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Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Psychologie
Veränderungsblindheit
Katze
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attention
change blindness
inattention/attention blindness
tracking/shifting attention
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Activation date:
August 8, 2022
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