Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gaspar, John G
• Neider, Mark B
• Simons, Daniel J
• McCarley, Jason S
• Kramer, Arthur F
• Hamed, Suliann Ben

Titel

Change detection: training and transfer

Ist Teil von

• PloS one, 2013-06, Vol.8 (6), p.e67781-e67781

Ort / Verlag

United States: Public Library of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Observers often fail to notice even dramatic changes to their environment, a phenomenon known as change blindness. If training could enhance change detection performance in general, then it might help to remedy some real-world consequences of change blindness (e.g. failing to detect hazards while driving). We examined whether adaptive training on a simple change detection task could improve the ability to detect changes in untrained tasks for young and older adults. Consistent with an effective training procedure, both young and older adults were better able to detect changes to trained objects following training. However, neither group showed differential improvement on untrained change detection tasks when compared to active control groups. Change detection training led to improvements on the trained task but did not generalize to other change detection tasks.