title: The effect of display timing on change blindness in pigeons (Columba livia).
abstract: Change blindness is a phenomenon in which even obvious changes in a visual scene may go unnoticed. Recent research has indicated that this phenomenon may not be exclusive to humans. Two experiments investigated change blindness in pigeons, using a variant of the widely-used flicker task to investigate the influence of display timing on change blindness. Results indicate that the duration of time during which a stimulus display is visible influences change detection accuracy, with the effect due to additional search time. The results are discussed in relation to the value of comparative cognition and cross-species investigations of behavior.
authors.affiliation: Whitman College.
authors.forename: Walter T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Herbranson
authors.affiliation: Whitman College.
authors.forename: Eva T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D010856:Columbidae; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D005425:Flicker Fusion; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception
keywords: attention; change blindness; change detection; pigeon