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St John Blake Haw
Department of Psychology
University of Natal
3 Acutt Road
Hilton, 3245 Kwazulu Natal, Kwazulu Natal South Africa
Office phone: (033) 34 33847
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Email: saint_haw@yahoo.com
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Change Detection Research Interests
I have recently become interested in the change blindness phenomenon, and I am going to be investigating the influence that training participants in visual search strategies will have on change detection success. One of the questions that I would to consider is "does visual search training give increased success in change detection, and how does it function?". The visual search strategies thatI am going to be using come from art-educators and military training sources. I suspect that an alteration in normal visual scanning could serve to disrupt "meaning driven endogenous control" over visual search. According to my hypothesis, this should give participants using the search strategies an advantage in detecting changes in low-interest aspects of a scence. Prior work by J.K O'Regan and R.Rensink have been invaluable in formulating my hypothesis, and a study entitled "Effects of Scene Inversion on Change Detection" by Shore and Klein (2000) has contributed extensively to this experiment. I am going to be using the "flicker technique", and J.K O'Regan has kindly given me the use of his change blindness images.
Other Research Interests
Change Detection Publications
Last updated: July 26, 2001
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