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John Henderson

Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
129 Psychology Research Building
East Lansing, MI 48823
USA
Office phone: (517) 432-3367
Office fax: (517) 353-3745

Email: john@eyelab.msu.edu
Home page: http://eyelab.msu.edu




Change Detection Research Interests
The change blindness phenomenon has generated a great deal of interest in the psychological, philosophical, and vision science literatures, both because it is strikingly counterintuitive, and because it undermines the traditional view that the visual system constructs a complete representation of the external world. My research focuses on trying to understand the nature of the scene representation that is constructed over time. More specifically, I‚m interested in understanding the nature of the information that is retained and integrated from fixation to fixation in the generation of a composite scene representation. The majority of this work uses the saccade-contingent display change paradigm: Viewers‚ eye movements are monitored as they explore pictures of complex, natural scenes, and the scenes are changed during a saccade to or from a particular region of the scene. By examining change detection (both explicit and implicit), we can make inferences about the nature of the processes and representations that support scene perception over time.

Other Research Interests
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Change Detection Publications
Henderson, J. M., & Hollingworth, A. (1999). High-level scene perception. Annual Review of Psychology, 50, 243-271. fHenderson, J. M., & Hollingworth, A. (1999). The role of fixation position in detecting scene changes across saccades. Psychological Science, 10, 438-443.

Henderson, J. M. (1997). Transsaccadic memory and integration during real-world object perception. Psychological Science, 8, 51-55.

Hollingworth, A., Schrock, G., & Henderson, J. M. (in press). The role of fixation position in detecting changes to scenes in the flicker paradigm. Memory & Cognition.

Hollingworth, A., & Henderson, J. M. (2000). Semantic informativeness affects the detection of changes in natural scenes. Visual Cognition (Special Issue on Change Blindness and Visual Memory), 7, 213-235.




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