Abstract:Do we accurately perceive fine details in the visual periphery? While people often think they veridically perceive much of the visual surround, recent findings indicate that when asked to detect targets such as gratings embedded in visual noise, observers make more false alarms in the unattended periphery. Do these results from psychophysics studies generalize to naturalistic settings? We used a modern game engine to create a simulated driving environment where participants (as drivers) had to make judgments a… Show more
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