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Chasing Animals With Split Attention: Are Animals Prioritized in Visual Tracking?

Thomas Hagen¹, Thomas Espeseth², Bruno Laeng¹

¹Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway.

|September 12, 2018

Summary

Humans do not automatically prioritize animals in attention tasks. Studies found no significant advantage for animals in tracking, distraction, or response selection, suggesting weak evidence for an innate animal attention bias.

Keywords:

animacy animals animate monitoring hypothesis attention multiple event monitoring multiple identity tracking multiple object tracking

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology
Attention Studies

Background:

Evolutionary psychologists propose that animals receive preferential human attention.
This hypothesis suggests animals are detected and processed more efficiently than non-animal objects.
Such a mechanism would involve automatic deployment of attentional resources toward animal stimuli.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the animate monitoring hypothesis using dynamic attentional tasks.
To determine if animals capture more attentional resources than man-made objects (artifacts).
To assess attentional prioritization for animals in tracking, response selection, and monitoring.

Main Methods:

Utilized variations of multiple object tracking and multiple event monitoring tasks.
Employed images of animals and artifacts as stimuli.
Measured performance in tracking positions, response order, and event monitoring accuracy.

Main Results:

No significant improvement in tracking animal stimulus positions was observed.
Animals did not act as significant distractors, nor were they prioritized in response selection.
An advantage for animals in event monitoring was task-dependent; identity accuracy showed a small, inconclusive advantage.

Conclusions:

Evidence for an automatic attentional bias toward animals is weak and inconclusive.
Effect sizes favoring animals in attention tasks were generally small.
Findings do not strongly support the hypothesis that animals receive preferential attentional processing.