Congruency Effects with Animal and Human Target Objects
- DOI
- 10.2991/978-2-38476-158-6_6How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- visual perception; object recognition; body perception; rapid animal detection; congruency effect
- Abstract
It is well-established that the visual system rapidly recognizes animals and animate objects. Also, objects semantically congruent with a scene are identified more swiftly than incongruent ones. However, it remains unclear which specific types of animate objects can be recognized most quickly. The aim of this study is to investigate whether humans are recognized faster than other animals. In our experiment, participants swiftly determined whether targets within congruent and incongruent scenes belonged to humans or animals using a two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) task. The stimulus set included an equal number of congruent and incongruent synthesized images. Our study produced two key findings: Firstly, a congruency effect was observed concerning the recognition of humans. Secondly, the visual system recognized complete human bodies more rapidly than animals. These findings extend our understanding of the congruency effect in animal perception and imply the potential existence of particular mechanisms that may facilitate rapid visual recognition of humans.
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TY - CONF AU - Qunjie Huang AU - Jan Drewes AU - Weina Zhu PY - 2023 DA - 2023/12/18 TI - Congruency Effects with Animal and Human Target Objects BT - Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Applied Psychology and Modern Education (ICAPME 2023) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 33 EP - 38 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-158-6_6 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-158-6_6 ID - Huang2023 ER -