scholarly journals Does action disrupt Multiple Object Tracking (MOT)?

Psihologija ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Thornton ◽  
Todd Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
Object Tracking ◽  
Dual Task ◽  
Multiple Object Tracking ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Primary Task ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Multiple Object ◽  
Dual Task Cost ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Divide Attention

While the relationship between action and focused attention has been well-studied, less is known about the ability to divide attention while acting. In the current paper we explore this issue using the multiple object tracking (MOT) paradigm (Pylyshyn & Storm, 1988). We asked whether planning and executing a display-relevant action during tracking would substantially affect the ability track and later identify targets. In all trials the primary task was to track 4 targets among a set of 8 identical objects. Several times during each trial, one object, selected at random, briefly changed colour. In the baseline MOT trials, these changes were ignored. During active trials, each changed object had to be quickly touched. On a given trial, changed objects were either from the tracking set or were selected at random from all 8 objects. Although there was a small dual-task cost, the need to act did not substantially impair tracking under either touch condition.

Three-Dimensional Multiple Object Tracking Speed Thresholds are Associated with Measures of Simulated Driving Performance in Older Drivers

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-45
Author(s):  
Heather Woods-Fry ◽  
Swanti Deut ◽  
Charles A. Collin ◽  
Sylvain Gagnon ◽  
Jocelyn Faubert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Object Tracking ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Multiple Object Tracking ◽  
Driving Performance ◽  
Older Drivers ◽  
Motion Processing ◽  
Simulated Driving ◽  
Older Driver ◽  
Multiple Object ◽  
The Relationship

We assessed the relationship between three-dimensional multiple-object-tracking (3D-MOT) ability and older driver simulated driving performance. Participants included 30 older drivers from the local community who completed two experimental driving scenarios, as well as a three-dimensional multiple object tracking task, called the 3D-MOT task. The speed thresholds on the 3D-MOT task were strongly negatively associated with lane deviation and crash rates during a simulated highway drive. Our findings help to expand the existing knowledge regarding multiple object tracking and driving, as it is commonly assumed that some aspects of driving include the ability to track the movement of many objects. Our findings further elucidate the relationship that motion processing has with driving performance in the older driver population.

Multiple-Object Tracking

2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Botterill ◽  
R. Allen ◽  
P. McGeorge
Keyword(s):  
Object Tracking ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Spatial Location ◽  
Multiple Object Tracking ◽  
Tracking Performance ◽  
Multiple Object

The Multiple-Object Tracking paradigm has most commonly been utilized to investigate how subsets of targets can be tracked from among a set of identical objects. Recently, this research has been extended to examine the function of featural information when tracking is of objects that can be individuated. We report on a study whose findings suggest that, while participants can only hold featural information for roughly two targets this task does not affect tracking performance detrimentally and points to a discontinuity between the cognitive processes that subserve spatial location and featural information.

Location and identity are entangled in multiple-object tracking

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd S. Horowitz ◽  
Michael A. Cohen ◽  
Yair Pinto ◽  
Piers D. L. Howe
Keyword(s):  
Object Tracking ◽  
Multiple Object Tracking ◽  
Multiple Object
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