Big brother: the effects of surveillance on fundamental aspects of social vision
Kiley Seymour, Jarrod McNicoll, Roger Koenig-Robert · 2024
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Kiley Seymour, Jarrod McNicoll, and Roger Koenig-Robert test whether being watched changes basic vision itself. Their 2024 paper looks past choices people control, at an automatic skill: noticing faces. They used a method that hides images from view while flashes reach the other eye. Watched participants broke through to see faces faster than unwatched ones.
A control test ruled out the idea that people just tried to please the experimenters. So surveillance reached below deliberate behavior, into raw visual processing. The effect is hardwired and beyond will, the authors argue. That finding matters for debates on camera spread and public mental health. Being watched, it seems, tunes the brain to spot other people whether we want it to or not.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kiley Seymour, Jarrod McNicoll, Roger Koenig-Robert |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |