Topic
Looming
About: Looming is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 739 publications have been published within this topic receiving 18373 citations.
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TL;DR: Although the sorts of dynamic events that capture attention do not fit neatly into a single category, it is speculated that stimuli that signal potentially behaviorally urgent events are more likely to receive attentional priority.
Abstract: Attention capture is often operationally defined as speeded search performance when an otherwise nonpredictive stimulus happens to be the target of a visual search. That is, if a stimulus captures attention, it should be searched with priority even when it is irrelevant to the task. Given this definition, only the abrupt appearance of a new object (see, e.g., Jonides & Yantis, 1988) and one type of luminance contrast change (Enns, Austen, Di Lollo, Rauschenberger, & Yantis, 2001) have been shown to strongly capture attention. We show that translating and looming stimuli also capture attention. This phenomenon does not occur for all dynamic events: We also show that receding stimuli do not attract attention. Although the sorts of dynamic events that capture attention do not fit neatly into a single category, we speculate that stimuli that signal potentially behaviorally urgent events are more likely to receive attentional priority.
662 citations
TL;DR: A major emphasis of these areas is the construction of a margin of safety around the body and the selection and coordination of defensive behavior, including the ducking and blocking reactions that follow startle, the flight zone of animals, the personal space of humans, the nearby, multimodal attentional space that has been studied in humans.
594 citations
TL;DR: This work explores the behavior of mice under a visual display that simulates an approaching object, which causes defensive reactions in some other species, and shows that mice respond to this stimulus either by initiating escape within a second or by freezing for an extended period.
589 citations
TL;DR: Three types of looming-selective neurons have been found in the nucleus rotundus of pigeons, each computing a different optical variable related to image expansion of objects approaching on a direct collision course with the bird.
Abstract: Three types of looming-selective neurons have been found in the nucleus rotundus of pigeons, each computing a different optical variable related to image expansion of objects approaching on a direct collision course with the bird. None of these neurons respond to simulated approach toward stationary objects. A detailed analysis of these neurons’ firing pattern to approaching objects of different sizes and velocities shows that one group of neurons signals relative rate of expansion τ (tau), a second group signals absolute rate of expansion ρ (rho), and a third group signals yet another optical variable η (eta). The ρ parameter is required for the computation of both τ and η, whose respective ecological functions probably provide precise ‘time-to-collision’ information and ‘early warning’ detection for large approaching objects.
414 citations
TL;DR: Infant and adult rhesus monkeys manifested persistent avoidance responses to "looming" but not to the inverse, indicating that this visual stimulus alone is a strong exciter of avoidance, and the response appears early in life.
Abstract: The approach of an object corresponds with a spatiotemporal optical stimulus consisting of a symmetrical expansion of a closed contour in the field of view. The visual equivalent of impending collision was isolated and compared with its sequential inversion. Infant and adult rhesus monkeys manifested persistent avoidance responses to "looming" but not to the inverse. This visual stimulus alone is a strong exciter of avoidance, and the response appears early in life.
405 citations
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| Year | Papers |
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| 2025 | 70 |
| 2024 | 127 |
| 2023 | 136 |
| 2022 | 160 |
| 2021 | 52 |
| 2020 | 53 |