Demonstrations: Multiple Object Tracking
 
 
This page contains links to stimuli and movies relating to our recent experiments on the nature of object representations in mid-level visual processing, as studied with the phenomenon of multiple object tracking (MOT).

Motion-maps and attention, explored with MOT (Coming soon)
Sample displays from:
Flombaum, J. I., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). The influence of motion on attention. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Eye fixations during concentration/amplification effects in MOT
Sample displays from:
Doran, M. M., Hoffman, J. E., & Scholl, B. J. (2009). The role of eye fixations in concentration and amplification effects during multiple object tracking. Visual Cognition, 17(4), 574 - 597.
Attentional highbeams in tracking through occlusion during MOT
Sample displays from:
Flombaum, J. I., Scholl, B. J., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2008). Attentional resources in visual tracking through occlusion: The high-beams effect. Cognition, 107(3), 904 - 931.
Attentional concentration and amplification with MOT
Sample displays from:
Alvarez, G. A., & Scholl, B. J. (2005). How does attention select and track spatially extended objects?: New effects of attentional concentration and amplification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 134(4), 461 - 476.
Tracking objects vs. substances
Sample displays from:
vanMarle, K., & Scholl, B. J. (2003). Attentive tracking of objects vs. substances. Psychological Science, 14(5), 498 - 504.
What counts as an object in MOT?
Sample displays from:
Scholl, B. J., Pylyshyn, Z. W., & Feldman, J. (2001). What is a visual object? Evidence from target merging in multiple object tracking. Cognition, 80(1/2), 159 - 177.
Tracking through occlusion
Sample displays from:
Scholl, B. J., & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (1999). Tracking multiple items through occlusion: Clues to visual objecthood. Cognitive Psychology, 38, 259 - 290.
The basic MOT paradigm
Sample displays illustrating the generic MOT paradigm/phenomenon.