APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Detecting Faces: Limiting Access to Facial Information Using Either a Hijab or a Hat during a Virtual Change Blindness Task

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Cognitive

  • Menahal Latif
    Toronto Metropolitan University
  • Margaret Moulson
    Toronto Metropolitan University

Abstract

In this study, we will use a virtual change-blindness task to investigate how limiting access to facial information, using either a hijab or a hat, affects our ability to detect change. We expect to find better change detection when facial features are obscured by hats as compared to hijabs.

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