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2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2025

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

Virtual · October 2025

Poster · Cognitive Science

  • 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 accessto facial information, using either a hijab or a hat, affects our ability to detect change. Weexpect to find better change detection when facial features are obscured by hats as compared to hijabs

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