期刊
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
卷 22, 期 4, 页码 429-434出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611400917
关键词
vision; detection; looming; children; road; safety; time to contact; tau; perception; development
资金
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/F017650/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/F017650/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Almost all locomotor animals respond to visual looming or to discrete changes in optical size. The need to detect and process looming remains critically important for humans in everyday life. Road traffic statistics confirm that children up to 15 years old are overrepresented in pedestrian casualties. We demonstrate that, for a given pedestrian crossing time, vehicles traveling faster loom less than slower vehicles, which creates a dangerous illusion in which faster vehicles may be perceived as not approaching. Our results from perceptual tests of looming thresholds show strong developmental trends in sensitivity, such that children may not be able to detect vehicles approaching at speeds in excess of 20 mph. This creates a risk of injudicious road crossing in urban settings when traffic speeds are higher than 20 mph. The risk is exacerbated because vehicles moving faster than this speed are more likely to result in pedestrian fatalities.
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