Humans often fail to notice plants in the environment and our plant blindness leads to an inability to prioritise plants equally to other living categories such as animals. Evidence for plant blindnesss comes from memory tasks presenting pictures of single items where adults recall fewer plant than animal images. However, it remains unknown as to whether plant blindness affects recall of elements in complex scenarios and whether the effects can be attenuated. In Experiment 1, we uncovered that plant blindness biases adults' performance in a memory task where plant elements were presented simultaneously and saliently alongside animal elements in naturalistic scenes. In Experiment 2, priming adults with words about plants dominating the Earth's biomass did not attenuate plant-animal differentials on the memory task. In Experiment 3, adults recalled plants just as well as animals after being primed by task-relevant pictures of a tree. These results suggest that plant blindness is a visual bias that can impact the way adults process real-world scenes, but it can also be corrected by a perceptual form of priming.

人类经常无法注意到环境中的植物，而我们的植物失明导致无法将植物与其他生物类别（如动物）同等优先考虑。植物失明的证据来自于呈现单个项目图片的记忆任务，其中成年人回忆的植物图像少于动物图像。然而，植物失明是否会影响复杂场景中元素的回忆以及是否可以减弱这种影响仍然未知。在实验 1 中，我们发现植物失明会影响成年人在一项记忆任务中的表现，其中植物元素在自然场景中与动物元素同时且显着地呈现。在实验 2 中，用关于植物主宰地球生物量的词来引导成年人并没有减弱植物-动物在记忆任务上的差异。在实验 3 中，成年人在看到与任务相关的树木图片后，会回忆起植物和动物。这些结果表明，植物失明是一种视觉偏见，会影响成年人处理现实世界场景的方式，但它也可以通过感知形式的启动来纠正。