Gorillas in Our Midst: Sustained Inattentional Blindness for Dynamic Events

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Summary

A new study builds on classic studies of divided visual attention to examine inattentional blindness for complex objects and events in dynamic scenes and suggests that the likelihood of noticing an unexpected object depends on the similarity of that object to other objects in the display and on how difficult the priming monitoring task is.

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Published
1999-09-01
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Inattentional blindness, Change blindness, Fixation (population genetics), Cognitive psychology, Psychology

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