Scientists have just come several steps closer to understanding change blindness -- the well studied failure of humans to detect seemingly obvious changes to scenes around them -- with new research that used a computer-based model to predict what types of changes people are more likely to notice.
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June 17, 2010
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change blindness and courtroom testimony
A lawyer pulled a made-for-television courtroom stunt that illustrated the dangers of eyewitness testimony and the limits of memory. It unfortunately landed him in hot water.... Levin DT, Simons DJ, Angelone BL, & Chabris CF. (2002) Memory for centrally attended changing objects in an incidental real-world change detection paradigm. British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953),
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September 16, 2009
Beyond change blindness: Change deafness works almost the same way
We've talked a lot on Cognitive Daily about change blindness: the inability to spot visual differences between images and even real people and objects right before our eyes. The most dramatic demonstration might be Daniel Simons' "experiment" that took place before participants even knew they were being studied:More recently researchers have uncovered a similar phenomenon for sounds: Change deafn
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