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Change Blindness

Kentridge, R.W.

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J.D. Wright
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Abstract

Change blindness is a phenomenon in which major changes to a visual scene go unnoticed. There are many methods of inducing change blindness, for example, by presenting a blank image between presentation of the original and changed pictures. Change blindness is thought to occur when visual attention is prevented from being drawn to the change. Detecting the changes requires a comparison between the changed state of the picture and a visual memory of its original state. Without visual attention the memory may not be retrieved at all or the available memory may lack sufficient visual detail for a change to be registered. Change blindness is employed as a tool for studying visual attention and has obvious real-world implications for tasks such as driving.

Citation

Kentridge, R. (2015). Change Blindness. In J. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences (344-349). (2nd ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.51024-1

Publication Date Apr 2, 2015
Deposit Date May 15, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher Elsevier
Pages 344-349
Series Number 4
Edition 2nd ed.
Book Title International encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences.
Chapter Number 62
ISBN 9780080970868
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.51024-1
Keywords Attention, Change blindness, Consciousness, Eye movements, Masking, Memory, Perception, Vision.