Change blindness
@article{Simons1997ChangeB, title={Change blindness}, author={Daniel J. Simons and Daniel T. Levin}, journal={Trends in Cognitive Sciences}, year={1997}, volume={1}, pages={261-267} }
People often fail to notice large changes to visual scenes, a phenomenon now known as change blindness. The extent of change blindness in visual perception suggests limits on our capacity to encode, retain, and compare visual information from one glance to the next; our awareness of our visual surroundings is far more sparse than most people intuitively believe. These failures of awareness and the erroneous intuitions that often accompany them have both theoretical and practical ramifications…
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C Change Blindness
- Psychology
- 2019
Change blindness is a phenomenon of visual attention in which changes to a visual scene may go unnoticed under certain circumstances, despite being clearly visible and possibly even in an attended…
Change Detection Without Awareness: Do Explicit Reports Underestimate the Representation of Change in the Visual System?
- Psychology
- 2000
Evidence from many different paradigms (e.g. change blindness, inattentional blindness, transsaccadic integration) indicate that observers are often very poor at reporting changes to their visual…
Evidence for Preserved Representations in Change Blindness
- PsychologyConsciousness and Cognition
- 2002
In three experiments, it is shown that people often do have a representation of some aspects of the pre-change scene even when they fail to report the change, and they appear to "discover" this memory and can explicitly report details of a changed object in response to probing questions.
Current Approaches to Change Blindness
- Psychology
- 2000
Across saccades, blinks, blank screens, movie cuts, and other interruptions, observers fail to detect substantial changes to the visual details of objects and scenes. This inability to spot changes…
Failures to see: Attentive blank stares revealed by change blindness
- PsychologyConsciousness and Cognition
- 2008
Change Blindness Images
- Computer ScienceIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- 2013
This paper presents the first computational model of change blindness to quantify the degree of blindness between an image pair, which comprises a novel context-dependent saliency model and a measure of change, the former dependent on the site of the change, and the latter describing the amount of change.
A Three-Feature Model to Predict Colour Change Blindness
- Computer ScienceVision
- 2019
A fully automated model to predict colour change blindness in cartoon images based on image complexity, change magnitude and observer experience is introduced and the predictions of the proposed model correlate significantly with measured detection times.
Beyond the Grand Illusion : What Change Blindness
- Psychology
- 2000
Experiments on scene perception and change blindness suggest that the visual system does not construct detailed internal models of a scene. These experiments therefore call into doubt the traditional…
Detecting changes in real-world objects: The relationship between visual long-term memory and change blindness
- Psychology, Computer ScienceCommunicative & integrative biology
- 2009
This work demonstrates that long-term memory is capable of storing a massive number of visual objects with significant detail about each item if they are given sufficient time to encode each item.
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