Demonstrations:
Inattentional Blindness + Change Blindness
 
 
This page contains links to stimuli and movies relating to our recent experiments on the nature of visual awareness, as studied with the phenomenon of inattentional blindness.


Spatial proximity in sustained inattentional blindness
Sample displays from:
Most, S. B., Simons, D. J., Scholl, B. J., & Chabris, C. F. (2000). Sustained inattentional blindness: The role of location in the detection of unexpected dynamic events. Psyche, 6(14).
Featural similarity in sustained inattentional blindness
Sample displays from:
Most, S. B., Simons, D. J., Scholl, B. J., Jiminez, R., Clifford, E., & Chabris, C. F. (2001). How not to be seen: The contribution of similarity and selective ignoring to sustained inattentional blindness. Psychological Science, 12(1), 9-17.
An implicit measure of 'change blindness blindness'
Sample displays from:
Scholl, B. J., Simons, D. J., & Levin, D. T. (2004). 'Change blindness' blindness: An implicit measure of a metacognitive error. In D. T. Levin (Ed.), Thinking and seeing: Visual metacognition in adults and children (pp. 145-164). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Sustained inattentional blindness and the capture of awareness
Sample displays from:
Most, S. B., Scholl, B. J., Clifford, E., & Simons, D. J. (2005). What you see is what you set: Sustained inattentional blindness and the capture of awareness. Psychological Review, 112(1), 217-242.
Incidental change blindness in an extremely simple event (Coming soon)
Sample displays from:
Choi, H., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). Incidental change blindness in an extremely simple event. Manuscript submitted for publication.