Failures to see: Attentive blank stares revealed by change blindness

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 877-886

  Caplovitz, Gideon P ^a   Fendrich, Robert ^a   Hughes, Howard C ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Change blindness; Change detection; Eye tracking; Fixation; Object based attention; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BLANK STARE; CHANGE BLINDNESS; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; EYELID REFLEX; FLICKER CHANGE BLINDNESS THEORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RETINA IMAGE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ATTENTION; BLINKING; COGNITION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SACCADES; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47349102000     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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