Change blindness and inattentional blindness

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 529-546

  Jensen, Melinda S ^a   Yao, Richard ^a   Street, Whitney N ^a   Simons, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 79961223335     PISSN: 19395078     EISSN: 19395086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcs.130     Document Type: Article

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