When you fail to see what you were told to look for: Inattentional blindness and task instructions

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 221-230

  Aimola Davies, Anne M ^a,b   Waterman, Stephen ^a   White, Rebekah C ^a   Davies, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional set; Colour discrimination; Inattentional blindness; Perceptual load; Selective looking paradigm; Shape discrimination; Sustained inattentional blindness; Task instructions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84872665178     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.11.015     Document Type: Article

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