Blinded by irrelevance: Pure irrelevance induced "blindness"

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 611-615

  Eitam, Baruch ^a   Yeshurun, Yaffa ^a   Hassan, Kinneret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Inattentional blindness; Mental accessibility; Selective attention; Task relevance; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84881117146     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032269     Document Type: Article

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