Inattentional blindness, the Glossary
Inattentional blindness or perceptual blindness (rarely called inattentive blindness) occurs when an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus in plain sight, purely as a result of a lack of attention rather than any vision defects or deficits.[1]
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- Cognitive inertia
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing website with which businesses can hire remotely located "crowdworkers" to perform discrete on-demand tasks that computers are currently unable to do as economically.
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Attention
Attention or focus, is the concentration of awareness on some phenomenon to the exclusion of other stimuli.
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by executive dysfunction occasioning symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity and emotional dysregulation that are excessive and pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and otherwise age-inappropriate.
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Attentional blink
Attentional blink (AB) is a phenomenon that reflects temporal limitations in the ability to deploy visual attention. Inattentional blindness and Attentional blink are attention.
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Attribute substitution
Attribute substitution is a psychological process thought to underlie a number of cognitive biases and perceptual illusions.
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Awareness
In philosophy and psychology, awareness is a perception or knowledge of something.
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Banner blindness is a phenomenon in web usability where visitors to a website consciously or unconsciously ignore banner-like information. Inattentional blindness and banner blindness are attention.
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Change blindness
Change blindness is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it. Inattentional blindness and change blindness are attention.
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Christopher Chabris
Christopher F. Chabris is an American research psychologist, currently Senior Investigator (Professor) at Geisinger Health System, visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France, and associate professor of Psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience Program at Union College in Schenectady, New York (on leave 2016–2017).
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Cocktail party effect
The cocktail party effect refers to a phenomenon wherein the brain focuses a person's attention on a particular stimulus, usually auditory. Inattentional blindness and cocktail party effect are attention.
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Cognition
Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
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Cognitive load
In cognitive psychology, cognitive load refers to the amount of working memory resources used.
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Confirmation bias
Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, or congeniality bias) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. Inattentional blindness and Confirmation bias are cognitive inertia.
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Consciousness
Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence.
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Current Opinion (Elsevier)
Current Opinion is a collection of review journals on various disciplines of the life sciences.
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Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (דניאל כהנמן; March 5, 1934 – March 27, 2024) was an Israeli-American psychologist best-known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with Vernon L.
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Daniel Simons
Daniel James Simons (born 1969) is an experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois.
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Distracted driving
Distracted driving is the act of driving while engaging in other activities which distract the driver's attention away from the road. Inattentional blindness and Distracted driving are attention.
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Driving simulator
Driving simulators are used for entertainment as well as in training of driver's education courses taught in educational institutions and private businesses.
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Ergonomics
Ergonomics, also known as human factors or human factors engineering (HFE), is the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems.
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Evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Head-up display
A head-up display, or heads-up display, also known as a HUD or head-up guidance system (HGS), is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints.
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Introspection illusion
The introspection illusion is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly think they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating others' introspections as unreliable.
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Invisible ships
According to the invisible ships (or ships not seen) myth, when European explorers' ships approached either North America, South America, or Australia, the appearance of their large ships was so foreign to the native people that they could not even see the vessels in front of them.
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Irvin Rock
Irvin Rock (1922–1995) was an American experimental psychologist who studied visual perception at the University of California at Berkeley.
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James J. Gibson
James Jerome Gibson (January 27, 1904 – December 11, 1979) was an American psychologist and is considered to be one of the most important contributors to the field of visual perception.
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Misdirection (magic)
In theatrical magic, misdirection is a form of deception in which the performer draws audience attention to one thing to distract it from another.
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MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Mobile phone
A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).
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Moonwalk (dance)
The moonwalk, or backslide, is a popping dance move in which the performer glides backwards but their body actions suggest forward motion.
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Parallel processing (psychology)
In psychology, parallel processing is the ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality.
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Parietal lobe
The parietal lobe is one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain of mammals.
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Perception
Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.
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PhilPapers
PhilPapers is an interactive academic database of journal articles in philosophy.
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Priming (psychology)
Priming is a concept in psychology to describe how exposure to one stimulus may influence a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention.
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Red herring
A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question.
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Regulatory agency
A regulatory agency (regulatory body, regulator) or independent agency (independent regulatory agency) is a government authority that is responsible for exercising autonomous dominion over some area of human activity in a licensing and regulating capacity.
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Repetition blindness
Repetition blindness (RB) is a phenomenon observed in rapid serial visual presentation.
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Retina
The retina (or retinas) is the innermost, light-sensitive layer of tissue of the eye of most vertebrates and some molluscs.
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Salience (neuroscience)
Salience (also called saliency) is the property by which some thing stands out. Inattentional blindness and salience (neuroscience) are attention.
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Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Somebody else's problem
"Somebody else's problem" or "someone else's problem" is an issue which is dismissed by a person on the grounds that they consider somebody else to be responsible for it.
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Three-card monte
Three-card monte – also known as find the lady and three-card trick – is a confidence game in which the victims, or "marks", are tricked into betting a sum of money, on the assumption that they can find the "money card" among three face-down playing cards.
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Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Ulric Neisser
Ulric Richard Gustav Neisser (December 8, 1928 – February 17, 2012) was a German-American psychologist, Cornell University professor, and member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He has been referred to as the "father of cognitive psychology".
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.
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Visual cortex
The visual cortex of the brain is the area of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information.
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Visual masking
Visual masking is a phenomenon of visual perception.
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Visual perception
Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment.
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William James
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.
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Working memory
Working memory is a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily.
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See also
Cognitive inertia
- Agnotology
- Appeal to the stone
- Begging the question
- Belief perseverance
- Boiling frog
- Bradley effect
- Cherry picking
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cognitive inertia
- Confirmation bias
- Conservatism (belief revision)
- Drawbridge mentality
- Dunning–Kruger effect
- Dysrationalia
- Escalation of commitment
- Exception that proves the rule
- First they came ...
- Gadfly (philosophy and social science)
- Galileo affair
- Gambler's fallacy
- Inattentional blindness
- Industrial inertia
- Knowledge inertia
- Moving the goalposts
- Observer-expectancy effect
- Omission bias
- Planck's principle
- Presupposition
- Psychical inertia
- Psychological inertia
- Psychology of climate change denial
- Semmelweis reflex
- Slothful induction
- Social inertia
- Status quo
- Status quo bias
- System justification
- True-believer syndrome
- White backlash
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness
Also known as Attention blindness, Cognitive tunnel, Cognitive tunneling, Gorillas in our midst, Inattention blindness, Inattentional agnosia, Invisible Gorilla, Invisible Gorilla Test, Invisible Gorilla experiment, Perceptual Blindness, Situational blindness.