Monkeying around with the Gorillas in Our Midst: Familiarity with an Inattentional-Blindness Task Does Not Improve the Detection of Unexpected Events

When people know to look for an unexpected event (eg, a gorilla in a basketball game), they tend to notice that event. But does knowledge that an unexpected event might occur improve the detection of other unexpected events in a similar scene? Subjects watched a new video in which, in addition to th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daniel J Simons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2010-04-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1068/i0386