Inattentional blindness
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Bibliographic Information
Inattentional blindness
（MIT Press/Bradford Books series in cognitive psychology）
MIT Press, 2000, c1998
1st MIT Press paperback ed
- : pbk
Available at 9 libraries
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"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Arien Mack and Irvin Rock make the radical claim that there is no conscious perception of the visual world without attention to it.
Many people believe that merely by opening their eyes, they see everything in their field of view; in fact, a line of psychological research has been taken as evidence of the existence of so-called preattentional perception. In Inattentional Blindness, Arien Mack and Irvin Rock make the radical claim that there is no such thing-that there is no conscious perception of the visual world without attention to it.
The authors present a narrative chronicle of their research. Thus, the reader follows the trail that led to the final conclusions, learning why initial hypotheses and explanations were discarded or revised, and how new questions arose along the way. The phenomenon of inattentional blindness has theoretical importance for cognitive psychologists studying perception, attention, and consciousness, as well as for philosophers and neuroscientists interested in the problem of consciousness.
Table of Contents
- An overview
- texture segregation, grouping, pop out, and attention
- the evidence for inattentional blindness
- the evidence for inattentional blindness
- the zone of attention and the distraction task
- meanigfulness - names
- inattention - faces and other "meaningful" stimuli
- stimulus size, scenes, and the capture of attention
- inattentional blindness and implicit perception
- the role of memory and expectation
- inattentional deafness and tactile insensitivity
- some conclusions.
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