Failure to detect changes to people during a real-world interaction
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Change blindness studies show that when someone's view of a person is occluded for a second or two, he or she may not realize that a new person has taken the place of the original one, even as the conversation continues.
“Studies show that, when someone's view of a person is occluded for a second or two, he or she may not realize that a new person has taken the place of the original one, even as the conversation continues (Simons and Levine 1998).”
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- Authors
- Simons, D. J., & Levin, D. T.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Kent State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Simons, Daniel J.
- Levin, Daniel T.
- Venue
- Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Published
- 1998-12
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 644-649
- ISSN
- 1069-9384 (ISSN-L)
- 1531-5320
- OpenAlex
- W2087540179
- Cited by
- 733
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Keywords
- change blindness, change detection, real-world interaction, social group membership, visual attention, visual representation
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