Inattentional blindness and individual differences in cognitive abilities

C Kreitz, P Furley, D Memmert, DJ Simons - PLOS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
People sometimes fail to notice salient unexpected objects when their attention is otherwise
occupied, a phenomenon known as inattentional blindness. To explore individual …

Individual differences in inattentional blindness

DJ Simons, CM Hults, Y Ding - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024 - Springer
People often fail to notice unexpected objects and events when they are performing an
attention-demanding task, a phenomenon known as inattentional blindness. We might …

Distractibility is a function of engagement, not task difficulty: Evidence from a new oculomotor capture paradigm.

S Buetti, A Lleras - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
It has been shown that when humans require a brief moment of concentration or mental
effort, they tend to avert their gaze away from the attended location (or even blink). Similarly …

Some see it, some don't: Exploring the relation between inattentional blindness and personality factors

C Kreitz, R Schnuerch, H Gibbons, D Memmert - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Human awareness is highly limited, which is vividly demonstrated by the phenomenon that
unexpected objects go unnoticed when attention is focused elsewhere (inattentional …

The influence of attention set, working memory capacity, and expectations on inattentional blindness

C Kreitz, P Furley, D Memmert, DJ Simons - Perception, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The probability of inattentional blindness, the failure to notice an unexpected object when
attention is engaged on some primary task, is influenced by contextual factors like task …

Does working memory capacity predict cross-modally induced failures of awareness?

C Kreitz, P Furley, DJ Simons, D Memmert - Consciousness and Cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
People often fail to notice unexpected stimuli when they are focusing attention on another
task. Most studies of this phenomenon address visual failures induced by visual attention …

The unexpected killer: effects of stimulus threat and negative affectivity on inattentional blindness

V Beanland, CH Tan, BK Christensen - Cognition and Emotion, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Inattentional blindness (IB) occurs when observers fail to detect unexpected objects or
events. Despite the adaptive importance of detecting unexpected threats, relatively little …

Clarifying the effect of facial emotional expression on inattentional blindness

D Redlich, D Memmert, C Kreitz - Consciousness and cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Conscious perception often fails when an object appears unexpectedly and our attention is
focused elsewhere (inattentional blindness). While various factors have been identified as …

Sustained inattentional blindness does not always decrease with age

H Zhang, C Yan, X Zhang, J Fang - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Children usually miss additional information when they focus on objects or events. This
common phenomenon is termed as inattentional blindness. To explore the age-related …

Does hunger promote the detection of foods? The effect of value on inattentional blindness

D Redlich, D Memmert, C Kreitz - Psychological Research, 2022 - Springer
Although human perception has evolved into a potent and efficient system, we still fall prey
to astonishing failures of awareness as we miss an unexpected object in our direct view …