TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence for preserved representations in change blindness
AU - Simons, Daniel J.
AU - Chabris, Christopher F.
AU - Schnur, Tatiana
AU - Levin, Daniel T.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank three anonymous reviewers for particularly insightful and helpful comments on an earlier version of the paper. Thanks to the following people for helping to conduct the experiments (in alphabetical order): Eileen Bent, Kwabena Bobo Blankson, Elisa Cheng, Judith Danovitch, Amy DeIpolyi, Dan Ellard, Michael Espiritu, Samantha Glass, Annya Hernandez, Hamilton Hicks, La Tanya James, Jason Jay, Lisa Larson, Steve Most, Jakob Norman, Debbie Rin, Danielle Saffran, Robyn Scatena, Doug Smith, Liesje Spaepen, Larry Taylor, Ojas Tejani, Diana Townsend-Butterworth, Daniel Tristan, Margaret White, Leah Wittenberg, Alex Wong, and Amir Zarrinpar. Daniel J. Simons was supported by NSF Grant BCS-9905578 and by an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - People often fail to detect large changes to scenes, provided that the changes occur during a visual disruption. This phenomenon, known as "change blindness," occurs both in the laboratory and in real-world situations in which changes occur unexpectedly. The pervasiveness of the inability to detect changes is consistent with the theoretical notion that we internally represent relatively little information from our visual world from one glance at a scene to the next. However, evidence for change blindness does not necessarily imply the absence of such a representation - people could also miss changes if they fail to compare an existing representation of the pre-change scene to the post-change scene. In three experiments, we show that people often do have a representation of some aspects of the pre-change scene even when they fail to report the change. And, in fact, they appear to "discover" this memory and can explicitly report details of a changed object in response to probing questions. The results of these real-world change detection studies are discussed in the context of broader claims about change blindness.
AB - People often fail to detect large changes to scenes, provided that the changes occur during a visual disruption. This phenomenon, known as "change blindness," occurs both in the laboratory and in real-world situations in which changes occur unexpectedly. The pervasiveness of the inability to detect changes is consistent with the theoretical notion that we internally represent relatively little information from our visual world from one glance at a scene to the next. However, evidence for change blindness does not necessarily imply the absence of such a representation - people could also miss changes if they fail to compare an existing representation of the pre-change scene to the post-change scene. In three experiments, we show that people often do have a representation of some aspects of the pre-change scene even when they fail to report the change. And, in fact, they appear to "discover" this memory and can explicitly report details of a changed object in response to probing questions. The results of these real-world change detection studies are discussed in the context of broader claims about change blindness.
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U2 - 10.1006/ccog.2001.0533
DO - 10.1006/ccog.2001.0533
M3 - Article
C2 - 11883989
AN - SCOPUS:0036196013
SN - 1053-8100
VL - 11
SP - 78
EP - 97
JO - Consciousness and Cognition
JF - Consciousness and Cognition
IS - 1
ER -