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Thoughts on Change Blindness

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Vision and Attention

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That large changes in a scene are not noticed if they occur at the same time as a global visual disturbance caused by saccades, flicker, “mudsplashes”, or film cuts, is generally explained in terms of a theory in which it is assumed that the observer’s internal representation of the outside world is very sparse, containing only what the observer is currently processing. This chapter presents some clarifications of the theory, and some new implications and predictions that arise from it.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Michael Jenkin

  2. Department of Psychology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Laurence Harris

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O’Regan, J.K. (2001). Thoughts on Change Blindness. In: Jenkin, M., Harris, L. (eds) Vision and Attention. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21591-4_14

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