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172Change blindness blindness: Beliefs about the roles of intention and scene complexity in change detectionConsciousness and Cognition 16 (1): 31-51. 2007.Observers have difficulty detecting visual changes. However, they are unaware of this inability, suggesting that people do not have an accurate understanding of visual processes. We explored whether this error is related to participants’ beliefs about the roles of intention and scene complexity in detecting changes. In Experiment 1 participants had a higher failure rate for detecting changes in an incidental change detection task than an intentional change detection task. This effect of intentio…Read more
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57False predictions about the detectability of visual changes: The role of beliefs about attention, memory, and the continuity of attended objects in causing change blindness blindnessConsciousness and Cognition 11 (4): 507-527. 2002.Recently, a number of experiments have emphasized the degree to which subjects fail to detect large changes in visual scenes. This finding, referred to as “change blindness,” is often considered surprising because many people have the intuition that such changes should be easy to detect. Levin, Momen, Drivdahl, and Simons documented this intuition by showing that the majority of subjects believe they would notice changes that are actually very rarely detected. Thus subjects exhibit a metacogniti…Read more
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50Metacognitive errors in change detection: Lab and life convergeConsciousness and Cognition 16 (1): 58-62. 2007.Smilek, Eastwood, Reynolds, and Kingstone suggests that the studies reported in Beck, M. R., Levin, D. T. and Angelone, B. A. are not ecologically valid. Here, we argue that not only are change blindness and change blindness blindness studies in general ecologically valid, but that the studies we reported in Beck, Levin, and Angelone, 2007 are as well. Specifically, we suggest that many of the changes used in our study could reasonably be expected to occur in the real world. Furthermore, the con…Read more
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43Implicit learning for probable changes in a visual change detection taskConsciousness and Cognition 17 (4): 1192-1208. 2008.Previous research demonstrates that implicitly learned probability information can guide visual attention. We examined whether the probability of an object changing can be implicitly learned and then used to improve change detection performance. In a series of six experiments, participants completed 120–130 training change detection trials. In four of the experiments the object that changed color was the same shape on every trial. Participants were not explicitly aware of this change probability…Read more
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40Not all information in visual working memory is forgotten equallyConsciousness and Cognition 74 102782. 2019.
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27The change probability effect: Incidental learning, adaptability, and shared visual working memory resourcesConsciousness and Cognition 20 (4): 1676-1689. 2011.Statistical properties in the visual environment can be used to improve performance on visual working memory tasks. The current study examined the ability to incidentally learn that a change is more likely to occur to a particular feature dimension and use this information to improve change detection performance for that dimension . Participants completed a change detection task in which one change type was more probable than others. Change probability effects were found for color and shape chan…Read more
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Cosmelli, Diego, 623 Costantini, Marcello, 229 Cressman, Erin K., 265Consciousness and Cognition 16 (4): 1005-1006. 2007.