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The following criteria are required to classify an event as an inattentional blindness episode: 1) the observer must fail to notice a visual object or event, 2) the object or event must be fully visible, 3) observers must be able to readily identify the object if they are consciously perceiving it, [3] and 4) the event must be unexpected and the failure to see the object or event must be due ...
Inattentional blindness, also known as perceptual blindness, is the failure to notice a fully visible, but unexpected object because attention was engaged on another task, event, or object. Change blindness is a surprising perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it.
This is due to the mechanisms of inattentional blindness and inattentional amnesia that cause a lack of semantic processing, compromising incidental memory. [12] These phenomenas are a byproduct of selective attention, where individuals with their attention occupied fail to notice or recall salient or frequently encountered information deemed ...
Target fixation is caused by becoming focused on one thing that is usually distracting, dangerous, or rewarding. [3] Focus can be caused by "anticipated success", such as when trying to arrive at a destination in a certain amount of time while driving.
Such studies reveal the surprising extent of inattentional blindness - the failure to notice unusual and salient events in their visual world when attention is otherwise engaged and the events are unexpected. Other active research interests include scene perception, object recognition, visual memory, visual fading, attention, and driving and ...
The most common causes were driver inattention, speeding and failure to yield the right of way. Driving near a school bus also requires close attention on the driver's part.
Inattentional blindness was first introduced in 1998 by Arien Mack and Irvic Rock. Their studies show that when people are focused on specific stimuli, they often miss other stimuli that are clearly present. Though actual blindness is not occurring here, the blindness that happens is due to the perceptual load of what is being attended to. [118]
Distracted driving is the act of driving while engaging in other activities which distract the driver's attention away from the road. Distractions are shown to compromise the safety of the driver, passengers, pedestrians, and people in other vehicles.