Change blindness

Change blindness is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it. For example, observers often fail to notice major differences introduced into an image while it flickers off and on again.

1. What is a real world example of change blindness?
2. What is change blindness and why is it important?
3. What is change blindness vs inattentional blindness?
4. Is change blindness normal?

What is a real world example of change blindness?

Change blindness might cause problems in real-world situations, such as: Air Traffic Control. Disasters and even fatalities could result if an air traffic controller failed to detect changes when monitoring take-offs, landings, and flight paths.

What is change blindness and why is it important?

Change blindness is a phenomenon where subjects fail to detect even a large change in the visual scene. Studies on change blindness have proved useful for understanding attention, perception and visual short-term memory (vSTM).

What is change blindness vs inattentional blindness?

Change blindness is the failure to notice an obvious change. Inattentional blindness is the failure to notice the existence of an unexpected item. In each case, we fail to notice something that is clearly visible once we know to look for it.

Is change blindness normal?

But as you saw in the video, change blindness is completely normal and is caused by maxing out your attentional capacity. During change blindness everything about your visual system is intact and functioning.