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Visual sensing IS seeing: why "mindsight," in hindsight, is blind.

Daniel J Simons1, Gabriel Nevarez, Walter R Boot

  • 1University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA. dsimons@uiuc.edu

Psychological Science
|July 13, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Researchers rebut the "mindsight" theory for change blindness. Findings suggest subjects simply need more time to consciously verify detected visual changes, rather than relying on a non-sensory sixth sense.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Visual Perception
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Change blindness demonstrates a failure to notice large visual scene changes.
  • Nonattentional routes for change detection are being explored.
  • A
  • mindsight
  • mechanism was proposed to explain sensing changes before explicit identification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To rebut the existence of a
  • mindsight
  • mechanism.
  • To propose an alternative explanation for sensing visual changes.

Main Methods:

  • Empirical investigation of visual change detection.
  • Analysis of subject reports regarding change awareness.

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  • Challenging a proposed nonsensory mechanism.

    • Main Results:

    • Evidence supports a mundane explanation for sensing changes.
    • Subjects require time to verify conscious change detection.
    • The
    • mindsight
    • mechanism is not supported by the findings.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed
    • mindsight
    • mechanism is unnecessary to explain visual change detection.
    • Conscious verification of detected changes accounts for the observed phenomena.
    • The findings have implications for understanding conscious visual experience.