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The 800-pound gorilla in the print: Inattentional blindness in perceptual experts and novices
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Description: In the present experiment, we aim to compare experts to novices in an inattentional blindness experiment using fingerprints. In the same vein as previous demonstrations, we will use gorillas as unexpected stimuli, measuring whether experts and novices spot these gorillas while completing a match/no-match fingerprint task. In one condition, we will place a small gorilla in a nondistinctive area of a fingerprint and in another we will embed a gorilla such that it is blended over the entire fingerprint.
The 800-pound gorilla in the print: Inattentional blindness in perceptual experts and novices
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Inattentional blindness is a failure to notice visible but unexpected objects when one’s attention is engaged in another task. In a classic study by Simons and Chabris (1999), viewers watched a video of three basketball players and were asked to count how many times these players passed the ball…
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The experimental code along with the instructions and gorilla images can be found in the .zip file in this component
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