A similar phenomenon, inattentional blindness, refers to the tendency to miss a novel stimulus when attending to other stimuli.
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This change resulted primarily from a shift in paradigms used to study inattentional blindness which revealed new aspects of the phenomenon.
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The theory behind inattentional blindness research suggests that we consciously experience only those objects and events to which we directly attend.
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However one major difference between neuropsychological symptoms such as neglect and extinction, and inattentional blindness concerns the role of expectation.
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Today, late selection theories are generally accepted, and continue to be the focus of the majority of research concerning inattentional blindness.
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Mack and Rock note that explanations for inattentional blindness can reflect a basic failure of perceptual processes to be engaged by unattended stimuli.
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While inattentional blindness tasks require an explicit distractor, the attentional distraction in misdirection occurs through the implicit yet systematic orchestration of attention.
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Using an inattentional blindness paradigm, researchers, White and Davies, had participants fixate on a cross in the center of the screen.
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Researchers Kreitz, Furley, and Memmery in 2015, asserted that working memory capacity is not an indicator of susceptibility to inattentional blindness.
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It has been used to provide a predictive framework to the study of inattentional blindness and the solving of the Tower of London test.
