PSYC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cocktail Party, Perjury
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You also only see what you explicitly attend: experiment: point your eyes at the dot and make judgements about the + shown just off to the side, however, the dot itself briefly changed to another shape. Inattentional blindness: miss something right in front of your eyes, when we attend to one thing, we often miss other things. In our experiment, we asked participants to jog behind an assistant and count the number of times he touched his hat. As they jogged, they ran past a staged fight in which two men appeared to be beating a third - Dan simons (of invisible gorilla fame: we are very good at selectively attending to only the information that is currently relevant. So good that we can miss extremely salient events that happen right in front of our eyes: different processing happens to information that is attended than information that is unattended.
