- Title
- An Investigation of Inattentional Blindness Using Gaze and Frequency Tagging
- Creator
- Hutchinson, Brendan T.; Wilkinson, Natalie; Robertson, Gemma; Budd, Alycia; Nicholls, Michael E. R.; Griffiths, Oren
- Relation
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance Vol. 49, Issue 10, p. 1310-1329
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001143
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Inattentional blindness (IB) occurs when a salient object presented in plain sight goes unnoticed when its appearance is unexpected. Across two experiments, participants completed a classic dynamic IB task while eye movements and steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) responses were continually recorded. This allowed us to measure the modulation of gaze and brain-based indices of attention during IB. While an SSVEP response to all stimuli including the unexpected object was attained, only gaze measures were able to discriminate noticers from nonnoticers. Experiment 1 used a prototypical sustained IB task and found that gaze toward the unexpected object was largely unrelated to noticing that object. Experiment 2 manipulated the contrast of the target and distractor stimuli, and instead observed a tight concordance between gazing at the unexpected object and reporting its presence. This task-based variability in gaze deployment is consistent with the broader literature and cumulatively delineates the challenges faced in translating lab-based IB research from the bench to the bedside.
- Subject
- inattentional blindness; attention; perception; steady-state visual evoked potential; eye tracking
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1487715
- Identifier
- uon:52230
- Identifier
- ISSN:0096-1523
- Language
- eng
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