Are Familiar Objects More Likely to Be Noticed in an Inattentional Blindness Task?

ABSTRACT: People often fail to notice the presence of unexpected objects when their attention is engaged elsewhere. In dichotic listening tasks, for example, people often fail to notice unexpected content in the ignored speech stream even though they occasionally do notice highly familiar stimuli like their own name (the "cocktail party" effect). Some of the first studies of inattentional blindness were designed as a visual analog of such dichotic listening studies, but relatively few inattentional blindness studies have examined how familiarity affects noticing. We conducted four preregistered inattentional blindness experiments (total N = 1700) to examine whether people are more likely to notice a familiar unexpected object than an unfamiliar one. Experiment 1 replicated evidence for greater notic

SUBMITTER: Ding Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10885827 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature