Mind & Psychology•March 23, 2025•1 min read

Change Blindness: The Invisible Switch

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The Illusion of Attention

We think we see everything in our field of view. We do not. We construct a mental model of the scene. Unless we focus on a specific detail, we assume it stays the same. We are blind to the world we do not attend to.

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