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Makaela Nartker, Chaz Firestone, Howard Egeth, Ian Phillips (2023). Six ways of failing to see (and why the differences matter). i-Perception, 14(5), 20416695231198762. SAGE Publications.
Abstract
Sometimes we look but fail to see: our car keys on a cluttered desk, a repeated word in a carefully proofread email, or a motorcycle at an intersection. Wolfe and colleagues present a unifying, mechanistic framework for understanding these “Looked But Failed to See” errors, explaining how such misses arise from natural constraints on human visual processing. Here, we offer a conceptual taxonomy of six distinct ways we might be said to fail to see, and explore: how these relate to processes in Wolfe et al.’s model; how they can be distinguished experimentally; and, why the differences matter.
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