Behavioral and Electrophysiological Correlates of Change Blindness (invited Paper)

Although the ability to notice a change in the visual scene has been used as an investigative tool to gain new insights on visual system mechanisms, it has recently become an issue itself. In the last decade, many studies have addressed the flip side of change detection, namely the change blindness phenomenon. Change blindness refers to functional blindness for an otherwise visible change in the scene an observer is looking at when visual continuity is briefly interrupted by extraneous visual events. Here we provide a review of the main findings and notions emerged from the change blindness studies, both from behavioral and electrophysiological experiments. Mechanisms of change detection and change blindness are discussed, highlighting the role of visual attention for conscious change perception. Copyright c ©2003 Yang’s Scientific Research Institute, LLC. All rights