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Failure to see money on a tree: inattentional blindness for objects that guided behavior
How is it possible to drive home and have no awareness of the trip? We documented a new form of inattentional blindness in which people fail to become aware of obstacles that had guided their behavior. In our first study, we found that people talking on cell phones while walking waited longer to avo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4005951/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24795686 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00356 |
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author | Hyman, Ira E. Sarb, Benjamin A. Wise-Swanson, Breanne M. |
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description | How is it possible to drive home and have no awareness of the trip? We documented a new form of inattentional blindness in which people fail to become aware of obstacles that had guided their behavior. In our first study, we found that people talking on cell phones while walking waited longer to avoid an obstacle and were less likely to be aware that they had avoided an obstacle than other individual walkers. In our second study, cell phone talkers and texters were less likely to show awareness of money on a tree over the pathway they were traversing. Nonetheless, they managed to avoid walking into the money tree. Perceptual information may be processed in two distinct pathways – one guiding behavior and the other leading to awareness. We observed that people can appropriately use information to guide behavior without awareness. |
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spelling | pubmed-40059512014-05-02 Failure to see money on a tree: inattentional blindness for objects that guided behavior Hyman, Ira E. Sarb, Benjamin A. Wise-Swanson, Breanne M. Front Psychol Psychology How is it possible to drive home and have no awareness of the trip? We documented a new form of inattentional blindness in which people fail to become aware of obstacles that had guided their behavior. In our first study, we found that people talking on cell phones while walking waited longer to avoid an obstacle and were less likely to be aware that they had avoided an obstacle than other individual walkers. In our second study, cell phone talkers and texters were less likely to show awareness of money on a tree over the pathway they were traversing. Nonetheless, they managed to avoid walking into the money tree. Perceptual information may be processed in two distinct pathways – one guiding behavior and the other leading to awareness. We observed that people can appropriately use information to guide behavior without awareness. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4005951/ /pubmed/24795686 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00356 Text en Copyright © 2014 Hyman, Sarb and Wise-Swanson. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Hyman, Ira E. Sarb, Benjamin A. Wise-Swanson, Breanne M. Failure to see money on a tree: inattentional blindness for objects that guided behavior |
title | Failure to see money on a tree: inattentional blindness for objects that guided behavior |
title_full | Failure to see money on a tree: inattentional blindness for objects that guided behavior |
title_fullStr | Failure to see money on a tree: inattentional blindness for objects that guided behavior |
title_full_unstemmed | Failure to see money on a tree: inattentional blindness for objects that guided behavior |
title_short | Failure to see money on a tree: inattentional blindness for objects that guided behavior |
title_sort | failure to see money on a tree: inattentional blindness for objects that guided behavior |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4005951/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24795686 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00356 |
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