Attentional development can help us understand the inattentional blindness effect in visual search
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UAM. Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la Salud; UAM. Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación; UAM. Departamento de PsiquiatríaPublisher
FrontiersDate
2023-05-15Citation
10.3389/fcogn.2023.1134505
Frontiers in Cognition 2 (2023): 1134505
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2813-4532DOI
10.3389/fcogn.2023.1134505Funded by
This work was supported by the Research Grant Project PSI2015-69358-R (MINECO/FEDER) Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) and the ongoing project PID2021-122621OBI00 (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España) granted to BG-G. It was also supported by the Fulbright Commission, and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, FORAGEKID 793268, also granted to BG-G, as well as by the NIH EY017001 granted to JWProject
Gobierno de España. PSI2015-69358-R; Gobierno de España. PID2021-122621OB-I00; Unión Europea. 793268Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.3389/fcogn.2023.1134505Subjects
inattentional blindness; visual search; development; attention; individual differences; intelligence quotient; gender; PsicologíaRights
© 2023 Gil-Gómez de Liaño, Castelletti, Perez-Hernandez, Quirós-Godoy and WolfeAbstract
Introduction: Inattentional Blindness (IB) is the failure to notice an unexpected, usually salient stimulus while immersed in a different, often demanding attentional task. More than just a laboratory curiosity, IB is an important phenomenon to understand because it may be related to real-world errors such as missed “incidental findings” in medical image or security searches. Interest in individual differences in susceptibility to IB has produced a number of studies showing inconclusive results.
Methods: Here, we tested IB in a sample of 277 participants, 4-25 years old performing a visual search task. On two critical trials, an unexpected letter and an unexpected word were presented among photorealistic objects.
Results: There was a clear age effect with younger individuals showing higher IB levels. IB correlated with attentional control in visual search and with Continuous Performance Test-CPT for d-prime, response times and attentional shifting measures. These effects disappeared if age was controlled. There were no general effects of intelligence (IQ; RIST) or gender. Younger observers showed a negative correlation of IB for the word with the verbal components of the RIST IQ-proxy (no effect for the letter).
Discussion: These results support a relationship between IB and cognitive-developmental changes, showing that maturation of attention and executive processes can help us understand the intriguing phenomenon of (sometimes) missing what is in front of our eyes
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Google Scholar:Gil Gómez de Liaño, Beatriz
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Castelletti, Chiara
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Perez-Hernandez, Elena
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Quirós-Godoy, María
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Wolfe, Jeremy M.
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