?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=When+Good+Observers+Go+Bad%3A+Change+Blindness%2C+Inattentional+Blindness%2C+and+Visual+Experience&rft.creator=Rensink%2C+Ronald+A.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=Several+studies+(e.g.%2C+Becklen+%26+Cervone%2C+1983%3B+Mack+%26+Rock%2C+1998%3B+Neisser+%26+Becklen%2C+1975)+have+found+that+observers+attending+to+a+particular+object+or+event+often+fail+to+report+the+presence+of+unexpected+items.++This+has+been+interpreted+as+inattentional+blindness+(IB)%2C+a+failure+to+see+unattended+items+(Mack+%26+Rock%2C+1998).++Meanwhile%2C+other+studies+(e.g.%2C+Pashler%2C+1988%3B+Phillips%2C+1974%3B+Rensink+et+al.%2C+1997%3B+Simons%2C+1996)+have+found+that+observers+often+fail+to+report+the+presence+of+large+changes+in+a+display+when+these+changes+occur+simultaneously+with+a+transient+such+as+an+eye+movement+or+flash+of+the+display.++This+has+been+interpreted+as+change+blindness+(CB)%2C+a+failure+to+see+unattended+changes+(Rensink+et+al.%2C+1997).%0AIn+both+cases+there+is+a+striking+failure+to+report+an+object+or+event+that+would+be+quite+visible+under+other+circumstances.++And+in+both+cases+there+is+a+widespread+(although+not+universal)+belief+that+the+underlying+cause+has+to+do+with+the+absence+of+attention.++The+question+then+arises+as+to+how+these+effects+might+be+related.++Is+CB+the+same+thing+as+IB%3F++If+not%2C+what+is+the+relation+between+them%3F++And+given+that+these+phenomena+deal+with+failures+of+subjective+perception%2C+what+can+they+teach+us+about+the+nature+of+our+visual+experience%3F++In+particular%2C+what+can+they+teach+us+about+the+role+played+by+visual+attention%3F&rft.date=2000-08&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1050%2F3%2Fpsyche-6-09-rensink.pdf&rft.identifier=++Rensink%2C+Ronald+A.++(2000)+When+Good+Observers+Go+Bad%3A+Change+Blindness%2C+Inattentional+Blindness%2C+and+Visual+Experience.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1050%2F